A reader comment about what many people see as the rising cost of living in Colorado triggered an explosion of responses, both pro and con. Here’s the take of someone who thinks many non-natives undergo a not-always-pleasant change upon their arrival. See also: Reader: I Can Barely Afford to Live…
Denver blog posts like the Broncos, too. At our Show and Tell blog, Bree Davies wonders if police debates should use Twitter for social networking. At Denver Infill, Ryan Dravitz keeps up with development in the Union Station area with “1601 Wewatta Update #4.” The Redheaded Slut: “That’s funny, I…
The participants in school walkouts over the no-indictment decisions by grand juries in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner deaths are getting younger. Yesterday, they included students from GALS Denver, which offers classes for grades six through nine. Westword art director Jay Vollmar caught up to the group at Civic…
Yesterday, the Denver Business Journal reported that gazillionaire Phil Anschutz, whose properties include the Colorado Springs Gazette, was “exploring the possibility of reviving the Rocky Mountain News, the Denver daily newspaper that shut down in 2009 after nearly 150 years of publication.” But while a teaser for a new Rocky…
The Journal of the American Medical Association has published a report penned by three emergency room physicians at the University of Colorado hospital in Aurora about the health-related fallout from marijuana legalization in the state. And while there are some positives to be found in the material, most of the…
If you thought you were getting screwed on ATM fees, you were right. Bankrate has crunched the numbers for the cities with the lowest and highest ATM fees, and Denver’s on the latter roster, with plenty of places that would seem to have higher costs of living offering better deals…
Yesterday, in the wake of the $6 million settlement over Marvin Booker’s Denver jail death, we shared fifteen other law-enforcement brutality cases as detailed in the Booker family lawsuit — and noted that there were a lot more beyond them. As proof, here’s part two: eighteen more excessive-force cases in…
Female students at CU-Boulder are on alert this morning over disturbing reports about a man who’s been fondling and harassing women near one of the most traveled spots on the campus. Continue for photos, video, a larger version of the sketch above. See also: Gun-Free CU-Boulder Dorms are Target Areas…
We’ve been reporting about one of marijuana attorney Robert Hoban’s more unusual cases, involving the Town of Granby’s efforts to block a pot shop by annexing the unincorporated land its owner had leased. But he’s also assisting another ganjapreneur in an equally strange face-off with a local community. In this…
Denny Lovern has been busted for DUI sixteen times — so often that he’s at the center of our first-ever one-man mug shot gallery. When we shared it, we asked if his example suggested a problem with Colorado’s drunk-driving laws, and readers responded in a wide variety of ways. Here’s…
Denver blog posts aren’t really interested in eating this necklace. At our Cafe Society blog, Jenn Wohletz warns you about the five worst foodie holiday gifts of 2014. Colorado Peak Politics wants high-school Ferguson protesters to get back to class. Big Media’s Jason Salzman thinks watchdog reporting is needed for…
Today, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office released preliminary information about what appears to be the first skier death at a Colorado resort during the 2014-2015 season. The location: a run at Eldora with the upbeat name Jolly Jug. See also: Garrett Spencer, Record-Setting 19th Colorado Ski Area Death, Being Laid…
KKTV in Colorado Springs didn’t have to look far for a story last night. There was one waiting in its parking lot — specifically what initially looked like an explosive device left in the vicinity of an employee’s vehicle. But it turned out to be a lot less incendiary than…
More than three years after the filing of an excessive-force lawsuit on behalf of Marvin Booker, who died in Denver jail, the Denver City Council voted last night to pay Booker’s family $6 million. This incident is hardly an isolated one. The original suit documents a slew of local law-enforcement…
Chuck E. Cheese restaurants are designed to attract kids — and knowing that, the eatery’s security team has designed safety measures intended to keep perverts away. But that apparently didn’t stop Robert Weber, a sex offender, from getting inside a local branch and inducing a three-year-old girl to perform a…
Update: Last week, we told you about the Town of Granby’s efforts to block a pot shop and grow by annexing the unincorporated land its owner had leased; see our previous coverage below. A hearing about the matter was supposed to be held on Friday, but it was postponed to…
Many of our readers weren’t surprised when four Colorado counties showed up on a list of twenty U.S. counties where houses are becoming less affordable — a number matched only by California. Here are several comments about rising housing prices here. See also: 20 U.S. Counties Where Houses are Becoming…
Denver blog posts are gifts that keep on giving. Our Show and Tell blog was on hand when beefcake and babes stripped down for the Santa Speedo dash — and we’ve got the photos to prove it. Mile High Report’s Bronco Mike: “Broncos Fans Yearn for the Days of Star…
The body found in a Xenia Street alley late Thursday night wasn’t the only grisly discovery in the metro area late last week. A dead woman was spotted along North Chambers Road in Aurora on Friday morning, with local law enforcers initially expressing exasperation that the incident came to their…
“To say Plaintiff Denny Lovern has a problem with alcohol, and in particular drinking and driving, is an understatement,” notes a recent U.S. Court of Appeals judgment prompted by Lovern’s arrest for crashing into a wall and a fence with a blood alcohol content of .321, roughly four times the…
Yesterday’s Broncos win featured cons as well as pros. True, Denver beat the Buffalo Bills 24-17 in a contest whose outcome was never really in doubt, and the running backs continue to ball at a high level. But for the most part, Peyton Manning looked absolutely awful, throwing a couple…
Our post featuring twenty ColoradoSexConfess tweets that could give parents nightmares stirred a series of debates among readers. This one questions the tendency of many high schoolers (like the ones said to be behind the explicit tweets) to over-share in a big way. See also: Twenty ColoradoSexConfess Tweets That Could…
