For years, Senator Scott Renfroe has tried to ban red-light cameras — devices mounted near traffic signals or in police vans that snap shots of vehicles allegedly breaking traffic laws — under the theory that they’re more about revenue than safety. The effort failed in 2012, but it’s got a…
Since 2010, University of Colorado Denver doctoral student Christopher Sibona has researched Facebook via studies focusing on unfriending — including the phenomenon of unfriending harming actual friendships. As for his latest two studies, they include a look at unfriending behavior that lists the sixteen kinds of people most likely to…
For more than a year, we’ve been reporting on the subject of pot profiling — claims that drivers in vehicles with Colorado license plates are regularly being stopped in other states on a variety of shaky pretexts for marijuana searches. Our latest story comes from a man who was stopped…
As we’ve reported, the metro area has seen a slew of hit-and-runs lately. But an incident that took the life of 29-year-old Joshua Stewart may be the most bizarre. Prosecutors believe Stewart was clinging to the side of a van when Cynthia Marie Vigil pried off his fingers — after…
Our post featuring anti-pot group Smart Colorado branding the recent 4/20 celebration “shocking” attracted comments by the bushel. The following reader focuses on the organization’s argument that marijuana may have led to the accidental death of Levy Thamba and the murder of Kristine Kirk…
Denver blog posts are great with everything on them. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun shares the comment of a reader who thinks a lot of pizzas in Denver are pretty good but mighty few are great. Colorado Pols calls an alleged Obamacare victim “dubious.” Mile High Hockey’s earl06…
A new poll finds John Hickenlooper leading four Republican challengers in the 2014 governor’s race. But the gender gap in the survey is more like a chasm, with men backing each of the GOP hopefuls but women favoring Hick by an even larger margin. We’ve got a numbers breakdown, supplemented…
Anti-pot group Smart Colorado found this past weekend’s 4/20 celebration “shocking” — but a report from Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News juggernaut, The O’Reilly Factor, turns the event into a punchline, albeit while portraying participants as sadly clueless idiots. The report, from regular correspondent Jesse Watters, juxtaposes snippets of stoners making…
Georgia’s James Lee Pierce, a convicted child molester, allegedly spent months grooming an underage teen for sex before he could round up the money for a trip to Colorado in order to get his swerve on. Imagine his distress upon learning that his illicit dream girl turned out to be…
Given that Colorado has arguably the best state flag in the country (despite what this list says), it’s no surprise that T-shirts featuring the design have become incredibly popular — so much so that every third person seems to be wearing one these days. Luckily, more alternative designs are cropping…
Last week, we noted the impending departure of entertainment reporter Kirk Montgomery from 9News. Now, another veteran station staffer is headed out the door: sportscaster Susie Wargin, who’s been a staple on the station’s top-rated morning show for a decade. Wargin’s leaving the outlet, and the broadcasting profession, on her…
Yesterday, we shared negative remarks about Colorado by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in relation to this state’s marijuana laws. Among his comments: “For the people who are enamored with the idea with the income, the tax revenue from this, go to Colorado and see if you want to live…
Update below: Before becoming mired in a political scandal involving a bridge closure, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was once among the favorites to be nominated for President by the Republican Party, which could hold its 2016 convention here; Denver is a host-city finalist for the event. Should Christie make…
Our Alan Prendergast stirred some controversy last week by arguing that April 20 is the worst day of the year in Colorado due to the anniversaries of tragic incidents such as the Ludlow Massacre and the shootings at Columbine High School. Some readers cheered his alternative, take while others were…
Denver blog posts are perfectly sane — most of the time. At our Backbeat blog, Ashley Rogers shares the craziness of the Cervantes block party and quadruple concert in words and photos. Colorado Peak Politics thinks it’s a bad idea for fracktivists to compare fracking to slavery. Headline of the…
Yesterday, Rob Corry, attorney and speaker for the 4/20 rally at Civic Center Park, dismissed complaints about the event from the anti-pot group Smart Colorado as “hysterical.” He’s similarly critical of the Denver police arresting or citing 130 people (as well as jailing 22) at an event he otherwise sees…
While Denver’s Civic Center Park was wild on 4/20, drawing big crowds and sparking 130 arrests or citations over the course of the weekend, the scene at CU-Boulder — once the setting for what one advocate described as “an orgasm of cannabis consumption” — was anything but. For the third…
Last week, we told you about the latest Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, popularly known as the happiest cities list, as well as the two Colorado places that finished in the top ten. But because Gallup-Healthways also produced a survey specifically about the State of Colorado, we’re able to drill even deeper…
Following Richard Kirk’s alleged murder of wife Kristine Kirk (see our previous coverage below), most of the attention has focused on the question of whether a marijuana edible had caused the hallucinations and erratic behavior that resulted in her tragic death. But partly lost in this debate has been a…
As we noted in our roundup of the top twenty tweets about 4/20 at Civic Center Park over the weekend, some locals were less than thrilled about the annual event. But few observers were as negative as Smart Colorado, an organization devoted to “protecting youth from marijuana.” In the wake…
Denver blog posts put safety first. At our Backbeat blog, Ben Westhoff takes a look inside the drug culture at Coachella against the backdrop of one young fan’s death. The Colorado Independent’s Mike Littwin argues that the gay-marriage future is determined. Denver PR Blog’s a little confused why a recent…
We got a lot of response to our post about the impending departure of Kirk Montgomery from 9News. One reader looked at the situation in the context of the many local TV-news stations that have ditched their entertainment reporters of late — among them CBS4, which said goodbye to 25-year-veteran…
