Here’s more evidence about the mainstreaming of marijuana in Colorado: The Denver Post has revealed that it’s adding a pot editor. And given word of today’s DEA raids at marijuana businesses, there’ll be plenty of news for this staffer to share. Too bad the announcement was botched in a manner…
We’re guessing most parents of students at Pueblo South High School assumed that teacher Larisa Oringdulph committed a crime when sending a nude photo of herself to a student. Turns out they were wrong. And while Oringdulph has resigned her position, she’s technically able to get a job at another…
Earlier this year, we stumbled upon Denver Now, a book showcasing businesses in the city circa 1982. The results, complete with wonderfully dated photos, are a Waybac Machine on paper, which is why we’ve featured it in two posts: one in March, with volume two following in June. Now, we…
It’s rare for law-enforcement officials to release statements after midnight — and rarer still when the purpose of those statements is to tear one of their peers a new one. But that’s what happened at 12:30 a.m. this morning, when El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa issued a rant accusing…
The responses to our post about Austin Sigg, who was sentenced to life in prison for killing Jessica Ridgeway, a ten-year-old Westminster girl, were passionate and strongly felt, particularly when it came to the topic of whether he deserved to receive the death penalty for his crimes. The following reader…
Denver blog posts are open-and-shut cases. On our Cafe Society blog, Isa Jones confirms the closure of Colorado’s three Champps Americana restaurants. Colorado Peak Politics is pretty excited about a poll suggesting big challenges for John Hickenlooper if he wants to be reelected. At Mile High Mamas, Kendra Scott recaps…
We recently spoke with Dean Singleton about his decision to retire as MediaNews Group chairman and Denver Post publisher next month. Regarding the latter, Singleton said, “It’s Mac’s newspaper now.” Mac is Post CEO Mac Tully, Singleton’s successor as publisher — and the man charged with overseeing a just-announced metered…
Although Tim Tebow hasn’t been a Denver Bronco since March 2012, when he was traded to the New York Jets, he remains a favorite of many in these parts, since he achieved his greatest professional glory wearing orange and blue. And even though he’s out of football at the moment,…
What’s among the quickest ways for a district attorney to undermine his credibility when it comes to prosecuting crimes? To commit crimes himself. That’s precisely what John Mehlig, a Montrose-based deputy district attorney for the 7th Judicial District, is accused of doing. He’s been busted for DUI — the third…
This particular state has made its mark on the silver screen, as we’ve documented in posts featuring the top ten movies filmed in Colorado, ten memorable movies set in Colorado but not filmed here and the ten biggest Hollywood misses filmed in Colorado. But what about those with Colorado connections…
Vail’s Lindsey Vonn has been everywhere lately — flirting with David Letterman, inspiring a bizarre Halloween costume on ESPN’s Pardon The Interruption, even hanging on the sideline of Sunday’s Broncos-Chiefs game with main squeeze Tiger Woods. But now, she’s making the wrong kind of news. When she underwent surgery for…
Each post in our Mile High Murder archive is heartbreaking. But the death of nineteen-month-old Mia McKoy-Phanthavongsa is among the most tragic we’ve ever recounted. The working theory: Mia’s father, Merrick McKoy, age 22, took a self-portrait of the two of them, posted it to Facebook, then killed the beautiful…
We were surprised by the response to our recent Comment of the Day highlighting a reader who thinks DIA’s blue Mustang looks like a veiny penis. Some respondents were offended by the comparison and jumped to the Mustang’s defense, while others seriously considered it. And the following take quite simply…
Denver blog posts are flush with success. Denver Egotist shares a Denver take on how to celebrate World Toilet Day — by saving water. At our Cafe Society blog, Lori Midson shares crazy scenes fromthe Denver Espolon Cocktail Fights. Colorado Pols is glad Roseanne Barr is not president. Wonder how…
Update: Austin Sigg has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of ten-year-old Westminster girl Jessica Ridgeway, and while he’s technically eligible for parole after forty years, he’s been ordered to serve another consecutive sentence of 86 years. The announcement of Sigg’s punishment follows more than a day’s…
Over the years, we’ve documented numerous medical marijuana dispensary robberies, with most taking place after hours and many of them inept — like a 2012 heist that netted a broken scale and $8 from the karma jar. But a recent Longmont dispensary stick-up last week was scarier, featuring two masked…
Last week, we told you about the arrest of Kenneth Ruggieri on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly shooting at a man with whom he’d been involved in a minor traffic accident — and the Lakewood cops’ belief that the victim, Paul Jones, had brought much of the trouble upon…
The Human Rights Campaign has just released an ambitious study entitled the Municipal Equality Index. The goal: to grade cities across the country when it comes to LGBT inclusivity in municipal law. Of the 291 cities analyzed, four were from Colorado: Denver, Boulder, Aurora and Colorado Springs. Of the quartet,…
Here’s evidence that you can find just about anything on Denver Craigslist: There’s actually a forum for haiku. It’s called haiku hotel, and it’s a lively place to visit, since users vary between the deadly serious and those willing to have fun with the form. We gravitated to the latter…
Is this a real gun — meaning one that fires the sort of bullets that are capable of killing someone? The Denver Police Department recently posted this photo and seven others on its Facebook page along with the headline question, “CAN YOU TELL WHICH GUNS ARE REAL AND WHICH ARE…
Jamaica has long been recognized as the globe’s marijuana mecca — a place where a large percentage of the population not only enjoys the plant’s benefits but regards it as a sacrament. So it’s more than a little surprising to discover an editorial in Jamaica’s largest newspaper calling for the…
Readers can be like irony detectors. That’s what happened after Patricia Calhoun posted about Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo called for a GOP civility pledge. A number of readers recalled that Tancredo was recently caught on camera flipping someone off — including this one…
