Videos: Startling aerial footage of flooding in Lyons, Longmont

Colorado Office of Emergency Management numbers have changed since our publication of a flooding update 24 hours ago — some for the better (648 people remain unaccounted for, as opposed to 1,253 yesterday), the most important one for the worse (confirmed fatalities have gone up from five to eight). But…

Synthetic marijuana: Worse for kids than the real thing?

As you may have heard, 21-and-over adults can legally use and possess small amounts of marijuana in Colorado. But plenty of folks, including ones of age, continue to use incense typically marked “not for human consumption” as synthetic marijuana, with as many as 150 illnesses linked to the substance, popularly…

Did floods cause fracking contamination?

Denver blog posts would like to see fewer clouds in the sky. Colorado Pols reports about Daily Kos blogger TX Sharon, who raises the possibility that our recent flooding could have unleashed contaminants from fracking sites. Denver Infill’s Ken Schroeppel updates us on the downtown Denver residential boom. Thirsty? On…

Matthew Stringer busted for looting CU buildings after floods

The flooding that’s swamped Colorado in recent days has resulted in loss of life, thousands of evacuations, enormous property damage and ministerial claims about prophecies and God’s wrath. But there have been relatively few reports about looting. Until now. The CU-Boulder campus is open today, but it’s been closed since…

Photos: Colorado National Guard responds to the flood

As of yesterday, according to the Colorado National Guard Facebook page, more than 2,100 people and 500-plus pets had been rescued by the guardsman from the state and U.S. Army troops from Fort Carson — and the mission is scheduled to continue today thanks to a weather forecast that will…

Bill May’s photo diary of flooding in Longmont

Our posts about flooding in Boulder and Lyons show the wide-ranging nature of the ongoing situation, which has already resulted in a slew of road, business and public-agency closures, as well as several lives lost. But dealing with a deluge like this one remains a very personal experience, as illustrated…

Marijuana: Colorado NORML board opposes recreational pot tax measure

Earlier this week, Miguel Lopez, organizer of the annual 4/20 rally, expressed his opposition to Measure AA, the taxation proposal for recreational marijuana up for vote in November, by staging a Civic Center rally at which attendees were given free joints. The Colorado chapter of NORML (National Organization for the…