Plutonium has a half-life of 20,000 years, and the controversy over the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant should continue at least that long. With good reason: If we forget that the plant sixteen miles upwind from Denver processed plutonium and other deadly materials, some day the land could turn…

Denver’s already got a reputation as the cannabis capital of the country. But Jeff Peckman is setting his sights much higher: He wants to create a seven-member Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission for the city. And his campaign is taking off this week. Last night, Peckman held Extra’s official “Welcome to Earth”…

Our lawyers were told to stay by the phone last Friday morning, when the Colorado Civil Rights Commission was slated to hear Steve Horner’s appeal of the division’s recent decisions that found “no probable cause” to believe that Westword had discriminated against him by publishing ads promoting ladies night events,…

Sing-a-Bong On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing on HB 1284, which would regulate — some say snuff out — the medical marijuana industry in this state. It’s a sad come-down for the Colorado Legislature, the very body that back in 2007 made John Denver’s “Rocky…

The March 8 issue of Time magazine includes a postcard from Denver, the cannabis capital of the country. This city’s reputation as a mecca for medical marijuana is so pervasive that local law enforcement authorities recently paid a visit to Visit Denver, the convention and visitors bureau, to see if…

I watched the sun rise a little earlier this morning — not because the days are growing longer, but because history suddenly got a lot shorter. On Friday, the oldest house on the historic block where I live suddenly disappeared. We knew it was going, of course. Two years ago,…

“Is Tiger out of the Woods?” asks the headline of the March 5 Entertainment Weekly story (which is only in print, not on-line) that deals with whether the adulterous athlete’s public apology will help repair his image. Among those interviewed is CNBC sports/business reporter Darren Rovell, who offers this: “The…

It was the Casa Bonita of bad steakhouses, a place where they’d cut off your tie if you dared to wear one into the place, and cut off your arteries with fatty meat and butter-laden spuds. It was the Trail Dust Steak House, and Denver was once lucky enough to…

I was on the phone with a city official late Monday, and could hear the protest outside City Hall, organized by Robert Chase, founder of the Colorado Coalition for Patients and Caregivers, who’s asking for a recall of the Denver City Council members who voted for the ordinance regulating medical…

Keep chomping on your candy bar! Although several Colorado sales tax exemptions have been removed effective today, including “nonessential items related to sales of food and beverages” (i.e., to-go containers), materials used in direct mail advertising and standardized computer software, candy and soft drinks — and fans of these unhealthy…

By the end of the day Friday, February 19, just one week before the deadline for medical marijuana dispensaries to apply for their official Denver dispensary licenses, just 61 had done so. That was out of 500-plus outfits that said they were in the medical marijuana business when they’d applied…