Colorado’s gun-control laws, which include a ban on magazines that can hold more than fifteen rounds, are under fire from numerous foes, including 55 Colorado sheriffs suing to stop them. Now, Magpul Industries, a weaponry business based in Erie, has announced that it will donate proceeds from the sale of…
Legislators working on bills pertaining to Amendment 64 nearly passed a repeal measure aimed at retail sales of recreational pot in part over fears that taxes modest enough for voters to approve might not cover costs. But a document revealing retail sales and state sales taxes in fiscal year 2012…
The City of Longmont has been criticized and sued — once by the state, once by the Colorado Oil and Gas Association — over its citizens’ decision last fall to ban fracking within the city limits. That’s discouraged other local governments along the Front Range that have been thinking about…
This week’s feature, “The Dogs of War,” reports on the ongoing campaign to manage — and, in some cases, exterminate with poison — prairie dog colonies in the emerging Stapleton community. Master developer Forest City and city park managers are battling to protect natural-looking (but not quite natural) open space…
Oh, Frontier! You went from being our homegrown alternative to the big bad airways to being one of our least favorite ways to fly. From the fees to the discontinuation of our cookies to your chipmunk identification problems, squeezing our asses into your tiny little seats now makes us sad…
A new developer will take over the stalled Gaylord hotel project in Aurora, which won an estimated $81.4 million tax rebate from the state last year before hospitality giant Gaylord Entertainment announced it was restructuring — and that building the 1,500-room hotel and conference center here wasn’t in its plans…
When the Slow Food idea began back in 1986 in Italy, it was simply another innovative concept regarding sustainable agriculture. But as its founder, Carlo Petrini, continued to build a following and expound on the potential benefits of stopping the spread of fast food, the concept caught fire and turned…
If you’re looking for a crash course in how to be annoying, you could do worse than study the guerrilla tactics of Colorado Extraction Resistance, a group of activists bent on chafing the thick hides of energy interests who rely on hydraulic fracturing methods to drill for oil and gas…
Yesterday on our Show and Tell blog, Bree Davies said goodbye to Kitty’s East, an East Colfax landmark that was shuttered in recent days after being declared a public nuisance; in addition to offering up orgasm helpers, it seems the joint served as the setting for crack-cocaine dealing. The closure…
In recent months, we’ve shared photo posts of the most expensive homes for sale in Denver and Boulder. But they’re practically shacks compared to the priciest properties available in Aspen, where the reported sale of John Denver’s Windstar Foundation, listed last year for $13.5 million, is small potatoes by comparison…
Last month, the governor-appointed Amendment 64 task force recommended that retailers taking part in the recreational marijuana industry be required to grow 70 percent of their product under a business model known as vertical integration that’s currently imposed on medical marijuana outlets. Yesterday, though, members of the legislature’s A64 joint…
Amendment 64, which allows adults 21 and over to use and possess small amounts of marijuana, includes provisions that allow growing cannabis at home. But can homeowners associations put rules in place prohibiting such grows even though they’re fine under the Colorado law? That question will be addressed at a…
Colorado is a healthy state; we know this. In 2012, the state ranked eleventh overall, according to America’s Health Rankings, provided by the United Health Foundation. And there’s no doubt Coloradans are supreme weekend warriors. On Saturdays and Sundays, they run and bike anywhere the ground is solid, climb anything…
In recent days, the Denver Post reported that the number of medical marijuana businesses in Colorado has dropped by more than 40 percent since its peak at the end of 2010 — from 1,131 to 675 over the course of fewer than three years. That may seem like a precipitous…
Six years ago, Janny Barizonte, a 24-year-old law student, headed with friends to Club Vinyl looking for fun. What she got instead changed her life, and not for the better: a painful altercation with club security personnel, followed by an arrest, a violent assault by a sheriff’s deputy, a criminal…
In what’s being hailed as a major victory for community groups fighting fracking projects, a Denver federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management can no longer keep secret the identity of companies seeking to obtain oil and gas leases on public lands. The landmark ruling reverses…
When Ken Lund decided to move from the private to the public sector, he really didn’t know what was in store. “I describe it this way: It’s thirty years of programs in search of a strategy,” he said. But that strategy was ultimately found, he told attendees at the third…
The director of Colorado’s Bureau of Land Management office seems to be engaged in an elaborate game of chicken over the past few months. On several occasions, Helen Hankins has announced plans to auction off oil and gas leases in environmentally sensitive areas, including tracts near Mesa Verde National Park…
Last month, we shared with you a photo gallery of the five most expensive homes in Denver — and a spectacular batch it was. But don’t forget about Boulder, whose properties, as featured on BoulderHomeSource.com, are just as astonishing and often more unusual — including a three-for-one-price deal that includes…
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission’s proposed transportation rules have Uber shifting gears for a fight. Uber’s main concern is an amendment to section 6309, which makes it illegal for any luxury limousine carrier to be within 200 feet of a hotel, restaurant or bar without a chartered order, effectively making…
The Bureau of Land Management’s decision late last week to seek additional environmental study of possible impacts of oil and gas exploration on the Roan Plateau has left energy interests fuming and sulking over the continued delays in tapping the area’s rich gas reserves — and enviro activists crunching numbers…
In September 2011, radio Troubleshooter Tom Martino talked to us about filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Months later, Martino sued two creditors he believed had accused him of fraud, and a trial in the first case finally got underway last week, only to be stayed by settlement negotiations. Meanwhile, a man…
