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Reader: Thanks to Colorado, You Can Now Get Good Weed in Kansas

At the start of the year, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt started polling law enforcement agencies in his state in an effort to determine how Colorado cannabis was negatively impacting the good people of Kansas. Earlier this month, he finally released the results: "'Legalization' of Marijuana in Colorado: The Impact on...
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Have #SanctuaryCampus Demonstrations Had Any Effect at Colorado Universities?

Since the election of President Donald Trump, there have been multiple demonstrations at universities in Colorado around the #SanctuaryCampus movement, which calls upon schools of higher education to make formal declarations or enact policies that ensure that undocumented students are protected from deportation. In Colorado, they included demonstrations on November...
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See Peyton Manning Pitch Gazebos and Sheds on Modern Family

Sure, Tom Brady just won his fifth Super Bowl with the New England Patriots. But even though he's now retired and can claim a mere two NFL titles, former Denver Broncos superstar Peyton Manning is still winning 2017 thanks to his starring role in a slew of hilarious commercials, including one delivered during last night's edition of the hit ABC sitcom Modern Family for gazebos and sheds.
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Review: Michael J. Dowling Erases and Marks Old Master Classical Imagery

Colorado artist Michael J. Dowling, the subject of a striking solo, You Already Know How This Will End at Leon Gallery, has built a solid reputation based on drawings, paintings and now sculptures that have an old-master classicism that he intentionally undermines through additions and subtractions, what he calls “redactions.”
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Broncos’ Vance Joseph Spins Erect Penis Accusations With Help of Denver Post

Yesterday, we shared disturbing new details about past sexual assault accusations made against new Denver Broncos head coach Vance Joseph, including an assertion by a woman who told police in 2004 that Joseph, then an assistant coach at the University of Colorado Boulder, had disrobed, climbed into her bed uninvited and pressed his erect penis against her. Our piece noted that Joseph had not yet publicly addressed the allegations, adding, "It will be interesting to see how much longer he'll be able to remain silent." Turns out Joseph's silence on the topic lasted less than 24 hours longer. But rather than holding a press conference or speaking on video, Joseph chose an interview with the Denver Post's Nicki Jhabvala. The result was a clever bit of spin control, albeit one that hardly lays the story to rest permanently.
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Tracking Colorado Consumers With Better Cannabis Data

As Colorado’s cannabis industry continues to grow and mature, dispensary owners and other ganjapreneurs are taking a more analytical approach to retail marijuana. According to industry experts, dispensaries cannot hope that the novelty of cannabis and tourism continues to support the market. Rather, they need to dive deeper into customer engagement.
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Punching Henry Has More Laughs Than Most Life-of-the-Comedian Stories

It’s thematically fitting that Henry Phillips’ slight, prickling Punching Henry hits theaters just weeks after The Comedian, a bloated Robert De Niro exercise also about a difficult stand-up comic grinding through bad gigs and insulting meetings with TV suits — and accidentally starring in viral videos. The Comedian was about...
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How Peak Performance Is Taking Denver Employees to New Heights

When Michael Hancock ran for mayor in 2011, part of his platform called for changing the way Denver government interacted with its constituents. “We wanted to be the most globally competitive city, so we had to get better from the inside out,” Hancock explains. “We needed an innovative way to get at old vestiges of thinking in city government. We want a city built for 2016, not 1916.” The result was Peak Performance, which is winning awards and accolades around the county.
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Read Citizens’ Responses to Mayor Hancock’s Sanctuary City Statements

Hundreds of Denver residents contacted Mayor Michael Hancock's office following President Trump's executive order, issued on January 25, that threatens to pull federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities that protect undocumented residents from federal immigration enforcement. Through a Colorado Open Records Act request, Westword obtained data about the number of...
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Two Pearl Street Establishments Combine As Yardbird Opens

Black Pearl restaurant closed at 1529 South Pearl last summer, leaving a note on its website that read: "In partnership with friends, neighbors, and our fellow local restaurateur, we have an exciting new concept for our location." Just down the street, Gaia Bistro's days were numbered as the cottage-turned-eatery was...
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After a Divorce, Dead Man Winter’s David Simonett Moved to Finland to Write

It is common practice for songwriters to retreat deep into isolation for focus and perspective when writing new music. For Dead Man Winter's David Simonett, due April 4 at the Bluebird Theater, his retreat to the tiny village of Finland, Minnesota, not only helped him reshape his musical perspective but also get his life back on track.