Wes McKinley says howdy at the State Capitol
Representative Wes McKinley, a Democrat who represents District 64 in the southeastern corner of the state, could well be the most colorful lawmaker in the Colorado General Assembly, with a...
View ArticleJacob Christenson arson case: Denver Post backpedals on story, confused about...
Cloaked in secrecy, juvenile court matters are so rarely covered in Colorado that it's been instructive watching the Denver Post fumble a bit in its reporting on Jacob Christenson, the elev...
View ArticleStock show gay jokes: Earlier controversies over routines about lynching,...
Earlier this week, the National Western Stock Show apologized for gay jokes told by its rodeo clown/bullfighter and announcer. But the incident wasn't the first of its kind for the stock sh...
View ArticleJohn Hickenlooper puts the colorful back in Colorado on the state's Tourism Day
Welcome to Colorful Colorado! On today, Colorado Tourism Day, let's revisit some of the greatest hits -- and far greater misses -- of the state's tourism efforts. Currently, the marketing t...
View ArticleJay Cutler: pussy
I understand why NFL experts were suggesting last week that the Jay Cutler trade had set the Broncos back five years (several months after other NFL experts, including ESPN's Adam Schefter,...
View ArticleCarmelo Anthony: During Pacers game, Nugs fans only boo when he misses --...
Of late, Carmelo Anthony has been bitching about being booed in Sports Illustrated and on Twitter -- so when I scored tickets to Sunday's game versus Indiana, I was curious to check out the...
View ArticleExtreme Midget Wrestling photo gallery: Size matters -- and the smaller, the...
The participants in this weekend's Extreme Midget Wrestling event at Summit Music Hall were small but mighty, as is clear from photog Aaron Thackeray's action-packed images. And there are lo...
View ArticleReader: Bike riders and car drivers should look out for each other, not act...
Westword contributor Britt Chester's post about nearly being hit by a car while riding his bike and then getting into a confrontation with a cop has sparked a lively debate about responsibil...
View ArticleMartinez family lawsuit: Members of Mexican band say Denver cops mistakenly...
Attorney David Lane says he's got about a half-dozen active lawsuits against the Denver Police Department, including an excessive-force complaint against DPD officer and ex-American Gladiat...
View ArticleDavid Holthouse confronts killer inside him on This American Life: Read...
Listeners to the latest edition of This American Life, a National Public Radio staple hosted by Ira Glass, heard a startling story -- one Westword readers first discovered back in 2004. Th...
View ArticleGlobal-warming diorama predicts Rocky Mountain parrots: Kenny Be Yard Arteology
Yard Arteology: The study of neighbors through lawn decoration... The gigantic rock garden pictured above would appear to be the decorative efforts of a yard artist with a love for local f...
View ArticleMedical marijuana: Brian Vicente on Wyoming ruling against MMJ patient, crime...
Medical marijuana has been enshrined in the Colorado constitution since 2000, with a new MMJ regulatory law signed into law this past June and more medical marijuana legislation in the pipe...
View ArticleMark Udall's State of the Union plan has reps looking for dates; Dana Perino...
At first, even Colorado's reps weren't sold on Senator Mark Udall's idea about Republicans and Democrats sitting together at the State of the Union speech. Now, as Cokie Roberts noted on Na...
View ArticlePatrick Peterson, Nick Fairley, Da'Quan Bowers or Marcell Dareus atop Broncos...
Welcome to another collection of Denver blog posts. Mile High Report's Sayre Bedinger weighs top collegiate talent heading into the NFL draft, including Nick Fairley, Da'Quan Bowers and Ma...
View ArticleWildlife bridge contest: Winning West Vail Pass entry "elegant" yet practical
A New York team has won a unique international competition to design a special bridge for wildlife crossing I-70 west of Vail Pass, the first structure of its kind ever proposed for the Uni...
View ArticleAlex Landau and police brutality: Ricky Nixon, one of cops involved, tied to...
Last week, Westword detailed how nineteen-year-old college student Alex Landau was beaten bloody by three Denver police officers -- Randy Murr, Tiffany Middleton and Ricky Nixon -- after be...
View ArticleNate Easley: Post calls effort to recall DPS board president "a joke," recall...
Update: Easley responds to DeFENSE Denver below our original item. DeFENSE Denver, a self-described coalition of parents, students and educators, is one of the forces behind the recent rec...
View ArticleTrader Joe's: Colorado would be more colorful if the store would join IKEA --...
Colorado has incredible beauty, a colorful governor, and smart residents (and readers) who would prefer that tourists (especially Texans) stay home and wonder "Why do you need to spend money...
View ArticleMarvin Smith victim of homicide at Wise Harris Arms apartments, says Denver...
Update:Information is still scarce in a fatal shooting at the Wise Harris Arms apartments on Saturday. Now, however, we know the name of the victim -- Marvin Smith, 33 -- and the basic circ...
View ArticleCarmelo Anthony trade: Deal unlikely to happen this week -- so is focus...
The Carmelo Anthony Trade has been the longest-running non-show in town -- and odds are good it'll remain unconsummated for at least a while longer, according to one NBA insider. But that d...
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