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Win tickets to Sunday's Colorado Mammoth vs. Minnesota Swarm game

We have a quick contest for you today. We're giving away three pairs of tickets to the Colorado Mammoth vs. Minnesota Swarm game on Sunday night (a $70 value for the pair.) Now as you know,...

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Nate Easley recall: DPS board president fights back with fliers, robocalls,...

Nate Easley is fighting back. The Denver Public Schools board president is the subject of a recall effort backed by voters unhappy with some of his policies, especially his votes to shutte...

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Bill Vidal has said he won't run for mayor, but a petition aims to change his...

Mayor Bill Vidal made some noise yesterday -- without calling a press conference. It might have been hard to hear over the roaring of all those rescued lions (and the media hubbub), but his...

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Carmelo Anthony trade: Offer to Knicks a joke? Nets really back in game? Nenê...

Anyone thinking the Carmelo Anthony trade-go-round couldn't spin faster were wrong. The latest? The Nuggets' compensation demand for Melo and Chauncey Billups was reportedly so crazy that i...

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Suicidal woman who throws herself in front of train temporarily causes Aurora...

Early this morning, a closure impacted one of Aurora's major intersections: Chambers Road at Smith Road. Traffic is moving there again -- but why the earlier shutdown? According to Aurora Po...

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Scottie Ewing gets 6 months home detention, can't kick reporter's ass until...

Scottie Ewing, ex-owner of a prostitution business dubbed Denver Players/Denver Sugar, has received six months home detention in a plea deal related to the tax evasion and racketeering case...

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Mike Rosen plagiarizes himself in Denver Post column? He says he did nothing...

Earlier this week, a tipster informed yours truly (and Colorado Pols) that KOA talk show host Mike Rosen had basically copied a 2008 column he wrote for the Rocky Mountain News and republis...

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Reader: Puff Hookah Bar teen-lingerie night hysteria is much ado about nothing

Our post about the controversy stirred by a teen-lingerie night at Puff Hookah Cafe Bar focused in large part on the venue's attempt to reassure parents concerned by coverage on local TV st...

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Lions from Bolivia -- and Bob Barker from Hollywood! -- come to Colorado: A...

Yesterday, 25 abused lions from Bolivia arrived at DIA en route to Keenesburg's Wild Animal Sanctuary, subject of our 2008 feature article "Inside One of the Nation's Top Carnivore Sanctuar...

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Midwifery: Bill to renew, revise CO midwifery law to be heard today by Senate...

Our recent cover story, "Special Delivery," tells the tale of 36-year-old Indra Lusero, a Denver home-birth-mom-turned-lawyer who's advocating for what she sees as common-sense changes to C...

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Grow show highlights the electronic garden: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

Forget the Colorado Home and Garden Show! As shown above, electronic lifestyle advancements have replaced the potted patio ficus tree with a Wi-Ficus phone-charging tree. Below, the greate...

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Dwight Henson: A Denver mayor's race profile

With John Hickenlooper having taken office as Colorado's governor, we know Denver will have a new mayor this year, and the race is wide open. To introduce you to the players, we're offering...

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Medical marijuana dispensary review: Patients Plus gets a minus

Last year on The Daily Show, I quipped that dispensaries are like restaraunts: Some people want a nice steak house, while others can settle for McDonalds. Patients Plus is the latter -- a f...

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Our updated medical-marijuana directory

In his latest medical marijuana dispensary review, William Breathes gives Patients Plus a minus. Fortunately, there are more positives to be found in our newly updated MMJ listings. Click he...

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John Elway's tweets give Broncos Nation hope a Champ Bailey contract deal...

Give these Denver blog posts a chance. Mile High Report's John Bena applauds Broncos transparency, exemplified this time by John Elway's tweets about making a new Champ Bailey contract a p...

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Sierra Nevada Systems, SpaceX to help Denver-Boulder area become Silicon...

These days, as the government slashes NASA's budget and entrepreneurs start making inroads towards the heavens, the space race is increasingly becoming a private-sector enterprise. The dev...

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David Sirota meets Charles Barkley 50,000 burgers ago and other 80s memories...

AM 760 host and columnist David Sirota is promoting a new book about the 1980s, Back to Our Future, with a March 16 book launch party at the Mercury Cafe, as well as an '80s photo contest o...

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Wild horse roundups: Funding cut renews cries to end "taxpayer-funded animal...

It's been a good week for mustang lovers. Not only did the Bureau of Land Management, in the wake of lawsuits, back off a plan to round up the entire West Douglas herd of wild horses in nor...

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Top 4 classic Colorado hoaxes -- including a prehistoric body and man-eating...

Last weekend, the Denver Center Theatre Company's New Play Summit featured Great Wall Story, a play by Lloyd Suh based on the true story of how, in 1899, three Denver reporters came up with...

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Medical marijuana grow operator says he plans to sue councilwoman and developers

A dispensary owner and grower leasing a warehouse in a neighborhood at the heart of the current Denver City Council zoning discussions plans to file a lawsuit alleging that developer Mickey ...

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