Sloan Lake Purple Pop Top turnips grow like weeds: Kenny Be's Hip Tip
The first annual Denver County Fair is only four months away! Lucky for urban farmers, prize-winning produce practically grows itself. With only 55 days to maturity, the Sloan Lake Purple Pop
View ArticleLarry O'Rourke suspected of killing Karen Kulikowski in Lakewood...
Graphic below.Late on Saturday, the Lakewood Police Department received an emergency call from a woman at 868 S. Reed Court. She said her husband had a gun -- and unfortunately, he appears to h
View ArticlePit bulls: Denver's decision to allow their use as service dogs won't stop...
Denver's quiet policy change to allow pit bulls to be used as service dogs might seem to end a class-action lawsuit demanding just such a change. But no: Jennifer Edwards, the Animal Law Cente
View ArticleVon Miller's great, but do Broncos get lower NFL draft grades for skipping...
Von Miller.How about some Denver blog posts about people who are still alive? Mile High Report's John Bena rounds up grades of the Broncos' draft -- with some of the lower marks noting the lac
View ArticleTroy Geske's Colorado Mental Health Institute death due to "malfeasance,"...
The institute.A grand jury has concluded that a lethal combination of bad calls, poor training and inadequate supervision led to the death of a patient in restraints at the Colorado Mental Heal
View ArticleDenver Zoo buries time capsule in Asian Tropics, new elephant and tapir exhibit
When it's finished in the spring of 2012, Asian Tropics, the Denver Zoo's ambitious new exhibit, will be home to elephants, rhinos, leopards, flying foxes, fishing cats, otters, gibbons, tapir
View ArticleAlexander Landau police beating: Denver settles lawsuit for $795,000
Alex Landau.Update: Denver City Council approved settling Landau's lawsuit for $795,000 during their meeting tonight. In a statement, Mayor Guillermo (Bill) Vidal noted, "This settlement sends
View ArticleMedical marijuana letter from U.S. Attorney early attack on 2012 pot...
Brian Vicente.Medical marijuana advocates have been debating the intent of U.S. Attorney John Walsh's letter attacking portions of HB 1043, a bill intended to tweak MMJ regs that became law las
View ArticleDenetta Mills ID'd in E. 35th St. homicide, son Lavar Sillemon arrested in...
Sillemon.Update: We still don't know the cause of death for the woman found Wednesday at a home on the 1900 block of East 35th Street; autopsy results are still pending. But the coroner's offic
View ArticlePolice brutality: Independent monitor says chokeholding Denver cop deserved...
Jared Lunn.The firing of two Denver cops over the Michael DeHerrera beating. The sacking of two more officers for billy-clubbing and macing at the Denver Diner. The $795,000 payout to brutality
View ArticleReader: Kyle Orton has played well for the Broncos and deserves trade to an...
Kyle Orton.Our post yesterday about Kyle Orton, and questions about whether the Broncos don't simply trade him and anoint Tim Tebow as starting quarterback, prompted some readers to speak up in
View ArticleMarijuana critic William Breathes's Jamaica travel diary, Part 3: Trip tips...
William Breathes.Editor's note: Medical marijuana critic William Breathes just returned from a honeymoon in Jamaica. Read his first two trip diary entries here and here, and check out part thre
View ArticleMarch against "police terror" tonight in honor of Marvin Booker, Oleg Gidenko...
Against the backdrop of Independent Monitor Richard Rosenthal's conclusion that Officer Eric Sellers should have been fired, not suspended, for brutalizing volunteer firefighter Jared Lunn come
View ArticleRuby Hill Habanero seeds add that southwest Denver spice: Kenny Be's Hip Tip
Don't let this weekend's Cinco de Mayo and Mother's Day party schedule keep you from digging in your garden. Summer weather blazes into town today and the heat is on -- especially for urban ga
View ArticleJoshua Wittig convicted of vehicular homicide in death of John Hines, was on...
Joshua Wittig.The October arrest of then-eighteen-year-old Joshua Wittig in a fatal accident that killed John Page Hines, 33, was accompanied by allegations that Wittig was high on marijuana th
View ArticleDenver voters: The 62 percent of you who didn't send in ballots are Shmucks...
Election days usually take some patience. Voters have to find their polling stations, ask the boss for an hour off, stand in line and argue with the elderly volunteers who can't find their nam
View ArticleKenia Monge disappearance: A heartbreaking Mother's Day wish
Kenia Monge.It's been more than a month since nineteen-year-old Kenia Monge vanished after a night of partying at a Denver nightclub, and new information has been scarce. But loved ones behind
View ArticleOsama bin Laden death photo can't be worse than shot of Hillary Clinton's...
Osama and... friends?Just for you: three Denver blog posts. Colorado Pols: Jon Caldara (via Ann Coulter) tweets that if Americans can deal with a shot of Hillary Clinton's ankles, they can han
View ArticleParole re-entry guide helps freed former convicts face mean streets, lean job...
There's nothing quite like the transition from doing hard time to looking for a job in hard times. Every year, Colorado's prison system sends about 10,000 felons back to society -- and roughly
View ArticleGay immigrants aren't alone in fighting the "social visibility" criterion in...
What does a gay man look like? Or a whistleblower? Or a woman who, were she to return to her home country, would be targeted for female genital mutilation? Those are the questions raised by "s
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