Oil wars! A Boulder oil recycling firm accuses a competitor of trespassing...
FlickrWaste oil recycling is supposed to be a feel-good industry, taking what used to be thrown away and turning it into fuel. But in Boulder, two oil recycling companies are engaging in a mino
View ArticleKenia Monge's body presumed found, suspect Travis Forbes led cops to burial...
Kenia Monge.On April 1, Kenia Monge, nineteen, disappeared after a night of clubbing. Her parents continued to hold out hope for her safe return, despite mounting evidence of lethality involvin
View ArticleThomas Hornsby Ferril House is part of Denver's history -- and could be history
The house has stood on the edge of downtown Denver for 120 years. For 88 of those years, it was the home of Thomas Hornsby Ferril, Colorado's first poet laureate; his words line the rotunda of
View ArticleBizarre classroom posters from the '70s: Here's why your parents are so...
Big pics below.Ever wonder why your mom and dad (or maybe you) are such a mess? These "discussion posters" from 1973 offer clues. Some are icky ("I'm O.K., and You're O.K."). Some are depressin
View ArticleMichael Hancock wants cop reinstatement in Michael DeHerrera case appealed,...
Michael Hancock.Yesterday, we noted in our post about the reinstatement of cops fired for beating Michael DeHerrera that we'd reached out to spokespeople for Mayor Michael Hancock to get his ta
View ArticleTHC driving limit: Task Force member says no recommendation wouldn't stop new...
Yesterday, the Drug Policy Task Force met to consider THC driving limits. The DUID-marijuana working group studying the subject couldn't agree on a proposal last week, and Task Force member Sen
View ArticleReader: Michael Hancock's National Western Stock Show win-win-win may end in...
Hancock.Patricia Calhoun's Wake-Up Call post about Mayor Michael Hancock seeking a win-win-win regarding a potential move of the National Western Stock Show raised a red flag for one reader, wh
View ArticleMichael DeHerrera talks about reinstatement of cops who beat him (VIDEO)
Video below.Update: After two police officers fired for the 2009 on-camera beating of Michael DeHerrera were reinstated to their jobs, we spoke to Anthony DeHerrera, Michael's father and a law
View ArticleA glossary of kink terms you didn't want to know but now will
There are rules to every game, and learning about kink starts with identifying some basic BDSM definitions -- and reading this week's cover story, "Kink of the Jungle," of course. Below is an a
View ArticleObama jobs plan in a nutshell: Kenny Be's Nut Graphs
Will President Obama's new jobs plan save the country from a double-dip recession or burden our sliding economy with another $400 billion of deficit spending? Below, an easy-to-read chart expl
View ArticleDenver Post to cut ties with Righthaven as momentum turns against copyright...
Brian Hill.A business brief in today's Denver Post notes that the paper will not renew its contract with Righthaven LLC, a Las Vegas firm that takes legal action on behalf of newspapers claimin
View ArticleMedical marijuana: Office of Excise & Licensing tackles mountain of MMC...
The photo seen here isn't a screen capture from the last scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. No, these boxes contain medical marijuana business applications that have been gathering dust up unti
View ArticleBroncos cheerleaders ready to welcome Denver back to football
These Denver blog posts need a loving home. Predominantly Orange's Kim Constantinesco touts tomorrow's Broncos back-to-football pep rally at Skyline Park, co-starring mascot Miles and plenty o
View ArticleSumaya Abu-Haidar: Nederland mayor resigns, citing "hostile" politics and...
Abu-Haidar.Nederland's official website declares that the funky mountain burg is a "town like no other." And the abrupt resignation of Mayor Sumaya Abu-Haidar eighteen months into her two-year
View ArticleShannon "Lucky 7" Boyles coaches stay-at-home mom on how to be a rollergirl...
Shannon Boyles. Those of you addicted to reality television (hello! guilty!) will be familiar with the MTV show Made, which takes awkward teenagers and transforms them into the prom queen. Last
View ArticleMedical marijuana dispensary review: The Wellness Shop in Denver
The green and white paint job of The Wellness Center stands out along a drab of East Evans like a bowl of dank in a sea of schwag. But it isn't until you park that the actual size of the buildi
View ArticleSantiago Calatrava bails on DIA expansion: Paging Curt Fentress!
Curt Fentress.Let's hope Mayor Michael Hancock has Curt Fentress's number on speed dial. The Denver architect was brought in to fix Denver International Airport before it ever got off the groun
View Article5 more major Denver speed traps
After the National Motorists Association placed Denver among the ten worst cities in the U.S. and Canada for speed traps, Alan Prendergast listed the top five speed traps in Denver according t
View ArticleMarijuana seizure in Pike National Forest: Were the 3,000 plants really worth...
Big pics below.In its first announcement about the seizure of more than 3,000 marijuana plants from a plot in Pike National Forest, an ultra-popular place for illegal grows (more on that later)
View Article9/11 anniversary: Top 10 terrorists with Colorado connections
No. 3.The 9/11 events being memorialized on Sunday, ten years after they shook the world, didn't take place in Colorado. But our state has no shortage of connections to terrorists -- and not on
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