Aubrey Lavizzo, Colorado's Veterinarian of the Year, talks about pet peeves...
Aubrey Lavizzo.No, he didn't get a crown, Dr. Aubrey J. Lavizzo informs me, when the Colorado Veterinary Medical Association named him the 2011 CVMA Veterinarian of the Year. But he did get "a
View ArticleOWOW! Donor gives $1 million to Metro State to start One World, One Water...
Flickr An anonymous donor has given $1 million to Metropolitan State College of Denver to launch a water education program with the best name ever: the OWOW Center, which is short for the One W
View ArticleMedical marijuana: Study shows dispensaries may create safer neighborhoods
Do medical marijuana dispensaries make neighborhoods safer? That's the conclusion of a study by the RAND Corporation, which counters the widespread perception that MMJ businesses attract crime.
View ArticleSurvivor update, week 3: Dispensary owner Jim Rice staying ahead of competition
Jim Rice.Three weeks into Survivorand local medical marijuana dispensary owner Jim Rice continues to stay alive in the competition. Episode three kicked off where episode two ended, with Chris
View ArticleListeria hysteria: Paid Sick Leave backers allude to outbreak in sick...
The listeria outbreak that's killed at least thirteen people has been traced to cantaloupe from Jensen Farms in Holly. While the FDA has been looking for the cause of the contamination there, t
View Article13-year-old killer of parents Charles & Marilyn Long played in sandpit...
Big pic below.In August, prosecutors and defense attorneys crafted a deal to sentence the thirteen-year-old Burlington boy who killed parents Charles and Marilyn Long and wounded two siblings a
View ArticleBoulder's Phantom Sculptor: See some of the greatest hits by mysterious...
Big pics below.Want another reason to love Colorado? Boulder's Phantom Sculptor has struck again! For years, the anonymous artist or artists have been producing delightful works that are given
View ArticleEric Madril, John Culhane sent fake parking ticket to guy who called Madril a...
Big pics below.It's no surprise that parking enforcement officers don't like being called meter maids -- especially the male ones. But Eric Madril's feelings about this label apparently went be
View ArticleReader: Comet Elenin scare can make world it didn't destroy a better place
You've probably noticed by now that Comet Elenin didn't devastate Earth or cause Barack Obama to hide in secret DIA underground tunnels during his Denver visit earlier this week. Now, the space
View ArticleJason Graber deal won't get Denver Police out of releasing excessive-force...
Jason Graber.Two weeks ago, attorney David Lane lauded Judge John Kane for threatening to fine the City of Denver if reps delayed releasing eight years of excessive-force complaints against cop
View ArticleMedical marijuana patients face 5-to-10 years in prison for owning a gun,...
The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives sent out a memo last week clarifying their stance that a sportsman with a shotgun and a medical marijuana card is no different th
View ArticleBeerfest Headquarters is now at La Boheme, in case you were wondering
Well, more like the "head" quarters. But you can bet that won't matter to some of the beer drinkers who come streaming out of the Great American Beer Festival, which kicks off its three-day run
View ArticleTom Martino bankruptcy: Rant about wife Holly's ex-husband missing from KHOW...
Tom Martino.Self-proclaimed Troubleshooter Tom Martino's bankruptcy claim, on alleged liabilities of $78 million (a figure he disputes), continues to play out in public. But amid new reports ab
View ArticleRighthaven ruling by Denver judge "stunning rebuke" of copyright troll,...
ItMakesSenseBlog.comThis week, Judge John Kane, who ordered Denver to release eight years of excessive-force complaints, struck a blow against Righthaven LLC, the Las Vegas copyright-law firm t
View ArticlePETA set to protest the circus every day it's in Denver (PHOTOS)
Kelsey WhippleA small but sturdy herd of PETA activists is stomping its feet against the circus' stay in Denver. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals supporters took their grievance
View ArticleColorado Rockies 2011 review: Five keys to the season, and how they led to...
Troy Tulowitzki.Examining the Rockies' season is a lot like an autopsy. Something has gone horribly wrong and now it's time to figure out why. At the beginning of the season the Rockies had ver
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood target of GOP vendetta, says Diana DeGette
Diana DeGette.These Denver blog posts never drive drunk. Colorado Independent's Ashley Lopez on Diana DeGette pushing back on what she sees as a Republican vendetta against Planned Parenthood.
View ArticleCity Year debuts in Denver, dispatching 50 tutors and mentors to 5 high-needs...
City Year, an AmeriCorps program that focuses on mentoring at-risk students at high-needs schools across the country, has come to Denver. Fifty young adults ages 17 to 24 are now serving as t
View ArticleGevo, Inc. turns wood into jet fuel (really)
The process to turn wood into jet fuel sounds like half alchemy, half magic. But Gevo, Inc. an Englewood renewable chemicals and biofuels company, calls it science.
View ArticleMedical marijuana dispensary review: RiverRock Wellness in Denver
I met RiverRock hash master Bho Johnson a few months ago, when I stopped by Paul Tokin's house for a Wednesday hash session for Tokin's YouTube show Tokin' Daily. Aside from being a fellow pot
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