Sheila Jones is suburban superhero Captain Englewood: Kenny Be's Hip Tip
Captain Englewood Real name: Sheila Jones; Occupation: Journalism Adviser; Suburb of operation: Englewood; Hair: Wash-n-wear; Eyes: Dotted Suburban superhero skills: Captain Englewood repr...
View ArticleGlenn Beck Restore Honor rally not political, says 9.12 Project Colorado...
As we noted yesterday, 9.12 Project Colorado chair Lu Busse attended the Glenn Beck Restore Honor rally in Washington, D.C. Saturday, sharing her take in a People's Press Collective post. ...
View ArticleBoulder named America's brainiest city: Guess all that weed doesn't make...
Boulder recently placed fourth in the best-cities-for-the-next-decade roster assembled by Kiplinger's Personal Finance and earned honors as the finest place to raise abducted children courte...
View ArticleMafia controls Denver and John Hickenlooper -- if you believe our midnight...
Here at Westword, we regularly receive news tips -- many legitimate and worthy of further investigation, others not so much. But few are as flat-out bizarre as this one, left on our tip lin...
View ArticleKen Buck: Does he oppose morning-after pill even for a woman raped by a...
We bring you these three Denver blog posts. BigMedia.org's Jason Salzman asks Ken Buck this provocative question: Do you support a ban on the use of the morning-after pill even for a woman...
View ArticleSarah Trujillo formally charged with vehicular homicide in death of...
Yesterday, we told you about the Facebook tribute to Brian Hoyle, the scooter rider killed in a hit-and-run accident late Friday. Now, the woman who was allegedly behind the wheel in the cr...
View ArticleCannabis Therapy Institute attacks new regs, declares medical marijuana law...
On Friday, the Colorado Department of Revenue's medical marijuana advisory committee met at a session belatedly opened to the public -- and the folks at the Cannabis Therapy Institute were ...
View ArticleCannabinomics: The Marijuana Policy Tipping Point: Where does Colorado land?
According to Christopher Fichtner, a psychiatrist and former Illinois mental health director, the country's on the verge of radical marijuana policy change (i.e., legalization) -- something ...
View ArticlePersonhood Amendment: Photos from today's No on 62 rally on the State Capitol...
Proposition 62, the latest iteration of the Personhood Amendment, which would give the unborn constitutional rights in Colorado, has been approved for the November ballot -- and opponents l...
View ArticleJaimes Brown and Colorado's Libertarians are bringing the party to the people...
At the 2008 Libertarian National Convention in Denver, some party members derisively passed around shots of Scope to wash the bad taste from their mouths following the presidential nominati...
View ArticleJohn Hickenlooper's police scandal looking better compared to former cop Dan...
What candidate would a mayor with a simmering police scandal in his city not want to face in a gubernatorial race? A candidate with a background in law enforcement -- unless, of course, th...
View ArticleTausha Marsh, cancer faker: MySpace donation page still online even as she...
In April 2009, we told you about Gunnison's Tausha Marsh, accused of faking cancer to collect thousands in donations. When she pleaded guilty to this crime in February, Marsh's MySpace and...
View ArticleJBS Swift lawsuit: Greeley meatpacking plant accused of descrimination...
"There's No Place Like Home for Somali Refugees in Greeley," a November 2008 feature by ex-Westword staffer Lisa Rab, told the tale of the Somali community in Northern Colorado, and those me...
View ArticleCarmelo Anthony rumored to be New Jersey Nets bound as Kat Stacks Twitter...
At yesterday's Nuggets press event, new GM Masai Ujiri implied the team has a legit shot to keep Carmelo Anthony. Problem is, everyone thinks Carmelo is as good as gone, with reports about ...
View ArticleMedical marijuana petition forces Broomfield council dispensary ban onto...
The Broomfield City Council recently voted to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in the community rather than place the issue on November's ballot. That didn't sit well with MMJ advocates i...
View ArticleDenver police impersonator had mustache, Hawaiian shirt & possible Magnum...
Police impersonators tend to be delusional types. Remember the Colorado Springs man who tried to pull people over in a 1995 Cadillac equipped with a white strobe light? He'd likely identify...
View ArticleMarijuana grow bust in Boulder County 2.0: Now 7,500 plants seized worth $1...
An update about yesterday's Boulder County marijuana grow seizure of 3,000 plants. After a closer count, the Boulder County Sheriff's Office thinks the plant total was closer to 3,500 -- an...
View ArticleJob creation is the goal of the State Fair Job Fair: Kenny Be's Worst-Case...
Slight changes to the scheduled attractions at the annual Colorado State Fair in Pueblo could transform the dated farm show into a much needed economy-boosting job fair... Big experience, e...
View ArticleDan Maes not padding résumé with Jason Bourne tales about police past,...
The apparently damaging attacks on Republican guv candidate Dan Maes just keep coming. Hot on the heels of a front-page Denver Post story about allegedly catastrophic fundraising difficulti...
View ArticleTim Tebow envy: Do his biggest bashers secretly want to be just like him?
Football fans are likely to get a full dose of Tim Tebow in Thursday night's exhibition closer against the Minnesota Vikings, giving him the best chance yet to beat out Brady Quinn for the ...
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