Bill Ritter vetoes sex offender bill over Joyce Foster's controversial amendment
Senator Joyce Foster's last minute amendment to House Bill 10-364, which allowed sex offenders to choose among three treatment options, stirred plenty o' controversy, owing largely to her s...
View ArticleCranbeary, the Denver Zoo's returning lady polar bear, is looking for...
It's Adorable Animal Friday! (See previous installments here: baby giraffe is born; baby monkey is effing cute; naked mole rats are effing hideous.) Today, we bring you Cranbeary, an eig...
View ArticleB-cycle sculpture: Local artists designs ode to Denver's new bike-sharing...
As if B-cycle, Denver's new bike-sharing program -- the largest of its kind in the country -- wasn't cool enough... Now, when you rent your bike and help save the planet at the B-cycle stat...
View ArticleBill Ritter did the right thing by vetoing sex offender bill
Governor Bill Ritter will sign a slew of bills this week -- the deadline for action on all legislation coming out of this past session is June 11 -- but he put HB 1364 on a fast track, Vetoi...
View ArticleKayleah Wilson mourners aren't distracted by shocking arrest of Robert...
The confirmation of twelve-year-old Greeley resident Kayleah Wilson's death transformed a Facebook page focusing on her safe return from a beacon of hope to a loving memorial. And that's r...
View ArticleStan Garnett tries to capitalize on AG John Suthers's link to serial killer...
In an April post announcing his intention to challenge Colorado Attorney General John Suthers at the polls this November, Boulder district attorney Stan Garnett focused on issues like watch...
View ArticleLost's group-hug-of-the-dead finale: What did Denver think?
Final episodes of beloved series are criticism magnets -- and last night's Lost closer, in which the castaways, all of them dead, happily gathered in a church in order to "move on" together...
View ArticleCuervo, Cobra Starship and the Caregivers' Cup ruled the weekend
We unleashed photog Aaron Thackeray on the city this weekend, and he came back with hundreds of photos from Friday's 3OH!3/Cobra Starship concert, an after-party at Suite 200, the Cuervo Gam...
View ArticleMedical marijuana ban: Aurora City Council wants voters to approve one
Almost immediately after the passage of HB 1284, a bill to regulate the medical marijuana industry, and SB 109, intended to clarify the relationship between doctors and MMJ patients, attorn...
View ArticleCaregivers' Cup: And the winners are...
Contrary to popular belief, Westword is a newspaper, not a dispensary or a marijuana grow -- and anyone who's looked in our shared refrigerator will tell you there are almost never any edib...
View ArticleMemorial Day observed 24/7 by a brooding bald eagle: Kenny Be's Yard Arteology
The study of neighbors through their lawn decorations... Figure 64. Fort Logan: An eagle-eyed watch over a tiny gravestone dedicated to those who gave. At Fort Logan National Cemetery, ...
View ArticleJessica Corry on team of ten medical marijuana attorneys discussing MMJ's future
Aurora City Councilman Bob Broom's comments about that city's efforts to ban medical marijuana dispensaries are sure to be a subject of conversation during a free MMJ panel discussion at th...
View ArticleSmoking ban on stage: The Supreme Court declines to hear Curious Theatre's case
In December, we told you about the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling against the Curious Theatre, which had argued that extending the state's smoking ban to the stage improperly infringed on...
View ArticleTim Tebow (or Kyle Orton) (or Brady Quinn) can be Super Bowl-ready in a year
The blogs of Denver are cranking once again. Here's three items fresh off the assembly line. In a Mile High Report fan post, tunesmith asks what it'll take for the Broncos to win another S...
View ArticleJoyce Foster audio clip about missing children not Joyce Foster
Update, 1:58 p.m.: We've now received a statement from Joyce Foster and interviewed Kathleen Chippi, who was identified as the senator on KHOW -- and since our 12:05 p.m. update, Chippi has...
View ArticleKen Buck endorsed by former candidate Tom Wiens; Sarah Palin stiffs Jane Norton
Republican senatorial hopefuls Ken Buck and Jane Norton spent much of last week dishing about wannabe veep Sarah Palin, who was said to be planning a Norton endorsement during her Magness A...
View Article"Labia lift" and other humiliations described in letter from prison
As any viewer of MSNBC's Lockup knows, prison is about punishment, plain and simple, not rehabilitation or even "correction." But does that mean it has to be dehumanizing, too? Put aside t...
View ArticleJoe Sestak job offer echoes Andrew Romanoff story
For someone who talks a lot -- to Meet the Press Sunday, to CNN yesterday -- Pennsylvania representative Joe Sestak doesn't say a lot. Especially when he's pressed for specifics about who at...
View ArticleAndrew Szeremy, No. 91: Father charged with first-degree murder in infant son...
On May 17, 2009, Westword launched Mile High Murder, a blog category tracking homicide in the seven county Denver/Boulder area. We thought the tragedies during year one had ended at ninety...
View ArticleMedical marijuana consumption laws: What they mean for hookah bars and...
Colorado's new medical marijuana regulations ushered in by House Bill 1284 mean lots of changes for a lot of pot businesses, not the least of which is the part of the law that prohibits all...
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