Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is on record as saying that hydraulic fracturing methods to extract oil and gas “can be done safely,” but he’s not overly impressed with varying state rules overseeing the drilling process. He’s been pushing in recent months for his department to tighten its requirements…
Almost exactly a year ago, the Journal Register Company’s John Paton was named CEO of MediaNews Group, owner of the Denver Post, with a new entity called Digital First Media taking over management of both firms. But the first birthday of this deal hasn’t been a happy one. Yesterday brought…
College student Eugene Elliott’s campaign to save remaining buildings at the old Gates Rubber factory on South Broadway from demolition, the subject of last month’s feature “Trouble in the Rubble,” has failed to impress Denver’s Landmark Preservation Commission — which voted 9-0 yesterday not to recommend landmark status for the…
Echo Mountain, the tiny 226-acre ski area near Evergreen that we’d taken to calling “the little terrain park that could” in our annual winter activities guide, The Edge, apparently couldn’t: Denver’s closest ski area was put up for sale in June after operating at a loss for six consecutive seasons,…
In this week’s feature, “Purple Haze,” we take a close look at why all eyes are on Colorado in the presidential race, just in time for the Republican National Convention in Florida. An issue Mitt Romney’s campaign has pushed here — one that was also the RNC’s theme last night…
A Denver jury has awarded a verdict of more than $2 million, including $1.5 million in punitive damages, to a former client of Anderson, Hemmat & Levine in what amounts to a legal malpractice case against the prominent personal-injury law firm. Daniell Goff claimed that the firm’s lawyers pressured her…
The law firm of Anderson, Hemmat & Levine doesn’t keep its light under a bushel. Commercials and billboards across the Front Range boast of how hard the personal-injury firm fights for its clients. The AHL website proclaims that “Justice for Victims Begins Here.” But a disgruntled former client is seeking…
In the wake of the mass shooting in Aurora a month ago, gun-control advocates in Colorado and across the country have upped the ante in pushing for stricter policies. And at the same time, some people in Denver are wondering why the federal government is trying to shut down a…
This week’s feature, “Trouble in the Rubble,” looks into the controversies triggered by student Eugene Elliott’s effort to save what’s left of the Gates Rubber Company complex on South Broadway from demolition by filing for landmark preservation status. Response to the story has been sharply divided, with some readers denouncing…
Denver gonzo athlete Justin Simoni’s singular achievement this summer in the Tour Divide, a 2745-mile mountain bike race that crosses the Continental Divide 39 times between Canada and Mexico, is the focus of this week’s feature, “Going to Extremes.” But cycling is only one of Simoni’s multiple and oddly linked…
Denver has ten sister cities, each with its own customs and priorities. Among them is Nairobi, Kenya. City Councilman Albus Brooks, so much a fan of Kenya that he named his daughter after the nation, recently led a trip of Manual High School students (and one teacher), plus private sector…
Schmoozing and boozing — that was the scene at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House last Friday just before the ten finalists of Galvanize’s [i4c] campaign, a city-specific initiative to grow socially and environmentally impactful startups through capital, community and curriculum, would be judged Shark Tank-style, with just three winning the…
For a lesson in living large, look no further than Peyton Manning’s new Cherry Hills Village digs, a modest 16,000-square-feet pied-à-terre, snapped up for a mere $4.57 million. But a new documentary from a Colorado couple, charting their quest to build their dream home — all 125 square feet of…
Rory O’Rourke thinks traditional dating sites are too static. “You talk about yourself or fill out a bunch of survey questions, and throughout your experience online, you don’t change that,” says O’Rourke, who works in software. “Everybody says they like to travel but nobody updates their page with what trips…
There are a lot of lingering questions in the local renewable energy industry, and in Aurora, about news that General Electric is laying off employees and putting construction of an Aurora solar plant on hold. Yesterday, we tracked down Brian Murphy, one of the founders of PrimeStar, a Colorado startup…
One handy gauge for checking on the relative financial health of the world’s one-percenters can be found right here in Colorado — well, okay, the other Colorado, the one populated with champagne wishes and caviar dreams. And the latest figures for real estate transactions in the Gucci-padded wonderland known as…
Give Rex Tillerson some credit. At least the ExxonMobil CEO has avoided claiming that global warming isn’t real, the way tobacco executives used to pretend lung cancer was just some weird, wacky, luck-of-the-draw disease that had no linkage to massive consumption of their product. Tillerson just happens to think that…
Chants of “Si se puede!” and “Justice!” filled the air yesterday as downtown janitors marched on 16th Street for better conditions and voted to authorize a potential strike. The contract for almost 2,300 Denver janitors will expire at the end of June, and after four weeks of negotiation with contractors…
Garry Golden, a professional futurist, stopped by the Denver Public Library last night to, well, talk about the future. Not in a very concrete, fortune-telling, predictive kind of way, but rather in the more abstract forward-thinking, advice-giving, philosophical realm. This is the work of the futurist…
Last week, Cannabis Business Alliance’s Shawn Coleman argued that accepting a medical marijuana advertising ban near schools, parks, daycares and rec centers might find off citywide prohibition. But one councilwoman is leaning toward a more sweeping policy…
After one of the mildest winters in recent years, leaving some areas of the parched high country with less than 10 percent of normal snowpack — not to mention forests ravaged by drought and pine beetles, ready to explode into wildfires like the rapidly expanding High Park blaze — this…
To keep up with the world’s exploding population, farmers will have to produce more food over the next fifty years than during the past 10,000 years combined. Given environmental issues and a scarcity of fossil resources, this daunting task seems almost impossible. But it’s a problem 31-year-old John-Paul Maxfield is…
