Get out the cameras: The Denver Department of Excise and Licenses will begin handing out its first retail marijuana businesses licenses at 8 a.m. today. These are for businesses that have already received their state licenses — Colorado began sending out 348 of those on Monday to applicants in more…
After the passage of Amendment 64, the City of Denver moved slower than a procrastinating pothead in coming up with a system for handling the recreational marijuana retail stores that could be opening on January 1, 2014 — but it’s really picked up the pace lately. On December 9, it…
The calls and e-mails keep coming, sometimes several an hour. And they all want to know the same thing: On January 1, where will they be able to buy pot? Good question. The state just released its first list of 136 completed applications for recreational marijuana stores on Monday, but…
PAINT THE TOWN READ! Latest Word is taking a long winter’s nap — until early Thursday, December 26. Until then, enjoy our continuing look back at the last year. Happy holidays!…
I have had the pleasure of writing about Ken Gordon when he was a public defender; when he was a member of the Colorado House of Representatives and the Colorado Senate; when he was a candidate for Colorado Secretary of State and then as founder of cleanslatenow.org, an organization devoted…
Five-time congressman, two-time gubernatorial candidate and one-time presidential aspirant Tom Tancredo has never smoked pot. But he doesn’t need to have used marijuana to recognize that the federal campaign against it has failed — and to support Amendment 64. A former schoolteacher and regional Department of Education head under President…
The fifteenth annual Sand Creek Massacre Healing Run was full of moving sights and sounds — from its start at the actual massacre site, which is marked by a sign advising visitors of the “sacred ground” where over 150 Cheyenne and Arapahoe were killed on November 29, 1864, to the…
Shortly after sunrise on Thanksgiving morning, we spot the eagles a few miles from the site of the Sand Creek Massacre, standing sentinel over the rolling prairie where more than 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho — most of them women, children or elderly men — were slaughtered by volunteer troops led…
In 1980, Manny Salzman and his wife, Joanne, moved to LoDo from Hilltop before lower downtown had even been nicknamed LoDo, much less turned into a hot entertainment/residential area. They took over a four-story warehouse on Wynkoop Street, turning the 3,500 top-floor space into their home and even installing a…
“This place is full of Indians!” said one of them on Thanksgiving morning at the Comfort Inn in Limon, base camp for the Sand Creek Healing Run. From there, the caravan headed south past Hugo, through Cheyenne County — which just voted to secede from Colorado — and on to…
State senator Evie Hudak will resign, as Fox 31’s Eli Stokels first reported this morning. In the process, she will save her district the cost of a recall election, save Colorado Democrats from losing their Senate majority, and save Coloradans a week more of the rancorous actitivites that have bedeviled…
History Colorado opened its phase two exhibit, Living West, this past weekend. It’s right across the hall from the phase one exhibits that debuted with the museum in April 2012: Colorado Stories, or what’s left of them. The sections devoted to Bent’s Fort, Camp Amache, Steamboat skiing, mining and Lincoln…
Central City is used to making history. The Rush to the Rockies got its start in May 1859, when John Gregory made the first lode discovery on Clear Creek. The town sprang up right above that find and grew so fast that it almost became the state capitol; today it’s…
We’re now number two! It was big, big news in November 2011 when the Denver metro area suddenly topped the list of the country’s “cool cities.”That was according to William Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution, who studied the numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and…
The Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant has been out of the business of producing plutonium-triggers for atomic bombs for two decades now; after a $7 billion cleanup, it was transferred to the Department of Fish & Wildlife, which one day will reopen the property sixteen miles upwind of Denver as…
The Colorado Republican Party wants Denver to host the 2016 GOP convention, ideally with a Republican governor in the State Capitol. But to do that, the party will have to do a lot better in next year’s election than it did in 2010, when, after a bruising primary, candidate Dan…
On the last Saturday before Daylight Savings Time ended, a motley crew was sitting around the bar at the Lakeview Lounge, watching the sun rise over Sloan’s Lake and lamenting how the sun has set on too many Denver watering holes. Only a handful of true dives remain in this…
Developer and urban preservationist Dana Crawford is a landmark in this city, so it’s not surprising that a landmark would be named after her. But two? Next week, the Crawford Building will be dedicated in Larimer Square, the Victorian-era block she saved from the wrecking ball. And today, Sage Hospitality…
Was it “Mustang” that killed the competition — just as the sculpture killed its creator, Luis Jimenez? Maybe it was Terry Allen’s bronze gargoyles by baggage claim that had victory in the bag. Or perhaps it was part of some New World order conspiracy, as presaged in the murals by…
When Aaron Harber started planning an episode of the Aaron Harber Show that would feature the Republican candidates for Colorado governor, there were only three: ex-congressman Tom Tancredo, who got more than 36 percent of the vote running for governor on the 2010 American Constitution Party ticket; onetime state senator…
From its humble beginnings in Denver almost twenty years ago, PeaceJam has gone global, with a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, thirteen Nobel laureates on its board and meetings around the world. But founders Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff haven’t forgotten PeaceJam’s local roots, and today, Nobel Peace Laureate Betty Williams…
Nicole Millman, aka Nicole Sisneros, aka the Crazy Jesus Lady, has come back from the dead. Two years ago, when Occupy Denver was a couple of months into occupying Denver, a rumor spread that an occupier had died, succumbing to hypothermia while camped out in Civic Center Park. The rumor…
