Opinion & Commentary

Sadly, it’s too late to block the border. By now the professional picketers from Westboro Baptist Church, Fred Phelps’s “god-hates-fags” group, have likely made their way from Kansas to Colorado, where they’ve announced plans to picket two Jewish General Assembly meetings downtown today. They’re also threatening to show up at…

Steve Horner, the anti-ladies night crusader, gave Denver bars fits a few years ago, then took his campaign back on the road — most recently to Las Vegas. The slew of complaints he’s filed in Sin City against resort/casinos over special deals for bikini-clad babes are about to be featured…

Although the fancy architect is gone and the ownership of Santiago Calatrava’s DIA expansion design is still up in the air, plans for construction of the South Terminal, including a light-rail station and a public plaza, are moving forward. That means Denver could soon commission another $3 million in public…

Initiative 300, the paid sick-leave proposal on yesterday’s ballot, would have affected just about every business in Denver — but restaurants became the real poster child of the campaign, on both the pro and con sides. The Yes on 300 campaign used scare tactics — including pictures of cantaloupes on…

Harold Camping has predicted the end of the world three times — and each time, the ninetysomething Boulder native has struck out. Most recently, Doomsday did not arrive on October 21. Five months earlier, the Rapture did not occur on May 21. And there were earlier botched Camping forecasts, which…

A week after Snobama buried the Front Range in hype and hope, we’re still shoveling out — and just dug up this fun fact: The Brown Palace has hosted every U.S. president since Teddy Roosevelt first visited in 1905, thirteen years after the hotel opened, except for two: Calvin Coolidge…

Mayor Michael Hancock’s choice for Denver’s new police chief, Robert White, was introduced at a hastily convened press conference at City Hall on Saturday. The announcement of Hancock’s pick for this most-watched post had been moved up several days because the news of White’s appointment had already leaked out in…

No sooner had husband-and-wife entrepreneurs Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane opened Marczyk Fine Foods at 770 East 17th Avenue than people started asking when they would open a second store — usually begging them to open one in their neighborhood. Nine years later, the couple (now joined by Pete’s brother,…

“Mustang,” Luis Jimenez’s killer horse at Denver International Airport, just placed third in a recent survey of the country’s most bizarre public art. But it definitely ranks first in the hearts and minds of Denver residents, who either really love or really, really hate the sculpture…

“What is that thing at the end of your block?” For the last year, that’s been a regular query from people heading to Highland — from I-25, from Speer Boulevard, from 15th Street — who inevitably catch sight of the imposing structure that now stands at the edge of the…

Michael Hancock has good timing. He was in the right place, right time when Denver voters were looking for someone, anyone but Chris Romer to be mayor, and managed to edge out James Mejia, the other leading someone. And even as Snobama was descending on the city, Mayor Hancock managed…

Mayor Michael Hancock celebrates his first hundred days in office today. Compared to the controversy that marked the last few days before the June mayoral runoff — when the web and talk shows were full of never-proven rumors that Hancock had been a client of Denver Players, a prostitution business…

Obama! Snow! A flurry of announcements started coming in yesterday, all indicating that Denver is on a collision course with a made-for-TV disaster. President Barack Obama is coming to town for two fundraisers tonight, as well as one public appearance tomorrow, inspiring a number of official and unofficial political activities…

In December 2007, Molly Midyette was convicted of child abuse that led to the death of her ten-week-old son, Jason, and sentenced to sixteen years in prison — even though she was at work and her husband, Alex, was watching the baby at the time. This week, she’ll be out…

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition moves to Fridays tonight, and makes a stop in Colorado. No, this isn’t where the crew builds a house for a family enduring hardship — that happens in Pennsylvania. Instead, while the crew is building their home, the family waits in Colorado…

President Barack Obama was in town last month, and will be back next week. But today, it’s George W. Bush’s turn to visit Denver, where he’ll be meeting this morning with Mayor Michael Hancock and Denver school superintendent Tom Boasberg to talk about Get Smart Schools, a charter school initiative…

The world will end on Friday, according to Harold Camping, the biblical clock-watcher who was born in the apocalyptic town of Boulder more than nine decades ago. Of course, Camping has been wrong before: He’d predicted that the Rapture would hit on May 21, 2011 — and if it did,…

Travel + Leisure recently released its list of America’s Favorite Cities, ranking 35 major metropolitan areas on everything from pretty people to driving habits to bars and restaurants. And there’s some good news for Denver: It’s the No. 1 city for microbrews. Which means there’s plenty of beer to cry…

Travel + Leisure just released its list of America’s Favorite Cities, ranking 35 major metropolitan areas on everything from pretty people to driving habits. There’s good news for Denver: It’s the No. 1 city for microbrews. Which means there’s plenty of beer to cry in over our pathetic showing in…