Colorado’s massive High Park fire has jumped the Poudre River and is beginning to menace Fort Collins in earnest. This is very bad news. Some experts fear the blaze won’t be contained […]
Denver mayor envisioneers sparkly new Airportropolis
Used to be, they built airports near cities. Now we’re going to build a city near an airport. Because, you know, we built our airport nowhere near the goddamned city, I guess. […]
Denver EMS takes 24 minutes to respond to call in downtown; Mayor Hancock, this is NOT acceptable
Earlier this afternoon, while watching the Chelsea/Barcelona Champions League match at the British Bulldog in downtown Denver, a young woman collapsed. It was unclear what happened, but my best guess from what […]
Dear officer: it isn't my fault that Coloradans drive like dicks
To: The Broomfield, CO Police Officer Who Pulled Me Over the Other Night From: Sam Smith Re: Goddamned Colorado Drivers To begin with, sir (I’m sorry that I didn’t catch your name […]
Vanishing act: Drought and unseasonable warmth sends Colorado’s snowpack into freefall
by Tom Yulsman Except for the shoulders of Longs Peak and other mountains in the distance, almost no snow is evident in this picture taken above Gem Lake in Rocky Mountain National […]
Will 2012 be the summer when Colorado finally burns to the ground?
I suspect very few of us Coloradans will ever forget the day, a few years back, when our nitwit former governor posed before the cameras and pronounced that “today, the entire state of […]
Photography: Greg Thow's Colorado (part 3 – Balloons)
Photography: Greg Thow's Colorado (part 2 – Nature)
Last week, in part one of our series on Denver photographer Greg Thow, we saw some fantastic shots of the 5280, one of America’s most beautiful cities. Of course, stunning nature photography […]
Photography: Greg Thow's Colorado (part 1 – Denver)
Recently one of my Facebook friends posted a link to a photograph that just staggered me. The shooter was someone I had never heard of, a guy named Greg Thow.
Colorado is a GREAT place to be a criminal
Thanks to the bungling of the Boulder PD, the Boulder prosecutor’s office and the local and national media we’ll never know who killed JonBenet. But that’s not what we’re talking about today. No, […]
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