Author: John Frank
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If Amazon doesn’t pick Denver, “there will be a sense of relief,” Colorado governor says
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Days after Denver made the list of 20 finalists for Amazon’s new headquarters, Gov. John Hickenlooper tempered expectations about the bid, saying that if the tech giant picked another location, “I’m not going to cry.” “There will be a sense of relief if they choose somewhere else because there are a lot of challenges and…
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Gov. Hickenlooper to pardon nearly 2 dozen people convicted of crimes in Colorado
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Gov. John Hickenlooper will announce Monday that he is pardoning nearly two dozen people convicted of crimes in Colorado. The Democrat told The Denver Post in an interview that his office reviewed some of the files for years. Hickenlooper said his criteria for the pardons was twofold: “These are people who really have A) turned…
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Cost to see VP Mike Pence in Denver plummets after tickets struggle to sell
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Because of a lack of demand, the Colorado Republican Party is offering a Groupon-like deal to see Vice President Mike Pence. Pence is the headliner for a party fundraiser Oct. 26 at the Denver Marriott Tech Center, where the lowest-priced tickets originally cost $275. The party announced the event weeks earlier but struggled to sell…
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Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta says Donald Trump has ‘taken off the hood’ with racism
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Dolores Huerta is not done fighting. The 87-year-old activist and organizer who co-founded the nation’s first farm workers union and coined the rallying cry “Si se puede,” spent three days in Denver energizing crowds to battle racism in America. “Now that Trump and all these people have taken off the hoods, the white hoods ……
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A gluten-free beer from one of Colorado’s smallest breweries is going national
(Photo courtesy of Brewery Rickoli website)
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Colorado GOP weighs whether to cancel its 2018 primary election, a move that would shut out unaffiliated voters
The Colorado Republican Party is considering whether to cancel the June 2018 primary elections for Congress, the governor’s office and other offices, and instead nominate candidates through an existing caucus process dominated by insiders. The move is permitted under Proposition 108, a ballot question approved in 2016 that overhauled how major-party candidates are selected in…
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Colorado to spend $1 million to continue fight against opioid abuse
Colorado is amplifying its efforts to combat the opioid epidemic with the creation of a research center that makes the state a national leader. “This is a major step forward,” said Gov. John Hickenlooper as he signed the measure into law Senate Bill 193. Looking at the 10,000 drug overdoses in Colorado since 2000, particularly…
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Great American Beer Festival ticket sales dates announced
Colorado craft beer lovers should mark their calendars for the first of August. The Great American Beer Festival announced ticket sales for the 36th annual event Oct. 5-7 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. The public can purchase tickets starting at noon on Aug. 2. Members of the Brewers Association and American Homebrewers Association can…
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Colorado lawmakers finalize the state budget bill and no one is happy
Colorado hospitals will lose more than a half-billion dollars, schools will get $75 million less for classrooms and taxpayers won’t see TABOR refunds in 2018 as state lawmakers shuffled money in a state budget bill that left little to cheer. The cost-saving maneuvers made room for modest salary increases for state employees and larger pay…
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Ditch the milk — here are three Colorado beers that pair perfectly with cookies
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When it come to pairing beer with food, certain combinations make sense. Beer and barbecue, delicious. Beer and cheese, luscious. Beer and cookies? Scrumptious. This is what craft beer fans learned at the Breckenridge Big Beers festival earlier this month at a seminar titled, “Who Needs Milk When You Can Have Beer With Your Cookies!”…