telluride
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Telluride Daily Planet reports that pot’s still here to stay
Remember that song “Smuggler’s Blues” by Glenn Frey? “They move it through Miami, sell it in L.A. They hide it up in Telluride. I mean it’s here to stay.” When you’re immortalized in pop culture, even from the ’80s, it means something. When you think of Miami, vice pops in your head pretty fast. So Justin Criado, senior…
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Denver Democrats stoke enthusiasm, lay groundwork for ‘the resistance’
It’s a quote attributed to Pericles, and it resonated in the halls at Denver’s South High School on the afternoon of Saturday, Feb. 11: “Just because you don’t take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” Three months after Democrats were stunned by the results of the presidential election…
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State Democratic Party chair candidates make case at Denver meeting
Three of the four candidates for chair of the Colorado Democratic Party sounded the alarm and raised the roof campaigning for the post at Denver County’s reorganization meeting on Saturday. Former Senate President Morgan Carroll, Colorado Democratic Party 2nd vice chair Barbara Jones and Clear Creek County Commissioner Tim Mauck made their pitches to the…
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Telluride wants more regular folks to live near Oprah and Tom
My favorite Colorado newspaper, the Telluride Daily Planet, had some good news Friday: The home of Butch Cassidy’s first bank job is doing what it can to see that folks don’t have to be named Oprah to live there. Affordable housing is the town’s top priority in 2017, despite the progress it’s already made, reports…