Arranged thoughtfully on two stacked coffee tables are metal pigs, a sideways detergent container sprouting a plant and a giant gold medallion bearing the words Boulder and Colorado. Flanked by sunflowers are a female mannequin head on a stick and a walker that is only big enough for a child.

So Parker issued a memo on July 13 clarifying, among other things, that, yes, you can get a DUI while driving a golf cart on public streets or property, just like you can get one for riding a bike, or even a horse, under the influence.

In the late 1970s, a group of protesters blocked the railroad tracks at Rocky Flats in an attempt to keep trains from delivering nuclear bomb-making supplies to the plant. That group, the “Rocky Flats Truth Force,” occupied the tracks for a whole year, and was joined by several prominent figures, including Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman and Daniel Ellsberg.

Bob Brancato, a Republican vying to unseat U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, sent us a press release several weeks ago proudly announcing the fact that former Congressman Tom Tancredo had endorsed him. In the release, Brancato talked about his support for Arizona’s new anti-immigration law, which some say encourages racial profiling.

David Lane, the high-profile Denver civil-rights attorney who has represented everyone from Ward Churchill to Richard Heene, has sent a letter to the Boulder City Council threatening to sue over Seth Brigham’s ejection from a council meeting in February.

A push poll is couched as a way to test campaign messages, but its intent is to sway voters by associating a candidate with negative labels. For example, in the Longmont City Council election last fall, some accused a group supporting Katie Witt of targeting her opponent, Karen Benker, in a push poll.

Greenway University, a vocational school for the medical marijuana industry, has received approval from state officials to open a campus in Denver. School representatives say the campus is the first of its kind in the country to gain state approval for its operation.

Senate Bill 193, the legislation prompted by a Boulder Weekly investigation into the practice of shackling pregnant inmates while they are in labor, cleared the Colorado Senate on second reading Tuesday.

There is fresh debate about what to do with the millions of acres of pine trees in the West that have been destroyed by the mountain pine beetle. And it is a debate that is bleeding over into a battle about how to best protect Colorado's roadless areas.

In response to the open records request, CU officials withheld that artwork and other materials as “work product” that has not yet been approved by the regents, but provided Boulder Weekly with copies of the contract with Landor, Landor’s invoices,...