Tag: Colorado

Sean Azzariti, a former Marine who served in the Iraq war and has post-traumatic stress disorder, shakes hands and thanks store owner Toni Fox, after Azzariti was the first to buy retail marijuana at 3D Cannabis Center, which opened as a legal recreational retail outlet in Denver on Jan. 1. (AP/Brennan Linsley)

Legal weed sales bring long lines to Colorado

Kristen Wyatt · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

Editorial cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Rocky Mountain High

Washington Examiner · January 2, 2014 5:00 am

The Clinic, a Denver-based dispensary with several outlets, is among the roughly 150 medical marijuana dispensaries hoping to begin selling to recreational users when it becomes legal to sell on Jan. 1, 2014. (AP/Brennan Linsley)

Denver gives out recreational pot sales licenses

Associated Press · December 27, 2013 5:00 am

Colorado Springs Mayor Steve Bach talks to the media during a news conference. (AP/Chris Carlson)

Colorado Springs mayor will ignore council

Associated Press · December 20, 2013 5:00 am

Sean Sweeney, a runner who lives near Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colo., stops to say a prayer outside the school during his run early on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013. The school was the scene of a shooting on Friday that left the student gunman dead and injured two other students. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Colorado governor says gunman didn’t exhibit signs of mental illness

Tim Mak, Susan Crabtree · December 15, 2013 5:00 am

An employee of The Clinic, a Denver-based dispensary with several outlets, prepares marijuana joints to be sold, in Denver. (AP/Brennan Linsley)

Legal weed sales will be spotty in Colorado

Associated Press · December 12, 2013 5:00 am

Whenever airline companies, such as Delta and Northwest, attempt a merger or acquisition lawyers from the Department of Justice's Antitrust Department jump onto the process, often blocking, delaying and perverting the deal, Delta Airlines CEO Richard Anderson said.

Not-so-friendly skies: Deregulation didn’t fail, it was never really tried

Neil McCabe · December 12, 2013 5:00 am

Small-hub airports like the Colorado Springs Airport must compete against large-hub airports like Denver International Airport for the same passengers. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Not-so-friendly Skies: Colorado Springs Airport faces adversity, gets entrepreneurial

Neil McCabe · December 11, 2013 5:00 am

After years of aggressively expanding into new markets, airlines now schedule fewer flights in smaller planes or purposely overbook flights on larger aircraft to ensure that as many seats in the cabin as possible are occupied on every flight. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Not-so-friendly skies: Tough to be a city left out of the large hubs

Neil McCabe · December 10, 2013 5:00 am

National Security

Rep. Doug Lamborn urges $30 billion in entitlement cuts to pay for more defense spending

Washington Examiner · December 5, 2013 5:00 am

$Election judge Rich Korinek, left, tallies ballots during a recount of Broomfield's vote on a county-wide hydraulic fracturing ban, at a city and county building, in Broomfield, Colo., on Monday. (AP/Brennan Linsley)$ Energy and Environment

Fracking ban wins on recount, but questions linger

Associated Press · December 4, 2013 5:00 am

$A vote to ban hydraulic fracturing in the Denver suburb of Broomfield is getting a recount after the measure failed by just 13 votes. Broomfield was one of four Front Range towns considering limits or band on the drilling procedure some fear may not be safe. The stateâs powerful oil and gas industry far outspent the activists and predicted victory in Broomfield. (AP Photo/Kristen Wyatt)$ Energy and Environment

Broomfield, Colo., begins fracking recount amid criticism

Washington Examiner · December 2, 2013 5:00 am