Wiretap: Liz Cheney, quitter
A tweet on the news from Wyoming: "First, relocate your family, destroy friendships and alienate your sister. Then, drop out." The question that remains: How many people is it possible to alienate in a state that has so few people?
Washington medical Green with envy as Colorado moves to retail
Shy Sadis is the owner and founder of The Joint, one of Seattle's dankest medical marijuana outfits. He's been in the business 4 years and owns 5 stores. He's looking to expand to California, Nevada, Colorado and — of course — into the recreational market slated to open this spring in Washington. That last one might be the trickiest.
Wait times down for recreational marijuana across Denver
On the third day of recreational pot, though wait times are down for some stores, people are still queuing to get weed across Denver.
Revisiting Rocky Flats: Joseph Daniel brings his 1979 protest dispatch back into service
Hundreds of people in bandanas, bell bottoms and boxy Buicks came to the Colorado scrubland in the shadow of the Flat Iron mountains between Golden and Boulder to sit on a small stretch of train tracks at Rocky Flats.
Wiretap: David Brooks’s choom gang
David Brooks smoked weed as a kid. He says he and his friends outgrew it. But since Colorado has made it legal, Colorado kids won't give it up and then low-level doom, basically.
Wiretap: ‘My wife and I forgive Karl Pierson’
Claire Davis' father did a remarkable thing at a memorial for his 17-year-old daughter, who was shot that terrible day at Arapahoe High and...
From Togo to Denver: How to say ‘recreational pot’ in French
DENVER -- Kodjo Apedjimou moved from Togo to Denver two years ago seeking more freedom. He found some of it in Denver on Wednesday.
Wiretap: Utah’s gay marriage emergency
Utah has decided that the refusal of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to grant a stay against gay marriages is an emergency and is seeking Supreme Court intervention.
Wiretap: Benghazi without al-Qaeda
The must-read story on Benghazi, written and reported by David Kirkpatrick of the New York Times, tells how militias that Americans thought were friendly...
Wiretap: Eight bucks an hour
Twenty years, give or take, in the fast-food business, and Shonda Roberts, who now works as a cashier for KFC, makes 8 bucks an hour. Why would she strike for higher wages?