… We fine players. We’ve done quite a few things in that area,” Phillips said. “We talk about social media, and we have rules on all those things.”
It’s far from the first time that Bennett’s antics have landed him in hot water. This month he posted a video on YouTube showing him wearing a fake beard and pretending to be Osama bin Laden. Last month he ripped Titans quarterback Vince Young for getting into an altercation at a strip club, then apologized to Young. A year ago he apologized for posting a YouTube video that he called the “Black Olympics,” featuring himself and his brother competing to see who could eat more fried chicken and watermelon. He was fined by the Cowboys for using a homophobic slur and a racially offensive remark. He once claimed to have eaten a dog at a Chinese restaurant. And so on.

See the full article from “ProFootballTalk”

Jones weighs in on “Why Priests Hire Male Prostitutes” for the Daily Beast.
The July 19 piece was hooked to Kevin Gray, the Connecticut priest who allegedly embezzled $1.3 million, lavishing at least some of it on prostitutes. During the time he worked as an escort in Denver, Jones estimates, at least 15 percent of his clients were connected with a church.
Like Haggard, most of these men don’t use their real names with the escorts they hire, and I’m sure they feel that part of what they’re paying for is anonymity. And for the most part, they are correct — there is an unwritten understanding that all encounters are confidential. I think back to all the clergy, politicians, sports personalities, and actors whose careers I could have ruined, but that was not me and not what I was in the business of doing.

See the full article from “Westword (blog)”

From a Denver Post interview with Debbie Matthews, owner of a strip club called Shotgun Willie’s, via Radley Balko at Reason Online: Matthews: I love to read. I have a Kindle, and I love it. We have a book club for the staff called Strip It Down. We meet once a week. It’s a conservative reading group. BH: Well. What do you read? Matthews: Friedrich Hayek’s “The Fatal Conceit,” “Super Freakonomics,” the Federalist Papers. We talk about the prisoner’s dilemma (a philosophical question about human behavior). From the comments at Reason: Cliché Bandit I know Debbie. She is a great contributor to the Colorado LP. She and one of her Managers were the firebrands behind the Libertarian taking over of the Glendale City Council (the location of Shotgun’s and an island of a city completely surounded by Denver but that is another cool stoty). She also sponsored the 2008 Denver LP Convention, which was awesome, and gave out free passes to everyone who bought a package (hehe he said package). The girls also had a booth at the convention. Man that was a good time. Nothing like watching Bob Barr talk to strippers.

See the full article from “Independent Political Report”

Lindsay Banning is no different.
A year ago, Banning completed a fantastic swimming career at Silver Creek High School and then enrolled at Colorado State University on a swimming scholarship.
This summer, shes running 25 to 30 miles per week, doing hurdle drills and losing weight in preparation for a track and field career with the Rams.
Its not necessarily that I didnt love swimming, because I did, she said. I really enjoyed it. I just found something that I enjoyed more.
For those who got to know Banning simply through the pages of the newspaper, thats a shocking switch. Her mother, Angela, was a tremendous swimmer at Longmont High School, and Lindsay followed in those footsteps. She was the Times-Call Girls Swimmer of the Year in 2007 and 2009.

See the full article from “Longmont Daily Times-Call”

Strip club in Denver has a conservative book club
By: Mark Hemingway
Commentary Staff Writer07/23/10 2:50 PM EDT
My wife is from Denver, and I’ve driven passed Shotgun Willie’s countless times. As a married man who wants to set a good example for his daughters, going to a strip club is out of the question. Still, this Denver Post interview with the Shotgun Willie’s owner Debbie Matthews — one of the few women owners in the strip club business — was certainly interesting. Particularly this tidbit:
Matthews: I love to read. I have a Kindle, and I love it. We have a book club for the staff called Strip It Down. We meet once a week. It’s a conservative reading group. BH: Well. What do you read? Matthews: Friedrich Hayek’s “The Fatal Conceit,” “Super Freakonomics,” the Federalist Papers. We talk about the prisoner’s dilemma (a philosophical question about human behavior).

See the full article from “Washington Examiner (blog)”

Already, at least one operator has been caught in the crossfire. When Mitch Woolhiser was told he was now considered to be the owner/operator of a sin business and would probably have to relocate, he couldnt believe his ears. In February the former software developer and his wife, Eva, a dental hygienist, had signed a three-year lease on the spiffy storefront in the town of Edgewater, just west of Denver, and opened the Northern Lights medical marijuana dispensary. Two months later, his landlord, Charles Woolley of St. Charles Town Company, broke the news that CFHA had sent notice that the dispensary was in violation of the propertys mortgage agreement.
Woolley, who has redeveloped numerous urban properties in Denver, was able to finance the Edgewater project in 2007 through $8.7 million in New Market Tax Credits offered by the federal government. Since the funds were administered through CHFA, however, its up to officials from the quasi-public agency to enforce rules preventing to certain types of businesses from setting up shop in the space, namely sin businesses such as liquor stores, massage parlors, gambling outfits and tanning salons.

See the full article from “Denver Daily News”

Prosecutors believe Walters staged a traffic accident on the 100 block of South Yuma Street in Denver to try to conceal what he had really done to her. Their case is built largely on the words of his estranged wife. They say Walters told her, “He killed Brittney then staged the car accident to get away with it.”
Based on those conversations, some of which the wife recorded, they believe Walters and Brashers got into an argument while driving back to Colorado Springs on Nov. 17, 2009.
According to the arrest affidavit, before the crash Walters and Brashers had been at a photo shoot at a strip club where she took off her top. In the affidavit, “He said that he was ’sad’… but they did not argue about it on the way home.”

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Robert Walters, 24, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Brittney Brashers, of Colorado Springs.
Walters was in Brashers’ car when it appeared to go out of control and crashed into two parked cars on Nov. 17. He suffered only minor injuries and said he was asleep at the time of the crash. He told police Brashers shouldn’t have been driving because she was too intoxicated.
Police suspected otherwise, but it wasn’t until Walters’ estranged wife came forward in March that the case moved ahead. She said Walters had confessed to killing Brashers after an argument, according to the affidavit.
Read the arrest warrant affidavit
Witnesses told police that earlier that day, Brashers was in a photo shoot with other women at a strip club in Denver and Walters was upset because she had taken her top off.

See the full article from “KMGH Denver”

Earlier this month, the Obama administration detailed a plan asking states to phase out laws that make HIV transmission a crime. In Colorado, the move would affect at least three laws related to sex crimes and prostitution. Attorney General John Suthers, however, disagreed with the White House plan, saying that even though prosecuting attorneys may rarely use the laws to level criminal charges, the laws may well have a deterrent effect and should not be stricken from the books.
“Just because those sorts of cases are rare doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t have laws that deal with those situations– knowing transmission of disease,” said Attorney General spokesperson Mike Saccone, pointing to the high-profile Colorado case last year where a surgery technician with Hepatitis C infected patients at the Rose Medical Center in Denver and the Audubon Surgery Center in Colorado Springs.
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In Colorado, it’s a crime to fail to disclose HIV positive status when engaging in prostitution, which is a serious Class 5 felony. Colorado laws also increase sentences for sex criminals who fail to disclose HIV positive status.

See the full article from “The Colorado Independent”

What started as Ms. Posner’s student project introducing theater to young Kiberans morphed into Shining Hope for Communities, which was responsible for opening Kibera’s first free school in Kibera serving Kibera’s neediest girls, focusing on those most vulnerable to a life of prostitution and sexual abuse.

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