Our twenty favorite Westword covers of 2012
As we point out (as if we needed to) in our Year in Review issue on stands now, 2012 was a weird, wild year for Colorado. And we would know: We've covered it online and in 52 print issues throughout the past twelve months. Choosing the images to embody the news on our front cover is often as tough as reporting it, so we asked Westword art director Jay Vollmar to select his twenty favorite images to grace our cover stories this year. Keep reading to see them all.![]()
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The history of cannabis in Colorado...or how the state went to pot

Drilled, Baby, Drilled: The strange battle to keep Big Oil from cheating

Colorado's smallest ski companies are going big

Money can buy you love, if you have a contract with this Harvard MBA

Sixteen-year-old Tara Perry followed her man into crime and madness

































