Subject: Denver City Council

• Happiness is a Warm Gun When You're Running for City Council

  April 27, 2007

• Shut Down Denver. Vote for Paul Lopez.

  May 2, 2007

• Denver Run-Off Election Ballots Due Today

  June 4, 2007

• Dueling Press Conferences at the Courthouse!

  July 28, 2008

• Prevent Poo at the DNC by Signing the Doo Doo Accord!

  August 1, 2008

• The city council pays out to Timothy Thomason

  August 19, 2008

• Graffiti prevention makes the city budget...for now

  September 17, 2008

• The week ahead: From the election to the economy, it's scary

  October 27, 2008

• Denver Council signs off on most expensive cookbook ever

  November 11, 2008

• The new math behind Denver Health response times

  Time is of the essence at Denver Health. The Denver City Council's finance committee yesterday approved a one-year, $51.9 million operating agreement with the Denver Health and Hospital Authority -- with one significant change over the previous contract: Denver Health has agreed to peg ambulance response times to when an emergency call comes in. As Jared Jacang Maher reported five months ago in "Delayed Emergency Response," Denver Health had been calculating response times from when an amb

  November 20, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: Building -- and budgeting -- for the future

  The holidays push most action off the public calendar this week. Tonight at 5:30 p.m., Denver City Council will start the process of stuffing someone's stocking with coal: Over the next few weeks, councilmembers will decide whether to grant landmark status to two, '60s-era Hornbein and White buildings on the old University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Unless they come up with a very clever compromise (say, save one, the old daycare center), their decision is bound to piss off S

  December 22, 2008

• CU at Denver City Council -- but not next Monday

  Next Monday's public hearing before Denver City Council to decide the fate of two historic Hornbein and White buildings on the old University of Colorado campus has been postponed. "Shea has been working closely with Councilwoman Robb and Councilwoman Johnson on the historic designation applications," wrote Marcus Pachner, a consultant to developer Shea Properties, in a note to stakeholders on the CU project. "We have collectively decided to postpone the Final Hearing. Therefore, please know

  December 30, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: History in the taking

  Yesterday afternoon, I posted a note from Marcus Pachner, informing members of the CBHD -- the stakeholders' group working with Shea Properties on its redevelopment of the former University of Colorado Health Sciences campus -- that Denver City Council's public hearing to consider landmark status for two buildings on the site has been postponed from Monday, January 5 to an as-yet undetermined date. This postponement came as news to the Landmark Preservation Commission, whose recommend

  December 31, 2008

• Wake-Up Call for the week ahead: From MLK Day to more tough sledding

  Although all eyes are on the action in D.C. this week, there's plenty going on in Denver. It starts with the MLK Marade today, when this city hosts the country's largest annual gathering (a combo march/parade) in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., which gets under way at 10:45 a.m. at City Park and winds up at the Civic Center.The future of the Civic Center will be the focus of the discussion when the Denver Landmark Preservation Commission meets on January 20. And Denver City Council will have it

  January 19, 2009

• Backwash

  December 13, 2001

• Backwash

  December 20, 2001

• Best All-Ages Night

  April 4, 2002

• Bite Me

  December 19, 2002

• Wake-Up Call: The week ahead, February 16-21

  The big news: Barack Obama is coming back to Denver, the town where he accepted the Democratic nomination on August 28, and where now, as president, he will now sign the $787 billion stimulus bill on Tuesday, February 17 at the Museum of Nature & Science (conveniently vetted by the Secret Service before the DNC, at the inconvenience of the museum, which had to close for a day). Although Colorado, even with all its shovel-ready public projects, isn't expected to get a huge share of that cash,

  February 16, 2009

• Bite Me

  June 19, 2003

• Wake-Up Call: Sometimes, there is no justice

  You would have thought that getting voters to approve a bond measure to build a new jail -- smack in the heart of the artsy Golden Triangle, at the edge of the revived Civic Center -- would have been the challenging task. But that was a breeze compared to coming up with a name for Denver's new justice center, an exercise that exploded into a very public spat at a Denver City Council committee hearing Wednesday.No Latino names are included on the list of finalists, three councilmembers compla

  February 20, 2009

• Best Free Entertainment

  March 25, 2004

• From the week of December 11, 2008

  December 11, 2008

• Open Season

  Time to give Denver the business.

  August 28, 2003

• Ray Ruybal Made His Mark

  The longtime head of Denver's graffiti unit fought to clean up the city -- until he felt he was beating his head against the wall.

  July 17, 2008

• On the Draw

  April 26, 2007

• Mail-In Bullet

  Talk about a gun nut! This write-in candidate should be written off.

  May 3, 2007

• Meltdown

  Keep shoveling, Mayor Hickenlooper. Maybe things will clear up.

  March 8, 2007

• Countdown

  At the Denver Election Commission, there’s no safety in numbers.

  December 21, 2006

• We're Not Worthy

  Charity began at home. This home.

  September 29, 2005

• Cross-Dress for Success

  To Bill, with love

  January 8, 2004

• Off Limits

  Cholo contendere

  December 11, 2003

• Pop Quiz

  Bummer Summer
  August 21, 2003

  August 21, 2003

• A Tale of Two Cities

  From a royal mess to a people's playground, Denver's parks grounded the Webb years.

  July 17, 2003

• Best Place to See Politicians Behaving Badly

  Cherokee Dining on 12th Avenue

  March 27, 2003

• Blockheads

  The Baker neighborhood drafted a plan for its future -- and then developers got involved.

  February 13, 2003

• Bite Me

  Smoke Free or Die

  December 5, 2002

• Big Boss Lady

  CRL knows how to buy friends and influence people.

  November 4, 1999

• Off Limits

  June 12, 1997

• Homeless for the Holidays

  December 5, 1996

• HEIGHT MAKES RIGHT

  GROWING PAINS IN LODO: A FIGHT BREWS OVER NEW DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES.

  February 7, 1996

• THE ART OF THE DEAL

  July 12, 1995

• OFF LIMITS

  October 5, 1994

• MOUTHING OFF

  May 11, 1994

• Storm clouds are gathering over the city's use of the Wastewater Enterprise Fund

  June 11, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: And the rest is history

  Architect Ed White changed the way the world looks at Denver -- not just through his architectural designs, but through his friendship with Jack Kerouac. That friendship is documented in the form of Tim Gray, a White-like character in On The Road, as well as in the structure of the book itself. Back when he was an architecture student at Columbia University in the '40s, White told Kerouac he should create word sketches. "I was making sketches, and it occurred to me, because he was always obser

  June 30, 2009

• That's some expensive poop: Hike in fines for animal-related violations on the horizon

  A Flickr photo."My poop? Not my poop." Your dog's poop could cost you a lot more come September -- if you don't pick it up, that is. The Denver City Council last night passed a bill that allows the city's Department of Environmental Health to set fees and fines related to animal control and care. And the department plans to use its new authority to increase most of them. The bill also removes animal-related violations from the court system, which will free up county court judges and also ensu

  July 14, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: The week's looking up -- way up

  ​The sky's the limit this week. Or is it? From a discussion of the view at Coors Field to consideration of a proposed DIA expansion to conventions including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the fortieth annual international UFO Symposium, things are looking up -- way up -- in Denver. Denver City Council will hold a public hearing at 5:30 p.m. today at the Denver City & County Building on a proposed ordinance that would restrict building heights in an area west

  August 3, 2009

• City Council raises a toast to the Vine Street Pub

  ​Last night, Denver City Council unanimously approved a request by the Vine Street Pub that would alter the zoning code and allow the place to brew its own beer on site. From here, the request will go to Mayor John Hickenlooper, possibly as early as Friday, says Paul Nashak, managing partner for the Mountain Sun string of breweries, which includes Vine Street at 1700 Vine Street. Nashak has been trying to get brewery approval since opening the restaurant in May 2008. Mountain Sun plans t

  November 3, 2009

• Live blog: Denver City Council considers medical-marijuana regulations

  Charlie Brown wants to put medical-marijuana businesses on a tighter leash.​Today, Councilman Charlie Brown is presenting his proposal for regulating the city's medical marijuana dispensaries to the Denver City Council's Safety committee. We live blogged the meeting. To read the account in chronological order, start at the bottom item below. 10:50 a.m.Councilman Linkhart calls up four industry representatives who've been invited to speak: an attorney who represents several dispensaries; M

  November 18, 2009