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Graffiti prevention makes the city budget...for now

Denver Council signs off on most expensive cookbook ever

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 ambulan ... More >>

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 Wh ... More >>

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 applicati ... More >>

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 landmar ... More >>

Backwash

The City of Denver prepares to vote on a bill that affects all ages.

Backwash

The City Council votes on the side of youth and music.

Best All-Ages Night

All Agez Ragez

Bite Me

A Smoking Deal

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 ... More >>

Bite Me

Butt Seriously, Folks

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People-watching on the 16th Street Mall while we still can

From the week of December 11, 2008

People-watching on the 16th Street Mall while we still can

Open Season

Time to give Denver the business.

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.

Countdown

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

Off Limits

Cholo contendere

Best Place to See Politicians Behaving Badly

Cherokee Dining on 12th Avenue

Homeless for the Holidays

Cherokee Dining on 12th Avenue

HEIGHT MAKES RIGHT

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

THE ART OF THE DEAL

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

MOUTHING OFF

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

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

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

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. Ba ... More >>

Medical marijuana debate at Denver city council: Expect a mob scene

Is that your phone ringing, Charlie Brown?​The pot proposal pushed by Denver city councilman Charlie Brown is up for public comment on Monday -- and the Cannabis Therapy Institute, among the most efficient and effective marijuana advocacy organizations in the state, wants to make sure folks w ... More >>

Rob Corry threatens Denver City Council with lawsuits over medical marijuana ordinance

A spoof ad showing Rob Corry as a "scorced earth warrior" for medical marijuana.​On Friday, we shared with you a letter by attorney Rob Corry shredding Senator Chris Romer's latest draft of a measure to regulate the medical marijuana industry. Shortly thereafter, Romer backed away from the bil ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensary owner sleeps in car and pays $5,000 for the privilege

​Wesley Fazio waited twelve hours -- in a cold car, in his long underwear -- for a shot at making his soon-to-open dispensary legal. Yesterday, the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses started accepting applications for medical marijuana dispensary licenses -- which every operational disp ... More >>

Northwest Denver restaurateurs: If you can stand the heat, get on council

Tocabe's Ben Jacobs could have Denver rolling in dough.​If you own a restaurant and have lived in Denver City Council District 1 for at least a year, the Colorado Restaurant Association wants to hear from you. Rick Garcia, the current rep for that district, is moving on to a federal job, so t ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensaries in Denver: Guess how many file by March 1 and win a marijuana lei

​The stereotypical pothead moves slowly -- but this is ridiculous. By last Friday -- the end of the second week during which medical marijuana dispensaries could file their now-required dispensary applications with the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses -- exactly 61 had done so. Which ... More >>

Pot protesters pick the wrong target, Denver officials say

​I was on the phone with a city official late Monday, and could hear the protest outside City Hall, organized by Robert Chase, founder of the Colorado Coalition for Patients and Caregivers, who's asking for a recall of the Denver City Council members who voted for the ordinance regulating medi ... More >>

Denver City Council collectable back-to-school lunchboxes: Kenny Be's Fotochop Friday

Full-sized art below.​Out in the real world, "there ain't so such thing as a free lunch," but don't tell that to Denver City Council. Mayor Hickenlooper has asked every department in city government to reduce their budgets by ten percent. City Council has only been able to find a 4 percent sav ... More >>

Medical marijuana proposal: Would new city council rule ban caregivers in Denver?

​Among the items on the agenda for tonight's Denver City Council meeting is CB 10-0607, which is described as "a bill for an ordinance relating to the Denver Zoning Code, restricting growing of medical marijuana in residential districts and uses." Sounds benign enough -- but could it result i ... More >>

Reader: Medical marijuana community is many & its detractors are few if MMJ backers unite

​Right now, one of our liveliest conversations is taking place on a post about Denver City Council medical marijuana regulations. But for one reader, the tone of the chat is too divisive. He'd like everyone involved to pull together.

Reader: Pit bull attacks get fifteen to twenty times the coverage as ones by other breeds

​A vigorous conversation has taken root on our post about the Denver City Council rejecting a service-dog exemption for pit bulls. One interesting observation has to do with the way pit bulls are covered by the media in comparison with other dogs.

Denver's meters may be smart, but they can also be dim

​How smart are Denver's new "smart" meters if they're so dim you can't read them at night? We could find out soon enough, if Denver City Council tonight passes the plan to allow all-night parking in parts of downtown -- parking that you'll have to pay for, according to new rules that will be p ... More >>

Marijuana grow houses are a growing controversy at Denver City Council

​In the fall of 2009, Denver City Council rep Charlie Brown realized that the city had to get a handle on the booming medical marijuana dispensary industry -- and even as the Colorado Legislature was just starting to discuss MMJ, Denver was signing off on its ordinance. But now the city needs ... More >>

Denver City Council committee moves forward with medical marijuana zoning proposal

​A revised version of a proposed Denver city ordinance that, according to attorney Warren Edson, would have closed 137 of Denver's 150 medical marijuana grow operations, and potentially dispensaries associated with them, passed through Denver City Council's Special Issues Committee this aftern ... More >>

Medical marijuana: Jessica Corry on suit that could make Denver liable for MMJ shutdowns

Jessica Corry.​Following reports about proposals that could close 137 of 150 medical marijuana grows, a compromise measure passed through the Denver City Council special issues committee -- although it's unclear how many operations might be shuttered under the provision. Moreover, attorney Jes ... More >>

Medical marijuana code proposed by Denver City Council contradictory?: Read bill here

​Last month, attorney Warren Edson shared his concern that language in a Denver City Council bill could close 137 of 150 medical marijuana grows -- and even after a committee came up with a compromise agreement, he feared the closure threat had not been eliminated. Now that the document has be ... More >>

Reader: Denver City Council ass-f*cking common sense economics with MMJ grow regs

​William Breathes's post about developer Mickey Zeppelin, one target of a threatened lawsuit related to proposed medical marijuana grow regulations being considered later today by Denver City Council, attracted some strong responses. None was stronger, though, than the one on view below.

Pit bull service-dog rules go into effect as Aurora looks to adjust its "bully breeds" ban

​New federal guidelines tightening the traditionally loosey-goosey definition "service animals" go into effect today. From now on only dogs (and, um, in some cases, miniature horses) that have been "individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disabi ... More >>

Carla Madison, Denver City councilwoman, dies after cancer battle: Colleagues pay tribute

Carla Madison.​District 8 councilwoman Carla Madison has been battling colon cancer for about two years, but the fight didn't seem to slow her down. That's why her sudden death yesterday came as such a surprise. Below, read the city's official goodbye to Madison, featuring remembrances from co ... More >>

Chickens in Denver neighborhoods: City Council takes on the urban homesteading clusterpluck

​The fight over the current urban homesteading movement can sometimes seem as heated as the battles between homesteaders and cattle ranchers on the frontier 130 years ago. And the feathers will be flying tonight at Denver City Council chambers, as members consider putting a chicken in every p ... More >>

Denver Paid Sick Leave Initiative: Opponents rally to support Denver's hospitality industry

Big pic below.​This morning's No On 300 rally rally in Skyline Park brought out approximately seventy representatives and supporters of the hospitality industry, everyone from five crop-topped Hooters employees to three much more conservatively dressed Denver City Council members. But everyo ... More >>

Susan Shepherd weighs in on No High Rises fight in Highland

​The signs started popping up late last fall: No high rises in West Highland. But the residents fighting a massive, three-building complex proposed for the heart of Highland Square didn't stop at signs. They also pushed city officials, including Susan Shepherd, the new Denver City Council repr ... More >>

Reader: Sunflower Market on Colfax an easy call, so why did Denver City Council make it hard?

​Patricia Calhoun's item about a Denver City Council food fight over building a new Sunflower Market on Colfax sparked a strong take from one of our most regular commenters after the project was approved. Here's what he had to say.