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,
Images from Channel 7's Peabody-winning series of reports.
The Peabody award is the TV-news equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize -- and Channel 7 is among the 2008 winners, along with CNN, Saturday Night Live and HBO's epic John Adams mini-series. The station was honored for "Failing the Children: Deadly Mistakes," a series of reports about children who died while supposedly being protected by the Denver Department of Human Services. The packages were assembled by correspondent John Ferrugia, produ
Lori MidsonWomen rule the world (or at least the kitchen) at Cafe Options, a new breakfast and lunch spot that opened last week at 1650 Curtis Street on the bottom level of the U.S. Bank Tower building. The cafe, a fast-casual concept courtesy of of Work Options for Women, a non-profit focused on preparing impoverished women coming off welfare for jobs in the food-service industry, is anything but your ordinary, everyday stop-and-go spot, in part because the cafe actually employs several women w
