Buy local week continues through December 5. And while, with Barack Obama's appointments announcement today, it doesn't look like many Coloradans will be heading to D.C., there's plenty to do here at home.
Nothing gets the home fires burning like neighborhood fights, and Denver's Neighborhood Stabilization Program -- created by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 -- will send its draft action plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today, outlining how i
Denver Auditor Dennis Gallagher presented his office's long-awaited report on the city's emergency medical response system yesterday, saying that the information his team has compiled "speaks for itself." His choice of such a careful phrase to describe the scathing assessment is indicative of the bitter inter-agency politics that have hovered around the audit since it was announced ten months ago.
The report concludes that lack of comprehensive oversight of Denver's EMS system has resulted i
Talk about a change in bedside manner.
In a presentation to members of City Council Wednesday, hospital administrators from Denver Health publicly acknowledged for the first time that their ambulance response times are not meeting national standards.
The admissions, however subtle, came as the task force convened by Katharine Archuletta, an aide to Mayor John Hickenlooper, laid out plans for how the hospital, fire department and Denver's 911 system will work together to meet goals set by the
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This just in from the Englewood Police Department: An investigation is ongoing into the death of a man found in an alley near the intersection of East Oxford Avenue and South Lincoln Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click "View Larger Map"). At this point, Englewood Police representatives aren't calling the incident a homicide, although they note that the white male victim, said to be approximately fifty-years old, suffered bl
Put this on.Having to utter the words "emergency room" is almost never good. And when the sentence also involves your kid, it's even worse.
Such was the case for me recently when I took my seven-year-old kid to the ER at Rose Medical Center after the fever he'd had for two days spiked to 103 degrees -- even after giving him Tylenol.
The scene there was straight out of a CNN story on swine flu. Kids slumped over in chairs wearing surgical masks. Their parents, brows furrowed, also in mas
