Joyce Foster

Abused kids may mingle with delinquents at a privately run facility

Bed bugs: Will repealing law requiring sanitization of used mattresses encourage bugs?

Flickr​Update below: Last month, our feature story "Bug Bedlam!" detailed Denver's bed bug infestation, supposedly one of the worst in the nation. Tomorrow, the state Senate Health and Human Services Committee will hear a bill to repeal Colorado's so-called Bedding Act, which requires that use ... More >>

Midwifery: Bill to revise midwifery law passes out of committee with additions intact

​ A bill to broaden the scope of what Colorado's home-birth midwives can do passed another hurdle yesterday: The Senate Health & Human Services Committee approved it in an 8-1 vote. Testimony stretched for three hours and included impassioned pleas from both sides, including from Indra Lusero, ... More >>

Indra Lusero's pitch to help Colorado midwives is catching heat in the legislature

​ A bill to broaden the scope of what Colorado's home-birth midwives can do passed another hurdle yesterday: The Senate Health & Human Services Committee approved it in an 8-1 vote. Testimony stretched for three hours and included impassioned pleas from both sides, including from Indra Lusero, ... More >>

Carol Boigon: A Denver mayor's race profile

Carol Boigon.​With John Hickenlooper having been elected Colorado's governor, we know Denver will have a new mayor next year, and the race promises to be wide open. To introduce you to the players, we're offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Carol Boigon. "I'm a person who never ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensary owner won't sign license application, calls it "downright evil"

Kathleen Chippi.​Earlier today, we shared the thoughts of attorney Danyel Joffe about the medical marijuana business license application. Joffe has problems with the application, which must be filed by Sunday -- but dispensary owner Kathleen Chippi goes much further. She's refusing to file the ... More >>

LeBron James, who needs you? Nuggets have Al Harrington!

Al Harrington needs a uni change.​Three Denver blog posts for your clicking pleasure. Denver Stiffs' Nate Timmons has the skinny on the Nuggets deal with former Knick Al Harrington. Please don't let this be the offseason's biggest free-agent splash... Face the State's Jared Jacang Maher shar ... More >>

Bill Ritter's baby steps toward prison reform

The pen is mightier than the pen: Governor Bill Ritter signs a drug sentencing reform bill. ​After the embarrasing political scrum over the sex offender bill that prompted Governor Bill Ritter to veto the mess last week, it's easy to overlook the fact that something was actually accomplished o ... More >>

Bill Ritter did the right thing by vetoing sex offender bill

​Governor Bill Ritter will sign a slew of bills this week -- the deadline for action on all legislation coming out of this past session is June 11 -- but he put HB 1364 on a fast track, Vetoing the bill Friday afternoon. He did the right thing. As the longtime Denver District Attorney, Ritter ... More >>

Joyce Foster audio clip about missing children not Joyce Foster

A photo from Kathleen Chippi's Facebook page -- not Joyce Foster's.​Update, 1:58 p.m.: We've now received a statement from Joyce Foster and interviewed Kathleen Chippi, who was identified as the senator on KHOW -- and since our 12:05 p.m. update, Chippi has tracked down figures to back up her ... More >>

Joyce Foster's claim to Chris Romer: Thirty children disappear each day in Colorado

Joyce Foster's numbers are staggering.​KHOW talk-show host Peter Boyles has been on a virtual jihad against Senator Joyce Foster over her last minute amendment to House Bill 10-364 allowing sex offenders to choose among three treatment programs -- a legislative maneuver inspired by the story o ... More >>

Bill Ritter vetoes sex offender bill over Joyce Foster's controversial amendment

Bill Ritter just says no.​Senator Joyce Foster's last minute amendment to House Bill 10-364, which allowed sex offenders to choose among three treatment options, stirred plenty o' controversy, owing largely to her subsequent admission that the action was inspired by her brother-in-law, Julian ... More >>

Sex offender debate turns into public pissing match

​It's time to expand the discussion of the bill that would continue this state's Sex Offender Management Board beyond state senator Joyce Foster -- who certainly should have revealed that the prime motivator behind her amendment of the measure was her own brother-in-law, a convicted sex offend ... More >>

Medical marijuana message from Matt Brown: Enough is enough

Matt Brown doesn't like stacked decks.​Today's 2 p.m. senate committee hearing about House Bill 1284, a medical marijuana regulatory bill, is shaping up to be a showdown between legislators such as Senator Chris Romer, who's talked about floating a slew of new, more restrictive amendments, and ... More >>

Medical marijuana bill: Current version of HB 1284 would allow city councils to ban dispensaries

Photo by Robert FisherMaybe not coming to a town near you.​During an interview last week, Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation front man Matt Brown wasn't certain that new language inserted into House Bill 1284, a measure designed to regulate the medical marijuana industry, gave city co ... More >>

State senator Morgan Carroll's blog: Even feistier than advertised

State senator Morgan Carroll. Earlier this week, the Denver Post published a story about Morgan Carroll, a Democratic state senator from Aurora, who had angered the leadership in the legislature after posting a blog last month criticizing the way they treated Senate Bill 166, "which sought to ban d ... More >>

Manischewitz! Denverite competes in national cook-off

When I last talked with Deborah Leebove, daughter of Joyce Foster (the former city councilwoman who is now a state senator), she'd just reached the finals of the third annual Simply Manischewitz Cook-Off.And now Leebove, pictured here with her entry, elaborates on the experience: "I desperately wa ... More >>

Manischewitz! Local contestant in in national cook-off

Mazel Tov to Deborah Leebove, daughter of Joyce Foster (the former city councilwoman who was recently sworn in as a state senator), for reaching the finals of the Manischewitz National Cooking Competition. The Denver resident had her recipe chosen out of thousands, and is now one of six finali ... More >>

Off Limits

Krystle Clear

Off Limits

Taco hell

Letters to the Editor

From the week of August 29, 2002

Best City Councilwoman -- If You're a Skateboarder of Any Age

Joyce Foster

Best Cheap Skate

Denver Skatepark
Commons Park

Off Limits

Who's on First?

Tape Worms

The camera doesn't lie -- but every picture tells more than one story.

Property Values

The feisty Congress Park neighborhood may have met its match in a new developer.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of July 26, 2001

A Tough Grind

It took four years, but Denver's skateboarders finally have a park to call their own.

Backwash

Can Barry Fey save the day for Denver's concertgoers?

Follow That Story

There goes the neighborhood

How to Build a Ghetto

Everyone said they wanted homeless people to be invisible at Lowry. So why aren't they?

Don't Be Dense

A Denver neighborhood fights city hall and wins -- for now.

Big Boss Lady

CRL knows how to buy friends and influence people.

Letters

CRL knows how to buy friends and influence people.

Free Rides

Denver considers a new law to keep "handicap" tags from overrunning downtown's parking spaces.

Black Marks

The Denver Police Department acts like it has something to hide about its clash with students at Thomas Jefferson High School. It does.

OFF LIMITS

The Denver Police Department acts like it has something to hide about its clash with students at Thomas Jefferson High School. It does.

FIREMEN, SAVE MY DEPARTMENT!

DENVER'S PARAMEDICS TRY--AND FAIL--TO BAIL OUT OF THE CITY'S HEALTH AGENCY.

CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF'95 YEAR IN REVIEW PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES IN YOUR AIR-SICKNESS BAG AND SMILE, SMILE, SMILE--1995 IS OVER.

DENVER'S PARAMEDICS TRY--AND FAIL--TO BAIL OUT OF THE CITY'S HEALTH AGENCY.

INCOMPLETE ASSIGNMENT

ETHNICITY WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE AN ISSUE IN WELLINGTON WEBB'S SEARCH FOR AN EDUCATION CZAR. IT IS NOW.THE BLACKBOARD BUNGLE HOW MAYOR WEBB'S SEARCH FOR AN EDUCATION CZAR WAS HIJACKED BY RACIAL POLITICS.

OFF LIMITS

ETHNICITY WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE AN ISSUE IN WELLINGTON WEBB'S SEARCH FOR AN EDUCATION CZAR. IT IS NOW.THE BLACKBOARD BUNGLE HOW MAYOR WEBB'S SEARCH FOR AN EDUCATION CZAR WAS HIJACKED BY RACIAL POLITICS.

OFF LIMITS

ETHNICITY WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE AN ISSUE IN WELLINGTON WEBB'S SEARCH FOR AN EDUCATION CZAR. IT IS NOW.THE BLACKBOARD BUNGLE HOW MAYOR WEBB'S SEARCH FOR AN EDUCATION CZAR WAS HIJACKED BY RACIAL POLITICS.