Mark Stevens

B-cycle postpones today's free bike deal (and two others) over lingering system glitch

Update: On Monday, we filled you in about a computer glitch that prevented people who wanted to access a B-cycle from doing so with a credit card -- issues that cropped up during one of 2013's busiest weekends to date. See our previous coverage below. Two days later, the system still isn't back to ... More >>

Denver cabbie novelist Gary Reilly rides again on Monday

Denver writer and part-time cab driver Gary Reilly was more interested in writing novels -- many of which had to do with a cabbie named Murph who also wrote novels -- than publishing them. But since Reilly's death last year from cancer at 61, his Murph sagas are rolling out with the regularity of ha ... More >>

Gary Reilly: Prolific novelist's debut published year after his death

Once upon a time there was a Denver cabbie who wrote novels about a Denver cabbie who writes novels. Brendan Murphy, better known as Murph, tosses his manuscripts into a steamer trunk, with no expectation that they'll ever be read. But his creator, Gary Reilly, never abandoned his dream of becoming ... More >>

Social studies: Education officials debate adding it to state tests, as Americans get dumber

Recognize this fella?​ Do you know from which country the U.S. of A. declared its independence in 1776? If so, consider yourself among the 74 percent of Americans who do. If not, consider yourself dumber than a first grader, which is when everyone learns about George Washington and how he comm ... More >>

Sex ed: Will talk of condoms be banned if state wins $3.2 million abstinence education grant?

To teach it or not to teach it?​ The Republican-heavy state Board of Education is going after a $3.2 million abstinence-only education grant that Governor Bill Ritter's administration passed up in favor of a $3.9 million grant that pays for sex ed that teaches kids about birth control, too. So ... More >>

Race to the Top: Union opts out of Phase 2 in beef with education commissioner Dwight Jones

Education commissioner Dwight Jones's op-ed got poor grades from the CEA.​Update, 1:30 p.m., April 15: This blog, originally published yesterday afternoon, has been updated to reflect the comments of Education Commissioner Dwight Jones. A union that represents 40,000 teachers in Colorado is a ... More >>

Channeling

Deproduction has a plan to save public-access TV in Denver. Good luck.

Wax On, Wax Off

Things take a turn for the wild at Dulcinea’s.

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Whatever Floats Your Boat

The Message

Teaming Up

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The Santa Clause

The Message

Catching Flacks

Soda and Water

DPS learns which schools are thirstiest for its Pepsi contract.

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The joy of Pepsi

Teacher's Pet Peeves

The state's new teacher incentive program has had unintended consequences.

Caught in the Middle

Grant Middle School teachers give failing grades to a Channel 7 investigation.

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Eat, drink and be wary.

The Next Test

Manual High School earned extra credit for surviving the end of busing. But can it survive the CSAP?

Summer School

Four Denver schools plan to switch to a year-round schedule.

Follow That Story

Crying wolf

Strange but True

From the penthouse to the outhouse, the highs and lows of 2000.

Cutting Class

Denver schools will face a big budget crisis next year, and something's got to go.

Follow That Story

The Lunch Hour

Sex and the Single Mouse

Radio Disney: Tune in and turn on.

Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?

The answer is in the cards -— Blue Mountain cards.

Like So Much Drama

It's a time of reckoning for the theater department at the Denver School of the Arts.

Lunch-Lady Land

Conditions have gotten stale for food-service workers in Denver Public Schools.

Lesson Unplanned

West High School's Alan Chimento is sent to the principal's office.

Wreck Center

These seniors didn't want to move out of Ash Grove in the first place. Now they'd settle for just getting into its replacement.

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Forward to the Past

What will happen when Denver's model of integration, Manual High, returns to the old days of segregation?

Feedback

Calling All White People

DPS launches an ad campaign to recruit white students now that busing is over.

Letters

Letters

Feedback

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FOCUS ON THE FRACAS

JAMES DOBSON URGES A LETTER-WRITING CAMPAIGN AGAINST A DPS GAY-HEALTH POSTER.

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