University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center

Reader: Without Trader Joe's, we have not really been living

While King Soopers has pulled out of the project set for the former University of Colorado Health Sciences Center at Ninth and Colorado Boulevard, last month construction got under way on the first Trader Joe's in Denver -- just down the street. A second Trader Joe's is going into Boulder, but this ... More >>

Instead of Walmart, CU site could be getting King Soopers, Larkburger, Mad Greens...and a Tavern?

Back when Fuqua Development was still touting Walmart as the major tenant in the project planned for the old University of Colorado Health Sciences Center at Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, Jeff Fuqua promised that there would be a "chef-driven" restaurant on the site -- inspiring some critics ... More >>

With Walmart out of the way, what should fill the CU Healthcare District?

Walmart pulls out of old CU campus site near Trader Joe's project most neighbors embrace

The celebration started late yesterday afternoon in the neighborhoods around Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, as news spread that Walmart had pulled out of the project that Jeff Fuqua plans to put in the old University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. If the timing had been a little differen ... More >>

Marijuana: More than 300 doctors endorsing Amendment 64

Opponents of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act are hyping a letter endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatric's Colorado branch decrying the measure. Backers responded with their own pediatrics-approved physician and a promise of support from more medical pros. How many? As wi ... More >>

Walmart debate should make presidential debate look like chit-chat

The presidential debate won't be at University of Denver until tomorrow night, but the great debate is already raging in Denver: Does a Walmart belong in the development going in the former University of Colorado property at Ninth and Colorado? And if it does, should it benefit from tax-increment fi ... More >>

Walmart opponents ask Colorado Boulevard Healthcare District for a place at the podium

While the area around the new University of Colorado Health Sciences Center is booming, the buildings CU left behind a decade ago stand abandoned, and the property is now on its third developer. The city is ready for something, anything, to go there. Well, maybe not anything, say the Walmartyrs.

Coming to a convention center near you: five thousand Walmart employees

"Walking Down Death Row," the eerily titled song by James Holmes's sister

See Also: - Dark Knight Rises composer Hans Zimmer pens song for Aurora shooting victims - Neil Diamond donates proceeds from merch sales to Aurora Victim Relief Fund - Reel Big Fish donating proceeds of Aspen show to Aurora shooting victims/families - Tim McGraw and other musicians pay tribute to t ... More >>

Dr. Stephen Stein, alleged needle re-user, under investigation for prescription fraud

Update: The story of Dr. Stephen Stein, an oral surgeon whose possible re-use of needles over a twelve-year period has led the state health department to suggest that at least 8,000 of his patients be tested for HIV and hepatitis, has gone national. And while Stein has yet to be charged with a crime ... More >>

Denver has Democratic National Convention advice for Charlotte

Louis Hampers: Indicted Children's doctor back in court on Friday, back in Colorado soon

Louis Hampers.​ Dr. Louis Hampers, the Children's Hospital ER doctor charged with writing 654 fake prescriptions dating back to 2007 and continuing through April, will return to court Friday in Virginia, where he was arrested yesterday. According to Jeff Dorschner, spokesman for the U.S. Atto ... More >>

Louis Hampers: Controversial doc temporarily loses medical license pending two investigations

Louis Hampers.​Dr. Louis Hampers, a prominent staffer at The Children's Hospital in Aurora and the subject of the recent Westword feature ""When This Physician Gets the Fever, It's the Women He Dates Who Can't Shake the Bug," has temporarily lost his medical license. This week, Hampers signed ... 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 >>

Wake-Up Call: Hold your horses!

One of the last vestiges of Fred Kummer's reign as a Denver hotelier disappeared yesterday. The two mammoth horse sculptures that had reared their ugly heads in the lobby of the former Adam's Mark Hotel for years were hauled out of the building (and not easily -- they each weigh 2,500 pounds). No ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Buy local, think local December 1-7

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 ... More >>

Demolition Begins on the Dunes Motel

Nickel and Dimed

Copper Nickel 8 is a complete disaster.

Making Nice

Robert Schrier took the University of Colorado to court for academic freedom. The school settled before a jury could hear the tale.

Back-doored

From Russia, Without Love

Hackers are selling rape porn through university websites -- including student pages at UCD.

Word Music

Golda Solomon keeps her rhymes jazzy.

Scoot!

Get your Peoples and Vespas off the Auraria campus.

Rubber Made

Chakaia Booker keeps rolling along.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of September 30, 2004

Letters to the Editor

From the week of September 9, 2004

Throwing Fitz

The move to Fitzsimons was supposed to send CU's Health Sciences Center sailing into the 21st century. So why are so many doctors jumping ship?

Letters to the Editor

From the week of July 8, 2004

Monkey Business

CU's animal attraction isn't limited to recruiting parties.

Behind the Scenes

Inside Look opens sculptors' studios

Angel Eyes

Justin was a good boy from a good family. Then he shook his three-month-old baby to death.

A Change Blowing In

The Zephyr has weathered life on Colfax for 56 years. But can it withstand the march of progress?

Off Limits

Weird science

The Strange Case of Dr. Schmidt

He worked wonders with chronic-pain patients. So why was the university so eager to get rid of him?

The Doctor Is In

This book's a killer!

Child's Play

Middle-schoolers find out what it's like to have a bun in the Easy-Bake Oven.

The Final Exam

Rape is the most personal of crimes—and so Boulder’s sexual-assault nurses took criticism of their program very personally.

Letters

A Monkey Wrench

Animal-rights activists say CU researchers are worming out of a debate.

Suicide Mission

Sitting in Judgment

The Court of Lost Souls

Open the doors of Courtroom 303-W and hear the everyday tales of violence, tragedy and heartbreak

Letters

Going Ape

Animal-rights activists want a CU scientist to stop the monkey business.

Mouthing Off

Tooth Will Tell

The state wants to yank his license. But dentist Hal Huggins keeps mouthing off.

Edifice Wreck

How tarnished a gem is the decrepit Evans School?

More Grief for Workers

A trend in the making: University Hospital alters its employee benefits for bereavement leave and continuing education.

LETTERS

BLAZING THE ORGAN TRAIL

TRANSPLANT CENTERS' BLOODY BATTLE OVER WHO GETS WHAT--AND FROM WHERE.