Pazen stopped by Westword on Thursday, July 11, for thirty minutes to discuss implementing the policy, his take on police and sheriff’s department watchdog the Office of the Independent Monitor, and how he plans to approach his job differently than White did.
Despite the Lake Christine Fire’s devastation, about 750 residents of the area turned out on Tuesday, July 10, to thank firefighters returning to camp after a day of battling the blaze.
Meanwhile, retiring chief Robert White was in the Dominican Republic.
Established in 2014, RiseUp is one of twenty Alternative Education Campuses — schools that accommodate at-risk populations — in the DPS system. The charter school specializes in teaching students who have either dropped out of school or are at risk of dropping out, or have a criminal background or a history of child abuse or neglect, among other criteria.
Tickets go on sale June 15.
Live Nation has announced it will renovate Summit Music Hall to “improve patrons’ concert-going experience.”
Tickets go on sale on June 22.
“It’s popular to hate Trump.”
On Thursday, May 10, the North American Aerospace Defense Command invited journalists to come celebrate its sixtieth birthday. The tour guides never told us what made sixty any different from 59 or 58, but when NORAD sends you an invitation (via “unclassified” email!), you don’t turn it down.
Arcis Golf has sued Clayton, a school that serves low-income students in northeast Denver, “claiming that the potential transaction with the city in September 2017 triggered their right of refusal to purchase the Park Hill Golf Course land.”
Denver Police Department Chief Robert White is leaving the department after seven years.
Brandon Rietheimer might have successfully pushed the most campaigned-against measure on last November’s ballot, but the man behind the controversial Green Roof Initiative is anything but.
Denver Public Schools announced Thursday that it has partnered with Landed, a startup based in California, and the Zoma Foundation to launch a down-payment assistance program that will provide up to half of a 20 percent down payment on a home, or up to $70,000 per household, to about 100 teachers the first year.
Denver City Council unanimously approved a ticket-price hike for the zoo that will net an additional $1 million in revenue a year. How do our prices compare to those in other cities?
Representative Leslie Herod, a Democrat from Denver, will spearhead a ballot initiative that would use a sales-tax increase to fund existing mental-health and substance-abuse treatment services in Denver, like suicide-prevention programs, alternatives to jail, and some housing services.
A taskforce that includes the initiative’s backers, representatives of the real estate industry and a few city council members could recommend changes to its language that would stay true to its intent but offer builders more options.
The best things in life are free, an adage the Levitt Pavilion takes to heart. After opening last year to much critical acclaim, the pavilion in Ruby Hill Park has announced its lineup of fifty free shows this year.
“I’m obviously not a politician, but Denver has a lot of blood on their hands this year especially; over 230 homeless people died, most of them disabled.”
Buffalo Exchange on Broadway and other groups want to install rainbow crosswalks at Broadway and West Irvington Place.
Sandra Garcia was on her way out of town last Friday when she got a letter she had been expecting since last year. Signed by higher-ups at the Vatican, the letter informed Garcia that Rome is considering the plea she and her fellow congregates at Our Lady of Visitation have made to reopen their little church in unincorporated Adams County.
Inspired by cities in Latin America, many of which are built around “plazas” that are home to government buildings and the biggest church in town, the ten-year-old Plaza program is a way for Denver’s immigrant, refugee and asylum populations to access each other as well as resources they need to navigate the city.
The Denver Public Library has hired two social services and four peer navigators to help its most vulnerable visitors.
