According to a report, Denver Police officers Christopher Bailey and Joey Gasca were justified in using deadly force: firing 27 — maybe 28 — rounds at Roberts’s car. Roberts was hit eight times but survived after he was transported to the Medical Center of Aurora.
Nearly 120 law enforcement agencies will be participating in increased enforcement against drunk driving throughout Colorado on New Year’s Eve.
On December 20, a mistrial was declared in the Nevada Bundy case. One of the self-proclaimed judges who advised the Bundys, Bruce Doucette, is among the eight individuals who were arrested in March in Colorado; he’s sentenced for trial on February 26.
The ACLU of Colorado has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain more information about how a 64-year-old Iranian man, Kamyar Samimi, died while being held at ICE’s detention center in Aurora on December 2.
The Colorado Real Estate Alliance, whose members includes many businesses that campaigned against I-300, sent Mayor Michael Hancock and Denver City Council a letter on December 5 asking for a six-month stay of implementation of the ordinance.
“If I knew what I know now, I wouldn’t have exposed myself. It’s been more trouble than it’s worth,” says Voyeur subject Gerald Foos.
The Stanley Hotel announces it will be building a new venue and hosting an annual bluegrass festival.
The Colorado Village Collaborative has established a construction timeline in its partnership with St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church to build another tiny home village on the church’s campus near downtown – at Glenarm Place and 20th Avenue.
It’s like Google Maps, except you can zoom in on individual buildings and check their Energy Star scores, which reflect a structure’s energy efficiency on a 1-100 scale.
Within an hour of the Federal Communications Commission voting to rescind rules protecting net neutrality on December 14, Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman took to Twitter to voice his disappointment and announce that he’ll be introducing his own bill pertaining to net neutrality in Congress, where the “conversation belongs.” Net neutrality…
Twelve months of meetings. Discussion among 23 people about parliamentary procedures and committee positions. Hours spent debating the nuances of words like “gentrification.” Listening to reports from Denver’s Office of Economic Development. Public comment periods. Presentations from community groups about how Denver should tackle its affordable housing crisis.
“All our partners already do some form of work in the community, and we had a discussion about how affordable housing is so difficult.”
The director of the Mayor Michael Hancock’s new Office of Housing and Opportunity for People Everywhere (HOPE), Erik Soliván is the driving force behind Denver’s five-year affordable-housing plan.
“That was fucked up good,” a stoned-looking guy said to me as soon as Grizzly Bear finished its encore and the house lights in the Ogden Theatre came on.
The Beloved Community Village will relocate across an alleyway to an adjacent Urban Land Conservancy-owned lot at 1420 East 38th Street.
The Colorado Attorney General’s Office warned that it would level attorney Jason Flores-Williams and his law office with financial penalties — and even the possibility of Flores-Williams’s disbarment — on the grounds that his “rights of nature” case was unlawful and frivolous.
The band Grizzly Bear, while still going strong (indeed, with an incredible new album release this year, Painted Ruins), more often than not gives me a sense of nostalgia
“We were training them to take care of themselves, not just be a one time thing, or say we’ll be back in a year and do it again.”
When federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement want to arrest someone at the Office of Denver Adult Probation, they must follow the office’s twelve-step procedure that is supposed to help facilitate undercover arrests by ICE.
Released November 13, The Taxman, a three-episode series, deftly and entertainingly explores how larger-than-life Colorado politician Douglas Bruce led a crusade that resulted in one of the most remarkable — and controversial — tax laws in the United States: Colorado’s “Taxpayer Bill of Rights,” better known as TABOR.
As part of ongoing negotiations, Denver Arts and Venues announced this week that it will implement a new ticket-buying process beginning in February 2018 to help ensure that accessible seats at Red Rocks go to those that actually need them.
Colorado is not amused with the rights of nature case, “Colorado River v. Colorado,” and has moved to dismiss the environmental lawsuit.
