Write Our World: Crawford Elementary School highlights the experiences of persecution and triumph that brought immigrant and refugee families from all over the world — including Nepal and Bhutan to Somalia — to Crawford Elementary School in Aurora, where 95 percent of students are minorities and 75 percent are English learners.
Instead of illegally booting nursing mothers from their seats, Coors and Sports Authority fields are joining the Pepsi Center in installing private, four-by-eight foot pods in their main concourses to give moms the option of breastfeeding in a tiny, portable room — and not in the stands.
In the lawsuit between the Thompson family and the 18th District Attorney’s office, a deputy district attorney compared the child to the Sandy Hook shooter, Adam Lanza, who killed twenty children and six adults at a Connecticut school in 2012 — the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
The Western Values Project is digging deep to track the potential conflicts of interest in Zinke’s department, while exploring their potential effects on fossil fuel drilling in Colorado.
The store has been on Larimer for three decades.
On Wednesday, August 2, members of a City Council committee overwhelmingly approved legislation that would prevent local authorities from cooperating with some of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s efforts to identify and/or deport undocumented residents in Denver. In a public hearing packed with activists, the Safety, Housing, Education and Homelessness Committee voted five to one to approve the bill, which will head to the full City Council later this month.
Latham is embarking on a road trip across the U.S. finding and collecting stories of human kindness, especially stories of people making beautiful decisions after experiencing adversity.
Researchers at the Boulder-based NIST are taking air pollution to the next level with drone technology.
Over a year after Katie Mullen’s Irish Restaurant and Pub shuttered its doors at 1550 Court Place, right on the 16th Street Mall, the space has finally been claimed by Hacienda Colorado, a homegrown chain that bills its fare as “Mexican Food With Altitude.”
Colorado Common Cause, a Denver-based advocacy group, is shedding light on the political influence that ALEC has had on Colorado lawmakers.
Even without the threat of the American Health Care Act, which would have cut about 40 percent of the organization’s budget and billions from Medicaid funding, the leaders of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains are taking measures to ensure that as many people have access to care as possible.
The dream of a world-class speedway was kept alive on Tuesday, July 18th by an Aurora judge, who ruled in favor of a recent city council charter amendment that would remove the 1999 ban on speedway subsidization while paving the way for a massive “entertainment district” in Northeast Aurora.
Aurora has taken the advantage of $900,000 in marijuana revenue in opening the Aurora Day Resource Center. The space, an old gym for the Aurora Police Department, is intended to give the homeless have a place to go during the day, when they cannot be in overnight shelters like the neighboring Comitis Crisis Center.
A Castle Rock child with autism, Logan Thompson, is facing serious charges stemming from a schoolyard tiff almost two years ago, when Thompson retaliated against a former student – an alleged bully and the son of a high-level Denver Broncos staffer – with a slap in the face.
Zinke’s order came as a concern to leaders of the recreation industry as well as conservationists, who say that the Trump administration is putting oil and gas interests first and foremost – even though the BLM leased the second most land in Colorado of any state during the 2016 fiscal year — and threatening public lands just as many are citing Colorado’s conservation efforts as the reason behind Outdoor Retailer’s relocation from Salt Lake City.
Brandt and Brown are suing Adams County, Adams County Sheriff Michael McIntosh, and several of the Sheriff’s deputies including former sheriff’s deputy Jeffery Stovall, who was fired and acquitted on assault charges last year after being caught on video kicking a subdued suspect outside of a bar in May 2015.
The new superintendent of the Jefferson County school district has hit the ground running. Only ten days into the job, Dr. Jason Glass is on the road today, July 10th for an eight-stop “listening tour” around Jeffco that is intended to allow teachers, parents and residents to speak up about what the school district needs to do next.
CLIF is recalling tens of thousands of its bars amid fears of that several flavors may have been exposed to unknown quantities and varieties of nuts — just in time for the peak of hiking, mountain biking and backpacking season in Colorado.
For forty years, the Golden-based NREL has led the country in providing the foundational technology for innovations in solar, wind, biomass and battery efficiency – all to make renewable energy companies more successful, one breakthrough at a time. But as the climate begins to rapidly change, researchers are facing new pressures to push America’s energy economy in a new, sustainable direction.
Contract negotiations stalled last week between Denver Public Schools (DPS) and the Denver Classroom Teacher’s Association (DCTA), a major union that represents almost 6,000 Denver educators, when DPS announced that it will ask a federal third-party mediator to take over the bargaining process.
Four neighborhood business groups on Colfax Avenue are requesting $20 million in bond funding for new pedestrian medians, trees, crosswalks and other measures intended to make Colfax safer and more accessible.
The event provided dozens of services — including medical and mental-health check-ups, clothing, food and help with finding affordable housing — free of charge.
