Melanie Asmar
Melanie Asmar is a staff writer for Westword. She joined the paper in 2009 and has won awards for her stories about education, immigration and epic legal battles. Got a tip? She'd love to hear it.
Latest Stories
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5 years ago | CrimeIn the wake of his death, Aaron Tuneberg's family set up Aaron’s Fund, which raises money to help at-risk adults live safer and more fulfilling lives.
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5 years ago | Colorado HistoryLuke Pelham says he didn’t foresee what was going to happen the night he went to his friend Aaron Tuneberg’s apartment with another eighteen-year-old he barely knew. Pelham didn’t think it would turn tragic — not even when the other guy brought al...
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6 years ago | Business
In 2009, Colorado business leaders came up with an idea to boost the state’s then-sagging economy: help cities and counties build new tourist attractions by allowing some of the state sales-tax revenue that would be generated by those attractions ...
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6 years ago | Business
Glendale, a pint-sized city surrounded on all sides by southeast Denver, has always had outsized ideas. A municipal rugby complex? Yes! The only King Soopers in the state that sells booze, just blocks from the only Target in the state that sells b...
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6 years ago | Education
Some Lincoln High School students are pushing back against a plan by Denver Public Schools to open a middle school charter school at Lincoln, located in southwest Denver. A protest organized by the community group Padres y Jovenes Unidos is schedu...
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6 years ago | News
Four concertgoers who were injured in a 2011 rockfall incident will have another chance to hold the City of Denver and its iconic Red Rocks amphitheater responsible. The concertgoers were struck by falling rocks at a Sound Tribe Sector 9 concert a...
