Yesterday, King Soopers formally, and finally, acknowledged that its grocery workers had accepted the company’s last, best and final contract offer. But silenced prevailed at Safeway, whose employees turned down pretty much the same deal — until today. The firm’s release focuses most of its attention on those bargaining units…
Denver Public Schools’ high school graduation rate is rising — but so far, it’s only risen to a mediocre 52.7 percent. That was the news yesterday from Superintendent Tom Boasberg, who announced the numbers at a press conference at North High School. North, on the other hand, saw its graduation…
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Board of Health has had a rough few months navigating the issue of medical marijuana. In July, the board determined that a caregiver only had to provide a patient with marijuana to earn that label. Then, in November, the board voted to…
The end of the year — and the decade — is just around the corner. So it seemed like a good time to pull out the old crystal ball and look ahead to the year and decade to come. Predicting technology is a fool’s errand, but you’re in luck: I’m…
As the final pieces of the funding puzzle behind the $500 million rehab of Union Station fall into place, the project is finally poised to begin. But lately, what, exactly, the final development will look like has been shifting considerably, and not all observers are happy about the changes. Yesterday,…
Those Denver blogs just keep on coming… Colin at South Stands Denver with Broncos fans not getting riled up about the Raiders. Or, as he puts it, “Fuck the Motherfucking Raiders! ‘Cause THE RIVALRY AIN’T DEAD!” 5280’s Michael de Yoanna chronicles Colorado’s Week of the Migrant. Doubt if Tom Tancredo’s…
Keeping a dog alive doesn’t seem like such a difficult task, but every once in a while a very dumb man discovers a new way to kill one. A while back, it was Quincy Vanderbilt, who left his dog in a closed-up car while his girlfriend tried out for American…
“By the time you get that commuter rail line out to Thornton, most Adams County residents will be commuting to their jobs in North Dakota by hydrogen-powered time machines.”…
The lawsuit against Centennial by CannaMart, a medical marijuana dispensary the city shut down despite granting it a business license a short time earlier, gets its first reading in court today, and Rob Corry and a team of attorneys representing the plaintiffs, including several medical marijuana patients, are clearly feeling…
Denver International Airport has given rise to oodles of conspiracy theories involving Freemasons and the New World Order — many of them documented in Jared Jacang Maher’s 2007 feature “DIA Conspiracies Take Off.” So it’s only natural that Conspiracy Theory, a new TruTV show hosted by none other than former…
Yesterday in our Denver Blogs round-up, we noted that the eyes of Denver Nuggets fans are on Chauncey Billups’ sprained groin. But is that what’s really wrong with him? This morning on KNUS, at 710 AM, sports updater Bill Rogan, whose online home is TurfSports.net, reported that Billups actually has…
In September, amid the frenzy stirred by the case of Najibbullah Zazi, a DIA shuttle driver at the center of a federal terrorism probe, Channel 4 cameraman Glenn McReynolds was handcuffed and cited for failure to obey an order to leave the lobby of the Byron G. Rogers Federal Courthouse,…
On Wednesday morning, while the Denver City Council’s safety committee was going over member Charlie Brown’s latest pot proposal, two men tried to rob The Healthy Choice Wellness Center — an incident that led to two elementary schools being locked down as well as loads of media coverage. The heist…
Next week, Westword will be capping off 2009 with a blizzard of blogs leading up to our annual Year in Review issue: Look for them in this space. But before long, we’ll be ending a decade, too. And with that in mind — and to whet your appetite for lists…
The Denver Post reports that former Broncos coach Mike Shanahan is in discussions to become the next coach of the Washington Redskins. Familiar? That rumor’s been floating around for weeks now, and it makes sense given that current ‘Skins coach Jim Zorn is a dead man walking and the team…
This time of the year is all about family. But that’s not always a good thing. Denver Police Department reps were called after an infant was checked into an area hospital with terrible injuries. Next step? DPD arrested the child’s parents, Travis Anderson, 26, and Crystal Eccleston, 27, for investigation…
The campaign to construct a wildlife bridge over I-70 near West Vail Pass got a major boost this week when the site was selected as the focus for a new, international design competition of wildlife crossing structures. Long identified as a problem area for wildlife migration, the traffic-heavy pass was…
Update, December 17, 3:21 p.m.: King Soopers has issued an official response to the contract ratification; still nothing from Safeway. Look below for the latest. On Tuesday, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 announced a surprising split vote over the latest contract offers for area grocery employees: King Soopers…
The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (known affectionately as “hick-puff”) didn’t win any popularity contests this past summer when it unveiled changes in the way Medicaid payments would be doled out to adults with disabilities who live at home — a conflict profiled in the Westword feature…
Last night, the Denver Regional Council of Governments, popularly known as DRCOG, held a public hearing on the Jefferson Parkway, a controversial toll road that may take commuters for a ride of a different sort, as Jared Jacang Maher documented in a January feature. Golden mayor Jacob Smith, a Parkway…
Having trouble finding work? You’re not alone. Follow Jobbed every week as we troll for the weird, the wacky and the worst of what the recession-era world of job ads has to offer. The Job, as posted online: Baggage Handler Agent, DIA Responsibilities: Transport luggage from ticket counter to TSA…
Surf the web globally; read blogs locally. The Nuggets will turn to Anthony Carter to fill in during the short term for groin-injured Chauncey Billups, says Nick Sclafani of the Nugg Doctor. Hope that prescription won’t have to be renewed. The Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic screens University of Denver professor…
