Colorado State University is taking a barrage of flak after two Native American students who’d signed up to tour the campus were detained by police after the mother of another potential CSU attendee dialed 911 because their appearance disturbed her. But Cheryl Crazy Bull, president and CEO of the Denver-based American Indian College Fund, sees the university less as the cause of a disease than a symptom of one.
Denver Health researchers used undercover phone calls to quiz store employees.
Curious to see how many dispensaries are in your neck of the woods?
Today is the last day of the state legislative session. Normally, that would mean that it’s time to party — not for the legions of Colorado legislative fans (if those exist, please let us know), but for the legislators themselves, along with the lobbyists and the interns and the staff and the hangers-on.
It took 119 days to pass what is arguably the most important piece of legislation to come out of the Capitol this year. After unanimous support in the Senate and an almost exclusively Democratic push from the House, a multibillion-dollar transportation bill was finally pushed out of the legislature and onto the governor’s desk.
Once on the rocks, the system is getting help from citizens’ groups,
After Denver was named one of twenty finalists as the location for Amazon HQ2, locals already concerned about out-of-control growth and rising housing costs offered a notably mixed reaction, with a recent poll suggesting that Mile High residents are less enthusiastic about hosting a new campus for the mega-firm than those living in any of the other potential sites. But they may be more favorably disposed to Army Futures Command, a new military project that also has Denver on its short list.
As of late last year, rent prices finally seemed to be leveling off in Denver and its nearby communities following a long stretch during which rental costs consistently zoomed upward in the Mile High City’s hyper-competitive housing market. But the news thus far in 2018 has reversed this trend, with the latest eye-popping data confirming that metro Denver rent increases are back with a vengeance.
It’s not sweet and sugary like Dairy Queen’s, but it’ll still cool you down after a hot day.
In a new video, Jordan Hancock, son of Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, behaves like an entitled asshat after being stopped for a traffic violation in Aurora. But was the performance enough to unseat reigning champion John Bowlen, ne’er-do-well offspring of Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen, as the most douchebaggy celebrity son in the Mile High City?
Some moms are too interesting to get bath soak and candy, even if there’s weed in them.
Why is the Public Employees Retirement Association continuing to invest in high-fee, high-risk investments?
Remember when wax was $75 a gram?
Public service campaigns, whether they’re in-print or on radio or television, are meant to do one simple thing: instruct Americans on some aspect of modern life.
Last night, the Denver City Council voted to approve a zoning code update that will prevent the new construction of slot homes, a variation on the garden-court form in which entrances don’t typically face the street.
Thirty-three members of the Colorado legislature have signed onto a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions calling for congressional action “to protect the sovereignty of states like Colorado and ensure that marijuana businesses and consumers will be free from undue federal interference.” But even though the original document, on view below, was backed by the entire Colorado Congressional delegation, regardless of party designation, no Republican state senators or representatives have done likewise.
Today in two cities, Denver and New York, Denver Post employees will be taking part in separate demonstrations against Alden Global Capital, the vulture hedge fund that has so gutted the newspaper that former owner Dean Singleton chose to resign as chairman and step down from the editorial board as a way of expressing his frustration and disappointment.
The Homeless Advocacy Policy Project at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law has just released a report showing that thousands of Denver’s homeless are being displaced under the city’s urban camping ban.
A political movement is recruiting centrist-minded Coloradans to run in eleven state legislature seats this fall.
The governor’s office hasn’t taken an official stance on the bill, so the bill’s advocates aren’t calling it a victory just yet.
On Friday, May 4, Dean Singleton, who owned the Denver Post from 1987 to 2013, resigned as the newspaper’s chairman and also left his position on the editorial board
Although Lisa Raville has worked hard to build the Harm Reduction Action Center into the Colorado’s largest syringe exchange, she feels strongly that even more good could be done if the state had supervised use facilities, where individuals could inject drugs in an environment that put safety first, as opposed to the Denver Central Library branch, where six people overdosed during the first three months of 2017.
