With Colorado cycling season in full swing, we recently dug into City of Denver traffic data to learn which neighborhoods have been the setting for the most car-versus-bicycle accidents, and the numbers for the top ten were disturbing. In contrast, ten other Denver neighborhoods have a far better record, registering fewer than ten incidents of this type over the past six years.
Undercover police officers busted six people for alleged public consumption.
Business in Denver must know advertise their bathrooms using neutral-gender bathroom signs. Though the penalty for not following the new rule is light, officials hope the new signs will send a larger message: that we are an inclusive city.
Our parks are a demonstration of what makes Denver unique: They do not belong here.
Senate committee members indicated they’d be open to a similar proposal in the future.
The Colorado Legislature is still working on a fix for PERA, but it won’t solve the real problem.
The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless is seeking a restraining order and preliminary injunction from the U.S. District Court of Colorado to prevent a federal agency from selling 59 acres of government land in Lakewood that had been awarded to the nonprofit to build permanent supportive housing for the homeless.
The state says Brad Levin is 1,521 signatures short on his ballot petition to be a Democratic primary candidate for attorney general. Levin mounted every argument he had in court to get his name on the June primary ballot, but he was shot down. Now he’s asking the state’s highest court to intervene before Colorado starts mailing out ballots this month and he’s completely knocked out of the race.
Test results showed samples contained potentially unsafe levels of yeast and mold, while other samples tested positive for Etoxazole and Myclobutanil.
Dispensaries may get to apply for cannabis tasting rooms as early as August of this year if Governor John Hickenlooper signs a bill that cleared the Colorado General Assembly.
Denver Post editorial page editor Chuck Plunkett has resigned after an executive for the subsidiary company that runs the paper refused to okay a new editorial critical of its actual owner, Alden Global Capital, a vulture hedge fund that’s slowly sucking it dry. But you won’t read about that in the Post, thanks to what amounts to internal censorship enforced by Alden and Digital First Media, its de facto proxy.
Last year, after Miguel Lopez was refused a permit for the Denver 420 Rally, which he’s put on annually since 2008, following complaints about Civic Center Park being trashed, attorney Rob Corry filed a lawsuit against the City and County of Denver on his behalf. Then, after Michael Ortiz was awarded the permit only to see it subsequently handed to Euflora, a local dispensary, Corry sued Denver in his name, too.
During its 10 p.m. broadcast on May 2, nearly two weeks after Westword revealed that an investigation into former Manual principal Nick Dawkins found he had violated Denver Public Schools policies related to “equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination” and “procedures for the investigation of employee complaints of discrimination or harassment,” 9News reported that DPS had finally sent a letter to Manual parents about the inquiry. But that wasn’t true. Or at least it’s not true yet.
“The recreational availability of cannabis is lovely, but the legal availability to medicine is what I hope to advocate for.”
The Colorado Civil Rights Division is at stake this legislative session. The House passed a bill to reauthorize the agency. The Senate amended it, but representatives in the lower chamber were not keen on those changes. House Democrats have said the proposed changes to the civil rights agency would overly politicize and radicalize it. Now, the two have to negotiate their differences before the end of session. But the House Democrats seem to have all the leverage.
St. Dominic’s worked with neighbors on a plan, then sold the property.
Higher isn’t always better.
In a story of strange political bedfellows, representatives from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) are working with the office of Colorado Republican Senator Cory Gardner on an upcoming bill that would prevent the federal government from interfering with the marijuana system here and in other states that have allow the sale of cannabis.
In newly released body camera video that can be seen here, Colorado State University student Michaella Surat asks Fort Collins police officer Randy Klamser, “What the fuck did I do?” as he tries to arrest her. Klamser tells her, “I don’t want to throw you on the ground” seconds before doing just that.
The Denver real estate market remains red hot, with plenty of homes selling for well above the listed price. But when should sellers to put their property on the market and when should they wait? Denver-specific numbers from a new study reveal the ten best and worst days to make a deal for a house in the Mile High City.
Doug Lamborn has been battered by lawsuits this election cycle over his petition to get on the June Republican primary ballot. He finally caught a break this week when a court ordered the state to reinstate his name on the Republican primary ballot for the Fifth Congressional District of Colorado. But it’s unclear how long this reprieve will last.
