Outgoing Manual High School principal Nickolas Dawkins created a stir when he alleged in his resignation that he was being “targeted by those who called me n*gger.” The district alleges that Dawkins created a hostile work environment and was being investigated for concerns about his leadership. Now, more information may potentially point to allegations of sexual harassment that led to Dawkins’ resignation.
If you’re selling a luxury home in Denver right now, expect to make a mint. In its recently published global luxury report, accessible below, Coldwell Banker calls the Mile High City the number one “power market” for luxury home sellers in the United States. And according to Chris Mygatt, president and CEO of Coldwell Banker-Colorado, transplants from major markets where prices are even higher than here represent a big reason why.
Earlier this month, the lawyer for former City of Denver employee Wayne McDonald, who was paid $200,000 to settle a lawsuit four years after his 2012 firing, hinted that public statements made by Mayor Michael Hancock in his video apology for sending inappropriate texts to Detective Leslie Branch-Wise during the 2011-2012 period when she was on his security detail may have breached the agreement.
Granola Funk isn’t a jam band that opens for Phish or Umphrey’s McGee, but it might be in the same ballpark.
The Colorado governor’s race for 2018 just got a little less crowded. Noel Ginsburg, an entrepreneur running as a moderate Democrat, has announced that he’s dropping out of the contest.
The model would come with more purchasing and consumption limits than its brewery counterparts, and the tasting areas would only be allowed next to recreational stores, not medical dispensaries.
The Denver Public Library has hired two social services and four peer navigators to help its most vulnerable visitors.
At this time yesterday, March 18, political observers were wondering if Denver City Council would investigate Mayor Michael Hancock after a new call for an inquiry from his alleged victim, Denver police detective Leslie Branch-Wise. By the evening, the answer had moved close to a “yes,” with council president Albus Brooks, who’d previously said “I continue to maintain that an investigation is not warranted because there are no disputed facts about the case” reversing course in dramatic fashion.
Probably not at a dispensary — at least not that anyone would admit.
Late last year, the City of Denver agreed to pay $4.65 million and make major changes in its jail policies to settle claims involving Michael Marshall, who died in a Denver detention center circa 2015 during a mental-health crisis captured on video. But that wasn’t enough according to a scathing new report from Denver’s Office of the Independent Monitor, which makes eight recommendations for policy change above and beyond ones already agreed to in the settlement pact.
In anticipation of March for Our Lives on Saturday, March 24, in Denver, here’s everything you need to know, including details of the event, where the march will go, how to get there and various pre-march meetups.
After the Denver Post announced that it will be laying off thirty employees, the Denver Newspaper Guild published on its website a message to Alden Global Capital, the hedge fund that owns the paper and has been slowly gutting it: “Sell the Denver Post Now!”
On Monday, March 19, Denver launched a long-anticipated legal defense fund for immigrants with $385,000 in its coffers. The aim of the fund is to provide legal representation to Denver residents who are fighting removal orders or who have requested relief through avenues like Differed Action for Childhood Arrivals, asylum applications, naturalization or certain visas.
After months of heated parent town halls and tough community discussions, a school district in Adams County has become the first urban district in the state to transition to a four-day school week starting this August. Years of low teacher pay had taken its toll, and district leadership were desperate to try something different to change the tides amid a statewide teacher shortage and an underfunded education budget.
On the March 18 edition of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver delivered a segment that excoriated Vice President Mike Pence, with a particular concentration on policies he’s supported that are widely seen as homophobic.
Denver City Councilman Rafael Espinoza’s call for an investigation over improper texts that Denver Mayor Michael Hancock sent to Denver police detective Leslie Branch-Wise when she was a member of his security detail circa 2011-2012 didn’t gain support from other members of the panel, which issued a joint statement rejecting the launch of such a probe.
The financial website WalletHub recently released its 2018 list of the Best & Worst States to Retire…and Colorado ranked right up there, as number two. Top honors went to Florida.
Lacking in money or a standout issue, Levi Tillemann appears to be in deep trouble as the Democratic primaries approach.
Despite having more than seventy years of combined experience working for United Airlines, flight attendants Ruben Lee and Jeanne Stroup were fired by the carrier for watching a video on an iPad for approximately fifteen minutes and failing to wear aprons during one flight in September 2013. But while folks at the company may have thought they’d save money by sacking two veteran employees, they were wrong. A jury has awarded Lee and Stroup $800,000 in damages, and attorney David Lane, who represents them, predicts the final tally will come close to double that amount.
He’s been trying to protect state-compliant cannabis businesses since Jeff Sessions rescinded nine years’ worth of federal pot protections in January.
Sweet Leaf is in the middle of a city hearing that will determine the fate of its licenses.
The Right to Rest bill, as it was known, died 10-3 in a committee that notoriously killed last year’s version of the bill. Advocates who testified included the ACLU of Colorado, and law enforcement agencies and city officials around the state testified against the bill.
