Denver has ten sister cities, each with its own customs and priorities. Among them is Nairobi, Kenya. City Councilman Albus Brooks, so much a fan of Kenya that he named his daughter after the nation, recently led a trip of Manual High School students (and one teacher), plus private sector…
Schmoozing and boozing — that was the scene at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House last Friday just before the ten finalists of Galvanize’s [i4c] campaign, a city-specific initiative to grow socially and environmentally impactful startups through capital, community and curriculum, would be judged Shark Tank-style, with just three winning the…
For a lesson in living large, look no further than Peyton Manning’s new Cherry Hills Village digs, a modest 16,000-square-feet pied-à-terre, snapped up for a mere $4.57 million. But a new documentary from a Colorado couple, charting their quest to build their dream home — all 125 square feet of…
Rory O’Rourke thinks traditional dating sites are too static. “You talk about yourself or fill out a bunch of survey questions, and throughout your experience online, you don’t change that,” says O’Rourke, who works in software. “Everybody says they like to travel but nobody updates their page with what trips…
There are a lot of lingering questions in the local renewable energy industry, and in Aurora, about news that General Electric is laying off employees and putting construction of an Aurora solar plant on hold. Yesterday, we tracked down Brian Murphy, one of the founders of PrimeStar, a Colorado startup…
One handy gauge for checking on the relative financial health of the world’s one-percenters can be found right here in Colorado — well, okay, the other Colorado, the one populated with champagne wishes and caviar dreams. And the latest figures for real estate transactions in the Gucci-padded wonderland known as…
Give Rex Tillerson some credit. At least the ExxonMobil CEO has avoided claiming that global warming isn’t real, the way tobacco executives used to pretend lung cancer was just some weird, wacky, luck-of-the-draw disease that had no linkage to massive consumption of their product. Tillerson just happens to think that…
Chants of “Si se puede!” and “Justice!” filled the air yesterday as downtown janitors marched on 16th Street for better conditions and voted to authorize a potential strike. The contract for almost 2,300 Denver janitors will expire at the end of June, and after four weeks of negotiation with contractors…
Garry Golden, a professional futurist, stopped by the Denver Public Library last night to, well, talk about the future. Not in a very concrete, fortune-telling, predictive kind of way, but rather in the more abstract forward-thinking, advice-giving, philosophical realm. This is the work of the futurist…
Last week, Cannabis Business Alliance’s Shawn Coleman argued that accepting a medical marijuana advertising ban near schools, parks, daycares and rec centers might find off citywide prohibition. But one councilwoman is leaning toward a more sweeping policy…
After one of the mildest winters in recent years, leaving some areas of the parched high country with less than 10 percent of normal snowpack — not to mention forests ravaged by drought and pine beetles, ready to explode into wildfires like the rapidly expanding High Park blaze — this…
To keep up with the world’s exploding population, farmers will have to produce more food over the next fifty years than during the past 10,000 years combined. Given environmental issues and a scarcity of fossil resources, this daunting task seems almost impossible. But it’s a problem 31-year-old John-Paul Maxfield is…
Compared to the billions-a-day standard flow rate of tax dollars pouring into and out of Washington, $25 million amounts to scarcely more than chump change. But the passage of an amendment by Congressman Jared Polis yesterday, cutting that amount in oil shale subsidies, is a remarkable break with what adds…
About 40 percent of the nation’s electrical grid depends on coal for fuel. But facing increasing state and federal regulations that are shutting down many coal plants, a battery of pesky scientists moaning about climate change, increasing competition from ever-cheaper natural gas and renewables, and other threats, even power industry…
Known as a high-strung, high-country lagomorph that’s particularly susceptible to dramatic temperature shifts, the American pika has been described as a kind of “canary in the coal mine” for gauging the impact of climate change on alpine species. And an unusual collaboration between a local environmental group and Groupon’s philanthropic…
Today was a good day for Aurora tourism — and not for the same reason as on November 28, 1979, when a mysterious Hollywood stunt man showed up with a plan to build a massive amusement park called Science Fiction Land. Today’s good news came courtesy the Colorado Economic Development…
See, it’s like this. Far from being the obstructionist tree-hugger his critics accuse him of being, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar really, really wants to drill, baby, drill, for oil and gas on federal lands and offshore. He wants to drill the hell out of the place. But the…
When the Colorado Department of Transportation put the historic Dotsero Bridge “up for adoption” in late April, the agency caught the attention of at least one person in Denver who just happens to be in the market for a cool bridge to span the South Platte River — the subject…
Phil Anschutz didn’t get to the top of the moguldom heap by thinking small. The billionaire Quest founder has built his sprawling empire on audacity as well as savvy, and his latest venture — which involves wooing the NFL back to Los Angeles — may be the most ambitious of…
A new 45-minute waiting area — complete with food court and real bathrooms — isn’t the only improvement planned for Denver International Airport. At a city council committee meeting yesterday, DIA managers presented a plan that would add outposts of the Tattered Cover — a true Denver institution — to…
To the side of Pena Boulevard is an inadvertent monument to airport planning, pre-9/11: No one in the ’90s anticipated the incredible demand for a waiting area far away from arrival doors, and the 116 spaces that Denver International Airport shoehorned into its jerry-rigged, 45-minute waiting area are almost always…
The Republican House leadership’s successful effort to block passage of a civil unions bill yesterday, orchestrated by Speaker Frank McNulty, could well have aftershocks stretching to the fall elections. And lawmakers who opted for inaction may be facing much more than the wrath of liberals and activists committed to the…
