Safety in Denver: Assault Totals for All 78 Mile High City Neighborhoods

According to Denver Police Department data, the number of assaults in the Mile High City as a whole is up 9.5 percent during the first part of 2018 compared to the same period last year. But the scope of the problem varies widely from place to place, as seen in our analysis of assault statistics for all 78 official Denver neighborhoods.

The Colorado Connection to Sarah Sanders’s Restaurant Ejection

On Friday evening, June 22, the owner of a Red Hen restaurant in Virginia refused to serve White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders for a reason with a strong Colorado flavor — the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop, whose main man, Jack Phillips, said he wouldn’t make a wedding cake for a gay couple because of his religious beliefs.

Op Ed: Colorado’s Climate Gap and the Path Forward

Whether it’s forest fires, drought, extreme floods or abysmal snowpack, we’re beginning to see the fallout from climate change across the state. What we used to assume was tomorrow’s crisis is happening today. And yet, the suffering is not evenly spread across the state.