For Representative Leslie Herod of Colorado House District 8, a recent tour of North America’s first supervised injection site confirmed her belief that centers like it can be an important way for Denver, and Colorado as a whole, to address the growing heroin and opioid crisis, especially given where injection drug users here have been congregating in the absence of such a facility: the Denver Library’s central branch.
In honor of the Super Bowl, we went through our favorite days on the calendar and circled ten that companies should honor.
Troy Riggs is the new executive director of Denver’s Department of Public Safety, which oversees Denver’s law enforcement agencies, fire department, and jails.
West started Women Grow in Denver shortly after recreational cannabis sales began to give women businesses owners opportunities to network and grow and has since turned it in to a force to be reckoned with.
Since Xiuhtezcatl Martinez was six years old, he has fought against the tide of climate change. Now as a teenager, Martinez is on the forefront of two major environmental cases that could have wide-ranging repercussions on the oil and gas industry in Colorado and across the U.S.
On Friday, February 2, a feared confrontation between members of a white supremacist group and Antifa protesters outside a controversial event on the Colorado State University campus came to pass. Although no arrests took place, multiple reports say things got physical between the antagonists, with injuries suffered on both sides.
At 4 p.m. today, February 5, Steffan Tubbs will begin his first show as afternoon-drive host for KNUS, at 710 AM. The gig offers a career-rebirth opportunity for the longtime host of KOA’s Colorado Morning News, who was dismissed by management at iHeartMedia, the outlet’s owner, following his August 2017 arrest on suspicion of domestic violence by telephone and then not rehired even after the charge was dropped and his accuser was arrested for allegedly stalking him.
As we’ve reported, Montbello, which was recently named Denver’s fastest growing suburb, has been fighting a reputation as a magnet of crime and recently scored a success on that count when a Sav-a-Lot grocery store opened in a neighborhood previously been a food desert. But this weekend brought a far less happy development. On Saturday night, February 3, a double homicide occurred on the same Montbello block where the body of another murder victim was dumped approximately eighteen months earlier.
Urban planner Drew Willsey’s January 28 op-ed favoring spending more money on transit makes all the usual wrong-headed planning assumptions about transportation.
When marijuana is legalized across the country, Colorado will still be a draw, readers say.
As Amazon mulls over the destination of its second headquarters, Denver being on the shortlist has generated conversations about growth, affordability and, of course, natives vs. newcomers.
A bill written in hopes of addressing a legislative mistake that is costing special districts across the state millions of dollars has moved forward in the Colorado General Assembly.
The city’s main response to the housing crunch is a five-year plan called “Housing an Inclusive Denver,” which utilizes a $15 million a year fund that was approved by City Council in 2016. But now that amount of funding, and the urgency with which it’s being deployed, is being heavily criticized.
Coloradans are facing tons of choices this political season all the way from the governor’s mansion to city council. Although politicians are soaking up the spotlight this year, several significant constitutional and statutory amendments are being proposed for the 2018 ballot. Here are the top six issues you may vote on this year.
In 2017, according to a Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment report accessible below, 69 terminally ill Coloradans received a prescription for medication under the End of Life Options Act, a measure originally known as Proposition 106 that was approved by voters in November 2016 and went into effect the following month. Fifty of those patients obtained their prescriptions from Colorado pharmacies, and while the CDPHE doesn’t know how many used them, the department received death certificates for 56 of them.
Dr. Joseph Cohen, an obstetrician for 35 years before becoming a cannabis practitioner, explained how cannabis can be used to manage pain and other issues that the elderly commonly experience.
Back in 2013, we told you about Boobies Rock!, which sent hot girls into bars to sell merchandise emblazoned with the company’s name that supposedly raised money to fight cancer — although many if not most of the proceeds allegedly went into the pocket of the organization’s founder, Adam Shryock. Over the years that followed, Shryock went to jail several times for reasons related to this and other scams, and now, he’s headed back again, for failing to file a tax return in regard to his ill-gotten gains.
The Super Bowl LII match-up between the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles, which hits American screens on Sunday, February 4, has generated little interest among folks not living in those cities, since most observers expected the Pats and rightfully hated quarterback Tom Brady to clobber a backup-QB-helmed Philly squad without breaking a sweat. But Denver Broncos fans pissed that their team didn’t get anywhere close to the big game after winning it just two short years ago should feel better after checking out the following list of the worst Super Bowls ever. After all, the Broncos played in four of them, including three of the bottom six.
At 5:30 p.m. tonight, February 2, at Colorado State University, members of an anti-fascist organization are expected to come face to face with alleged neo-Nazi recruiters from the Traditionalist Worker Party, which has been identified as a hate group fueled by white supremacist views. The potential for trouble has led CSU president Tony Frank to send out a campus-wide denunciation of the TWP that makes prominent mention of a safety plan developed in the hope of preventing violence.
According to Seedo, larger American cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Phoenix would see the most tax revenue if the country legalized pot.
A small group of students staged a walk out at the magnet school off 6th and Fox streets and marched through downtown to the Denver Public School central administration building to protest potential budget cuts. If the worst does come to pass, reductions could take hold in the very department that draws students to the magnet school.
Denver District Attorney Beth McCann has signed on to an amicus brief regarding The City of Los Angeles v. Jeff Sessions, a lawsuit in which L.A. is taking on the Department of Justice under President Donald Trump over a policy to base grants from the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in part on whether or not municipalities aid with federal immigration enforcement. McCann says she added her name to a list of 33 prominent prosecutors and law enforcement officials nationwide despite the possibility that Sessions and company could target Denver for retaliation as a result.
