Women who’ve suffered from postpartum depression, have helped create Alma, a novel peer-mentorship program at Kaiser Permanente designed to help women suffering from perinatal depression.
Lightshade has partnered with Amazing Grace Community Church in Thornton to fully fund the church’s food pantry.
A bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers has assembled six bills for the 2018 legislative session that are intended to address the ongoing opioid crisis. Art Way, senior director of national criminal justice reform strategy for the Drug Policy Alliance, and state director for the DPA’s Colorado office, sees most of these efforts as steps in the right direction. However, he emphasizes that more still needs to be done to truly deal with the issue.
We recently shared the most asked Google search questions about not just ten but twenty of Colorado’s biggest celebrities. Of course, plenty of stars from our fair state share information about themselves without being asked, by way of their Twitter accounts, including Von Miller, Ryan Tedder, Lindsey Vonn, The Lumineers and more. With 2017 winding down, we dug into their pages to find their most memorable tweets from the past twelve months. Here are our top ten picks. Count them down below.
CBD is a cannabinoid found in both plants, and the chemical structure doesn’t change between them, but the quality and effectiveness of CBD can differ depending on what strain and plant it’s derived from.
On December 29, 2016, San Antonio mom Kelly Huber was killed and her two daughters, Ashley and Taylor, were seriously injured after a fall from a ski lift at the Granby Ranch ski area. A subsequent investigation determined that Huber’s death, one of fourteen at a Colorado ski resort during the 2016-17 season, was caused by what was deemed an “unprecedented” mechanical error involving the lift’s electronic drive. Now, William Huber, the girls’ father, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Granby Realty Holdings, the ski area’s owner, that reveals the most details to date about the tragic incident.
In our recent post headlined “Why KBPI May Not Be Rocking the Rockies at 106.7 FM for Much Longer,” we reported that while the venerable rock station was still accessible at the 106.7 FM frequency that it’s occupied for more than twenty years, its shift to 107.9 FM, designed to align the signals in Denver, Fort Collins and Colorado Springs, meant this could change soon. And it has: At 5 p.m. today, December 18, rock-loving listeners who tune in to the old dial spot will discover that the format has flipped to 106.7 The Bull, a new country outlet.
As promised, Miguel Lopez, founder of the Denver 420 Rally, has filed a lawsuit against the City and County of Denver after losing his priority event status and being banned from putting on the event during the next three years for allegedly violating his permit by leaving Civic Center Park trashed. Attorney Rob Corry, who represents Lopez, calls Denver’s actions “improper” and maintains that officials manipulated the reaction to the park’s condition following the April 20, 2017 edition as a strategy to violate his client’s rights.
A new poll shows Colorado gubernatorial candidates ahead in hypothetical one-on-one match ups with Republican Tom Tancredo. It also shows Donald Trump’s Colorado approval rating in the mid 30s, and dangerously low among independent voters.
The Colorado Village Collaborative has established a construction timeline in its partnership with St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church to build another tiny home village on the church’s campus near downtown – at Glenarm Place and 20th Avenue.
In “What Can Happen If You’re Black, Wear a Hoodie and Buy a Muffin in Aurora,” published in September, we told you about an American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado lawsuit filed on behalf of Omar Hassan, a man of Ethiopian descent who became an alleged victim of racial profiling when police ordered him to leave an Aurora coffee shop, apparently because of his appearance alone. Now, the ACLU is suing two different Aurora police officers for roughing up Dwight Crews, another African American, after he alerted to his pet cat slipping out his front door. And while the stories are separate, ACLU of Colorado legal director Mark Silverstein sees unfortunate similarities.
Each year around this time since 2010, we’ve spotlighted the top White Elephant gifts as chosen by the folks at ARC Thrift Stores. And this year, the five selections, pictured below, contain a twist for yours truly. Turns out I already own an item just like the number one choice and consider it to be a treasure than transcends the White Elephant concept.
As we’ve reported, 2017 has been among the worst-ever years for climbing deaths in Colorado, with at least ten casualties on fourteeners in the state, and plenty of tragedies at other natural wonders, including the passing of Henry Gholz in Rocky Mountain National Park during late September. Now, another climbing fatality has occurred just weeks before year’s end in Fremont County, with the victim identified as Andrew Biebuyck, a Virginia geologist.
Colorado’s ability to process hemp is limited, because it doesn’t have a decorticator, a machine that separates hemp’s stringy outer layer from its woody core, known as the hurd.
From breweries and bars to dispensaries, parks, ski lifts and dating apps, you’d think Denver would be Love City, U.S.A.
Denver City Council heard from experts, who say there’s no hard data. But readers still debate the issue.
Readers weren’t happy to hear that Denver is again looking at a possible Olympics bid.
Because of the body high and relaxing effects they tend to give, indicas and indica-leaning hybrids are your best choice for warming up after a few hours in cold.
It’s like Google Maps, except you can zoom in on individual buildings and check their Energy Star scores, which reflect a structure’s energy efficiency on a 1-100 scale.
According to a DPD announcement, the raids were conducted because Sweet Leaf stores were allegedly selling unlawful amounts of cannabis to customers, a term known as “looping.”
Mayor Michael Hancock, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper and other officials and business leaders in Denver have formed a committee to explore the possibility of bidding to host a future Winter Olympics or Paralympic Winter Games in the city that famously rejected the 1976 Winter Olympics as part of a citizens revolt detailed in a recent Westword feature article.
Where’s the snow? It’s been a rough start to the winter here in Denver. So rough, in fact, that we’ve seen less snow than some places that sometimes don’t see any snow in a winter.
