Denver has created a public-private partnership with the Colorado Department of Transportation and other groups to establish a new neighborhood career resource center that will provide training and jobs for residents of the communities most impacted by the Central 70 project.
At 5:30 p.m. today, July 10, family members of Marvin Booker, who died in Denver’s main jail seven years ago this month during an excessive-force incident that led to a $6 million settlement, will take part in a press conference at which they will demand that Denver District Attorney Beth McCann begin a new investigation into the case. They say a Taser used on Booker is missing, and they believe the story behind its disappearance suggests a potentially criminal cover-up.
While rents in six metro-area suburbs are rising faster than in Denver proper at present, prices are still going up in most city neighborhoods, and costs remain on the high side. Median rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Denver’s tenth most-expensive neighborhood exceeds $1,600, and that’s just over half the nearly $3,000 tag in the part of the city at the top of the scale.
Dispensary shelves across Colorado are about to become more consistent now that a new distribution law has taken effect, according to several cannabis businesses owners. The law, passed in June and effective July 1, now allows third-party couriers and distributors to store cannabis inventory in third-party locations and gives them more time to ship products.
The 2008 murder of Angie Zapata, a transgender teen from Greeley, stands as both a horrifying example of violence targeting the LGBTQ community and a precedent-setting case for federal hate crime laws. Now, Angie’s story, which we’ve told in a shattering Westword feature and numerous followup posts, is going national by way of “Lost Angel,” an episode of the Investigation Discovery series Murder Calls that debuts tonight, July 10.
The Trump administration has ordered members of the Justice Department’s Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety to “undertake a review of existing policies” regarding federal marijuana law enforcement, among other things. The group’s report is due this month, and readers think they know what it will say.
After protesters took to Senator Cory Gardner’s office last week to protest his involvement in the American Health Care Act, the Republicans’ proposed replacement for Obamacare, readers had plenty to say about the Colorado senator and health care policy in general.
Today, July 8, marks the beginning of the Meet in the Street Prototyping Series by the Downtown Denver Partnership. On every Saturday through August 26, proposals to improve, grow and celebrate the 16th Street Mall will be displayed on the strip.
In late June, HR 3003 — the “No Sanctuary for Criminals” bill — was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. In response, fourteen elected officials in metro Denver penned this commentary.
Even before Colorado allowed the first sale of recreational marijuana in January 2014, people had lots of questions about what was in store for the state. To answer those questions, we created our weekly Ask a Stoner column. But some queries demand more time and attention, including this one that…
A new report from the Prison Policy Initiative delves deeply into Colorado’s “free” tablet program and concludes that the arrangement strongly favors the private company supplying the devices, at the expense of the inmates.
In March, we reported that the local activist Dezy Saint-Nolde, who goes by Queen Phoenix, pleaded not guilty to five felony and three misdemeanor charges related to her “gifting” marijuana in exchange for donations. Queen Phoenix says that since March, when she entered her plea, the Denver County District Attorney…
Mason Tvert, a key figure in the passage of Amendment 64, the 2012 measure that legalized limited recreational marijuana sales, and the Denver pot-legalization regulation that preceded it, is leaving his post as communications director for the national Marijuana Policy Project in favor of a similar position at VS Strategies, a Denver-based consulting firm that’s become a national powerhouse.
Buying and trying cannabis around the state isn’t as social as drinking beer, and it may never be as fun of a field trip thanks to social consumption laws, but it’s time the dispensary scenes outside of Denver got some love. Here’s six towns outside of Denver that help make Colorado the poster child of pot.
Drivers traveling between Boulder to Denver using express lanes on Interstate 25 and U.S. 36 could be paying more depending on the time of their commute mere weeks from now under a new proposal by Plenary Roads Denver, the private concessionaire that manages the lanes for the Colorado Department of Transportation. The price tag for people who don’t use Express Toll, the service that automatically assesses fees rather than mailing bills based on license plates, could be as high as $21 to travel the route, more than $5 higher than the proposed toll rates less than two years ago.
Denver has prepared for the 7/10 holiday, with a colossal number of deals on concentrates around town through mid-July. Here’s a list of 7/10 events and some of Mile High’s best dispensary deals this month.
CU-Boulder student Sam Forgy was shot and killed by police in July 2015 when he was naked, on acid and armed with a hammer. Afterward, Forgy’s friends raised questions about the use of lethal force in the incident, and now, his father, Glenn Forgy, is suing the City and County of Boulder and Officer Dillon Garretson, who shot Sam four times, including in the middle of the forehead. In the suit, Glen argues that the death of his son was completely unnecessary.
Katie O’Donnell and her eighteen-year-old son, Conner, found relief from the sun under a tree outside Senator Cory Gardner’s office in downtown Denver around noon today, July 6. In many ways, the tree has been the only comfort Gardner has provided O’Donnell and her son in recent weeks. At age…
Breckenridge is a true Colorado treasure for a variety of reasons that haven’t been mentioned in all of coverage of the July 4 wildfire, including great beer, great skiing and an incredible arts district. Here are ten reasons Breck is cool.
As expected, Denver has been named the new home of the Outdoor Retailer shows thanks to a five-year pact confirmed at a press conference this morning. And the advocacy group Conservation Colorado links this economic coup with controversy over public lands policies in Utah, Outdoor Retailer’s previous home, and the plan to shrink Bear Ears National Monument pressed by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Denver Parks and Recreation crews have embarked on a series of landscape improvements outside the Hiawatha Davis Jr. Recreation Center only days before Mayor Michael Hancock is scheduled to deliver his 2017 State of the City Address at the rec center.
Approximately 3,200 school counselors from across the country and the globe are expected to descend on Denver for the annual conference of the Virginia-based American School Counselor Association, which gets underway on Saturday, July 8. And while ASCA assistant director Eric Sparks expects the event to be a lot of fun, plenty of serious topics will be discussed, and that’s appropriate. Sparks enumerates ten of the biggest challenges facing school counselors in 2017, and his run-down collectively illustrates how these educators are on the front lines of major societal changes whose impacts will be felt on young people for many years to come.
