The state’s mascots gathered around the steps of the State Capitol two weeks ago for the Discover Colorado Rally, a Colorado Tourism Office event celebrating National Travel and Tourism Week. There was Spike, the symbol of the Colorado Railroad Museum; Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill, loaded for bear; Miles, apparently…
In that ballooning budget for Denver International Airport’s expansion, do you think officials could find a little extra cash for some signage? Zooming to DIA two Fridays ago for a one-way flight to Durango (where I was meeting family for a road trip back to Denver), flashing temporary signs outside…
Three years ago next month, Denver suddenly woke up to the realization that it could lose the National Western Stock Show — maybe to another city, maybe to that upstart Aurora and its proposed Gaylord Entertainment hotel — an $800 million, Western-themed hotel and entertainment complex by Denver International Airport…
Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown’s newsletter will be a little late today. That’s because when the Mayor’s office learned that Brown was about to break the news that the city had decided against a temporary alcohol ban in Washington Park, located in Brown’s district, the city moved up a planned…
It was two years ago that Denver City Council passed a ban on urban camping, promising to offer new services for the homeless population that would be pushed off the 16th Street Mall and out into nearby neighborhoods. For two years, residents of the Ballpark neighborhood watched as more and…
The stretch of I-70 that crosses north Denver is a rough ride — and the reputation of that 1.2 mile patch of pavement — and plans for its replacement — will get roughed up even further today, at the North Metro Denver Citizen’s Transportation Summit. The Colorado Department of Transportation…
Ka-ching. Coloradans could vote on at least three new gambling proposals this November, including one that would allow Kiowa County to host a single casino. That proposal’s boosters want legislators to put a measure on the November ballot asking voters statewide to authorize casino gambling in the parched — both…
On April 12, 1864, Black Hawk became the second city in Colorado to be incorporated — three years behind Denver and just a few hours ahead of Central City, the booming mining town up Gregory Gulch. But Black Hawk is the boom town today — thanks not just to its…
On April 12, 1864, Black Hawk became the second city in Colorado to be incorporated — three years behind Denver and just a few hours ahead of Central City, the booming mining town up Gregory Gulch. But Black Hawk is the boom town today — thanks not just to its…
Dave Philipps, an investigative reporter for the Gazette in Colorado Springs, just won the Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for “Other Than Honorable,” his three-day investigative series that examined how soldiers injured during war were being discharged without benefits. Philipps wasn’t in the newsroom when the announcement of the Pulitzers…
Eight years ago, after a $300,000 renovation job that installed low-maintenance plants, easily hosed-off pavement and benches where you could sit, not sleep, the city dedicated Edward J. “Eddie” Maestas Park at the corner of Broadway, Lawrence and Larimer streets, renaming Triangle Park after a longtime businessman and neighborhood Good…
Coloradans could vote on at least three new gambling proposals this November, including one that would allow Kiowa County to build a casino. The proposal’s boosters are asking legislators to put a measure on the November ballot that would ask Colorado voters to authorize casino gambling in the county, as…
What does LoDo need? Two weeks ago, mysterious chalk messages suddenly appeared on sidewalks across downtown Denver — in 83 spots, to be exact — referring passersby to a website where they could share their thoughts on what LoDo was missing. “In 25-square blocks, LoDo has boutique clothing stores, multi-story…
As anyone traveler to Denver stuck downtown at midnight knows, it’s almost impossible to hail a cab. But not so long ago, it as actually illegal! The transportation scene has changed so much — with new ride options like Uber and Lyft joining an increasing number of cab companies, and…
Cab drivers in Denver face a lot of challenges, as Joel Warner outlines in his current cover story, “Street Fights.” They not only have to pay high lease rates for company cars, but then have trouble making ends meet because of stiff competition on the streets not just from other…
Even before last night’s special meeting of the board of directors of Caprock Academy, a charter school in Grand Junction that had banned a nine-year-old girl from class on Monday because she’d shaved her head in solidarity with her best friend, an eleven-year-old undergoing chemotherapy for neuroblastoma, the school had…
Yesterday, the State of Colorado, History Colorado and representatives of the tribes whose ancestors died at Sand Creek — the Northern Cheyenne of Montana, the Northern Arapaho of Wyoming, and the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes of Oklahoma — signed a Memorandum of Agreement, “government-to-government,” said Governor John Hickenlooper, recognizing the…
Collision, the History Colorado exhibit devoted to the Sand Creek Massacre, has made some history itself over the past two years. And a new chapter will begin today, when Governor John Hickenlooper will announce the creation of the Sand Creek Massacre Commemorative Commission and also mark the signing of the…
The highlight of Monday’s luncheon for Imagine 2020, the city’s first cultural plan in 25 years, was local slam poet and DU student Jose Guerrero, who’d written a poem about Denver for the event that included a memorable reference to the “Big Blue Bear’s butt” and even more telling lines…
It had been more than a decade since Westword had competed in the Colorado Press Association awards — since the last time we were able to challenge the state’s major dailies, in fact. That was back when the Rocky Mountain News was still going strong; after the News complained to…
In the early 2000s, Denver was all about the creative class. Author/big thinker Richard Florida had labeled the metro area one of the top creative spots in the country, an honor that John Hickenlooper used to promote the city that had just elected him mayor. Fifteen years before, he’d been…
The Emily Griffith Opportunity School could soon be history — literally, since the circa 1926 school building at 1250 Welton Street has been recommended for landmark status. But the name of this pioneering educator will live on. This morning, Denver Public Schools will announce the name of its ambitious project…
