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Reader Response

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Ask a Denver Bartender When They Last Called the Police..and the DPD Showed

By Westword ReadersOctober 12, 2025

Coloradans discuss the latest survey rating this state as the sixth most dangerous in the country.

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Den-Mex Green Chile Is a Disgusting Mess Compared to New Mexico Original

By Westword ReadersOctober 12, 2025

Smother love: Denver diners love green chile, and serve up their favorites.

There’s No Such Thing as a Free School Lunch

There’s No Such Thing as a Free School Lunch

By Westword ReadersOctober 5, 2025

The only statewide measures on the November ballot involve the Healthy School Meals For All program.

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Why Would They Put Denver’s Only Taco Bell Cantina at the Airport?

By Westword ReadersOctober 5, 2025

While DIA has added many outposts of local restaurants recently, it’s now making a run for the border.

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Denver Diners Will Choose Chains Over Mom-and-Pops All Day Long

By Westword ReadersSeptember 28, 2025

Pete’s University Park Cafe is closing next month, and regulars already miss it.

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What’s the Deal With Denver and Bridges Lately?

By Westword ReadersSeptember 28, 2025

Kroenke presented plans for Wynkoop Crossing to the city this week. Readers are up in the air over the proposal.

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Alan Berg Was Killed for Speaking Freely, Like Charlie Kirk

By Westword ReadersSeptember 21, 2025

The two had very different opinions, but both paid the ultimate price for free speech.

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Watching Businesses Suffer Through Colfax Construction Is Devastating

By Westword ReadersSeptember 21, 2025

Q House has joined the list of restaurants closing their doors, and fans worry the city is losing its flavor.

Read the Room — the New Denver Broncos Stadium Is Going to Be Badass

Read the Room — the New Denver Broncos Stadium Is Going to Be Badass

By Westword ReadersSeptember 15, 2025

The team’s owners say they’re going to fund the new facility. Sound too good to be true?

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Instead of Bar Bar, More Tech Bros and Chipotle Apartments – Denver Has Lost Its Character

By Patricia CalhounSeptember 7, 2025

The Carioca Cafe hasn’t poured a drink for the past fifteen months…and now the building will be demolished.

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Banning Flavored Tobacco Won’t Make It Disappear

By Westword ReadersSeptember 7, 2025

Late last year, Denver City Council voted to ban flavored tobacco products. Now voters will get the chance to overturn that.

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Colorado Has One of the Nation’s Highest Suicide Rates: Here’s How to Bring It Down

By Emmy BetzSeptember 7, 2025

The answer is simple: “Reduce firearm access for people with suicide risk.”

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Reader: Denver Is Lucky to Have Mary Nguyen and Her Restaurants

By Westword ReadersAugust 31, 2025

After leaving a career in finance, she opened a series of elevated casual restaurants under the Olive & Finch umbrella, and now is working to push downtown.

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Reader: It’s Not About Where They Put the Broncos Stadium but Who Will Pay for It

By Westword ReadersAugust 31, 2025

“This will be a public relations disaster if ownership seriously considers moving the Denver Broncos outside the city,” says former Mayor Wellington Webb.

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Balancing Kratom’s Potential Benefits and Risks: New Legislation Seeks to Minimize Harm

By David KrollAugust 30, 2025

Despite the local and national debate over 7-OH, scientists are continuing to explore kratom compounds for their legitimate medical use.

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How to Poop Outdoors in a Way That Won’t Harm the Environment and Other Hikers

By Shari Edelson and B. Derrick TaffAugust 30, 2025

Hitting the trails? Time to come clean.

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Review: Sweet & Lucky: Echo Is a Repressed, Repetitive Retread

By Toni TrescaAugust 28, 2025

DCPA Off-Center’s highly anticipated follow-up to its groundbreaking 2016 immersive hit is an underwhelming grief trip.

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Reader: Will Trade Epstein Files for Tina Peters

By Westword ReadersAugust 24, 2025

Donald Trump says that the imprisoned former Mesa County clerk is “a brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured by Crooked Colorado politicians.

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Reader: Sad to See Wu’s Garden Go, It’s Our Favorite Chinese Restaurant in the Area

By Westword ReadersAugust 24, 2025

At the close of business on August 24, Jin Yoong Wu will close the Littleton restaurant…and it’s not his choice.

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A $950 Million City Bond Deserves Full Transparency

By Erik ClarkeAugust 24, 2025

“Denver residents want to support good projects that improve our daily life and solve real problems. Taxpayers also want to know that their money is being managed responsibly.”

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New Denver Broncos Stadium Must Stay in the Mile High City

By Wellington WebbAugust 23, 2025

A move to the suburbs is a personal foul.

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Reader: This Is a Bodega? Nice Free Commercial, Westword

By Westword ReadersAugust 17, 2025

What’s in store for Town Pump Provisions? Both compliments and controversy.

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