Remember when rent prices in metro Denver finally seemed to be leveling off after a long stretch during which they kept rising amid a housing market that had seemingly reached maximum hotness? That seems like a distant memory now. Indeed, the situation has deteriorated for renters throughout 2018, with increases reaching new peaks each of the last two months. And this month, things are even worse.
This week marks the first time in decades that Colorado Public Radio has had a president other than Max Wycisk, who took over that role in 1978 and built a single station, KCFR-FM, into a state-spanning multi-channel operation prior to the late 2017 announcement that he would be retiring at the end of June.
Does the photo above show a vacant lot or a Denver park? According to Denver City Council member Jolon Clark, who’s championing a new sales tax to improve and expand parks in the Mile High City, the answer is both.
The Spring Creek Fire in Costilla County, allegedly started on June 27 five miles east of Fort Garland by 52-year-old Danish immigrant Jesper Joergensen, surpassed the 100,000 acre mark, growing by nearly 8,000 acres over a 24 hour period. Moreover, the number of structures destroyed by the blaze now stands at 132. But the news as of early July 6 isn’t entirely bad. The fire has gone from 5 percent to 35 percent contained, increasing hope that the estimate of total containment by month’s end isn’t a pipe dream.
There’s growing concern about the Lake Christine Fire near Basalt, which at this writing is smaller than the aforementioned incidents but an enormous danger to life and property, with an estimated 500 homes already evacuated and three confirmed destroyed as of this morning.
Dr. Rav Ivker is among the country’s best-known and most respected advocates on behalf of medical marijuana. But he’s wary about weed consumption in a number of circumstances, warns that pot addiction is real and is so against the consumption of powerful concentrates that he supports banning them.
Colorado business leaders’ confidence in the economy has dropped for the state and the country as a whole. And while their outlook remains positive overall, there are growing indications that entrepreneurs in these parts seem worried that the good times may finally be about to turn.
During our in-depth June 14 interview with Denise Plante, the Denver radio-and-TV personality sang the praises of KOSI 101.1, where she’s been a staple for more than fifteen years. Just over two weeks later, she has announced that she’s leaving the station.
This summer brings a series of major construction projects to Colorado roadways. But more modest operations can cause slowdowns for drivers, too, particularly on routes such as Interstate 70, which sees traffic volume go way up during the warm weather months because of locals and tourists pouring into mountain towns.
Representative Ken Buck’s office has no comment about the decision to drop a charge against a woman who wrote the message “Stop Putting Kids in Cages” outside his Castle Rock office and signed it “Jesus” even though his staffers almost certainly decided to turn the incident into a criminal matter in the first place.
According to a new study, Denver County has the second worst home affordability of 432 counties analyzed across the country, including those in every major U.S. metropolitan area.
Representatives of several crisis pregnancy centers in the metro Denver area object to having been characterized as fake clinics by NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado in the context of a just-issued U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of CPCs.
The National Association of Cannabis Businesses’ draft guidelines to establish a country-wide advertising standard for the marijuana industry was the subject of a months’ long comment period and is expected to be finalized this summer. Doug Fischer, chief legal officer for the NACB, believes such a criterion is needed as soon as possible, even though cannabis remains illegal on a federal level.
With a few days to go before 2018 reaches its halfway mark, traffic fatalities in Denver are on pace for one of the highest numbers this century.
On June 3, 2015, a home in Greenwood Village was utterly destroyed by a SWAT team after suspected Walmart shoplifter Robert Seacat took refuge inside and refused to come out for nearly twenty hours. More than three years later, home owner Leo Lech still hasn’t received a dime for officers leaving the property in shambles, and his lawsuit against the community over the bizarre episode has been put on the legal slow track, with no immediate resolution in sight.
Rick and Cindy Johnson, parents of Ryder Johnson, who went missing in 2016, established Ryder’s Fund, a charitable enterprise that honors him and the many people who spent hours looking for him. Now, the fund has announced that it will be providing financial support to volunteer first responders with the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office, which headed up the search effort, and creating a reserve-crisis-fund initiative.
A selection of photos shared on designer Josh Goldstein’s must-follow Cinderella City Project Instagram page will send those who recall the magnificent edifice into a nostalgic swoon and make those who weren’t around to experience its version of retail glory green with envy.
A jury has found Christian Gulzow guilty of second-degree murder in the 2017 slaying of Brian Lucero in the parking lot of Torchy’s Tacos, near 11th and Broadway, and its members reached this conclusion without any help from me. I can now reveal that I was subpoenaed in the case but didn’t wind up testifying.
There’s a new and extremely sad twist regarding the Bowlen family fight for control of the Denver Broncos. Annabel Bowlen, wife of Broncos owner Pat Bowlen, has announced that she is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, the same malady that caused her husband to give up formal control of the franchise in 2014. Pat’s diagnosis ultimately sparked a battle among his children over who’ll carry the Broncos into the future.
There wasn’t a lot of suspense in the June 26 Colorado primary.
By a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) in a lawsuit against a California law aimed at what pro-choice activists have dubbed “fake clinics” — facilities that seem to be full-service women’s health centers but are actually fronts for organizations that push an anti-abortion agenda.
Once again, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration is targeting kratom products sold in Colorado that are believed to be tainted with salmonella.
