According to Denver Police Department data, the number of assaults in the Mile High City as a whole is up 9.5 percent during the first part of 2018 compared to the same period last year. But the scope of the problem varies widely from place to place, as seen in our analysis of assault statistics for all 78 official Denver neighborhoods.
Tim Wieland, news director for CBS4, is unwilling to dub the outlet’s recent stylistic shift, with much of its content branded “Together for Colorado,” as a “good news” format. But he makes it clear that what bleeds these days probably isn’t going to lead.
On Friday evening, June 22, the owner of a Red Hen restaurant in Virginia refused to serve White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders for a reason with a strong Colorado flavor — the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop, whose main man, Jack Phillips, said he wouldn’t make a wedding cake for a gay couple because of his religious beliefs.
How much does someone need to make in salary to afford the a median-priced house in the Denver today? A new report puts that total at more than $87,000, a figure out of reach for a large number of residents.
In a lawsuit scheduled to be heard at trial in August, former Colorado State University computer-science professor Dr. Christina Boucher claims that CSU reacted to her reports of a male colleague’s ogling by retaliating against her.
A new analysis finds that while marijuana legalization has led to higher rates of cannabis consumption in Colorado and other states with similar laws, there’s no evidence that it’s fueling abuse of more addictive drugs, including heroin and cocaine.
According to a document provided by NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado that’s accessible here, there are more than seventy such fake clinics in Colorado, including 29 operated by NIFLA in more than a dozen cities, including Denver.
On Saturday, June 23, a McDonald’s in Lakewood will be ground zero for Denver-area protesters taking part in a nationwide demonstration against the giant chain over alleged mistreatment of chickens that are subsequently turned into McNuggets.
A new poll shows entrepreneur Victor Mitchell leading Colorado Treasurer and longtime frontrunner Walker Stapleton in the race for the Colorado Republican gubernatorial nomination during the days before the June 26 primary.
Here’s what no one wants to admit about the continuing clusterfuck over the naming of the Denver Broncos’ stadium: The deal would have been done by now if the squad was still a perennial Super Bowl contender with Peyton Manning at quarterback. But it’s not. The Broncos sucked two years ago and sucked harder last year, and plenty of experts (and doubters) expect the suckage to continue for the foreseeable future. And what company wants its brand to be Suck?
Real estate values in Denver continue to climb higher and higher, thus far defying predictions from earlier this year that metro area home prices might finally be on the verge of falling. One big reason appears to be comparatively few foreclosures in Denver, other major Colorado cities and the state as a whole.
The big news about teens and marijuana in Colorado is that there isn’t big news. Just-issued federal government statistics show that the rate of cannabis use among high school students in the state is slightly less than the national average and below the percentage who smoked pot before Colorado voters approved legal consumption for adults more than five years ago.
Like its sister paper, the Denver Post, the Boulder Daily Camera has suffered layoffs and downsizing aplenty of late. But in the coming months, the Camera will be hiring, sort of. Unfortunately, though, the positions at Prairie Mountain Publishing, its parent company, will come at the expense of the Boston Herald, ten to fifteen of whose employees were given their walking papers last week.
No one has been arrested in more than 40 percent of the 32 Denver homicides from January 1 to June 1, including seven of nine in January alone.
Where will the money for the Floyd Hill I-70 proposal come from? Wasn’t the giant transportation bill passed by the Colorado General Assembly during the 2018 legislative session supposed to fund projects like this one? And if not, why not?
Although it’s still possible to find a single family, detached home in the Denver area for under $250,000, such properties are in extremely short supply. According to a new report, there were only 150 active listings for such abodes priced at less than $300,000 last month, as compared to nearly 900 going for $1 million or more.
Within a month, Civil Media Company hopes to have more than a dozen such publications in the works.
This weekend brought the unveiling of The Colorado Sun, a new journalism project being launched by a handful of former writers and editors for The Denver Post, which has been decimated by layoffs ordered by Alden Global Capital, its short-term-profits-over-long-term-survival hedge fund owner.
According to the Colorado Department of Transportation, more fatal accidents take place on Colorado roads between Memorial Day and Labor Day than during any other part of the year. And CDOT is determined to bring that number down.
With just over a week to go before the June 26 primary, former Colorado treasurer and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cary Kennedy is hitting the campaign trail and the airwaves hard. And despite controversy over whether she did or didn’t break a promise about going negative, sharp responses from rival Jared Polis and questions about a mysterious poll that shows Kennedy leading the field, Serena Woods, her deputy campaign manager, is overflowing with optimism about her chances to win the nomination.
Former state senator Mike Johnston has made progressive gun policies a major part of his campaign for Colorado governor in 2018, and that didn’t go over well with at least one local. This past Saturday, a supporter and family friend who’d put a Johnston sign in his yard woke up to discover a response: a bullet-riddled target stamped with the logo of the National Rifle Association.
In March, the average price of a detached, single-family home in metro Denver surpassed $500,000 for the first time. But that’s already seeming like the good old days.
