Parents, students and staffers at RiseUp Community School want answers about an alleged room-to-room search at the school conducted by the Denver Police Department, with officers said to have shown their weapons while searching for a student who wasn’t in the building.
It’s still possible to buy a house in Denver for less than $250,000. But the homes under this price point typically need a lot of work, and the properties may be more valuable if they’re demolished entirely.
Marijuana advertising works on kids whether they’re the intended audience or not, a new study maintains.
The recent increases in rent throughout the Denver metro area, continuing a trend that’s made Denver one of the country’s most expensive rental markets since 2010, have the potential of pushing people who are already barely making ends meet into homelessness. Those most at risk include plenty of folks who’ve never been without a roof over their head before, including families and seniors, and have no idea what to do in such a scenario.
While Republican state senator Tim Neville says he agrees with the letter’s ultimate goal of preventing federal interference with Colorado’s marijuana industry, he doesn’t see the need for legislation to keep U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions at bay.
In the coming months, three of the largest Colorado highway construction efforts in recent memory are expected to get underway along the urban corridor: Central 70, I-25 North and I-25 South Gap. But another huge operation, the C-470 Express Lanes project, has been moving forward for months on 12.5 miles of roadway between Interstate 25 and Wadsworth Boulevard, and it’s scheduled to reach some major milestones in the coming days.
A cherry version of a 1975 Ford Bronco marketed as the “Denver Broncos Edition” is currently available at the online auto site Bring a Trailer. The auction ends in fewer than four days, and at this writing, six bidders have pushed the price to $44,999.
Data shows there have been at least 56 shootings in Denver metro during 2018 through May 12, resulting in a minimum of 32 deaths and 29 injuries, with few neighborhoods untouched by gun violence.
The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, the federal law that prohibits betting on sports such as professional and collegiate football, baseball and basketball in most states. And while there’s been no move in Colorado to embrace such a system of late, the smart money is betting that’ll change soon and generate an eye-popping cash windfall.
During the Weekend Update segment from the May 12 episode of Saturday Night Live, a recent incident in Frisco involving a man and a moose went in a nasty direction.
Journalists at the Denver Post continue to call for new ownership at the paper in the wake of its newsroom staff being slashed by nearly one-third at the behest of Alden Global Capital, the so-called “vulture” hedge fund that currently holds the property. But knowledgeable sources contacted by Westword believe strongly that Alden will never sell the Post in a standalone deal because the paper’s operations are so intertwined with those of more than a dozen other publications in Colorado that a split could well kill.
The Colorado high schools ranked highest in the latest U.S. News & World Report analysis score better marks within the state than outside it. Not one of the top ten Colorado high schools in 2018 lands within the top one-hundred facilities nationwide, with the top finisher sliding 47 slots from just two years ago.
Many different types of Denverites inject heroin and other drugs. But many of them fit within the same general demographic category. In the words of the Harm Reduction Action Center’s Lisa Raville, “We have cornered the market on 25-34 year old males.”
Since being transferred to a men’s prison from a juvenile correctional facility for females, Lindsay Saunders-Velez, a nineteen-year-old transgender woman, has been raped twice within a matter of months, her attorney says. Yet thus far, Colorado officials refuse to place her into a women’s prison even though her most recent alleged attacker has been returned to the general inmate population at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility in Cañon City, where she’s currently being held.
The massive Central 70 and I-25 North projects aren’t the only highway construction plans on the cusp of breaking ground along the urban corridor. Also soon to get underway is what’s been dubbed I-25 South Gap, and Colorado Department of Transportation spokesperson Tamara Rollison says the need for changes along this eighteen-mile stretch between Castle Rock and Monument goes far beyond congestion issues.
Even as the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML, is working with the office of Colorado Senator Cory Gardner to craft legislation designed to protect states that have legalized cannabis sales from federal interference, the organization is making a new push to have the marijuana removed from the Controlled Substances Act, a process known as de-scheduling.
Denver Post journalists have been waging a war or words against Alden Global Capital, its vulture hedge fund owner, and given that the paper is still making millions despite layoffs targeting nearly a third of its newsroom staff, Alden appears to be winning. But now, those Post scribes and photographers who’ve been given their walking papers have a new opportunity to be paid to exercise their skills. The Economic Hardship Reporting Project has established a $10,000 fund specifically earmarked for recently axed Post employees.
Colorado Department of Education data about marijuana violations in state schools reveals the facilities with the most pot-related incidents during the 2016-2017 academic year, with five registering fifty or more. The numbers also illustrate the wide variation in how schools handle such matters, with many seldom or never referring the students in question to law enforcement. The most common punishment: out-of-school suspensions.
Colorado State University is taking a barrage of flak after two Native American students who’d signed up to tour the campus were detained by police after the mother of another potential CSU attendee dialed 911 because their appearance disturbed her. But Cheryl Crazy Bull, president and CEO of the Denver-based American Indian College Fund, sees the university less as the cause of a disease than a symptom of one.
After Denver was named one of twenty finalists as the location for Amazon HQ2, locals already concerned about out-of-control growth and rising housing costs offered a notably mixed reaction, with a recent poll suggesting that Mile High residents are less enthusiastic about hosting a new campus for the mega-firm than those living in any of the other potential sites. But they may be more favorably disposed to Army Futures Command, a new military project that also has Denver on its short list.
As of late last year, rent prices finally seemed to be leveling off in Denver and its nearby communities following a long stretch during which rental costs consistently zoomed upward in the Mile High City’s hyper-competitive housing market. But the news thus far in 2018 has reversed this trend, with the latest eye-popping data confirming that metro Denver rent increases are back with a vengeance.
In a new video, Jordan Hancock, son of Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, behaves like an entitled asshat after being stopped for a traffic violation in Aurora. But was the performance enough to unseat reigning champion John Bowlen, ne’er-do-well offspring of Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen, as the most douchebaggy celebrity son in the Mile High City?
