Rent prices in Denver have been rising of late after leveling off in many locations. But the costs in the Mile High City seem reasonable in comparison with those at the priciest Colorado ski towns. Fortunately, though, better deals can be found in resort areas a little further from the beaten path.
It took a year, but an arrest has finally been made in the murder of Agate’s Ed Butler. Joe Robert Love, a 26-year-old from Colorado Springs, is currently in custody in El Paso, Texas for a slaying solved with assistance from video footage showing the suspected killer eating a candy bar and spinning in place at the scene of the crime.
A civil-rights lawsuit and motion for a preliminary injunction have been filed in relation to protests at Denver International Airport against President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order about immigration, which bans all refugees from entering the country for 120 days, indefinitely restricts U.S. entry by Syrians, and forbids visits by citizens of seven nations (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen) for ninety days.
If you’re mentally ill and in crisis in Colorado, you can be legally put in jail for 24 hours even if you haven’t committed a crime. Moreover, an attempt to change this rule last year was driven by law enforcers who wanted the hold time for innocent sufferers to be extended, not eliminated. A task force assembled at the behest of Governor John Hickenlooper came to a very different conclusion. In a report on view below, the group called for so-called M-1 holds to end and provided some ideas about how to make it happen.
Dan Williams has been sentenced to two years of probation for shooting and killing two bear cubs outside his Evergreen home in September 2015. However, his punishment in the court of public opinion has been much worse.
On February 9, former University of Colorado Boulder defensive coach Joe Tumpkin is scheduled to appear in Adams County court for a preliminary hearing related to multiple counts of assault related to domestic violence accusations. But thanks to an exposé in Sports Illustrated, CU Boulder is already on trial in the court of public opinion over its handling of the Tumpkin matter, and the fallout is capable of undermining a program that took more than a decade to recover from a recruiting scandal whose ripples recently revealed a past sex assault investigation targeting new Broncos head football coach (and former CU Boulder assistant) Vance Joseph.
Did Joshua Cummings, who’s now been formally advised of a first-degree murder charge naming him in the execution-style slaying of RTD security officer Scott Von Lanken, ask for a beer at the conclusion of his initial court appearance?
Is subscribing to a newspaper an essential part of good citizenship, particularly during a period when we are inundated by fake news? In a recent column, Chuck Plunkett, editorial page editor for the Denver Post, argues yes.
A new study of Denver police shootings between 1983 and 2012 concludes that approximately 47 percent of them were questionable, 18 percent were problematic and just 35 percent were what co-author Robert Durán considers to be legitimate.
A new study lists Colorado as one of the ten best states to retire, and the reasons why it performed so well have as much to do with dollars and cents as excellent lifestyle options.
Much more information has emerged about Joshua Cummings, the 37-year-old man who is suspected in the execution-style murder of RTD security officer Scott Von Lanken late on Tuesday, January 31. The former head of a Texas Jiu-Jitsuka academy who had recently moved to Colorado, Cummings expressed antipathy for police in multiple posts that remained online even as reports surfaced that he reportedly had “Muslim documents” on his person when he was taken into custody and spoke in what sources described as “an Arabic language.”
The Denver Police Department has arrested Joshua Cummings, 37, for the execution-style murder of an RTD contract security officer. Investigators say they’re currently looking into the possibility that the officer was targeted because of his uniform, which is described as looking similar to those worn by members of the DPD.
Beginning shortly after 10 a.m. this morning, as part of a campaign dubbed 100 Days of Action, members of the Colorado People’s Alliance will be among those scheduled to show up in force at the local office of a U.S. Senator, where they’ll make it clear that putting out a statement critical of President Donald Trump’s refugee ban isn’t enough.
Through a good portion of last year, rent prices in the metro-Denver area began to plateau in many, though not all, parts of the city. But the trends appear to be changing. According to a just-released report from ApartmentList.com, rent prices are up in most of the ten major neighborhoods highlighted by the site when analyzed both monthly and yearly.
Tuesday night, President Donald Trump nominated Denver-based 10th Circuit Court of Appeals justice Neil Gorsuch, a native Coloradan with an Ivy League background and a Ronald Reagan-approved pedigree, to fill the seat vacated by the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. But while Gorsuch, 49, was assured and impressive in what was essentially his national debut, his selection immediately triggered a partisan backlash that will likely roil the American political scene for many months to come.
We’ve just learned about the death of Laura Kriho, one of Colorado’s most outspoken advocates for cannabis reform. As the woman behind the Cannabis Therapy Institute, she championed the medicinal attributes of marijuana, and while her efforts on behalf of Legalize 2012 ultimately came in second place behind the successful Amendment 64 campaign, her tireless dedication to pushing for ever-more progressive cannabis policies was as inspirational as it was important.
Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett has been named to a working group of DAs from across the country who will advise the administration of President Donald Trump on marijuana policy. Garnett hopes to influence the Justice Department and presumptive attorney general Jeff Sessions, an avowed pot hater, to be thoughtful about cannabis and not make the sort of mistakes he associates with their actions to date regarding immigration, as exemplified by the chaos that followed an executive order about a temporary refugee ban and more.
A newly released document purporting to list the fifty highest-priority infrastructure projects according to the administration of President Donald Trump includes improvements along Interstate 70 through the mountain corridor and Interstate 25 between Castle Rock and Monument. Problem is, the report’s origins are unclear and a couple of notable errors in the Colorado sections raise questions about whether those who penned the report, on view below, are actually up to speed.
Three Republican Congressmen from Colorado who didn’t immediately share their thoughts on President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order about immigration have now publicly endorsed it, although two express minor reservations.
Proposition 106, which legalized what proponents call medical aid in dying, a process by which patients diagnosed with six months or fewer to live may be provided with a prescription they can self-administer in order to end their suffering, won overwhelming approval in the November 2016 election, passing by a 65-35 percent margin. But a representative of the measure’s main advocacy organization admits to frustration over the number of Colorado hospitals — dozens of them — that are making it more difficult for potentially qualifying individuals to access the procedure.
For the second time in a matter of days, technical problems with a major carrier have caused significant problems at Denver International Airport. Last weekend, it was United, which grounded all domestic flights following a computer outage. This time around, it’s Delta, which delayed or cancelled at least 250 flights as a result of its own computer snafus. Yet the amount of anger these issues have generated among passengers can’t compare to the vitriol stirred up by troubles at Frontier Airlines in December.
Tomorrow morning, the second of three community meetings concerning the new Denver Police Department use-of-force policy draft will take place in west Denver. But even before attendees get a chance to weigh in about the document, which critics have excoriated in part because it was assembled without input from community members or Denver’s Office of the Independent Monitor, the Denver Justice Project has released a list of six changes or additions that organization would like to see.
