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Hey, Bowlen Kids: Don’t Fight Over the Broncos Until Dad’s Dead

By Michael Roberts

The original Dynasty has nothing on the Mile High City soap opera starring the children of Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen. But daughter Beth Bowlen Wallace’s self-nomination as heir apparent to oversee the team isn’t campy and entertaining but unseemly and sad, since Pat is being treated like he’s dead even though he’s not.

Denver Rent Up by More Than in 17 of 20 Biggest U.S. Cities

By Michael Roberts

Average rent prices in Denver right now continue to rise, with no end in sight, and a new report makes it clear that cost increases in the Mile High are among the worst in the country. Of twenty major U.S. cities, it shows that rent in Denver has gone up more in sheer dollars than in all but two of them.

The Colorado Health Center Trump Abortion Gag Rule Would Hurt Most

By Michael Roberts

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has joined chief executives from thirteen other states in signing a letter decrying new restrictions floated by the Trump administration on reproductive healthcare providers that accept funding under the federal Title X program. Opponents refer to the proposal as a “gag rule,” since even so much as the mention of the word “abortion” would be forbidden.

Chuck Plunkett on Resignation From Denver Post, New Gig at CU Boulder

By Michael Roberts

Chuck Plunkett, who resigned as editorial page editor of the Denver Post four weeks ago today, after an executive for the subsidiary company that runs the paper refused to okay a new editorial critical of Alden Global Capital, its vampiric hedge fund owner, has been named director of CU News Corps at the University of Colorado Boulder.

The Incredible Shrinking Denver TV News Audience

By Michael Roberts

The May television ratings period known as “sweeps” has just concluded, and publicists for the top TV stations in the Denver market are boasting about the number of people tuning in. But they’re not mentioning how precipitously the number of traditional viewers they’re attracting has tumbled in recent decades.

Denver Neighborhoods With the Fewest Pedestrians Hit by Cars

By Michael Roberts

From 2012 through last month, more than 3,000 pedestrians were hit by cars in Denver, and as we recently noted, several neighborhoods in the city have suffered accidents of this type numbering in the hundreds over that span. In contrast, the ten parts of Mile High spotlighted below experienced the fewest pedestrian-car crashes. But that hardly means they got off scot-free.

CU Boulder Not Yet Off the Hook in Double Sexual Assault Bias Case

By Michael Roberts

The latest order in a 2016 lawsuit filed against the University of Colorado by a male student who was expelled after being accused of sexually assaulting two fellow enrollees dismisses a claim that he was a discrimination victim under Title IX but is allowing an assertion that his due process rights were violated to move ahead.

Claim: Denver DA’s Resentencing of Some Juvenile Lifers Is Illegal

By Michael Roberts

Former Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey is blunt when asked about several cases in which Beth McCann, his successor as Denver DA, has resentenced men who were convicted of felony murder and other charges when they were juveniles during the 1990s, resulting in their time behind bars being substantially lessened. In his view, she’s breaking the law.