The average starting salary for a 2018 college graduate who lands a job in Denver is just over $53,000, according to a new study. The total is a bit higher than the national average, and that’s also the case for average salaries in ten specific professions. However, wages are currently higher in seven of nine other major cities analyzed as part of the report, as seen by data shared here.
On June 26, Coloradans will vote in primaries, and for the first time, unaffiliated voters can take part, thanks to a 2016 ballot measure. That’s good news for democracy, but it also makes voting a bit more complicated this year.
Plenty of underage tourists who come to Colorado seem to think a bogus identification card will work just as well at a pot shop as it will at a bar. But according to Haley Littleton, spokesperson for the Town of Breckenridge, which has cataloged at least 428 fake ID cases since February 2015 with no end in sight, they’re wrong.
The two Colorado representatives joined other lawmakers at a gathering in Washington, D.C., on May 23.
The company joins a short list of Colorado companies jumping into the Canadian market.
Former Parker mayor Greg Lopez and Colorado 2018 gubernatorial candidate shocked the political establishment when he guaranteed his place on the Colorado Republican Party primary ballot by earning more than 30 percent support at the April 14 state assembly. He describes his surprising victory and the policies he sees as setting him apart from the still-sizable pack in the wide ranging conversation below.
“Denver Needs Assessment on Opioid Use,” a new report from Denver Public Health & Environment, is filled with revelations about the scope of a growing problem in the Mile High City. And plenty of them qualify as genuinely startling.
After the May 18 assault at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, in which eight students and two teachers were killed and thirteen wounded, Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, who became gun law reform activists following the murder of their daughter, Jessica Ghawi, during the 2012 Aurora theater shooting, traveled to the scene with the goal of using their experience to help prepare those who lost loved ones for the many traumas to come.
Kobe Bryant chucked a lot of junk at the hoop and had poor stats in clutch moments, but his delusional fans still try to inject his name into conversations about LeBron and MJ. (Feel free to email me your hot takes that argue otherwise.) Needless to say, I’m not a…
One of the most notable figures in America proselytizing and exercising “sovereign” ideology, Bruce Doucette, was sentenced to 38 years in Colorado state prison
Ideologically opposed ballot petitions to fund Colorado’s transportation projects are competing for the requisite 98,492 signatures to get on the November ballot. And that could get sticky.
Colorado’s latest marijuana prevention campaign hopes to appeal to the usual suspects in adolescents, but it’s added a new target: moms.
The fourteen-year-old has become the latest chapter in the very twisted family story of Ken Mueller.
First, CSU student Michaella Surat was prosecuted for alleged obstruction and resisting arrest even though viral cell-phone video from last year showed her being body slammed by a Fort Collins police officer. Then, after a mistrial was declared, delaying the the case until August, Surat’s attorney, David Lane, released the cops’ body camera footage in an effort to prove that she was the victim of excessive force. And now, the district attorney’s office that’s going after Surat wants Lane to be sanctioned for sharing the images with the media.
Many of the traffic signals in Denver seem so long that drivers may be tempted to time them with an hour glass. And Michael Finochio, traffic engineering manager for Denver Public Works, acknowledges that signal time lag has lengthened over the past ten to twenty years in many locations in response to an increase in volume.
One of the weirdest double-headers we’ve ever received.
Members of the Topeka, Kansas-based hate brigade known as the Westboro Baptist Church have announced a series of seven protests along Colorado’s Front Range beginning today and running through Sunday, May 27. And while the group doesn’t always show up as planned/threatened, a large counter-protest is planned for this afternoon at Broomfield High School, with the weapon of choice being a group hug.
A mock tribunal hosted by activists in Aurora took ICE and the Geo Group-run immigrant detention center to task.
As it turns out, the mayor is no more immune to traffic woes than the rest of us are.
“It’s a neuroprotectant for your brain and liver. If you’re drinking, get a slice of CBD to maybe offset your hangover tomorrow.”
Kris McDaniel-Miccio, one of the seven intervenors named in the consent decree between DU and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which brought suit against the university on the female full professors’ behalf, has written a letter to Chopp that she’s given Westword permission to share. And it pulls no punches.
From 2012 through last month, more than 3,000 pedestrians were hit by cars in Denver.
