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.
The intoxicating fruit-salad scent will instantly put a spell on you.
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.
Most people thought the fight was over when Colorado voters legalized commercial cannabis in 2012, but that victory really just started a series of smaller battles.
“Lift The Label” is a statewide movement to reduce the stigma for individuals with opioid addiction through education.
On Thursday, May 10, the North American Aerospace Defense Command invited journalists to come celebrate its sixtieth birthday. The tour guides never told us what made sixty any different from 59 or 58, but when NORAD sends you an invitation (via “unclassified” email!), you don’t turn it down.
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.
My editor at Boulder’s Daily Camera, Dave Krieger, warned early on that my biggest challenge as an aspiring journalist would be to temper my penchant for idealism. Perhaps that’s why, when he told me of the imminent danger posed to our paper by its hedge fund owner, Alden Global Capital, I didn’t absorb that the end was as close as he foretold.
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.
With over 200 pot shops in town, they can’t all suck…can they?
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.
After seeing the lowest overall revenue in a year in February, pot sales set a record for retail earnings the next month.
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.
“We [like to] cheer for them and root for them when they’re on the field — and then we couldn’t give two shits for them when they’re not.”
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.”
Readers have questions about a recent study about dispensaries giving advice to “pregnant” women.
If you would like to learn about how you can participate in the struggle for detained immigrants, attend the people’s tribunal to be held in Del Mar Park at 2 p.m. on May 18. Members of Detention Watch Network, along with AFSC-CO, will be hosting the event as part of the ongoing #ICEonTrial campaign.
One of the most important — and controversial — bills to come of the 2018 session will reform PERA, or the Public Employees Retirement Association, which supports public-sector retirees in Colorado.
Like Snoop Dogg, Whoopi Goldberg and even John Boehner, these former Colorado government officials are now working with the weed industry.
