Colorado business leaders' confidence in the economy has dropped for the state and the country as a whole. And while their outlook remains positive overall, there are growing indications that entrepreneurs in these parts seem worried that the good times may finally be about to turn.
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Amazon has named Denver one of twenty finalists as a possible location for its second headquarters, HQ2, a facility that's expected to create 50,000 new jobs and result in a $5 billion investment for the winner. But while entrepreneur and Republican candidate for governor Victor Mitchell says he thinks HQ2 would be good for the state, unlike plenty of naysayers, he's launched an online ad campaign and petition calling on officials such as Governor John Hickenlooper not to get suckered into an expensive bidding war to secure this prize.
Lieutenant Governor Donna Lynne says her experience running for governor of Colorado has convinced her of the need for campaign finance reform, and she hopes to spend time after she's out of office working toward fixing what she sees a system that's seriously out of whack.
While slashes benefits, it increases transparency...slightly.
Here's our complete list of every restaurant opening in Denver for the week of April 2-8, 2018.
A new lawsuit claims the medical staff at Pueblo County Detention Center was so sure inmate Jeremy Laintz was faking an illness, despite plentiful evidence to the contrary, that they nearly let him die. And while he lived through his ordeal after he was placed in a medically induced coma and choppered from Pueblo to Denver, he lost part of a lung, six toes and suffered other debilitating injuries that could have been prevented if he'd simply been given antibiotics a week or two earlier.
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One of Denver's least-known neighborhoods is getting a boost from new development and a Latino-owned brewery.
At the upcoming "I Want My Party Back" conference in Denver, a cohort of pro-life Democrats will try to make the case that restricting abortion can be a progressive value — even though most of their speakers are not registered Democrats.
While suicide rates are going up, there's also a lot of hope and inspiring work being done here in Colorado around suicide prevention. Recently the state has been spearheading some of the most innovative work in the nation.
Two elite charter schools in the Denver area — Stargate School and STEM School Highlands Ranch — are some of the highest-performing schools in their respective districts. Both have long wait lists of parents eager to wield their choice and enroll their children. But families in both schools have learned the hard way that charter schools can come with a heavy price.
"Sweet Leaf neighbors had good reason not to feel safe in their homes when Sweet Leaf was in operation."
A selection of photos shared on designer Josh Goldstein's must-follow Cinderella City Project Instagram page will send those who recall the magnificent edifice into a nostalgic swoon and make those who weren't around to experience its version of retail glory green with envy.
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Frontier's pilots are the most underpaid in the industry by a wide margin. After years of fruitless negotiations, they're ready to strike right now, on the cusp of the busy summer travel season.
With just over a week to go before the June 26 primary, former Colorado treasurer and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cary Kennedy is hitting the campaign trail and the airwaves hard. And despite controversy over whether she did or didn't break a promise about going negative, sharp responses from rival Jared Polis and questions about a mysterious poll that shows Kennedy leading the field, Serena Woods, her deputy campaign manager, is overflowing with optimism about her chances to win the nomination.
Radon is unavoidable in Colorado, which has the seventh-highest levels of radon in the country. The real danger lies indoors, where radon can linger and levels can grow over time. The radioactive gas is the second leading cause of cancer in Colorado and the U.S. So for National Radon Action Month, state and county public health agencies are offering free radon test kits.
While officials work to implement Denver Mayor Michael Hancock's mobility action plan, whose goals include 30 percent of commuters walking, biking or taking public transit to work by 2030, traffic engineering manager Michael Finochio and his staff are trying to at least incrementally improve the current traffic situation, especially in Denver's Central Business District, where what is known as the 2018 Downtown Signal Retiming Project is underway.
It's tempting to call the Denver Broncos' pickup of North Carolina State defensive lineman Bradley Chubb with the number-five pick in the 2018 NFL Draft as an example of dumb luck, and in a way, it was. But it's more appropriate to say Chubb wound up in orange and blue thanks to the actions of idiots. And those idiots are the people who run the Cleveland Browns.
A new study reveals where the most millennial-heavy neighborhoods in Denver and along the Front Range.
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Breweries are beginning to think beyond the usual food truck circuit for food options for their customers.
On May 30, about two hours after the publication of the Westword post "Fit Cannabis Girl v. Wheat Ridge's Bid to Shut Down Her Pot-Friendly Gym," a detective knocked on the door of Break the Stigma Fitness and handed owner Jennessa Lea a final order to vacate the premises by June 4. When she spoke to Westword yesterday, mere hours before leaving both the facility and the State of Colorado, she was understandably emotional.
Denver District Attorney Beth McCann has signed on to an amicus brief regarding The City of Los Angeles v. Jeff Sessions, a lawsuit in which L.A. is taking on the Department of Justice under President Donald Trump over a policy to base grants from the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in part on whether or not municipalities aid with federal immigration enforcement. McCann says she added her name to a list of 33 prominent prosecutors and law enforcement officials nationwide despite the possibility that Sessions and company could target Denver for retaliation as a result.
This suburban brewery and pizza place is our first stop on a culinary tour of Arapahoe Road.