Approximately 3,200 school counselors from across the country and the globe are expected to descend on Denver for the annual conference of the Virginia-based American School Counselor Association, which gets underway on Saturday, July 8. And while ASCA assistant director Eric Sparks expects the event to be a lot of fun, plenty of serious topics will be discussed, and that's appropriate. Sparks enumerates ten of the biggest challenges facing school counselors in 2017, and his run-down collectively illustrates how these educators are on the front lines of major societal changes whose impacts will be felt on young people for many years to come.
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Denver's Social Consumption Advisory Committee will hold its final meeting on April 6. Previous meetings have all focused on different areas related to the passage of Initiative 300 last November; now members will sign off on proposed rules and regulations.
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Robert Schenkkan composed Building the Wall during the run-up to the election last fall, horrified by what he was hearing and seeing — “a fundamental assault on American values,” he calls it. This Curious Theatre Company production is part of a five-city rolling world premiere.
Seven Denver deputies face possible discipline in the November 2015 jail death of Michael Lee Marshall, a mentally ill inmate whose slow, agonizing death was captured on video.
At this hour, Denver officials are announcing their decision to pay $999,900 to the family of seventeen-year-old Jessica "Jessie" Hernandez, who was killed by police while she was behind the wheel of a stolen car two years ago in an incident that led to widespread protests and calls for a federal investigation of officer-involved shootings in the city. But equally important to Qusair Mohamedbhai, the attorney representing Hernandez's loved ones, are two additional actions Denver has agreed to take.
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We've long lauded the Adelitas house margarita; it was our best margarita in the Best of Denver issue for three years running, and this year, after a winter tweak that introduced a new tequila to its blend, it was one of our ten best house margaritas in Denver. But now...
Redd Kross is playing Denver for the first time in twenty years.
It took nearly a week for the results to be finalized, but it's official: Denver voters have approved the social cannabis use initiative on the November 8 ballot. "The voters of Denver have once again spoken and decided to adopt a sensible, new approach to marijuana policy," says I-300 proponent...
A bill makings its way through the Colorado Legislature would create a task force to support child-welfare caseworkers in Colorado — especially in the area of mental health. Caseworkers face numerous challenges in their work, and child-welfare departments see high rates of burnout and turnover. Nationwide, most caseworkers don’t stay on the job more...
As we've been reporting, the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency has sent shock waves through the immigrant community as a result of his campaign comments about mass deportation and more. The confusion and fear of children at many Denver-area schools the day after the vote was comparable...
On another venture into the suburbs of metro Denver, I checked out Sideways Sports Lounge in Arvada with a friend who lives pretty close to the bar, which is at 9134 West 88th Avenue in a nondescript strip mall next to a liquor store and "Dog Spa" (so next time my dog needs...
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A public school lunches have never been what one might call fine-dining, but for the most part, we’ve been able to correctly refer to it as food. That could change on May 1, when the USDA reveals its new "flexible food" standards. Here are ten reasonable options
As a writer, singer, selfie-taker, documentarian of changes in her neighborhood and the fleeting colors of urban nature, massage therapist, MFA candidate and lover of people, art, culture and life, Coleman expresses in multiple ways what so many of us can’t or don’t know how to express: That beneath all the grit, bad politics and forces beyond our control in this world, we still live in a paradise.
Comments are still pouring in about the classy way Denver protesters — and the Denver Police Department — behaved on Thursday night during a massive demonstration against the election results. There will be another community gathering at 2:30 p.m. today, November 13, in Civic Center Park. "It is time that we...
Few words will make a music fan cringe more than, “actor-turned-musician.” And with good reason.
Representative Jared Polis is among the biggest names to enter the race for Colorado governor in 2018, and in the following in-depth interview, he cites his experience in business, the nonprofit world and Congress, as well as proposals related to education, energy, infrastructure and more, as reasons voters should cast a ballot for him.
The City of Denver hasn't dropped efforts to prosecute eighteen disability-rights activists who were cited for trespassing in a downtown Denver building that houses the office of Senator Cory Gardner when they tried to protest against repealing the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare.
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Bierstadt Lagerhaus is very particular about its beer...and the glasses its poured into. The brewery is the only one in Colorado to insist that its beer be sold in its own glassware....and many bars are willing to comply.
How to make your I-70 experience enjoyable (seriously).
Nasty, brutish and not short enough, Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire has a simple — and ultimately simpleminded — premise: to protract what would normally be a brief shoot-out scene to the majority of the movie’s 90-minute running time. On the surface, this reductio ad absurdum has a kind of pleasing...
Many Coloradans are still reeling from last week's election results. In the hours following the final tallies, social media was essentially one nationwide primal scream of despair. Friendships ended in an acrimonious storm of tweets, Thanksgivings were made even more awkward and hope was very nearly lost. But in a heartening...