The ten most expensive apartments for rent in metro Denver right now demonstrate that the market for high-end residences shows no sign of lagging. The two priciest go for more than $10,000 per month.
After a marijuana-fueled online adventure, Larry and Kathie J, one of Denver’s favorite radio teams, are back on the airwaves after an incredibly tumultuous year, and they’re ready to double your pleasure. Today, they’re debuting at not one but two stations, with a morning show on FLO 107.1 and a rebroadcast of the program during the afternoon at Jammin’ 101.5.
To the surprise of absolutely no one, the Winter Games Exploratory Committee has announced that Denver and Colorado can and should pursue bids for future Olympic and Paralympic events. However, the concept calls for an approach that wouldn’t require direct funding from taxpayers and recommends that any efforts in regard to 2020 and beyond be submitted to a statewide vote in advance.
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.
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.
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, 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 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.
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.
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.
The City of Wheat Ridge has suspended the business license of Break the Stigma Fitness, a marijuana-friendly gym operated by Jennessa Lea, better known as Fit Cannabis Girl. And even though she’s fighting this action, the landlord of her 9690 West 38th Avenue location has ordered her to leave by June 4.
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.
The Memorial Day weekend stabbing of a gay couple on 11th Avenue near Lincoln in the Golden Triangle, which led to the arrest of 24-year-old Dylan Payne, appears to be a bias-motivated crime, since the assailant allegedly called the victims “faggots” during the attack.
The Colorado Department of Transportation is outlining improvements it would like to make to the I-70 mountain corridor from Floyd Hill to the Veterans Memorial Tunnels outside of Idaho Springs.
Transgender inmate Lindsay Saunders-Velez reported that she’d been threatened by fellow inmates in the section of the prison where she’s currently confined. Her jailers allegedly reacted by placing her in solitary confinement even though she’d done nothing wrong.
Based on the experiences of one local expert, it could take a bid of more than $150 million for the Denver Post and in excess of $200 million for all the Colorado properties to even get the attention of hedge fund owner Alden Global Capital.
The Independence Institute’s Jon Caldara is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against Boulder’s recently enacted assault weapons ban. But in talking about the suit, he goes well beyond a traditional defense of the Second Amendment, arguing that the measure discriminates against gun owners in ways Boulderites would never permit if the persons targeted were homosexuals.
Marijuana researcher Elizabeth D’Amico is the mother of two teenagers, and she’s built a national reputation when it comes to advice about how parents should talk to their kids about pot.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a withering preliminary report about the late 2017 death of forty-year-old Loveland Ski Area employee Adam Lee, who suffered crushing chest injuries while working on the Magic Carpet, a motorized beltway used to teach kids how to ski.
The City of Aurora has agreed to pony up $335,000 to settle a lawsuit filed against three members of the Aurora Police Department by OyZhana Williams over a 2015 incident during which she was roughed up and had her head stomped in the parking lot of a hospital where her boyfriend was being treated for a gunshot wound.
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.
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.
