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.
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.
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.
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.
Injection drug users appear to have contributed to at least one downtown grocer restricting restrooms to employee-use only and a major supermarket chain to install keypad entries for toilet facilities at multiple branches in the area.
Rattlesnake season in Colorado is back with a vengeance, and it can be dangerous. But our expert offers six tips to keep you safe.
The downtown Denver population is overwhelmingly white, smart, youthful and so well off that 81 percent of those who call the area home can afford to live alone despite the hefty housing costs.
The University of Denver has agreed to pay $2.66 million to resolve a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which accused DU of paying not just one or some of its female full law professors less than the mean average salary of male full profs at the law school, but all of them.
Parents, students and staffers at RiseUp Community School want answers about an alleged room-to-room search at the school conducted by the Denver Police Department, with officers said to have shown their weapons while searching for a student who wasn’t in the building.
It’s still possible to buy a house in Denver for less than $250,000. But the homes under this price point typically need a lot of work, and the properties may be more valuable if they’re demolished entirely.
Marijuana advertising works on kids whether they’re the intended audience or not, a new study maintains.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
