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Clean Kratom Wellness Center’s Faith Day Faces Down the Feds

On November 20, 2017, Denver Environmental Health prohibited the sale of kratom for human consumption in the city and began raiding local shops selling the popular herbal pain reliever as part of what DEH's own board later concluded was a flawed process. In the meantime, Clean Kratom Wellness Center in Lakewood, a community that has not enacted a ban, is being investigated by the Food and Drug Administration even though the federal government's current position on the substance consists only of warning about its use.
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Pro-Kratom Scientist Blasts Denver Ban, Federal Policies as Recipe for Death

A group of scientists who believe the controversial herbal pain reliever kratom is being unfairly vilified in the wake of salmonella-related health warnings came together this week to blast the Food and Drug Administration's policies toward the substance and criticize Denver's prohibition of its sale for human consumption, with one expert suggesting that such approaches will inevitably lead to tragedy.
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Dish of the Week: The Pastrami Sandwich at Il Porcellino

Last week, the guys at Il Porcellino Salumi (4324 West 41st Avenue) shared the news that they'll soon be cranking out dry-cured sausages for a larger audience at a new wholesale facility, but that doesn't mean they're not focused on constantly improving the offerings at the Berkeley deli. A new...
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Claim: Jail Nearly Let Inmate Jeremy Laintz Die to Prove He Was Faking Illness

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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Koshari Time

Like many mom-and-pop shops, this tidy cafe lurking in an unassuming Aurora strip mall has more to offer than it first appears. As the only eatery in town specializing in Egyptian cuisine, its few menu items – koshari, hawawshi, kunafa, rose blaban – may be unfamiliar to Denver diners, but their flavors won us over […]
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Don’t Spend “One Red Cent” to Lure Amazon to Denver, Guv Hopeful Says

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.
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Charter School Autonomy a Double-Edged Sword for Families Who Want More From Schools

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.
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Cary Kennedy Campaign on Polls, Attacks and Power of Women Voters

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.
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Denver’s Fight to Prevent Total Traffic Gridlock Downtown

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.