It was bound to happen. The Tea Party movement can seem so bizarre– what with the Nazi outfits and three-corner patriot hats strung with tea bags, the misspelled signs touting the English language and the conspiracy theories that predominate– it…
On Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper’s campaign across the state, whether in formal settings with industry leaders or at random meet-and-greets in bars and restaurants, one issue cuts across all voter demographics and comes up again and again: the economy.
Denver residents spent $26 million in 2006 at payday lenders and check cashing strip mall shops, according to city Council Member at Large Doug Linkhart. These short-term, high-interest, fee-ridden services pose a key barrier to building savings, assets and credit and destroy the possibility of maintaining personal monthly budgets. That’s the recent conclusion of a task force Linkhart headed with Denver Office of Economic Development Executive Director André Pettigrew and funded by a grant from the national Bank on Cities campaign. Denver was one of eight cities selected to attack these problems based on a San Francisco pilot program.
DENVER– Members of the city council here are considering eliminating a controversial vehicle impound law that has raised financial and constitutional questions. Dan Hayes, the main backer of the law, which passed as a ballot initiative in 2008, told the Colorado Independent that council members opposing the law are merely protecting laws that make Denver a so-called sanctuary city for illegal aliens.
Bicycling magazine ranks Boulder No. 3 in a Top 50 list of the most bike-friendly cities in the country. The editors only considered cities with populations greater than 100,000. Denver came in just out of the Top 10 at…
At the Tea Party Express rally in Denver Wednesday, Conservative Colorado Springs state Sen. Dave Schultheis was feeling good. “These are the people I belong with. That’s the bottom line,” Schultheis told the Colorado Independent. “These are people who…
Canada, which will eventually spend more than $6 billion for the recent Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, was the victim of a global golden fleece job.
DENVER– In the next few months, as the Kansas-based Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System assumes control of two hospitals in the metro area formerly run by Exempla Healthcare, nearly 40 percent of hospital beds here will be run under directives approved by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Abortions will be limited to cases where the mother is at risk of death. Reproductive services will also likely be severely curtailed, as will end-of-life care, regardless of legal advance directives authored by patients.
Lingering legal questions and ambivalent feelings on the part of Colorado’s citizenry have made launching a medical marijuana dispensary a significant business risk. But that hasn’t stopped a rapidly growing number of medical marijuana entrepreneurs from opening clinics around the state. Real estate developer Ed Kieta, for one, is betting big, having sunk more than $60,000 into the high-end “wellness center” he’s opening in the Highland neighborhood of Denver. Kieta likes the fact that he’s getting in on the ground floor of the industry, but he hates that the rules governing the industry are murky and incomplete. Kieta is therefore looking forward to the Denver City Council meeting scheduled for Wednesday that aims to put up zoning restrictions and set out basic regulations for the record.
Last night, the Denver Public School District seized hard drives from the Contemporary Learning Academy, in order to investigate allegations that the school set up “dummy classrooms” with “dummy students.”
The alleged misconduct would have increased government funding to the…
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