Tag: Aurora

An Aurora fifth-grader was "screaming and loudly arguing" with other students on the playground last Thursday in a dispute over a handmade anti-Obama T-shirt that led to the student's suspension, according to a statement issued Tuesday by the Aurora Public Schools district. The boy's sister wore a similar shirt at the school the same day and "did not disrupt learning," the statement said.

The father of an Aurora fifth-grader said Monday he plans to sue after school officials suspended the youth last week when he wouldn't remove a home-made T-shirt reading "Obama a terrorist's best friend." "It's the public school system," Dann Dalton told Fox31 News, "let's be honest, it's full of liberal loons."

Lend Lease, a Denver-based chapter of the global Australian real estate company of the same name, this week announced it is partnering with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to incorporate environmentally friendly energy, water and waste features that will produce a “net zero” effect on the more than 4,000 acres of land it plans to develop in Colorado, according to the Denver Business Journal. But Lend Lease has spent the last few years skirting answers about environmental concerns when it comes to its largest Colorado project.

Aurora officials celebrated the Sept. 3 groundbreaking of the Colorado Science and Technology park on the site of the former Fitzsimons Army Hospital, another crucial step in revitalizing the north area of the city, which has developed a reputation for run down motels and crime in recent years.

Some police officers could be smiling as they head to the Democratic National Convention next week, but not because they’re looking forward to controlling crowds, protecting the nation’s politicians or seeing Sen. Barack Obama speak.

Aurora city councilman Ryan Frazier, who many consider a rising Republican star, will walk into court tomorrow to defend himself against a lawsuit he...

From man camps to affirmative action and the ever-silent Senate candidate Bob Schaffer, Colorado Confidential is on the story.A profile of Ward Connerly by...

For nearly a decade, day laborers have solicited work near the corner of Colfax and Dayton in Aurora. The long-blighted area is at the...

As the first transgender person to run for public office in a city of Aurora's size, Bennett's voice on the issues can be drowned...

There is an old Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times." Former President Bill Clinton, speaking in Denver on Monday, came perilously close to...