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Tag: Denver
Community investment continues in Westwood; Thriftway Pocket Park opens
The opening of Thriftway Pocket Park Thursday was the culmination of a four-year-long journey to destroy the dangerous, blighted Thriftway building and replace it...
First person: I was evicted and it was traumatic as all...
Jenee Donalson, 31, community organizer/artist/chef, resident of Denver
I was given a notice of eviction on Nov. 12, 2012. I didn’t know anything about the...
Griego: The Denver boot
‘Who plans this?’
The tenant is living in a three-bedroom ranch-style house off a cul-de-sac in northeast Denver. Or at least that’s where she was...
Gentrification is changing Denver’s schools. This initiative aims to do something...
A citywide effort to review how rapid gentrification is changing Denver’s public schools — and come up with ideas to combat the most pernicious...
Denver charter applicant alleges school isn’t getting a fair shot because...
The leader of a Wyoming-based charter school is asking the Denver school board to reject a recommendation that his application to open a school...
Amid push to get CO child care providers to seek higher...
Dede Beardsley says she’s always received rave reviews about the Montessori preschool and kindergarten program she’s led in Boulder for nearly four decades.
Parents and...
Jeanette Vizguerra granted stay of removal, will leave sanctuary
Undocumented immigrant and longtime Denver resident Jeanette Vizguerra has been granted a stay of removal from deportation until March 15, 2019.
Vizguerra, who is originally...
Colorado scientists get political for climate: “Science not silence”
For the first several blocks, Saturday's March for Science in downtown Denver was remarkably quiet.
No hey-hey's or ho-ho's, no calls and no responses; just...
Activists drown out Hickenlooper at March for Science
Chants from anti-fracking activists nearly drowned out Gov. John Hickenlooper's remarks at today's March for Science in Denver. The rally was part of a global...
TIME gave her a global award. Fear of deportation may keep...
Undocumented immigrant, Denver resident and longtime activist Jeanette Vizguerra is one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
So says TIME magazine,...