Hundreds In Denver’s Affordable Housing Program May Be Forced To Sell
Denver officials recently discovered that hundreds of people who bought affordable housing don’t qualify for the city’s program. They have six months to become compliant.
CDOT Listens And Tries To Clear The Air About Driving High
CDOT is holding town hall-style “cannabis conversations” to wrap its head around marijuana’s effect on drivers. A new book by Kenneth Jessen explores how the state went from wild wild west to a civilized society. Colorado College archivist Jessy Randall unearths a #MeToo story behind a former campus president’s departure in 1917. And for Dragondeer, ‘The Other One’ by the Grateful Dead flashes back to 1968 best.
Driving High: What CDOT Hears From Pot Users, And What It’s Warning About
CDOT is holding town hall-style “cannabis conversation” to wrap its head around marijuana’s effect on drivers.
‘Frontier Colorado Gunfights’ Chronicles A Lawless Wild West Past
A new book by Kenneth Jessen explores how the state went from wild wild west to a civilized society.
What’s The Relationship Between Mental Illness And Violence Like Mass Shootings?
Statistically, people with mental illness are no more likely to become violent than people who don’t have a diagnosed mental illness. Climate scientists have news data that allows them to more closely link specific weather events to global warming. The story behind a photo of a young woman on horseback leaping from a tower in Pueblo in 1905. Colorado actor Mathenee Treco talks about his dual roles in “Hamilton” in tour.
Additional Firefighting Air Resources Staged In Colorado For Upcoming Fire Year
An additional heavy air tanker and firefighting helicopter have been strategically placed in Colorado in anticipation of a worse than usual fire year.
Developer Kyle Zeppelin Wins Praise From Activists Grappling With Gentrification’s Fallout
Zeppelin, who’s behind a string of projects in the city, says he doesn’t fit the stereotype of someone riding roughshod over older neighborhoods.
Meet A Developer Who Says Gentrification Doesn’t Have To Mean Displacement
Denver developer Kyle Zeppelin says he is not a typical urban developer, “an industry that’s gotten a little bit tainted.” We’ve asked teachers and others to tell us about how they’re innovating in their classrooms, and more than 40 of them weighed in. Lyons printmaker Bud Shark’s work appears at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the Met. His archive’s moving to CU-Boulder. And the U.S. Navy’s newest attack submarine, the USS Colorado, will go into service Saturday.
Nathaniel Rateliff’s New Album Leaves Us ‘Tearing At The Seams’
The folks who ran Colorado’s legislature used to cram opponents’ bills into their desks, never to be seen again. We talk to the former lawmaker who got that stopped, only to be replaced by dreaded “kill committees.” Then, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats have a new album. Plus, a bobsledder brings home silver. And, the story of a Colorado ski pioneer.
See The Big Argo Mill Redevelopment Plans (And A Peek Inside History, Too)
A hotel and convention center, housing for all income levels, stores and parks could occupy the red buildings on the mountainside north of town.
How Colorado Pirate Radio Once Hid In Plain Sight, And Can’t Anymore
Pirate radio stations across the Front Range have operated over-the-air signals without being licensed by the FCC. Now, the agency is cracking down.
As Next Season’s Epic And Ikon Ski Passes Go On Sale, Here’s What To Expect
The 10-year-old Epic Pass has a new rival. The Ikon Pass goes on Sale Tuesday. Could it give Vail Resorts a run for its money?
Warnings Didn’t Stop Florida Shooter. Here’s How They Might In Colorado
A Colorado group wants courts to intervene, at the request of family members or friends, to keep violent people from getting guns. And, the 2013 legislature’s gun control laws still cast a political shadow. Then, Chipotle hopes its new CEO sparks a turnaround. Plus, a Mongolian immigrant’s struggles surface in her art. Also, a chat with winning Colorado Olympians.
School Active Shooter Drills: Do They Help Anyone Feel Safer?
Jazmin Araujo thinks every day about how she’d keep herself and her younger brother safe if someone with a gun stormed their school, Bruce Randolph School. There are regular safety drills, but dies anyone feel safer? Then, Colorado’s prison population predicted to grow. Will money follow? And, who are the victims of human trafficking in Colorado, and is enough being done to stop these crimes?
What It Feels Like To Live Through A School Shooting, And The Aftermath
The school shooting in Florida last week in which 17 people died broke Avery Griggs’ heart, because she lived through the Arapahoe High School shooting. Then, getting the word out to non-citizens about deportation dangers around working in the weed business. What it takes to resurrect and redevelop relics from Colorado’s sugar beet gold rush days. And we get a sneak peak inside Google’s new Boulder campus.
What’s Next For The Lucrative Outdoor Industry In Colorado?
Luis Benitez, director of the Colorado Outdoor Recreation Industry Office, talks about what’s next for the outdoor industry. Forget the Gold Rush, what about the White Gold Rush in the late 1800s? Also, Thousands of immigrants detained in Aurora move forward with claims they were forced to work for little or no money. And Lois Fink of Fort Collins lost her colon to Chron’s disease. She writes about her new life in “Courage Takes Guts.”
