Coming home after a quick mini-vacation to attend a family event, I spent yesterday getting caught up on Denver: encampments, COVID-19, the designation of a mortuary that was hard fought and now is a landmark, and a move to amend a section of Denver’s municipal code to permit residents to own pit bulls. If approved …
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With too many interruptions, this is sort of late, but we now know how complicated it is to fund the “new” 16th Street Mall. Two of the bills for final consideration earlier this week pretty much sailed through with votes, involving funding from RTD and the Board of Water Commissioners. But the third bill – …
Losing a home, finding a home, and being able to help others. The first sanctioned camp for people with no home is being prepared. Tents are supposed to be set up in the parking lot at the Denver Coliseum. I would assume there will be a lot of asphalt, but the city is going to …
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There is still quite a bit of uncertainty, but we now have new concerns. The administration under President Trump has decided to not send statistics about COVID-19 to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Instead, this information is to be sent to the Department of Health and Services, a totally different entity. The CDC …
Continue reading "Remember this? It is a reminder of March 2020, and now it is July 2020."
The year 2020 seemed like it would be somehow special. Instead, it has been about death, a new virus that has sent many of us to stay home, an economic meltdown, and millions of job losses. Every once in a while, the news is just too much, especially with some of the political situations that …
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A good thing the powers-that-be learned when Morey Middle School was going to open up for teachers. When city officials thought that Morey was going to open up on Aug. 17 for students, actually the teachers will be going in to the school building on July 20. As of today, the teachers will show up …
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A Denver City Council meeting on February 24 seems like a year ago. But that was the night that the pit bull ban was still standing. The story in Westword on February 25 noted this: “Denver's pit bull ban lives on. Two weeks after a Denver City Council majority voted to effectively repeal a prohibition …
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On 9News this morning there was a quick segment on a story that was posted by USA Today. It featured a list of top 20 cities gentrified in the United States, and though most of the heavily gentrified cities are on both coasts, good old Denver ranked No. 2. Now, we already sort of knew …
Let’s face it: The growing number of “area plans” being developed by Denver’s Community Planning and Development are now doing everything virtually. If you join a virtual meeting, well, it’s just not the same as a real meeting. But, of course, who wants to be squeezed into an auditorium or gymnasium until the virus has …
While I was out of Denver and in St. Louis, to be part of a family wedding, it was important to keep up with the news. And the news here and in St. Louis, there wasn’t very good news at all. It’s been like this for what seems like forever. This year began with high …
Chandler in Denver 