If the sidewalk adjacent to Denver’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure (DOTI) building is any indication, the city’s pedestrians are in dire straits.
“Our infrastructure for sidewalks in Denver is not acceptable and leads to some pedestrian issues and traffic fatalities because people don’t have the means to walk safely around the city,” said Adrienne Razavi, the organizing manager at the Denver Streets Partnership.
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A typical day for Laura Frank is far from dull. Frank can be found in downtown Denver’s Buell Public Media Center, writing grants, securing health insurance for her employees, refining newsletters, or assisting media organizations that are under financial stress. In a constantly evolving news environment, Frank’s job is to determine how to develop more trust with communities and ensure improvements in the production of news in a financially sustainable way.
Frank serves as the executive director of the Colorado News Collaborative (COLab), a nonprofit organization composed of 170 news-media organizations that find collaboration to be more effective than competition. With newspapers disappearing at unprecedented rates, and vulture hedge funds like Alden Global Capital swooping in to gut newsrooms, the world of nonprofit journalism requires inventiveness and the willingness to test new approaches.
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The Tesoro Cultural Center’s 2021-2022 series concluded on Sunday, May 1, with a speech from historian Dee Cordry on Southern Cheyenne history and his new book, Children of White Thunder.
The final lecture of this season began on an irregular note, as attendees were asked to shift to Tattered Cover’s upstairs section due to an oddly placed backpack in the store’s downstairs lecture room.
Despite technical issues that prevented the accompanying Powerpoint from being displayed, Cordry delivered his lecture from memory for the first time.
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DENVER – After two at-home victories for the Warriors, round one of the Western Conference playoffs resumed at Denver’s Ball Arena on April 21.
20 minutes before the game began, the seats were close to empty, but by 7:55p.m. the arena was full and the crowd was deafening. The fans were a sea of blue and gold, making it difficult to tell each team’s supporters apart. A Nuggets announcer warned that the Warriors tend to travel well, but the Denverites supplied an animated home crowd.
“It was a tough game. Right? I knew at the beginning… oh my. They have very good players,” said Alberto Rodriguez, a Nuggets fan and Ball Arena employee.
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The NCAA Ice Hockey Championship has dominated conversations at the University of Denver (DU), but news of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate confirmation has percolated among students as well.
Jackson has made history as the first Black woman to be nominated and confirmed in the Supreme Court.
The hearings began for Judge Jackson on March 21, as Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn), questioned the judge’s reliance on critical race theory in the courtroom, how she would define the word ‘woman’, and whether she agreed that “babies are racist.”
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