Protesters call for action on conditions at St. Louis jail A protest was held at St. Louis City Hall Friday, with demonstrators demanding urgent action to address what they call "deadly and inhumane" conditions at the St. Louis City Justice Center. 11/22/2024 - 3:53 pm | View Link
“Dawoud Bey: Street Portraits,” feels like an unexpected holiday gift from the Denver Art Museum, a sparkling little show that makes for a swell family outing during the celebratory season at hand. If you have friends coming from out of town and want to impress without any stress, this is a welcome option.
Bey built that kind of utility into the work.
Gov. Jared Polis struck down a half-dozen bills to close this year’s legislative session. But a revived proposal to fight wage theft — potentially with his backing — shows that the defeats aren’t necessarily permanent.
House Majority Leader Monica Duran, a Wheat Ridge Democrat, was one of the prime sponsors of House Bill 1008.
The tobacco and convenience store industries’ attempts to stop the city of Denver from passing a ban on flavored tobacco and nicotine products are largely falling on deaf ears at city hall as the measure moves toward a final vote this month.
“To me, it’s big loud voices — but I don’t see the substance,” Denver City Councilwoman Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez, one of the measure’s three sponsors, said of the advertising and emails those industries have directed her way.
The ban would prohibit the sale of nearly all flavored tobacco products within city limits, including flavored offerings for e-cigarettes, vaporizer cartridges and nicotine pouches as well as menthol cigarettes.
Orrapan Botthaisong lives 8,000 miles away from her parents in Thailand. She moved to Denver by herself 14 years ago to get her MBA from the University of Denver, and decided afterward that because she loves food, the business she wanted to open was a restaurant.
That happened in 2022 with La Mai Thai Kitchen, a casual spot at 2001 Sheridan Blvd.
There are hundreds of worthy organizations that deserve support on Colorado Gives Day, the annual, statewide fundraising campaign that has brought in more than $469 million for scores of nonprofits since it started in 2010.
The Colorado Gives Foundation lists all of the groups it channels money to on its website, and it’s an impressive assemblage of organizations that help their communities with everything from health care to animal adoption to education.
To culture, as well, and that is where this list comes in.
The ground is rock hard, the air is crisp and the trees are bare.
But while the yard is sleeping, Colorado gardeners are not just twiddling their green thumbs and waiting for spring — they’re also preparing and scheming.
“The off-season really is when most gardeners are thinking about and daydreaming of their next growing season,” said Kim Zimmerman, a Colorado master gardener and the founder of Rowdy Poppy, a micro flower farm and design studio in Denver.