Denver City Council changes rules to future construction on East Colfax Avenue

Hundreds of properties along a 5-mile stretch of East Colfax Avenue will have to include active, ground-floor commercial space in any redevelopment plans after the Denver City Council on Monday approved new design guidelines for buildings clumped along the city’s most famous street. The council unanimously supported applying the pack of new rules, collectively known … Read more

Denver to pay $145,000 to woman injured in crash with police SUV

The Denver City Council is set to approve a $145,000 settlement Monday with a woman who suffered a concussion and other injuries in a vehicle crash with a Denver police officer’s SUV. In the January 2020 evening incident, the car the woman was riding in was forced off the road in the 300 block of … Read more

Chicago Cop Killed A Pedestrian While Looking At Her Phone

A 56-year-old woman, identified as Maria Schwab from Schertz, Texas, was struck by a white 2016 Infiniti SUV at around 12:30 a.m. Thursday morning while visiting Chicago for a work trip. A 40-year-old off-duty Chicago police officer lost control of her several-thousand-pound projectile when she dropped her cell phone and took her eyes off the … Read more

Denver Council to vote on design rules for East Colfax ahead of BRT project

Denver city leaders on Monday will vote on new rules that could dictate how East Colfax Avenue looks and functions for decades. But whether those rules, already in place on other busy streets, are a poor fit for the thoroughfare remains a point of debate. If approved by the City Council, the package of proposed … Read more

Tesla CEO And World’s Richest Man Elon Musk Is Fighting To Avoid Paying Child Support To Ex-Girlfriend Grimes

Elon Musk is using ex-girlfriend Grimes’ tweets to prove to custody courts that she primarily lived in Texas despite her claims that she lived in California. This distinction is important, because Texas has a cap on maximum child support payments where California has no maximum cap. The Hype Behind Tesla Stock Success In 2023 No … Read more

Elon Musk restores Alex Jones’ X account after taking a poll of users

Tech billionaire Elon Musk announced early Sunday that he would be reinstating far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ account on X, the platform previously known as Twitter. Musk, the owner of X, asked users in an informal poll on Saturday whether he should reinstate Jones’ account on the platform. The poll showed that 70 percent of respondents were … Read more

Houston homelessness roadmap pays off big, offering lessons for Denver

HOUSTON — The apartment complex where Teresa Eddins now lives is so quiet that “you can hear a pin drop” at night, she says — a stark contrast to the constant noise she withstood while living beneath a bridge two years ago. She was one of the first people who moved into a former hotel in … Read more

A narrowing Republican presidential field will debate with just six weeks before the Iowa caucuses

By BILL BARROW and JONATHAN J. COOPER (Associated Press) TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Four Republican presidential candidates were given several opportunities Wednesday to criticize former President Donald Trump, who was absent from the debate again. But they mostly targeted each other, with former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley taking the brunt of the attacks as … Read more

Musk considering reinstating Alex Jones on X

Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk is considering reinstating right-wing personality Alex Jones on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “Reinstate Alex Jones on this platform? Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” Musk, who owns X, said in a post on the platform Saturday. Musk’s post includes a poll on the question. The entrepreneur’s question and poll … Read more

Front Range Passenger Rail is chosen to receive major federal support

The federal government will provide $500,000 in seed money to help kick-start construction of Colorado’s Front Range Passenger Rail project between Fort Collins and Pueblo — a decision that brings the prospect of millions more in future funding. The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Railroad Administration are set to announce that the rail … Read more