Photographs line the walls, plants sit on windowsills and a Buddhist altar is arranged atop a dresser. Nearly every surface of the living room is covered by an item or memento collected by Thin Soe, Ye Ye Thin and their five children over the years in their three-bedroom apartment in Denver’s East Colfax neighborhood. Since … Read more
Two days after the University of Denver men’s hockey team made history, the City Council enshrined portions of the University Park neighborhood that was built around that school as the city’s latest historic district. In this case, university leadership was less thrilled. The administration sent a letter to the city opposing the establishment of the … Read more
Following a pivotal year in the movement to discard the term “excited delirium,” momentum is building in Colorado and several other states to ban the discredited medical diagnosis from death certificates, law enforcement training, police incident reports, and civil court testimony. In January, California became the first state to prohibit the medical term from many … Read more
The Denver Basic Income Project will extend the no-strings-attached payments it provides to roughly 840 people for six months after funders — including the city — committed another $5 million to the initiative. That money will go to people who are currently or formerly homeless, with payments resuming next month after a pause at the … Read more
It’s been 10 years since Colorado launched the first legal recreational marijuana market in the world and became a pioneer in drug reform. But when it came to the nascent industry, the first sales on Jan. 1, 2014, were more a starting block than a finish line. In the decade since legalization, Colorado has refined … Read more
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