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Denver teachers bear the brunt of layoffs amid declining enrollment
Faced with declining enrollment and tight campus budgets, school leaders across Denver Public Schools have laid off more than 900 teachers since 2022, The Denver Gazette has learned. Over the same period, school leaders cut just 16 assistant principals, district data obtained under the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) shows.
Denver's DA candidates promise to hold police accountable
Leora Joseph and John Walsh, the two Democratic candidates for Denver district attorney, arrived in the city from two distinct paths.The big picture: The two talked about their visions for the office during a recent forum at Brother Jeff's Cultural Center in the city's Five Points neighborhood.Joseph works for the state overseeing a behavioral health agency and spent 25 years primarily prosecuting sex crimes and domestic violence cases in Colorado and Massachusetts.Walsh, the U.S. attorney for Colorado from 2010 to 2016, has private practice experience with federal litigation and previously served as a prosecutor focusing on white-collar crimes and fraud...
Festival draws veterans to Denver to celebrate art, creativity
LAKEWOOD, Colo. — This week, more than 100 veterans from around the country are in Denver for the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival. The event recognizes the art veterans have created while giving them space to process trauma and heal in new ways together. "For me, it's been a...
Denver moves $11 million of public safety money to form unarmed Office of Neighborhood Safety
During the George Floyd protests of 2020, activists demanding police reform called for local governments to shift money from armed law enforcement to community-led violence prevention. On Monday morning, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced that the city is doing just that. Denver will move $11 million and 65 full-time employees...
17th and 18th avenues are getting a safety overhaul
17th and 18th avenues — two fast-moving one-way streets, particularly as they approach downtown — are getting a safety overhaul as part of the city’s effort to end traffic deaths, a trend that has only increased in recent years. The proposed changes are just that: proposals. The...
Two cities blaze a trail on homelessness; Denver hits a dead end | Denver Gazette
Evidence continues to mount on the failure of Denver’s open-door policy toward the homeless — while Colorado’s No. 2 and No. 3 cities appear to be getting it right in reaching out to people on their streets. Colorado Springs and Aurora are using innovative thinking and political...
Historic Denver home hits the market for $10.9M
DENVER — The co-founder of a residential development firm has listed his historic Denver home for $10.9 million. Located at 400 Saint Paul St. in Cherry Creek, this 13,656-square-foot home was built in 1891 and used as a town hall. It was later used as the mayor’s office, a police office, a courtroom, a jail and a volunteer fire department, according to listing agent Kenzie Robertson with LIV Sotheby’s International Realty.
10 protesters face charges after Auraria Campus lockdown
Auraria Campus in Denver was placed on lockdown after pro-Palestine protesters occupied “restricted space” in a campus building, according to university officials. FOX31's Greg Nieto shows the scene on campus, where 10 now face charges.
Denver looking for public's input about 2 traffic corridors
DENVER — Denver Department of Transportation and Infrastructure (DOTI) is looking for the public’s feedback to improve two corridors along 17th and 18th Avenues, between Broadway and Colorado Boulevard. The corridors are a well-traveled area between drivers, pedestrians and those who take public transit. It’s also an easy...
50 cents more per gallon? EPA mandate for gas to hit Denver motorists this summer
Gasoline in the metro Denver area is about to get a lot more expensive come June 1 — as much as 51 cents to $1 more per gallon, depending on who is asked. And Gov. Jared Polis said that threatens Colorado’s fuel supply and might result in "shortages at the pump.”
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