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ICE Detainees Subjected to Forced Labor Under Threat of Solitary…
In the most recent piece in our Voices from Solitary series, Mason Swanson, currently incarcerated in Pennsylvania, describes his experience spending seven years in solitary confinement. While on “suicide watch” at SCI Camp Hill, Swanson was isolated in a cell completely naked without access to any personal property or opportunity to speak with a psychologist, psychiatrist, or doctor. For years he was unable to sleep through the night, living in constant fear of his surroundings and cruel treatment from officers. Solitary Watch.
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The Denver Gazette
Ranch plan midway between Lowry, Central Park, shows low cost-per-foot
East Denver has two, popular master-planned communities, each of them created from former airfields, where a buyer today will have a hard time finding any single-family home priced anywhere close to the median-price detached home in the Denver area — currently at $645,000. However, agent Mackenzie Mitchell-Wade with The Cutting Edge Home Team can show […]
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Colfax group gets $2.8M grant to switch Aurora luxury home project into affordable housing
AURORA | A community nonprofit group received a $2.8 million grant from a state affordable housing fund to build 152 units of housing in northwest Aurora. The East Colfax Community Collective received the grant to acquire land at 1310-1380 Yosemite Street, also known as the Ambience site. Acquisition of the...
The Denver Gazette
Colfax revitalization needs more than a vision | Michael A. Hancock
A vision expresses what people hope will happen. A plan identifies what they intend to do. Leadership accepts responsibility for the distance between the two. Northwest Aurora has reached that distance. The Colfax Community Vision & Action Plan describes a future worth pursuing: safer streets, stronger businesses, stable neighborhoods, vibrant cultural institutions and public spaces […]
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One of Colorado’s Longtime Bookstores Is Preparing to Close Its Doors
A longstanding retail bookstore, Barnes & Noble, is preparing to close its Aurora City Place location. After more than two decades of service, the bookstore will shut down in January next year, as its lease comes to an end. Barnes & Noble Bids Farewell to Aurora City. Opened in 2003,...
Westword
Proposed town gate opens legal fight: ‘If you bring war upon Bow Mar, we will defend ourselves.’
From the stories making headlines to the restaurants, music and culture that make Denver one of a kind, Westword is there. Help us raise $50,000 by December 31 to keep independent local journalism going strong in 2027. A wealthy enclave wants to block itself from the outside world, but Denver...
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Aurora City Council moves forward with public comment timing changes
The Aurora City Council is considering changing the format of public comment at meetings, which has changed numerous times over the last several years as more people attend to speak. In many council meetings, the public comment period lasts several hours and the meetings go late into the night. As the council rules are currently […]
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Colorado legislators say area metro districts need more accountability, transparency
AURORA | If you live along the Front Range, there’s a good chance you or someone you know lives in a metro district. Similarly, they’ve got problems with it. That’s the take from a recent state Senate interim committee review and report, which found and outlined a variety of problems linked to special government districts created to offer homeowner services often provided by cities or counties.
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Gartrell Road over E-470 will close for bridge beam installation next week
AURORA | As part of an interchange expansion construction on E-470, overnight closures on Gartrell Road are expected next week. From Nov. 17 to Nov. 19 while construction crews install a bridge beam, Gartrell Road over E-470 will close to all traffic from Aurora Parkway to Dry Creek Road in the evening and overnight. Detours will be routed to Arapahoe Road and Aurora Parkway to access Gartrell Road.
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Signing Day: Eaglecrest track star Zenobia Witt reveals commitment at ceremony
AURORA | Zenobia Witt wanted a little mystery about where she would continue her track & field career at the next level, but the choice was pretty clear. The Eaglecrest High School senior star — a six-time Class 5A state champion with big plans for her final prep chapter in the spring — used Wednesday morning’s Signing/Commitment Day celebration to reveal her future destination.