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Denver may ease needle exchange restrictions near schools and day cares
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Denver may ease needle exchange restrictions near schools and day cares

By David Heitz | Newsbreak The Denver City Council may remove some restrictions on needle exchange centers. The Budget and Policy Committee of the council will consider an ordinance next week that would remove the 1,000-foot buffer requirement for needle exchange centers from schools and day care centers. It also would eliminate a rule that only three needle exchange centers to operate in the county. “These restrictions have no public health or public safety benefit,” according to a presentation by city staff to the committee. State lawmakers already removed a requirement that local boards of health grant permits for the needle exchanges, the presentation states. Council members Sarah Parady and Serena Gonzales Guttierez sponsored the ordinance. They say the changes are ...
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Report: Venezuelan TDA gang ‘decided to make Denver their headquarters in the U.S.’
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Report: Venezuelan TDA gang ‘decided to make Denver their headquarters in the U.S.’

By Nicole C. Brambila | Denver Gazette The Venezuelan prison gang known as Tren de Aragua (TdA) eyed Denver as its headquarters in the U.S., according to internal communications within the Aurora Police Department. The internal communications were citing federal intelligence reports.    “Intelligence from ICE is that TdA has decided to make Denver their headquarters in the U.S. and will be violent toward anyone who encroaches on their territory,” one police bulletin from October 2023 said. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Denver’s homeless population grew, despite tens of millions in spending to solve it
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Denver’s homeless population grew, despite tens of millions in spending to solve it

By Denver Gazette Staff via Colorado Politics Denver Mayor Mike Johnston's administration on Monday touted a "milestone" in his campaign against homelessness — the city has moved 2,000 homeless people to temporary shelters since he took office last year.  Johnston made it a priority to move 1,000 homeless people off of the city's streets and into hotel-turned shelters and "micro-communities" by the end of 2024. He vowed to bring another 1,000 people into shelters by the end of 2025. The mayor's office said that latest goal has also now been achieved.   READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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Denver teachers demanding cost-of-living increase in order to live in city
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Denver teachers demanding cost-of-living increase in order to live in city

By Nicole C. Brambila | Denver Gazette Collette Simkins — a theater and visual arts teacher at West High School — works two extra part-time jobs just to live in the Cap Hill neighborhood near the campus she has taught at for three years. “I think it’s important to live in the community in which my students live,” said Simkins, 29. She — and the nearly 4,000 educators that the Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA) represents — was counting on a full cost-of-living increase this school year. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Denver committee delays vote on rezoning for property near Ball Arena redevelopment
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Denver committee delays vote on rezoning for property near Ball Arena redevelopment

By Alexander Edwards | Denver Gazette A Denver committee postponed advancing a rezoning for a property located inside of, but separate from, the proposed Kroenke redevelopment of the Ball Arena parking lot after a council member lambasted the applicant and property owner. The properties, located at 500, 501 and 551 Wewatta Street, are currently occupied by a two story office building though its current zoning allows a mixed use building of up to eight stories and has two soccer fields on site. It is surrounded by the massive, 70+ acre parking lot area of Ball Arena. The property owner, Landon Scott, said the properties have been owned by his family since the 1970s and said they do not have any development plans in place if the zone change were to be approved. Options ranging from ...
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After parade of 43,000 illegals, Denver officials no longer track immigrant arrivals
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After parade of 43,000 illegals, Denver officials no longer track immigrant arrivals

By Nicole C. Brambila | Denver Gazette With the last temporary shelter now closed, Denver officials are no longer tracking the daily number of immigrants arriving in the city, The Denver Gazette has learned. Over the past 22 months, nearly 43,000 immigrants have arrived in Denver. Most of the immigrants were from South and Central America who crossed America's southern border illegally. The last shelter was closed on Oct. 3, Jon Ewing, a Denver Human Services spokesperson, said. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Denver’s 7A: What you need to know about RTD’s request to keep all its sales tax revenue
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Denver’s 7A: What you need to know about RTD’s request to keep all its sales tax revenue

By Michael Booth | The Colorado Sun Metro Denver-area voters will decide Nov. 5 whether the Regional Transportation District can continue to keep all of its sales tax revenue in coming years, even when a strong economy pushes revenue up above caps set in the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights.  The so-called “de-Brucing,” named after TABOR author Douglas Bruce, is a common request from local taxing agencies.  In RTD’s case, a “yes” vote on 7A would not raise the current dedicated RTD sales tax, but would allow RTD to keep projected revenue about $50 million to $60 million a year above the TABOR cap instead of refunding that amount to millions of taxpayers.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN
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Denver’s 16th Street Mall aims to finish construction by summer 2025
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Denver’s 16th Street Mall aims to finish construction by summer 2025

By Tamara Chuang | The Colorado Sun The stretch between Larimer and Arapahoe streets on Denver’s 16th Street Mall reopened Tuesday with great fanfare, including a MyDenver Day block party and a pep talk to prepare for the day when the whole mall can celebrate. “We will, by the time we are back here next summer, have opened the entire 16th Street Mall from Union Station to buses that will be running all the way up to the Sheraton,” said Mayor Mike Johnston, during the Downtown Denver Partnership annual meeting held outside the organization’s headquarters at 16th and Arapahoe streets. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN Prior construction on Denver's 16th Street Mall is shown. (Photo credit: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Kalam: Denver’s double standard on immigration policy
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Kalam: Denver’s double standard on immigration policy

By Ahnaf Kalam | Commentary, The Gazette Denver, with its progressive credentials, decided not long ago that it would be a sanctuary city — proudly throwing open its gates to the world’s downtrodden. The rhetoric was lofty: a commitment to diversity, inclusion, and justice for those who had the misfortune of being born on the wrong side of international borders. It was a stance seemingly forged in moral superiority, one that the city could proudly broadcast to other, less “enlightened” parts of the nation. However, in reality, the story has been quite different. Since the Biden administration took office, more than 20 million people have crossed the southern border — many illegally. Denver, like so many other sanctuary cities, quickly found itself woefully unprepared for the influx. ...
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Problems piling up for local ballot measure banning slaughterhouses in Denver
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Problems piling up for local ballot measure banning slaughterhouses in Denver

By Sherrie Peif | Complete Colorado With just weeks left before ballots go out in the mail, opposition to the Denver slaughterhouse ban ballot question is getting a hefty boost with the Denver Democrats joining other unlikely opponents airing their concerns over the issue and the filing of a significant campaign finance complaint against proponents of the measure. The measure titled “Prohibition of Slaughterhouses” would outlaw “the construction, maintenance, or use of” any meat processing facilities in Denver beginning January 1, 2026, as well as “require the city to prioritize residents whose employment is affected by the ordinance in workforce training or employment assistance programs.” Proponents of the measure say they are seeking an increase in consumption of plant-bas...
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