Map A, sponsored by Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca, shifts Chaffee Park and part of Sunnyside into District 9. It also shifts portions of several neighborhoods in the Five Points and Union Station areas into other districts. Illustration courtesy of the City and County of Denver
Every ten years, the U.S. government conducts the census, updating information on how many people live in the country, and locally how many people live in each city...
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Diana DeGette. Photo by Evan Semón
After months of various stay-at-home orders and travel restrictions to help slow the spread of COVID-19, the world’s economies are starting to ramp back up. Factories and businesses – both across the country and around the globe – are coming back online as more and more people are starting to travel once again.
As manufacturing activity across the country continues to rise so, too, does the amount of...
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A proposal to restrict certain home forms is moving to the next phase of consideration. The Sunnyside Conservation Overlay was created by members of the Sunnyside United Neighbors registered neighborhood organization (RNO) and is being sponsored by Councilwoman Amanda P. Sandoval. The proposal includes multiple elements, such as requiring covered porches, brick or brick-like materials, and restricting the maximum...
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Denver residents have a new option to get around with the arrival of Free2Move car share.
After the departure of Car2Go in late 2019, North Denver has been without a large-scale free floating car share program. Free2Move plans to have around 160 Jeeps in Denver, and 38 of them were located throughout North Denver on a recent night in early February. Residents can rent the brand new Jeep Renegades by the minute,...
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Photo courtesy of Dennis Gallagher
North and West Denver are blessed with many historic churches and synagogues which help build strong and vigorous communities, knitting together an important fabric that makes neighborhood stories memorable and worthy of remembering. Today, we call these stories diversity. It’s my story too.
I first visited Holy Transfiguration of Christ Orthodox Church in Globeville in high school when my friend...
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The High House by Jessie Greengrass
In the not-so-distant future, Caro and her brother Pauly live in England with their increasingly on-the-road parents–Francesca, a well-known climate scientist determined to get the word out about impending disaster, and their father, a college professor who joins her. As more extreme weather takes shape throughout the world, Caro serves as Pauly’s main caretaker as islands disappear into the ocean and...
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The Colorado General Assembly is about a quarter of the way through its session that will end May 11. And of nearly 300 bills under consideration so far, the Colorado Center for Aging (CCA) is following 46.
In last month’s Gray Zone, we shared what AARP Colorado, CCA and the Alzheimer’s Association Colorado Chapter are hoping to see unfold this session. Now we’ve also reached out to North Denver’s...
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Testing positive for COVID in December wasn’t surprising, even though my whole family is vaccinated and boosted. Folks were having conversations like, “well, this is the strain we’re all going to get—at least this one is mild for most vaccinated people.” A week after flying home, our college kid felt sick, tested positive and five days later he was almost fully recovered. So when I felt a tickle in my throat and got my...
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It’s been a year since Shawn and Ben Johnson walked away from their experience with Denver’s Board of Adjustment for Zoning Appeals (BOA) feeling confused and angered. Their attempts to obtain a variance for an additional 94 square feet to build a wheelchair-lift accessible accessory dwelling unit (ADU) felt to them like grasping for straws.
Long before the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act) and the...
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The NHS girls’ lacrosse team is growing, and quickly. Head Coach Moira Mahoney has led the effort to diversify the sport and her team to make lacrosse more available and welcoming. Photo courtesy of North High School
When Moira Mahoney was growing up in Philadelphia, she said lacrosse was a relatively exclusive sport dominated mostly by people who looked like her. Accessibility was low for a wide range of people, and traditionally, those...
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