North Denver News

By Philip Taylor Sidewalks are the cornerstone of a vibrant, cohesive and equitable community. They connect neighbors and provide a vital link to places like parks, schools, grocery stores and bus stops. For those who are pushing a stroller, disabled or without a car, sidewalks keep us safe from deadly encounters with traffic. Yet Denver currently has 300 miles of roads with no sidewalks and 830 miles of sidewalks that are too narrow... Read more...

By Philip Taylor Sidewalks are the cornerstone of a vibrant, cohesive and equitable community. They connect neighbors and provide a vital link to places like parks, schools, grocery stores and bus stops. For those who are pushing a stroller, disabled or without a car, sidewalks keep us safe from deadly encounters with traffic. Yet Denver currently has 300 miles of roads with no sidewalks and 830 miles of sidewalks that are too narrow... Read more...

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... Read more...

Happy December! Thank you for reading The Denver North Star. We hope you’re enjoying the last issue of 2021. We strongly believe that news should be free and easily available to everyone, which is why we don’t have subscriptions and deliver a print newspaper to our community. About 85% of our funding comes from the local advertisers you see in each issue. The other 15% is from grants and readers like you. Please help us meet our... Read more...

Regis’ Safe Outdoor Space has been operating since June. Photo courtesy of Colorado Village Collaborative When you tell the universe, “I desire to work with a small, scrappy nonprofit that needs my communications and connecting skills,” hold on tightly; your wish might come true. I left my director of communications position at Regis University, a stellar institution of higher education with a Jesuit Catholic orientation, to work for... Read more...