Copyright 2017 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. DENVER – Colorado’s system of community colleges is a great way for many students to explore an education closer to home and at a lower cost. The two-year schools award more than 9,000 degrees and certificates eachRead More…
The Colorado state track and field championships at Jeffco Stadium have been postponed due to inclement weather, the Colorado High School Activities Association announced Thursday. The meet, which was supposed to begin Thursday and go through Saturday, is now a two-day event that will run Saturday and Sunday. There will be no preliminaries; running eventsRead More…
Denver Pioneers face-off specialist Trevor Baptiste #9 heads down field with the ball after a face-off against Air Force Falcons Trent Harper #33 in the first quarter in the first round of the NCAA playoffs at Peter Barton Stadium May 13, 2017 in Denver. Tewaaraton Award finalist Trevor Baptiste proved Saturday why he could becomeRead More…
Donald Burnes, founder of the University of Denver’s Burnes Center on Poverty and Homelessness. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite) It’s a pretty widespread idea and one for which it’s not hard to find anecdotal evidence. This would be the idea that Colorado in general and Denver in particular have gone to pot, with hordes of homeless peopleRead More…
Copyright 2017 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. DENVER – It’s not exactly a secret, but Colorado has some of the nation’s best high schools. That was reinforced again Tuesday, when 15 Colorado high schools earned gold medals in the just-released 2017 U.S. News andRead More…
I-70 Reimagined We’ve reached an important crossroads regarding the future of Colorado highway transportation. Diverging paths lead to different destinations. Our elected leaders urge widening I-70, creating a huge traffic canyon gouged into the low-income North Denver ethnic minority communities of Globeville, Elyria, and Swansea. To protect this planned 40-foot-deep, the 23-lane-equivalent section of I-70Read More…
In this article, we will discuss the history of Denver, Colorado. In the summer of 1858 during the Gold Rush, a prospector named Lawrence Kansas established Montana City. Along the South Platte River in the Western Kansas territory, the first settlement was made. The area quickly grew during the Gold Rush, bringing many prospectors intoRead More…
