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Once again, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration is targeting kratom products sold in Colorado that are believed to be tainted with salmonella.

On Friday evening, June 22, the owner of a Red Hen restaurant in Virginia refused to serve White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders for a reason with a strong Colorado flavor — the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop, whose main man, Jack Phillips, said he wouldn’t make a wedding cake for a gay couple because of his religious beliefs.

How much does someone need to make in salary to afford the a median-priced house in the Denver today? A new report puts that total at more than $87,000, a figure out of reach for a large number of residents.

On Saturday, June 23, a McDonald’s in Lakewood will be ground zero for Denver-area protesters taking part in a nationwide demonstration against the giant chain over alleged mistreatment of chickens that are subsequently turned into McNuggets.

Ten percent of the project’s 234 units were set aside for affordable housing.

Here’s what no one wants to admit about the continuing clusterfuck over the naming of the Denver Broncos’ stadium: The deal would have been done by now if the squad was still a perennial Super Bowl contender with Peyton Manning at quarterback. But it’s not. The Broncos sucked two years ago and sucked harder last year, and plenty of experts (and doubters) expect the suckage to continue for the foreseeable future. And what company wants its brand to be Suck?

Real estate values in Denver continue to climb higher and higher, thus far defying predictions from earlier this year that metro area home prices might finally be on the verge of falling. One big reason appears to be comparatively few foreclosures in Denver, other major Colorado cities and the state as a whole.

Like its sister paper, the Denver Post, the Boulder Daily Camera has suffered layoffs and downsizing aplenty of late. But in the coming months, the Camera will be hiring, sort of. Unfortunately, though, the positions at Prairie Mountain Publishing, its parent company, will come at the expense of the Boston Herald, ten to fifteen of whose employees were given their walking papers last week.

Where will the money for the Floyd Hill I-70 proposal come from? Wasn’t the giant transportation bill passed by the Colorado General Assembly during the 2018 legislative session supposed to fund projects like this one? And if not, why not?

Although it’s still possible to find a single family, detached home in the Denver area for under $250,000, such properties are in extremely short supply. According to a new report, there were only 150 active listings for such abodes priced at less than $300,000 last month, as compared to nearly 900 going for $1 million or more.

Within a month, Civil Media Company hopes to have more than a dozen such publications in the works.

In March, the average price of a detached, single-family home in metro Denver surpassed $500,000 for the first time. But that’s already seeming like the good old days.

New figures for June 2018 show the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment within Denver’s city limits is just a shade under $2,000 per month, and that figure has been surpassed in a popular suburb for the first time this year.

The founder of Denver FUGLY says Denver needs coddling as much a criticism.

Metropolitan State University of Denver students have a new mission: preventing the Earth from being destroyed by asteroids.

Given the move away from brick-and-mortar retail outlets, particularly enormous ones, and the growing popularity of online shopping, will vacant box stores in metro Denver ever be filled?

Frontier’s pilots are the most underpaid in the industry by a wide margin. After years of fruitless negotiations, they’re ready to strike right now, on the cusp of the busy summer travel season.

At a press conference that concluded moments ago, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Colorado Senator Cory Gardner, a political odd couple if ever there was one, explained why they’ve teamed up to introduce a marijuana-related bill called the Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States Act.

House flipping, as its known, is commonplace in today’s red hot Denver housing market, as shown in new numbers that reveal the metro-area zip codes where it’s happening most frequently and the often huge windfalls that can result.

The ten most expensive apartments for rent in metro Denver right now demonstrate that the market for high-end residences shows no sign of lagging. The two priciest go for more than $10,000 per month.

To the surprise of absolutely no one, the Winter Games Exploratory Committee has announced that Denver and Colorado can and should pursue bids for future Olympic and Paralympic events. However, the concept calls for an approach that wouldn’t require direct funding from taxpayers and recommends that any efforts in regard to 2020 and beyond be submitted to a statewide vote in advance.

Average rent prices in Denver right now continue to rise, with no end in sight, and a new report makes it clear that cost increases in the Mile High are among the worst in the country. Of twenty major U.S. cities, it shows that rent in Denver has gone up more in sheer dollars than in all but two of them.