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Strengthening Tenant Rights Begins With Empowering Local Communities

By Alison Coombs and Hannah Gay KeaoApril 12, 2025

“Unscrupulous landlords and bad-faith housing actors have exploited our web of state and local housing laws to their advantage.”

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Judge: Newsmax Defamed Denver-Based Dominion Voting Systems

By Patricia CalhounApril 10, 2025

Dominion sued Newsmax over its 2020 election-denial reports, and a trial is set for April 28. But will the case make it to a jury?

What Netflix’s Forrest Fenn Treasure Hunt Docuseries Tries to Bury

What Netflix’s Forrest Fenn Treasure Hunt Docuseries Tries to Bury

By Michael RobertsApril 9, 2025

As many as eight people may have died looking for Fenn’s gold.

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Reader: The RiNo Restaurant Scene Is Becoming a Chain Gang

By Westword ReadersApril 6, 2025

Jeff Osaka closed Osaka Sushi in February. Now he’s shuttering the original Sushi-Rama on April 12.

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Reader: Be the Real Change and Trade in That Tesla

By Westword StaffApril 6, 2025

Coloradans have protested Elon Musk both at the State Capitol and at his dealerships.

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You Are Safe Here: A Doctor’s Perspective

By Jennifer SantosApril 6, 2025

“ICE officials should not be allowed to enter hospitals, public health facilities or clinics.”

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Sundance Could Destroy What Is Special About Boulder

By John RockApril 5, 2025

As Chief Niwot said, “People seeing the beauty of this valley will want to stay, and their staying will be the undoing of the beauty.”

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What Does a “Vibrant” Denver Look Like? Housing Must Be at the Center

By My-Linh Nguyen Luong and Shannon HoffmanApril 5, 2025

“There is no infrastructure need more urgent than safe, permanently affordable and community-controlled housing.”

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Measles Cases Are on the Rise: Here’s How to Make Sure You’re Protected

By The ConversationApril 1, 2025

The first confirmed case in the state is in Pueblo.

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Reader: The Radio Here Is Very Bland, Catering to the Blander “Denver Sound”

By Westword ReadersMarch 30, 2025

Yes, people still listen to music the old-fashioned way…and here’s what they should listen to on the radio.

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Reader: Sundance in Boulder Sounds Like the End of a Feel-Good Movie!

By Westword ReadersMarch 30, 2025

Robert Redford, who founded the film festival in Utah in 1981, went to the University of Colorado…briefly.

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Reader: Hacienda Colorado Is an Insult to Real Mexican Food

By Westword ReadersMarch 30, 2025

Why eat corporate Tex-Mex when there are authentic mom-and-pop places?

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It Shouldn’t Matter Where Your Parents Had Sex: Rebuttal From a Transplant

By Chris MillerMarch 30, 2025

“We are not the only state home to more migrants than ‘natives,’ but darned if there’s a better state.”

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Colorado and Other States Have Expanded Access to Abortion, but Not for Adolescents

By Kate Coleman-MinahanMarch 30, 2025

Each year, tens of thousands of young people are affected by parental involvement laws, which threaten their ability to make their own pregnancy decisions.

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Reader: The Mercury Was the Heart and Soul of This City

By Westword ReadersMarch 29, 2025

We asked for your favorite memories of the Merc, and you answered….

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Reader: We Also Like This Place You Love, and We’re Here to Stay

By Westword ReadersMarch 29, 2025

Lane Newlin grew up in Castle Rock in the 2000s, and he doesn’t like the changes he sees in his hometown…or much of Colorado. And he’s not alone.

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Foreign IP Violators Could Halt Colorado’s New Gold Rush

By Kristina AcriMarch 29, 2025

With more than 270,000 workers producing a fifth of Colorado’s economic output, this 21st-century boom could be more lucrative than the 19th-century one.

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Lauren Boebert Faces Her Constituents…Sort of

By Teague BohlenMarch 27, 2025

And about that suggestion that the District of Columbia become the District of America…

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Remembering Brian Vogt, a Man Who Cultivated Ideas, Institutions…and Community

By Patricia CalhounMarch 26, 2025

As the CEO of the Denver Botanic Gardens, he grew an aging institution into the most vibrant, accessible spot in the city.

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Egg Prices Soar as Outdated Supply Chains Crack Under Pressure

By Jack BuffingtonMarch 25, 2025

Cage-free laws are not the main driver of rising prices.

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Medal of Honor Museum Opens Today in Texas: It Could Have Been Here!

By Patricia CalhounMarch 25, 2025

Arlington got a new museum. We got a gravel patch.

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Complaints From a Concerned Coloradan (White Guy in a Sandwich Shop)

By Lane NewlinMarch 23, 2025

I’m very proud of us, but we have a lot of work to do.

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