About 50 to 60 tents have been set up on the lawn of the Tivoli Quad on the Auraria Campus. It is now day #6 of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. #Denver #AurariaCampus

This isn't the first time #SoManyRoads has been shut down (or said it's going to shut down), but it is the first time since co-founder Jay Bianchi was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault, so it seems likely to stick. For The Denver Post denverpost.com/2024/04/30/so-…

I've covered campus activism since the late 90s. Nothing that's happening on campuses now -- sit ins, building takeovers, encampments -- is at all outside the standard vernacular of student protest.

What's unusual is administrators calling in riot cops on their own students

A second jury trial is scheduled for the ex-Clear Creek County sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed Christian Glass, signaling the criminal prosecution will continue just days after jurors failed to reach a verdict on the murder charge in an initial trial.
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A week-long trial was held in downtown Denver to determine whether a painting is a forgery or a real José Velasco — and what its sellers owed its buyers. businessden.com/2024/04/30/art…

I talked to employees from #MeowWolfDenver who were laid off, or resigned, as part of the wave of cost-cutting this month. All are worried it's irreparably damaged what was once a playground for creativity. For The Denver Post denverpost.com/2024/04/29/meo…

New: Colorado Senate passes the proposed ballot measure that would strip anti-same-sex marriage language from state constitution. Several Senate Republicans join with House Democrats in supporting it. Measure now heads to the House. Background: denverpost.com/2024/04/23/col…

NEW: Suzanne Morphew, the missing Chaffee County woman whose remains were discovered in September in Saguache County, died by homicide and a cocktail of drugs were found in her body, according to the CBI denverpost.com/2024/04/29/suz… by Shelly Bradbury and Noelle Phillips

Can't tell you how thrilled I was to hear the elusive Kevin Seal pop up on @daveholmes' new podcast charting the rise and fall of MTV
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In today's The Denver Post, a deep dive from Meg Wingerter on why Denver Health fell into dire financial straits and what would happen if the hospital failed. Health care system would need “historic shift” to make safety-net hospitals’ finances less precarious denverpost.com/2024/04/28/den…

I don't blame record stores for wanting to be neat & tidy but there's something special about a place like the Double Nickels Collective in Tempe where all the stock is out of control & overflowing & you have to step over boxes of LPs & and you get to pet a dog.

Final The Denver Post coverage of protests and dozens of arrests at Denver’s Auraria campus today, from me and Lauren Penington. #highered #edcolo denverpost.com/2024/04/26/den…

A view of the encampment from around 8 p.m. this evening from The Metropolitan

A small group followed Johnston and Thomas to a waiting SUV on 11th Street.

“The only closure it brings me is that this (expletive) is over,” Sheneen McClain, Elijah’s mother, said after the sentencing of former paramedic Jeremy Cooper to 14 months of jail work-release and 4 years probation. “I’m done with that” denverpost.com/2024/04/26/jer… by Shelly Bradbury

New: Bird flu confirmed in Colorado dairy cows as outbreak spreads
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Denver lawmakers and other officials release statement calling for “immediate and unconditional immunity” for protesters arrested at Auraria Campus.

Tattered Cover could have new owners by summer as bookstore files new bankruptcy reorganization plan denverpost.com/2024/04/26/tat… by Judith Kohler