Activists have recently inundated community meetings urging the removal of the name Stapleton from the neighborhood due to Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton’s Klan ties during the 1920s.
Who was Ben Stapleton?
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Politics
Choosing A School Board Representative
Have you heard? There’s a school board election coming up next month—time to start paying attention.
Vote in 7 Categories on the Denver Bond
Total Bond $937.42 Million*
Editorial: Meet CORA — A Citizen’s Best Friend
If you want to be an informed citizen but can’t go to all the public meetings and track down all the public documents, you’ll be happy to know the Colorado legislature has taken a step that will help you.
“Choice” A complex election issue
In the upcoming school board election, voters will choose representatives to make decisions that will drive DPS policy in the future.
Editorial: Navigating in Uncharted Territory
We, like the majority of our nation, were shocked and horrified to see overt Nazi symbolism in the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia.
A Letter from Our Community Leaders
We are deeply disturbed by the escalation of hateful sentiment and shocked and horrified by the events in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Face to Face with Human Rights Issues
Fazal Sheikh’s portraits convey more than just faces; they tell the stories of people surviving and triumphing over unimaginable hardships.
Mayor Hancock Gives State of City Speech at Hiawatha Davis Rec.
A standing-room-only crowd came to Hiawatha Davis Jr. Recreation Center in Park Hill to hear Mayor Michael Hancock’s State of the City speech on July 10.
Bennet’s Town Hall Packs Montview Church
It was standing-room-only on Friday, May 19, as hundreds of people squeezed into the pews of Montview Blvd. Presbyterian Church to attend a town hall with U.S. Senator Michael Bennet.
Outcome of the 2016-17 Legislative Session
The tentative optimism conveyed by area legislators in January regarding the upcoming session of the Colorado General Assembly appears to have been justified.
Proposed NIH Cuts “Risk Losing a Generation of Scientists”
The budget proposal put forth by the current administration seeks a 19 percent cut in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a federal agency that is responsible for conducting medical research and funding it at centers across the country.
