Change is both constant and unsettling. Our friends and neighbors experiencing homelessness or staring at the brink of homelessness know that feeling all too well. Maybe you, too, are a missed paycheck or two away from finding your housing in peril.
Christie Gosch
Covid Exposure Notification Technology Starts in Colorado Sunday, Oct. 25
On Sunday, Oct. 25, the Colorado Exposure Notifications App will go live. Your privacy is protected, but by activating the app, you can learn if you’ve potentially been exposed to Covid-19. View an explanatory powerpoint by the Colorado Dept of Health and Environment.
Knitting4Peace Projects and Fundraiser Nov. 2
Knitting4Peace volunteers across the U.S. make and deliver hand-crafted items to provide hope, comfort and support to marginalized or vulnerable people in local neighborhoods, as well as to individuals in global areas of conflict or suffering.
Back-to-School Pandemic-Style
When McAuliffe shared its hybrid learning plan with parents on back-to-school night September 17, the limits of learning during Covid became clear to many who had fantasized about a return to the traditional school day.
City Park Golf Course Tees Off
Denver’s historic City Park Golf Course reopened September 1 after years of major work and considerable controversy that spanned petitions, protests and even a lawsuit over the now-completed changes.
2020 Ballot Issues Explained (all 23 of them)
PLEASE NOTE: Information about Proposition 113, the National Popular Vote (NPV), is incorrect in the printed October issue. A “yes” vote will, in fact, keep Colorado in the NPV compact. Proposition 113 is correct in this online article and in our PDF link to a summary of the 23 state and city ballot questions. Consider printing our 5-page summary to note your decisions after researching questions in the 90-page Blue Book.
Two Former Colorado Senators Call for A “Citizens’ Firewall” to Resist Threats to the Election
“I’m very worried there are going to be hundreds if not thousands of people out there trying to suppress the vote,” says former Colorado Senator Tim Wirth.
Indie Prof reviews Challenger: The Final Flight
There are a few defining moments throughout history that tend to coalesce a generation around a shared experience, serve as a visceral and temporal marker, and whittle away any sense of innocence we may have left about the world.
NE News Updates
This month: 1) Day of the Dead–Celebrate Nov. 2 at Stanley; 2) Beer Garden on Dayton to Open by Late Nov.; 3) In-N-Out Burger at CPB and 46th? 4) High-Comfort Bike Lanes in NE; 5) Sprouts Opens; and 6) MLS To Return to Dick’s Sporting Goods Park.
Scouting Continues Despite Covid
Drive-up Court of Honor Ceremony for Troop 34 and Cub Scouts Pack 34 “Adopts” the Greenway.
Have you been close to confirmed Covid-19 cases? A map and an app will show you.
Covid-19 Colorado outbreak map and upcoming app will show if you’ve been near confirmed cases.
Will Voters Repeal Colorado’s National Popular Vote Law?
Long before he was a rapping, swaggering Broadway sensation, Alexander Hamilton was an unapologetic elitist. To be fair, Hamilton was not alone among the Founding Fathers in this regard. They created the Electoral College, with its electors as a buffer between the people and the president.