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Teach Your Children Well: Facts vs. Opinions vs. Robots

March 1, 2021 / Tracy Wolfer-Osborne / Community Issues, Kids / No Comments

Rex’s book is described as a “Primer for kids growing up in an era when facts are considered debatable and opinions are oft expressed loudly and without empathy.

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Your Hidden Investment in Precious Metals Is at Risk

March 1, 2021 / Carol Roberts / Community Issues, National Issues / No Comments

If you have a gas-powered vehicle, you have three to seven grams of precious metals in your catalytic converter.

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Why does Central Park have two special districts?

March 1, 2021 / Central Park, Community Issues, Community Organization / No Comments

The Park Creek and Westerly Creek Metropolitan Districts were created in 2000 to establish governmental entities that would fund and construct infrastructure for the redevelopment of the abandoned Stapleton airport.

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…NE News Updates

March 1, 2021 / Carol Roberts / Announcements, Aurora, Central Park, Community Issues, Denver News, Development, News Updates, Transportation / No Comments

This month: 1) Central 70 Drainage System Nearing Completion 2) 168 Apartments Coming to Stanley 3) Special District Taxes in Central Park. 4) Westerly Creek Metro District has a vacancy on its board.

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Can We Bridge the Divide?

December 1, 2020 / Mary Jo Brooks / Community Issues, Elections, Politics / No Comments

While the election and presidential transition continued to dominate the news well into November, the Front Porch asked a group of NE Denver residents for their thoughts on bridging the great political divide in our country.

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Congregations Find their Way during the Pandemic

November 1, 2020 / Mary Jo Brooks / Community Issues / No Comments

Seven months after most houses of worship in Denver were forced to temporarily close to prevent the spread of Covid-19, religious leaders have found new ways of conducting services, including livestreaming sermons, holding outdoor baptisms and bar mitzvahs, and offering drive-by communion. “They didn’t teach us in rabbinical school how to make a TV studio in our basement but that’s what I had to do,” says Rabbi Joe Black from Temple Emanuel.

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Police Training: “Stress Inoculation”

November 1, 2020 / Martina Will, PhD / Community Issues, National Issues, Public Safety, State Issues / No Comments

Law enforcement may well be the only profession where you can be called upon to change a tire, address neighbors’ disputes over barking dogs, intervene on behalf of someone who has been physically battered by a spouse, and talk down a gunman. All in one day. “Regardless of the purpose of the call,” says Capt. Sylvia Sich, the 38-year Denver Police Department veteran now in charge of the Police Academy, “that is the most important thing happening in that person’s life right now…And you respond to it that way.”

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Getting by with pods—but what is the long term cost?

September 1, 2020 / Martina Will, PhD / Community Issues, Schools/Education / No Comments

What may be the long term implications of pods on public education? In the long term, could it lead to middle class and wealthier parents’ divestment from public schools?

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…NE News Updates

September 1, 2020 / Carol Roberts and Martina Will, PhD / Announcements, Community Issues, Development, News Updates / No Comments

This month: 1) NE Denver Summer Crime Statistics; 2) I-70 Nighttime Noise Variance Approved; 3) Planning Board Recommends Zoning Code Changes for Group Living; 4) StoryCorps: Submit Thoughts on Central Park Name Change 5) New City Park Golf Course Opens 6) Reminiscences from 1966 & 1946 and 7) Youth Program Locator

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Covid-19’s Long-Term Impact on City Planning

September 1, 2020 / Martina Will, PhD / Affordable Housing, Community Issues, Denver News, Development / No Comments

Two former city councilmen share their thoughts on long-term impacts of the pandemic, particularly on economic development and housing. Proposed zoning changes for group housing and allowing accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in single-family zoning have raised concerns among some homeowners, as evidenced by this yard sign.

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