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Changing a Neighborhood’s Name

August 1, 2020 / Carol Roberts / Central Park, Community Issues, Community Organization / No Comments

Stapleton United Neighbors announced in a Zoom meeting on Aug. 1 that 63% of the final vote favored Central Park for the new name. This is the story of how that name came to be.

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Stapleton’s Name Will Change. What Will Be the New Name?

July 1, 2020 / Martina Will, PhD and Carol Roberts / Central Park, Community Issues, National Issues / 4 Comments

Seeing the massive change in community awareness of racism after George Floyd’s death, representatives of neighborhood groups and the city quickly started on the path toward a new name for the Stapleton neighborhood. At the same time, individuals in the community, through rallies and yard signs, are showing their support for the protests and for Black lives.

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Covid-19 Denver Update

July 1, 2020 / Community Issues, Denver News, Health & Wellness / 1 Comment

Though Denver was on target for hospitalizations, testing and positivity rates as of June 24, officials stated strongly that masks need to be worn “for the foreseeable future.”

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CO Among First in Nation to Enact Legislation Law Enforcement Integrity Act

July 1, 2020 / Martina Will, PhD / Community Issues, State Issues / 1 Comment

With Gov. Polis’ signing of the Law Enforcement Accountability and Integrity Act on June 19, Colorado became the first state in the nation to implement comprehensive police reform since the brutal killing of George Floyd ignited nationwide protests.

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Q&A with Chief Pazen

July 1, 2020 / Community Issues, Denver News, Public Safety / No Comments

Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen held a virtual town hall on June 3 to listen to community concerns and respond to questions. The Front Porch transcribed questions from that session and edited for length and clarity.

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Talking to Children About Race & Racism

July 1, 2020 / Martina Will, PhD / Community Issues, Kids, Parenting / No Comments

Children are not colorblind. Even infants recognize differences we ascribe to race.

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Covid’s Long-Term Impact on Medicine

July 1, 2020 / Martina Will, PhD / Community Issues, Health & Wellness, Technology / No Comments

“For 30 years we’ve been talking about tele-medicine and thinking around the edges, but there’ve been policy barriers to really doing it on a broad scale, and Medicare and Medicaid pay only for very limited things; this pandemic really opened the floodgates to tele-health and tele-medicine, and we’ve learned very quickly how to scale this work up.”

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2020 Grads Roll into an Unknown Future

June 1, 2020 / Grace Adams / Community Issues, Events, National Issues / No Comments

As schools shut down across the country in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, students have had to adapt to a new reality—and seniors in college and high school are trying to creatively reevaluate what they had thought were firm plans for graduation and their futures.

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How is living through a pandemic like living through a war?

June 1, 2020 / Julie Peterson, History Colorado Center / Community Issues, History / No Comments

As we confront uncertainty, fear, and even death in the coronavirus pandemic, we know Coloradans experienced similar traumas in World Wars I and II. Then, the community came together to face a common enemy—but also fell prey to xenophobia and racism as they looked for someone to blame.

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Controlling the coronavirus: Where we stand. Where we’re going.

June 1, 2020 / Carol Roberts / Community Issues, Health & Wellness, Public Safety / 1 Comment

How is Denver doing at flattening the curve? What symptoms are Denverites reporting and how does that help track illness in the community—even before tests are done? Are we having Covid outbreaks in our grocery stores? What should we do when someone isn’t wearing a mask in the grocery store? What is the projection for how well the virus will be contained in coming months?
And, in a broader view, why do bats spread pathogens; and how are llamas contributing to possible treatments?

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