Denver Council votes down rezoning for private pool in West Highland

Denver Council votes down rezoning for private pool in West Highland

The Denver City Council on Monday voted 11-1 to reject a rezoning proposal that would have opened the door for a private pool to be constructed just off of West 38th Avenue in the West Highland neighborhood. A majority of council members found that that request did not meet the criteria for changing the types … Read more

Why the last butcher left in New York’s Meatpacking District is ready to pack up shop

Why the last butcher left in New York’s Meatpacking District is ready to pack up shop

When John Jobbagy’s grandfather immigrated from Budapest in Hungary to the United States in 1900, he joined a throng of European butchers chopping up and shipping off meat in a loud, smelly corner of Manhattan that New Yorkers called the Meatpacking District. Jobbagy and the other tenants in the district’s last meat market have accepted … Read more

Why DPS says it must close Denver schools to avert “full-blown crisis”

Why DPS says it must close Denver schools to avert “full-blown crisis”

Carrie Olson remembers the first time she was told Denver Public Schools would need to close schools because fewer babies were being born. She had only been on the Board of Education for a year or two when the state demographer predicted the difficult decision that Olson — first elected in 2017 — and her … Read more

Protests in Spain, Prague’s pub crawl ban. Mass tourism pressure mounts in European hubs

Protests in Spain, Prague’s pub crawl ban. Mass tourism pressure mounts in European hubs

Pressure continues to grow in popular European travel destinations for a response to the negative impacts of mass tourism. This week the Czech capital, Prague, announced a ban on organised nighttime pub crawls. It came a day after residents in Spain’s two biggest cities marched in protest against rising property prices amid housing shortages they … Read more

DPS enrollment projected to fall by more than 6,300 students by 2028

DPS enrollment projected to fall by more than 6,300 students by 2028

Denver Public Schools projects 6,338 fewer children will attend its schools within the next five years as the declining K-12 enrollment continues to hit Colorado districts – and their budgets – despite the unexpected boost from last year’s surge of migrant students. Enrollment in Colorado’s largest district is expected to fall 8.3% from 76,157 K-12 … Read more

East Colfax communities in Denver and Aurora seek help staying in area

East Colfax communities in Denver and Aurora seek help staying in area

Photographs line the walls, plants sit on windowsills and a Buddhist altar is arranged atop a dresser. Nearly every surface of the living room is covered by an item or memento collected by Thin Soe, Ye Ye Thin and their five children over the years in their three-bedroom apartment in Denver’s East Colfax neighborhood. Since … Read more