Author: Denver Gazette
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SWAT officers respond to reported hostage situation at Colorado motel
The Thornton and Northglenn police departments responded to a reported hostage situation Tuesday afternoon at a Motel 6 near Interstate 25, according to the Thornton Police Department. SWAT and negotiators went to the motel at 6 W. 83rd Place, where police believe a man barricaded inside has held a hostage. Crisis negotiators have been trying to…
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LETTERS: Homeowners under attack
Homeowners under attack One of the foremost ground rules stated in advance of the public hearing and ultimate vote by the Denver City Council for the group living amendment to the zoning code, on the evening of Feb. 8, was that personal attacks weren’t going to be allowed or tolerated. Repeatedly, during the course of…
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LETTERS: Actually remove the snow; importance of clean indoor air
Actually remove the snow A few years ago Denver began a policy to plow residential streets after it snows. I have watched and participated in this moronic policy since its implementation. Denver sends contractors with pickup truck mounted plows up and down residential streets and the result is this. The plow comes down the street…
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LETTERS: Missing a silenced voice; America’s precarious future
Missing a silenced voice I remember first listening to Rush Limbaugh in my mom’s Suburban when I was a young teenager. Rush voiced for my mom and millions of other conservatives what they thought. Rush was the one place for over 30 years that conservatives could go to hear the values and opinions they felt,…
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LETTERS: Voters have a long memory; issue of climate change
Voters have a long memory 11-2 was the vote FOR the passage of the hotly contested ordinance change to allow up to 5 unrelated adults and any number of children to reside in any neighborhood in any group living home. The 11 council persons who voted FOR will see this haunt them come re-election time…
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State ready to take new claims from contract workers Feb. 22
Colorado labor officials announced the department’s new cloud-based technology has been programmed to begin accepting new claims from contract workers starting on Feb. 22, almost two months after those benefits expired. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment switched to the new system Jan. 10, and it needed to be programmed to pay unemployment benefits…
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LETTERS:An attack on single family homes; group living plan not for homeowners
Attack on single family homes Let me define what the letters (GLA) Group Living Amendment mean to me living in Montbello. The end of SFH (Single Family Homes) and further degradation of my neighborhood. I have given up on convincing the convinced (i.e., the City Council) this initiative is unwanted and unfair to those of…
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LETTERS: Paige column was right; how much more can we take?
Paige column was right Woodie Paige is right on with Sundays column on the Rockies baseball. He is the reason I subscribe to the paper. As soon as I saw his name on the staff, I signed up, remembering his work on the old Rocky Mountain News. I am not a relative, nor have I…
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LETTERS: Time for government transparency; most vulnerable time
Government transparency I frequent a nice Italian Pizzeria with an owner who follows the COVID protocols at the expense of his business. I am actually amazed at how diligent he has been at following the state and county guidelines. He recently sent a letter begging for the state and county leadership to shed some light…
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Colorado inoculates first patients with COVID-19 vaccine
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado received its first shipment of the coronavirus vaccine and inoculated its first recipients Monday, launching a months-long vaccination process that health officials hope will start to have meaningful effects on limiting transmission of the disease in the state by late spring. Just after 8…