Denver in 5 minutes: What you need to know today, July 31
It’s the last day of two excellent events: The Underground Music Showcase, which brings a really wonderful variety to downtown Denver, and the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival, which is super popular for both obvious and subtle reasons.
Sadly, we weren’t invited to the Koch brothers’ “exclusive weekend retreat” in Colorado, and maybe neither did Donald Trump. Once again, there’s not much love between the billionaires and the maybe-a-billionaire.
In other Trump-Colorado news, his own team probably got him stuck in an elevator here. In other dragon-boat news, Darryl Glenn’s team is not particularly good at dragon boating.
Meanwhile, environmentalists are planning to focus some of their campaigning in Colorado in this year’s elections. (The Hill)
Over at the Denver Post, the columnist Woodie Paige just wrote his last column before departing for the Colorado Springs Gazette. (DP)
Meanwhile, the Post finds that Colorado does a remarkably bad job of checking doctors’ criminal records. As a result, one kept practicing for years here after losing his license to fraud allegations elsewhere. (DP)

Protesters demand justice for Tyre Nichols at Colorado State Capitol after footage released

Denver’s McNichols building warming center is open now through Wednesday morning

RTD wants to ban passengers from riding with nowhere to go

Here are the mayoral candidates who qualified for the ballot

Rude Rec Center to reopen Monday after hosting emergency migrant shelter

Things to do in Denver this weekend, Jan. 27-29


Calling all divers: Casa Bonita is hiring hundreds

Lisa Calderón’s 2019 Denver mayor campaign website is being held for ransom — and it’s messing with her 2023 race

Leslie Herod’s community safety plan will be a hot topic in the Denver mayor’s race. Here’s where she stands on crime

Denverites have raised their own sales taxes more than 30 percent in the last few years

Denver nonprofit that broke ground on a new $37 million youth shelter this week loses state funding

Laura Brudzynski is Denver’s new chief housing officer

Denver mayoral candidate Mike Johnston is a “fundraising machine”

Nearly half of Denver voters polled don’t have a mayor pick

Kwame Spearman wants to be Denver’s neighborhood mayor. What does that mean?

Security firm Pinkerton has reapplied for a license in Denver

That mailer about Council Member CdeBaca was probably legal

Denver metro apartment vacancy is rising, as rents dropped $32 in the last three months of 2022
