Kevin Beaty

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kbeaty@denverite.com @kevinjbeaty @kevinjbeaty

Staunch creative and engineer of .gifs, photos, video, illustrations and sometimes words. Find him on Twitter and Instagram at @kevinjbeaty.

Josh (left to right), Junebug and MJ Weiss, out for a walk along the 6th Avenue Parkway on the edge of Denver's Hilltop neighborhood. Oct. 1, 2020.

Vanishing dog poop trashcans are a sign of things to come for Denver’s budget

Councilwoman Amanda Sawyer is organizing volunteers to fill the need.

Vicki Vargas-Madrid, administrator of Denver’s wildlife program, trains volunteers how to set and maintain coyote cutouts meant to scare geese. Sept. 28, 2020.

People were upset when Denver killed a bunch of geese, so they’re helping scare them away to avoid more culling

Autumn is fake coyote season in the world of goose mitigation.

Taylor Best-Anderson at work inside Seeds of Potential, Wompost's mobile plant store, currently parked at Montview Boulevard at Clinton Street. Sept. 17, 2020.

You can buy plants inside a bus near Stanley Marketplace

You may leave with a greater appreciation of composting.

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DPS school board member Tay Anderson leads hundreds of demonstrators through downtown Denver on Sept. 23 in Denver.

Men with guns were stopped by police at a downtown Denver protest. A local livestreamer says he hired them as security.

Organizers of protests for racial justice say the streamer, Joseph A. Camp, has harassed them for months.

First-time voter MaLinda Medina fills out her ballot outside of her home in Five Points, June 4, 2019. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Election

Here’s everything you need to know about signing your Denver ballot so it’s not rejected

And it begins with a personal tale of failure.

Hailey Bauer in training at the Denver Fencing Center in Ruby Hill. Aug. 20, 2020.

A Denver gym wants to be a nationwide hub for wheelchair sword fighting

The Denver Fencing Center got $20,000 to establish its paralympic program.

Stella Yu holds a picture of Gary Eloriaga, who died from COVID-19 in March. He will be memorialized here ouside of the Redline Contemporary Art Center as part of the COVID Walls project. Sept. 3, 2020.

A COVID-19 portrait project aims to keep those lost from being forgotten

There's a bucket of glue waiting for you at RedLine art space if you want to paste your own portrait on the growing wall of victims, survivors and front line workers.

Winter in the South Platte. Dec. 26, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Yes, it will probably snow Tuesday in Denver. Here’s why.

Labor Day is the end of summer, right?

Dr. Sterling McLaren, a pathology fellow with the city's Office of the Medical Examiner, at work on Aug. 25, 2020.

Denver’s coroners, our advocates for the dead, are busier than ever

Violent crime and overdoses have spiked as the city has worked to spend less on personnel.

It's mostly blue skies over Denver after many days of wildfire haze. Aug. 27, 2020.

How to keep tabs on Denver air quality and figure out when to maybe stay inside

Right now, experts recommend using national tools, but the city is working on a Denver-centric app to help keep your lungs happy.

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