Kevin Beaty

Visual journalist

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.

View of Denver Union Stock Yards Company cattle pens and the Omaha and Grant smelter smokestack in the distance, circa 1915. (Louis Charles McClure/Denver Public Library/Western History Collection/MCC-4205)

As a big chunk of a Superfund nears closing, north Denver residents worry polluted soils still pose a threat

One environmental challenge of growth: contamination laying in soil that's now being dug up for redevelopment.

Carlos Blanco speaks with a reporter in his home in Denver's Barnum neighborhood, Dec. 7, 2018. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Most undocumented immigrants in the U.S. are longtime residents. One in Denver faces possible deportation this week.

Carlos Blanco faces a judge on Tuesday after he was pulled over in 2011.

Neighborhood Parking in the Speer neighborhood. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Getaround launches in Denver, letting you rent your car to a perfect stranger

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Cher Chrichlow announces winning ideas in the "Cole Has A Soul" participatory budgeting project during an event at the St. Charles Recreation Center, Dec. 1, 2018. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Cole neighborhood will spend $30,000 on exactly what its residents want

Money from a Warm Cookies of the Revolution project will be distributed through a participatory budgeting process.

A photo of charred pro-Amendment A canvassing materials on Jumoke Emery-Brown's porch. He posted this to his Facebook page on Nov. 5, 2018. (Courtesy: Jumoke Emery-Brown)

While hate crimes in Denver have dropped, total reported incidents have risen in recent years

A recent emphasis on recording bias-motivated crimes and hate speech may account for the rising numbers.

Speer Boulevard seen from The Confluence Denver, Oct. 26, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

New rules will keep Colorado’s vehicle pollution standards high as federal rules get lighter

About half of the passenger vehicles registered in Colorado last year came from Denver and its surrounding counties. The federal government is cutting back on emissions standards, but a vote last week will ensure the state will continue to cut their pollution after 2022.

A wall of portraits of people that Casa De Paz has hosted over the years. They've since moved to a new location. March 27, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Airbnb is preparing to engage Denverites to house refugees and people displaced by disaster

The company has reached out to Casa De Paz, a hospitality house serving people exiting immigration detention, to find willing participants.

Betsy Hall, assistant dean and professor at Regis University's division of counseling and family therapy, embraces Phyllis Graham-Dickerson after the vigil. Students and faculty at Regis University gather to denounce an incident of hate speech on campus, Nov. 7, 2018. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Regis University takes a stand against hate speech on campus, as it’s done before

“This is a cross burning in 2018”: Denver anti-slavery advocate finds burned election materials on his porch

Sashikala Rubio-Rodriguez canvasses for the Coloado Immigrants Rights Coalition in Thornton, Nov. 1, 2018. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Here’s who Denver-area Democrats and Republicans are trying to reach as Election Day draws near

They're both talking to Spanish-speakers — and many others.

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