Kevin Beaty

Visual journalist

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

They're telling people they need to pack up and leave over "environmental health" concerns. And rats.

A lot of people have said they're not getting letters and the like.

Yes, they're domesticated.

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The State of the State address given each year by Colorado's governor is serious business, except when it's not.

And chihuahuas might be Denver's most on-the-loose pets.

Wes Brown, Denver's "map guy," has everything we need to see the transformations take place.

There's a lot going on in here (because there's a lot going on out there).

“It was people just running all over the place.”

“A lot of people were upset,” Campbell said. “I felt bad.”

We ground-truthed the trope.