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Last Updated: Jun. 12, 2018 · 7:39 p.m.

Cross Community Coalition founder Candi CdeBaca poses for a portrait before a CDOT meeting on the I-70 expansion project at the Swansea Rec Center, Feb 16, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Spurred by gentrification, a community activist seeks to displace Albus Brooks from his council seat

Candi CdeBaca expects to part of a coalition of candidates with a different approach to growth and development in the 2019 municipal elections.

Maxine Ichikawa and a trove of oxygen tanks that will last her about two weeks. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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With AC units and windows for 268 homes, CDOT asks neighbors to “pardon our dust”

CDOT and the city of Denver are setting aside $3.75 million for home upgrades as part of the mitigation for the I-70 expansion.

Flags on the National Western Center flap in the breeze.

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Globeville, Elyria-Swansea residents want a stronger voice in the National Western Center

Community activists think the neighborhoods that will bear the brunt of the impact of the project should have at least as much representation as CSU and the stock show.

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Raymunda Carreón and Ray G. stand inside the community garden at Focus Points. Members of the Globeville, Elyria-Swansea Coalition for Health and Housing Justice call for the creation of a community land trust, July 18, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Want to stop displacement? Globeville, Elyria-Swansea residents have a proposal

Views of Denver's City and County Building.

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Backers of I-300 want fewer rules for when and where you can use pot in public

Backers of I-300 sent a letter Thursday calling some of the agency's draft rules "unnecessary and overly burdensome" for businesses.

Activists hold up a puppet of Governor John Hickenlooper after interrupting his speech at the March for Science, April 22, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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The People’s Climate March is steering clear of Denver’s biggest local environmental justice issue this weekend

This march wasn't originally conceived as a response to the election of Donald Trump.

Mia Jane burns a jimmie at 4:22 inside the International Church of Cannabis on S. Logan Street, April 4, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Denver weed church Elevation Ministries has successful grand opening

Verde Natural CEO Rudy Ellenbogen inspects a bowl of trimmed marijuana buds at his Northeast Park Hill grow facility. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Should social marijuana business employees be trained to identify customers who are too high?

Denver councilwoman Kendra Black and others on the city's Social Consumption Advisory Committee said last month that regulators should consider requiring training for the staff of permitted social cannabis businesses.

The Art District on Santa Fe. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Initiative 300 gives neighborhood groups a big role, but some don’t want it

"There need to be more guidelines put in place before dumping that undue burden" on neighborhood groups, said one advisory committee member.

Marijuana hangs to cure at Verde Natural's Northeast Park Hill grow facility. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Opponents say barring pot use in many Denver bars and restaurants unwise

It turns out Initiative 300 won’t allow social marijuana use in bars

Bad news for Denverites eager to legally smoke a joint in a bar: State licensing officials have squashed that dream.

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