Month: February 2020
2/21/20
- Denver restaurant El Taco de Mexico receives the prestigious America’s Classics Award from the James Beard Foundation.
- Denver Restaurant Week runs from February 22 to March 3.
- Civic Center Park hosts the first annual Downtown Open Rail Jam, featuring a 90-foot snow slope structure and musical performances.
- 11,000 people show up to a Bernie Sanders rally in Denver. More Presidential candidates have scheduled visits to Colorado as our March 3rd primary inches closer.
- A bill to lower Colorado’s dangerously low childhood vaccination rate passes its first hurdle but faces organized opposition.
- The CROWN Act, a bill to end racial hair discrimination by employers, passes in the Colorado legislature.
- Westminster Strangler captured in Houston after manhunt.
- No one was hurt after two people shoot at each other at a Broomfield Walmart.
- NHL Stadium Series game between the Avs and the Kings at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs is marred by an Avs loss, awful traffic, and a death.
- Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich released from Colorado prison after Trump commutes sentence.
- Denver Mayor Michael Hancock vetoes pit bull legalization bill.
- Cory Gardner and Donald Trump praise each other at Colorado Springs rally.
2/14/20
- Blucifer celebrates 12 years of freaking out travelers at DIA.
- Colorado’s 2020 presidential primary ballots hit the mail this week.
- A dog becomes honory Mayor and Police judge of Georgetown.
- The Denver City Council overturns the city’s pit bull ban, but the Mayor remains undecided.
- A historic powder day causes huge lift lines at Vail.
- Tests confirm a wolf pack is living — and pooping — in Colorado.
- Thieves steal 30,000 bees from a Northglenn farm.
- Trump’s changes to a key environmental law bring conservation and indigenous activists together in Denver.
- Sen. Michael Bennett drops out of the Presidential primary after a dissapointing finish in New Hampshire
- Bills to restrict reproductive rights and descriminate against LGBTQ Coloradans fail in the state legislature.
- Michael Bloomberg’s racially charged comments on “stop and frisk” from a 2015 Aspen Institute panel cause problems for his presidential campaign.
- Mel Tucker leaves CU after a single season to coach football at Michigan State
2/7/20
- A team in Steamboat prepares to send off the world’s largest firework.
- CSU-Pueblo will be the first solar-powered university in the state.
- Kids across the state cheer as major snowfalls cause school cancelations.
- Kids across the state cheer as major snowfalls cause school cancelations.
- Broncos’ rival, the Kansas City Chiefs, win the Super Bowl.
- Garden of the Gods draws controversy for fees, drainage project.
- After Iowa, Coloradans are thrilled that the state switched from caucuses to a presidential primary.
- The Iowa caucuses end in a virtual tie between Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg.
- The STEM School shooting suspect pleads guilty.
- The problematic mobile app that created problems in the Iowa Democratic presidential caucus has Denver ties.
- A state lawmaker, with no evidence, foolishly claims that wolves will attack hikers and skiers.
- An anti-vax Facebook group tells a CO mom to give her son elderberries instead of Tamiflu, and the boy dies days later..
- Arapahoe county DA won’t charge the Aurora cop who was found drunk and passed out in his car.
- Cory Gardner votes to acquit President Trump, Michael Bennett votes to convict, as the impeachment trial comes to an end.