In 2019, Julie Bañuelos finished 302 votes, or 1.1%, short of winning the District 5 Denver Public School Board of Education seat now held by Reverend Bradley Laurvick. With Laurvick’s announcement last month that he […]
In a split vote at the end of March, The Denver Public Schools Board of Education voted to bring innovation schools policies toward teachers more in line with other DPS schools. Previously, innovation schools had […]
Denver’s Community Planning and Development (CPD) and Department of Housing Stability (HOST) released a draft proposal which aims to create more affordable housing in new construction projects. The aptly named “Expanding Housing Affordability” proposal would […]
Not many college students can put on their resume that they’ve discussed policy issues with a world leader, but Keiry Sosa Velazquez, a Freshman politics major at Regis University, was one of 16 students from […]
Reverend Laurvick, who has represented North and West Denver on the Denver Public Schools Board of Education since he was elected in 2019, is taking a new position with a church in Fort Collins and […]
Every ten years, the U.S. government conducts the census, updating information on how many people live in the country, and locally how many people live in each city and town, and each neighborhood and building. […]
Keeping children out of the school to prison pipeline, stopping the black market sales of catalytic converter thefts, and reducing porch package thefts are just a few of the bills legislators are debating at the […]
Your all-access pass to restaurants, clubs, and other businesses may not be your ID showing your age, or a cover charge, but rather your proof of vaccination. Businesses in Denver have a choice: require masks […]
“From what we’ve heard, there’s a lot of pride in this area. People love their neighborhood.” Ella Stueve, a Senior City Planner with the department on Community Planning and Development (CPD), said this was her […]
Happy New Year from all of us at The Denver North Star. Now in our third year of publishing, we’re glad to be your still locally owned and run source of news about our community. […]
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