Denver, like many cities, is at a precarious point on such critical issues as public safety, the cost of housing, homelessness and the future of its downtown core.
Denver's 2022 rate of 12.4 homicides per 100,000 residents remains much lower than the homicide rates recorded in the early 1990s, when the rate exceeded 18 homicides per 100,000.
The segregation at Stedman and at other Denver schools spurred a group of families, led by Wilfred Keyes, a Black father and chiropractor, to sue Denver Public Schools in 1969.
The crisis is over a century in the making and water experts have been ringing alarm bells for decades. Now government officials have weeks or months, not years, to find...