thanksgiving
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12 years in City Hall: Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s triumphs and failures
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Outgoing Mayor of Denver, Michael Hancock, sits down with Denver Gazette for exclusive interviewTom HellauerTomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g Denver Mayor Michael Hancock knows what he’ll regret most from his three terms as the most powerful elected leader in Denver: Thanksgiving, 2020, when Hancock was caught traveling in the thick of a raging pandemic despite having urged the public to…
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Colorado teachers say this school year is the most stressful of their career
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After months of distance and hybrid learning, this school year looked to be more normal. Teachers were feeling optimistic about resuming in-person learning and getting away from Zoom or Microsoft Teams. They were ready to see the smiles and hear the laughs in the hallway between classes and return to something that felt “normal.” But…
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Pandemic Era Panic Buying: Tips for rational shopping during this holiday season
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Why has panic buying persisted in one form or another since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic? We can all remember how the great toilet paper rush of March 2020 left store shelves bare and led us to question whether stores could provide the bare necessities we needed while sheltering at home. Since that harrowing time, a seemingly never-ending cycle of product and service…
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Denver City Council honors local Thanksgiving legend Daddy Bruce Randolph
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The Denver City Council made a proclamation Monday honoring the legacy of Bruce Randolph, a local philanthropist responsible for feeding thousands of Denver’s needy every year on Thanksgiving. Randolph, more popularly known as “Daddy Bruce,” opened his restaurant Daddy Bruce’s Bar-B-Que in 1963. Within the restaurant’s first year, Randolph, then 63, started the Daddy Bruce…
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SONDERMANN | Thanking Lincoln for his Thanksgiving proclamation
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When we are not taking a sledgehammer to statues of Abraham Lincoln or desecrating those monuments with graffiti or changing the name of Abraham Lincoln High School (even while the place was shuttered due to COVID) or otherwise suggesting that the savior of our union be held to some impossible standard of newly defined enlightenment,…
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State to begin increased DUI enforcement going into Thanksgiving
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The Colorado Department of Transportation, Colorado State Patrol and local law enforcement agencies are increasing DUI enforcement across the state from Saturday to Nov. 30 to account for drunk driving over Thanksgiving. Last year, 99 agencies arrested 430 impaired drivers statewide during the Thanksgiving enforcement period. “Make plans for safe and sober driving before the…
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SLOAN | Even in these divisive times, there’s still much to be thankful for
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Kelly Sloan The occasion (this happening to be published on Thanksgiving) organically calls for an examination of that for which we profess thanks, or rather that which we ought to, as a people. It is, of course, growing ever more difficult for Americans generally to conceive of themselves as “a people,” with tribalism in its…
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Politicos tell CoPo what they’re thankful for
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The electric buzz of election season has fizzled to mere white noise. But as of Thursday, the hustle and bustle of the holiday season picks up. You might think that some Colorado politicos — especially those of the blue persuasion — have more to be thankful for than others this time of year. Not so.…
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Are we privileged — or blessed?
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Thanksgiving, America’s oldest holiday, is by definition a day when we give thanks for the good things in life. Family, friends, work, home, community, and of course, football. Some are thankful for just being able to put food on the table. Some are thankful they are able to do much more than that. But wherever…
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What, no football? The Thanksgiving holiday spent with some of Colorado’s legislators
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OK, a few did manage to watch some of the ballgames Turkey pardoning aside, Thanksgiving is a time for political puff-pieces. So, in retrospect of this year’s food-filled holiday of grace, here’s a well-deserved “puff-piece” for our hard-working and fierce campaigning Statehouse candidates … Thanksgiving provided Colorado’s politicos – many of them still recovering from…
