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| |  | Protestors call for an end to gun violence at the Colorado State Capitol in 2023. (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images) |
| 🌆 April Gun Violence Sparks Community Concern | After 2025 showed a promising decline in Denver’s homicide deaths, a string of deadly shootings in April have residents calling for action. On Saturday, The Colorado Black Round Table advocacy group held a meeting for community members to discuss how to address the spike in gun violence that left three people dead in a single week. [Denver Post] | - Support for youth: Community and safety leaders at the meeting focused on improving opportunities for Denver youth, since some suspects of recent shootings were under the age of 25.
- Participants in the meeting agreed that conflict resolution, summer programs, and increased funding for youth recreation could help keep Denver’s young people engaged in healthy, non-violent activities. [Axios Denver]
- Random acts of violence: Officials say all three deadly attacks in north Denver neighborhoods were random and not connected. Additional unprovoked shootings took place in April, too, though those victims survived their injuries — including an incident in downtown Denver where a person riding a scooter was shot in the neck by a driver. [The Colorado Sun; The Denver Gazette]
- Is the mayor’s plan working? The spike in violence rattled Denver just three months after Mayor Mike Johnston pledged to decrease gun deaths by 20 percent as part of his 2026 citywide plan. [Westword]
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| | | Meow Wolf Denver cranks up the chorus this summer with a stacked concert calendar, from burlesque to bluegrass, funk to folk, trance to trap. Keep it only for the grownly at 21+ shows like Danceportation - a multistage, multilevel, multidimensional takeover with more speakers for more booty shaking. Or, check out an all-ages concert, so no one gets a case of FOMO - even Junior. |
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|  | Spring snow in the forecast could cause traffic delays across the Denver metro today and tomorrow. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group) |
| ☃️ April Showers Bring May … Snowflakes | A late season snowstorm will move into Colorado today, with the possibility of heavy precipitation intensifying tonight and continuing into Wednesday. A “worst case scenario” could see more than six inches hit the Denver metro area with significantly more piling up in the mountains. Be careful on roads and watch out for falling trees, which could cause power outages. [@bianchiweather; KDVR] | | | 🤖 Will Colorado Protect Consumers From AI? | Efforts to protect people from AI-enabled discrimination in housing, healthcare, and employment are facing a major blow. A Colorado Senate bill set to take effect next month calls for AI software creators — and the businesses who use their tools — to improve transparency around how AI makes decisions based on people’s personal information. On Friday, Senate leaders introduced a new proposal to overwrite the anti-discrimination law, largely eliminating the responsibility of corporations to disclose where, how, and why they use personal details. | - Under the new proposal, if consumers want to know how their information was used in a decision that adversely affected them (such as not getting a job), they’ll have to request more details from the business entity in question within 30 days. [Colorado Newsline]
| | 🧑⚖️ Denver Stands Ground on Assault Weapons Ban | City leaders believe that Denver’s 37-year-old ban on assault weapons has kept citizens safe, but the U.S. Department of Justice says it’s a violation of the Second Amendment. The DOJ is threatening to sue the city if they don’t declare the ban unconstitutional, end it immediately, and take steps to ensure it isn’t enforced. Denver has responded with a refusal to end the ban, with City Attorney Miko Brown calling the request “baseless” and “irresponsible.” [Denver Post] | | 🚌 Locals Question BRT Construction on Federal Boulevard | As the first phase of Bus Rapid Transit construction wraps up along East Colfax, Federal Boulevard is set to start the multi-year transportation transformation. But at a crowded information session last week about the 18 miles of BRT coming to Federal Boulevard, many community members and business owners seemed surprised to learn about the plans and questions linger about construction impacts on the economics of a tight knit community. [City Cast Denver 🎧] | | |
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