Denver Post

One month this summer, most Colorado state employees will have less money in their wallet.
The expected shift to a new payroll system would mean more than 27,000 government workers get paid in July for only five days, rather than the traditional lump sum for a month’s salary.

Modular housing in going vertical in Denver.
Work is expected to begin in July on a mixed-use, 24-unit project in the 4300 block of Tennyson Street. Standard stuff in Denver’s trendy Berkeley neighborhood these days, except the housing at this project will be for sale and each unit will be built in a factory in Texas, trucked up to Denver and hoisted by a crane into place atop a ground floor retail space. 

This year, the cannabis industry has taken control of the annual 4/20 event in Denver’s Civic Center Park for the first time- organized by Euflora, a growing chain of dispensaries that started on the 16th Street Mall.

Suncor Energy’s oil refinery is spewing 8.5 tons a year of invisible hydrogen cyanide gas over low-income north Denver neighborhoods, state records show.
Community groups in Globeville, Swansea and Elyria this week petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to require Colorado health officials to set a limit that protects people and at least require Suncor to disclose emissions of the gas to local emergency responders.

Kayvan Khalatbari, a longtime marijuana industry entrepreneur, has built up fundraising momentum in his bid to take on Denver Mayor Michael Hancock in the 2019 election, according to his latest campaign finance report.

A bright-orange shopping cart lies tipped on its side near a bus stop along a major thoroughfare in a Denver suburb. A stone’s throw away, another sits next to a fence just across the street from the big-box retailer that owns it.

Twice in the past three years, the state was ordered to reinstate an employee fired after an internal investigation found that the worker had abused one of Colorado’s most vulnerable citizens.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Colorado officials vowed to improve oversight of the managed-care portion of the state’s $10 million Medicaid program after a federal audit found poor safeguards against waste, fraud and abuse.
Federal regulators reviewed the state’s supervision of managed care programs that subcontract with the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to provide care to patients.

Denver’s confusing patchwork of alcohol rules for parks soon could be streamlined in a way that allows more leeway for festivals, races and private events such as weddings to pour beer, wine and liquor.

There’s being creative. And then there’s going overboard. 
What’s going on at Southwest Plaza, a mall in Jefferson County, may be a bit of both. Construction is underway on a nearly 20,000-square-foot aquarium on the ground floor, a soft pretzel’s toss from the Dillard’s.