Wash Park Prophet

Bans on smoking in public and in workplaces can sharply reduce the number of heart attacks among both smokers and nonsmokers, according to a...

In large urban public school systems, students who pose a high risk of committing violent behavior, and students who are most at risk of bei...

There are two decisions that Denver voters make on this year's mail in ballot. School board races and Issue 300 (an anti-immigrant meas...

Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper announced today that at the urging of City Council members, he will revise his proposed budget for next year ...

A lengthy post at the Naked Capitalism blog makes the case that bankers (really investment bankers and bankers on the high end side of big ...

A recent episode of this season's Heroes program on NBC featured an office worker at Hiro's company who was fire for photocopying h...

A loss to the Phillies on Monday at Coor's Field ended the Rockies playoff bid. The Denver Broncos (who are 5-0 for the season) and Col...

Denver's library system is facing cuts of about 10% this year, including one branch library in its extensive system, and all Sunday hou...

The family cat died yesterday (he was fourteen and a half years old). His body and his unopened supplies went to the Denver Municipal Anim...

Q: What are the chances of Asperger syndrome being inherited ? A: . . . [T]here seems to be a strong genetic component associated with this ...

Before you condemn your opponent for something, make sure that you didn't vote for it . [N]o GOP criticism has hit him harder than the c...

This year's Nobel Prize winners for Economics made their mark describing how institutions and their governance work in the real world. ...

George in Denver offers his detailed impressions of a recent emergency room visits to Lutheran and St. Joseph's hospitals, that says as...

The City and County of Denver has to make budget cuts in the face of declining sales tax revenues, just like almost every other state and l...

Big companies are much less vulnerable to "piercing the corporate veil" than small ones according to a review of six years of lit...

Both my kids have had the flu and they are now almost recovered. One of my colleagues and one of her daughters also have the flu. This is no...

* The British Navy is basing some Apache AH-64 attack helicopters on its small aircraft carriers (21,000 ton v. 100,000 ton for a U.S. carr...

A new study has found that a retrovirus that originated in mice and attacks the human immune system is found in 68% of people diagnosed wit...

Per the Denver Post , Your Hub section today, the timeline for Denver's overhaul is as follows, pursuant to a schedule adopted 11-0 by t...

The details of health care reforms being considered by Congress are coming together . The Senate Finance Committee will vote as early as Fr...