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When students are unsafe, mental health suffers Our country is dealing with an epidemic of teen/child fragility. One cause is social media, the other is mass shootings. Schoolyards used to be safe spaces for kids to play in before or after school. Now they all have security fences, cameras, security guards, lock-down drills and fob IDs to enter the buildings. Or, as one teen put it to me: “The badges are so they can identify you after you are shot.” Sadly, the news trickles down on the playground. As a mental health clinician, I’ve had to talk to children as…

Three straight days of 100-degree, near-record heat is set to roast the Denver area this weekend, according to the National Weather Service.For Denver, NWS forecasters expect toasty temperature highs of 101 degrees on Friday, 100 degrees on Saturday and 101 degrees on Sunday.“Overall, it has been fairly rare to have two consecutive days of 100 degrees or more,” NWS forecasters said. “In fact, there have only been 15 occurrences since 1872.”Only six of those cases were three-day periods or longer, forecasters said.Three years — July of 1989, July of 2005 and June of 2012 — are tied for the longest…

The Denver Post is gearing up for the 2024-25 school year that starts next month and in doing so is looking for new stories to tell about Colorado’s public schools. To understand what is happening in K-12 classrooms, The Post wants to hear from students, educators (teachers, paras etc…), school administrators and parents about the stories that are most important to you. In the past, we’ve covered topics like school discipline, staffing shortages, curriculum/teaching changes and teen mental health. We’d also love to hear about things affecting students and educators outside of the classroom, but ultimately impact their ability to learn and work…

Colorado drivers, be prepared for motorcycles to pass stopped traffic: Beginning Aug 7., motorcyclists will be allowed to lane filter. Although filtering is permitted under the new law, lane splitting remains illegal  — so what’s the difference between the two?“The first thing Coloradoans need to understand is that there is a seemingly small but important difference between lane filtering and lane splitting,” said Colonel Matthew Packard, chief of the Colorado State Patrol, in a Tuesday news release. “One will soon be legal, and the other remains prohibited, so let’s all start by getting on the same page.”A motorcyclist splits a lane…

An 80-pound black bear found hiding under a honeycomb shop at the Colorado Renaissance Festival was safely removed by wildlife officers and Douglas County deputies on Sunday. Deputies found the “uninvited guest,” a black bear festival attendees named Smoky, camped out under a building at the festival grounds in Larkspur, the sheriff’s office said in a post on X. Well, we can safely say that what we see at the Larkspur Ren Fest never disappoints! On Sunday, #DCSO deputies had to deal with an uninvited guest who, quite frankly, did not want to leave. An 80-pound black bear, one they…

Due to technical issues and statewide outages Tuesday, Colorado’s DMV offices can’t do anything but provide written tests.The issue is affecting all of Colorado’s driver’s license offices, preventing DMV officials from issuing anything but written tests and forcing Coloradoans to reschedule other appointments, according to a DMV news release.If customers who take the written test return to the DMV within 180 days, they can complete the driver’s license issuance process without retaking the test, DMV officials stated in the release.Anyone not taking a written test will need to reschedule their appointment, but there’s currently no timeline for when in-office services…

WASHINGTON — The new Sentinel nuclear warhead program is 81% over budget and is now estimated to cost nearly $141 billion, but the Pentagon is moving forward with the program, saying that given the threats from China and Russia it does not have a choice.The Northrop Grumman Sentinel program is the first major upgrade to the ground-based component of the nuclear triad in more than 60 years and will replace the aging Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile.It involves not only building a new missile but the modernization of 450 silos across five states, their launch control centers, three nuclear missile…

LAS VEGAS — The question was simple. The answer was blunt.I asked Team USA center Joel Embiid if he was looking forward to facing Serbia’s Nikola Jokic in the opening game of the Olympics group phase on July 28.“I don’t care about Jokic,” Embiid said after a spirited scrimmage Wednesday at UNLV’s practice gym. “I’m playing for my national team.”Wait. What? Activate the Nuggets Nation group chat. Let’s head over to Speer Boulevard and raise some Troel Embiid signs. Or maybe even raise a few missing persons milk cartons in his honor.Embiid remains an easy target for Nuggets fans’ vitriol.…

One of Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance’s bald eagles, Toano, died last week at approximately 24 years old.Toano died Wednesday from severe heart disease and was being treated by the zoo’s veterinary team for several ongoing medical conditions, Denver Zoo officials wrote in a Facebook post.Toano was rescued by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officers in Washington after he was found with chest and wing injuries, and he wasn’t able to be released back to the wild despite rehabilitation efforts.He moved from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo to the Denver Zoo in March 2006.Zoo staff don’t know his exact age but estimate…

MILWAUKEE — The Republican National Committee moved Monday to adopt a party platform that reflects former President Donald Trump’s position opposing a federal abortion ban and ceding limits to states, omitting the explicit basis for a national ban for the first time in 40 years.Trump imposed his priorities on the RNC’s platform committee as he seeks to steer clear during his campaign of strict abortion language, even while taking credit for setting up the 2022 reversal of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court. Trump appointed three of the six justices who voted in the majority to overturn the 1973…