Casa Bonita in Lakewood. Photo: Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images
✊🏽 Nearly 80 Casa Bonita employees are trying to form a labor union to establish better safety standards, fair wages and greater benefits. (Hollywood Reporter)
🛑 A Cripple Creek gold mine was ordered to stop giving tours while the state investigates the site after a recent deadly incident. (9News)
🚔 Boulder's city manager alleges the local NAACP chapter is blackmailing the city to stop its police chief from being hired permanently. The NAACP alleges the chief attempted to cover up Elijah McClain's death during his previous job with Aurora police. (Denver Post 🔑)
🐺 Wolf reintroduction efforts have cost $4.7 million in Colorado since 2021, less than the amount appropriated by state lawmakers. (KDVR)
♻️ Denver's goal to increase recycling and compost with its pay-as-you-throw system is falling short, with the city's overall diversion rate increasing by just 3 percentage points since starting in 2023. (Denverite)
Meanwhile, compost services are expected to start soon for residents in the Park Hill, Central Park and East Colfax neighborhoods, Esteban reports.
