Metro Post-Telegraph

DENVER – By day, she is a Metro State nursing student. By night, Lilia Chavez, works for tips as a server and a To-Go Specialist at Chili’s Grill and Bar. Chavez, a sophomore, has worked at Chili’s for three years, and like many other Metro students, her job is a necessary component for her education. [...]

-As Thanksgiving draws near, the number of donations rises higher DENVER – MSCD began hosting their annual Food & Clothing Drive on Nov. 7, and will be running up until the 19th.  They are collecting non-perishable foods and clothing items such as jackets to donate to the Food Bank of the Rockies in Denver. Students [...]

Last week Metropolitan State College of Denver received a $1 million anonymous donation. The money is planned to create the One World, One Water Center for Urban Water Education and Stewardship, dubbed the OWOW center.

DENVER — On Sept. 17, the activist group Occupy Wall Street began their protest of the American financial and governmental system in New York City. As the protest gained momentum and scope, it took on the name Occupy Together, and spread outside of Manhattan to other metropolitan areas, such as Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles. [...]

Englewood, Colo. — Physical education in schools used to be about more than baseball, football and soccer. “Spares” and “gutter balls,” “birdies” and “bogies.” Today it’s“back-hands” and “chop-shots,” “quivers” and “Shafts. Circa Colorado 1993, these terms are associated with alternative Physical Education activities that were once offered at local high schools in the Denver-Metro area [...]

By Justin Schoenborn Denver – It’s a beautiful sunny Saturday in Larkspur, Colo. All geared up, Matt Dunn is ready to fly. He’s flown his chopper countless times, and for him, it’s just another Saturday in the air. The whir of the chopper blades is a familiar sound. So is the smell of the gasoline [...]

DENVER — With his broad shoulders, curly white hair, his fingers crested with expensive-looking golden rings, Pete Contos is hard to miss. When he walks into his own restaurant on East Colfax Avenue. people notice. He seems to know everyone. Contos stops by the bustling countertop, touches shoulders, shakes hands, in a nearby booth a [...]

By Tyler Grimes “All aboard!” That’s if you’ve purchased a light rail ticket. If not…boarding the RTD light rail could have expensive consequences. Auraria students need to know the law concerning riding the light rail system – failure to pay the fare on public transportation is a violation of Colorado Revised Statute (CRS) title 18, [...]

  Warmer weather is expected to return to the Denver area, with temperatures forecast to come back up to near 56 degrees by Sunday afternoon according to the National Weather Service. This is welcome news to most after two weeks of cold temperatures that dipped below zero during the day in places that left the [...]

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