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Facing new drug reality, Colorado lawmakers reconvene opioid committee for first time in 4 years

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:25:31 GMT

The legislative committee tasked with helping to guide Colorado’s response to substance use has reconvened for the first time in four years to face a drastically changed drug landscape, a worsened overdose crisis and a series of worrisome data points about the state’s patchwork treatment system.The Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorders Study Committee — featuring six Democrats and four Republicans from the state legislature — met for the first time Thursday and will meet again over the coming months with the goal of forwarding potential bills to the full General Assembly when it reconvenes in January.The group had met for three straight years through 2019, but COVID-19’s emergence derailed its schedule. The committee returns now not only near the peak of the state’s drug crisis, but also amid internal divisions within the legislature about how to address the issue.In what amounted to a state of the state’s drug use, the committee’s ...

Cooking with a gas stove in your home is like living with a smoker, new research conducted in Denver finds

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:25:31 GMT

Cooking with a gas stove in your kitchen can emit as much benzene into a home as second-hand tobacco smoke, depending on ventilation and the size of the house, according to new research from Stanford University conducted in part in metro Denver.The findings showed the benzene produced when a gas stove is ignited migrated through homes — including into bedrooms that were the furthest from the kitchen — and reached levels above acceptable health benchmarks, said Yannai Kashtan, the lead researcher and a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford’s Earth Systems Science Department.“I’m surprised, not so much that we found benzene, but just how much we found,” Kashtan said.Researchers studied 87 homes in California and Colorado to determine how much benzene a gas stove released when in use and to look at how it spread throughout a house. They chose to study homes in the Denver area because of its proximity to a sizable oil and gas industry and because it was within drivin...

Rum-focused cocktail bar opens in Cherry Creek with mojitos, pina coladas and daiquiris

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:25:31 GMT

The bar: Ay Papi, 248 Detroit St., DenverAbout: Ay Papi calls itself a Cuban- and Puerto Rican-inspired (by way of Miami) cocktail bar; it comes from Culinary Creative, the restaurant group behind Highland Tap & Burger, Bar Dough, A5 Steakhouse, Mr. Oso and other concepts. Led by company partner and beverage director Nicole Lebedevitch, Ay Papi joins Forget Me Not, another cocktail lounge in Cherry Creek.Related ArticlesRestaurants, Food and Drink | LoHi hot-spot named one of the 50 best rooftop bars in the country Restaurants, Food and Drink | A guide to Denver’s best LGBTQ bars to hit in June (and beyond) Restaurants, Food and Drink | Dining after dark: 9 Denver eateries open past midnight Restaurants, Food and Drink | Casa Bonita’s renovation reportedly cost $40 million Restaurants, Food and Drink | Denver weed lounge could reopen next month, inviting locals for a toke in the consumption ga...

Child struck by bullet while watching fireworks in South L.A.

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:25:31 GMT

A 5-year-old boy was struck by what appeared to be a stray bullet while watching 4th of July fireworks in the Central-Alameda neighborhood of Los Angeles Tuesday night.The incident occurred around 9 p.m. as the boy was standing outside his apartment building in the 700 block of East 40th Place, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson confirmed. The boy's parents noticed he had been struck by something falling from the sky but didn't know what it was. They tried taking the child to the hospital but ended up flagging down officers in the area of East Jefferson Boulevard and San Pedro Street. A 5-year-old boy was struck and killed by what appeared to be a stray bullet on July 4, 2023. (KTLA)Paramedics took the child to the hospital but he was not conscious and not breathing, police said. Medical personnel confirmed the child had been struck in the upper body. Investigators have not determined for sure if it was a stray bullet that struck the child or if someone may have shot him i...

‘One of the most dangerous exits’: Roadshow reader decries hope-and-pray turn off I-280

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:25:31 GMT

Q: The unprotected left turn off the southbound Interstate 280 exit onto Foothill Boulevard remains one of the most dangerous exits in the Bay Area.I know they’ve had trouble deciding on the right solution. I was wondering if, in the meantime, you could get them to remove the bushes in the median up the hill?They make it virtually impossible to see oncoming traffic from that direction, which means you have to make the unprotected left turn based on a guess that there’s no traffic coming from that direction. Once you start making the turn, it’s too late to stop, as there’s nowhere to hide between the two directions of traffic, so you’d better hope and pray you guessed right.Another idea: Couldn’t they install a traffic signal just for that left turn, and synchronize it with lights at the intersections up and down the hill? It seems both of those lights could be programmed to be red in all directions for 30-60 seconds, creating a gap in traffic, whe...

Opinion: Tragedy of capsized migrants lost amid submersible implosion

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:25:31 GMT

I  know what it’s like to wait for someone lost at sea.When I was 20 years old, working at a music cafe in Charleston, South Carolina, I got the call that my mother’s boat was lost in a massive storm during a sailing race to Bermuda. I was assured that the powers that be would do everything they could to locate her. I remember rehearsing the delivery, the tone and the inflection to tell my little brother in the least panicked way possible. My boss asked if I wanted to go home that day. I stayed.We bore witness to two shipwrecks within days in June. First, a boat carrying as many as 750 refugee migrants capsized in the Mediterranean. Only 104 survived. Among the dead were an estimated 100 children. Second, an unregulated Titanic wreckage tourist submersible, The Titan, went missing carrying five wealthy passengers. The world couldn’t look away while the search was on. It had imploded.The shipwrecked migrants were not on board for the adventure. They had not signed extensive waivers. ...

Cooking with a gas stove in your home is like living with a smoker, new Stanford study finds

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:25:31 GMT

Cooking with a gas stove in your kitchen can emit as much benzene into a home as second-hand tobacco smoke, depending on ventilation and the size of the house, according to new research from Stanford University.The findings showed the benzene produced when a gas stove is ignited migrated through homes — including into bedrooms that were the farthest from the kitchen — and reached levels above acceptable health benchmarks, said Yannai Kashtan, the lead researcher and a doctoral candidate at Stanford’s Earth Systems Science Department.“I’m surprised, not so much that we found benzene, but just how much we found,” Kashtan said.Researchers studied 87 homes in California and Colorado to determine how much benzene a gas stove released when in use and how it spread throughout a house.“Our findings suggest that the concentrations of benzene produced by combustion from gas stoves and ovens indoors may increase health risks under some conditions,” the Stanford report said. “Further research i...

U.S. Women’s Open: Who could beat Rose Zhang at Pebble Beach?

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:25:31 GMT

When the U.S. Women’s Open completes its Pebble Beach debut Sunday and crowns its champion, the sun will be two hours from dipping into the Pacific Ocean distance.That is just one of many spectacular scenes to come at a historic course that has hosted some of golf’s most treasured moments.“Where you win definitely matters,” said Morgan Pressel, a former pro and the lead analyst for NBC Sports’ coverage.Pressel’s mind raced back to The Old Course at St. Andrews – “the home of golf” — where Lorena Ochoa and Stacy Lewis captured The Open title in 2007 and ’13, respectively.“The venue is obviously a big part of this story, going to Pebble Beach and creating history there that will be continued,” NBC Sports announcer Tom Abbott said.“As a Northern Californian born and raised, I’m super excited for this U.S. Women’s Open to be played at Pebble,” said Kay Cockerill, a San Jose native who played on the LPGA Tour from 1988-97. “I wish it could have happened 30 years ago when I could ha...

Sale closed in San Jose: $3.1 million for a four-bedroom home

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:25:31 GMT

14850 Donner Drive – Google Street ViewA spacious house located in the 14800 block of Donner Drive in San Jose has new owners. The 4,559-square-foot property, built in 2005, was sold on June 12, 2023. The $3,140,500 purchase price works out to $689 per square foot. The property features four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a garage, and two parking spaces. It sits on a 9,719-square-foot lot, which also has a pool.These nearby houses have also recently been sold:In July 2022, a 2,653-square-foot home on Donner Drive in San Jose sold for $2,500,000, a price per square foot of $942. The home has 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.A 2,522-square-foot home on the 14900 block of Conway Avenue in San Jose sold in October 2022, for $2,725,000, a price per square foot of $1,080. The home has 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.On Sandy Lane, San Jose, in June 2022, a 2,820-square-foot home was sold for $2,417,500, a price per square foot of $857. The home has 6 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. 

Opinion: Speaker Rendon made California Assembly more democratic

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:25:31 GMT

Anthony Rendon stepped aside as Assembly speaker on Friday after more than six years on the job.Just two people have held the position longer in the modern full-time Legislature — Jesse “Big Daddy” Unruh, who ruled the Assembly for more than seven years in the 1960s, and Willie Brown, who earned the nickname “Ayatollah of the Assembly” for his nearly 15 years at the helm.But unlike those two larger-than-life figures with nicknames to back it up, Rendon leaves behind a legacy that isn’t centered on a singular cult of personality. Instead, he’s done something you rarely see from politicians: He relinquished his own authority and put it into the hands of his colleagues.For those who know Rendon, this leadership style isn’t too surprising. Unlike many politicians, he has a general disdain for glad-handing lobbyists and donors at evening receptions, instead opting to spend his limited free time with his wife and young daughter, reading or watching an obscure European soccer match.B...