Gloves—this is a big one. Good boots and clothes that can get dirty. You are not going to want to dig
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Two years ago, LB* was homeless in Dallas/Fort Worth, panhandling for food and trading sex for meth. Then a Denver nonprofit helped her find the hope she needed to change her life.
By Sarah Harvey
Coloradans love camping. You’ll find best-of and tip lists, as well as guides to everything from backpacking to “car camping” on newsstands all year long. This summer, another kind of camping has been making headlines, too: the existence of homeless camps in Denver—and the clearing of those camps.
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By Danielle Krolewicz | Photo by Jesse Borrell
If you’ve ever walked past the Buell Theatre, you’ve likely seen Jon Lonardo standing outside. A Denver VOICE vendor since October 2013, Jon inherited the corner from a friend and has been vending there ever since.
The “Ask a Vendor” column allows us to share the thoughts and wisdom of the diverse group of people who make up the Denver VOICE vendor pool. Do you have a question for VOICE vendors? See below for more information on how to submit it.
If someone offered to buy you a meal and it could be anything you wanted, where would you go and what would you order?
By Matthew Van Deventer
Sandy Weyna wanted a better life for herself and for her five-year-old daughter. When Weyna was 18, she started an esthetician’s program at Emily Griffith Technical College (EGTC), but then switched paths. She started waitressing and eventually tried the classic college route, attending Community College of Denver for four years.
By Sonia Christensen
In March 2016 the Colorado Senate Education Committee passed a bill that will make it easier for youth experiencing homelessness to access higher education.
Recently, Colorado passed HB1100, a bill which sought to make it easier for “unaccompanied homeless youth” (those unaccompanied by a parent or adult) to get in-state college tuition. Previously, the difficulty of obtaining the necessary documentation, and the requirement that in-state tuition be determined by the number of years a parent had lived in Colorado, made it prohibitive to do so, just one more obstacle faced by homeless young people on the road to a post-secondary education. Here, we look at the challenges faced by the growing number of homeless youth in Colorado. As a demographic, they have some of the lowest high-school graduation rates, highest dropout rates, and the most significant mobility rates (moving from school to school).
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For many Coloradans, camping is a rite of summer. For VOICE vendors Ann and Armand, it became a way of life when they ran out of options.
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This summer you’ll find no shortage of guides to the best patios, burgers, and events in Denver. These kinds of lists are fun. They help us define a place—this is the best of Denver, here are the spots for locals, these are the things visitors must try before they leave. But there are as many layers to Denver as there are people living in it. These best-of lists and tours, while fun, often only show one side of a city.
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