The VOICE is celebrating Vendor Week in February, honoring our vendors and thousands of others working at street papers around the world.
Read MoreWhile it may seem strange to have over 30 dogs in the same room as stained glass windows and a pulpit, Dr. Carolyn Karrh, executive director and founder of Peace, Love and Paws, is thrilled to host the organization’s free monthly veterinary clinics at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church.
Read MoreAlbuquerque, New Mexico is the latest city to join the international street paper movement. Two Way Street is already making an impact after launching and distributing four issues in 2017 under the guideship of Albuquerque city councilman Jeff Hertz.
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Each month, the Denver VOICE publishes a selection of writing from workshops sponsored by Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
Read MoreTen years ago, Raelene Johnson could never dream that she might be a homeowner someday, that she would have a car or a stable job. She was just trying to survive, sleeping under bridges and behind bushes in Boulder, scraping together enough to survive until the next day.
Read MoreLast year saw the highest number of homeless deaths ever recorded in the Denver metro area—at least 231 people died while homeless in 2017.
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This year has seen an unprecedented amount of instability in terms of refugee resettlement in the United States under President Trump’s administration: three travel bans, three halts and two blocks on those bans, a Supreme Court ruling on the ban, the resettlement ceiling dropping from 110,000 to 50,000 refugees, families expecting to arrive in Denver and then having their plans cancelled, families expecting to receive their relatives and finding out it might not happen. The list goes on.
We’re providing a look back at the year for refugees in Denver as a framework on what’s happened in 2017.
Read MoreVirginia Bryant’s first experience with a VOICE vendor came years before she started selling the paper.
“I can remember passing, years ago, before my life became disheveled, passing a Vendor for the VOICE. And it didn’t impact me,” she says. Then she found herself in the same situation. Over the past 15 or so years, Virginia has lived through three separate extended periods of homelessness.
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Each month, the Denver VOICE publishes a selection of writing from workshops sponsored by Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
Read MoreNAHSON ANDERSON arrived at the annual Alliance of Artist Communities Conference in Denver as one of the few artists in attendance and few expectations. Such a leap is not unusual for Anderson after a lifetime of building their art, and themselves, from the ground up.
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