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When this column was started many years ago, its name, Avenue Flashes, was coined because that’s what it literally was…Flashes of tidbits about what was happening that day on Washington Avenue.

A once-ubiquitous staple of American suburbia is slowly dying. Malls are disappearing from the retail landscape.

With a few months until the 2023-24 school year starts, the Golden Transcript offers a look back at Mines’ athletic achievements during the 2023 spring semester.

As to downtown Golden’s “parking crisis,” everything in the article by journalist Corinne Westeman likens to the metaphor of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Systemic racism stubbornly remains in Golden. But it has morphed from Ku Klux Klan demonstrations in the 1920s and racist housing policies in the 1940s to something less overt but still widespread and endlessly frustrating.

The rise of online media has been devastating for community newspapers — print publications that often serve as the only homegrown information source in small towns across the country, including many in Colorado. By one recent estimate, over 1,800 newspapers have closed across the United States since 2004, including about 1,700 weeklies. The 24 newspapers and two advertising-based shoppers in the Colorado Community Media chain could have easily wound up suffering the same fate. For co-owners ...

Denver Post, Alden Global Capital, in May 2018. Former Post journalists created The Sun has acquired two dozen suburban Denver papers. David Zalubowski / AP Updated at 4:35 p.m. ET A group of disheartened former Denver Post editors and reporters launched an upstart news site 2 1/2 years ago, called it The Colorado Sun, and hoped it could rescue local news coverage from the dictates of hedge fund owners and Wall Street investors. On Monday morning, The Sun announced had acquired and ...

A sign from a rally against the ownership of the Denver Post, Alden Global Capital, in May 2018. Former Post journalists created The Sun has acquired two dozen suburban Denver papers. David Zalubowski/AP A group of disheartened former Denver Post editors and reporters launched an upstart news site 2 1/2 years ago, called it The Colorado Sun, and hoped it could rescue local news coverage from the dictates of hedge fund owners and Wall Street investors. On Monday morning, The ...

In Denver, Civic-Minded ‘Colorado Sun’ Acquires Suburban Newspaper Chain By David Folkenflik  May 3, 2021 A group of disheartened former Denver Post editors and reporters launched an upstart news site 2 1/2 years ago, called it The Colorado Sun, and hoped it could rescue local news coverage from the dictates of hedge fund owners and Wall Street investors. On Monday morning, The Sun announced it had acquired and would operate a family-owned chain of 24 suburban newspapers around Denver...

A sign from a rally against the ownership of the Denver Post, Alden Global Capital, in May 2018. Former Post journalists created the Colorado Sun that year; now the Sun has acquired two dozen suburban Denver papers. A group of disheartened former Denver Post editors and reporters launched an upstart news site 2 1/2 years ago, called it The Colorado Sun, and hoped it could rescue local news coverage from the dictates of hedge fund owners and Wall Street investors. On Monday morning, The Sun a...