Parked at a garage in downtown Denver for two hours, expecting to pay at the exit like any normal lot. Turns out, payment was app-only, which I didn’t realize until I was already leaving. I figured I’d get a bill in the mail—nope, instead, I got slapped with a $92 non-compliance fee. I have ever intent to pay a reasonable fee for the services they rendered.

Tried calling multiple times, finally got a response two weeks later. They claimed I was there for six hours instead of two even though the letter confirms my time and offered a “one-time courtesy” reduction to $72. Laughable.

Apparently, this company has been sued by state AGs and has a ton of BBB complaints. Some say I can ignore it since they have no real authority to levy fines or impact my credit. Seems like a scummy way to hike up $5-$10 parking fees.

Has anyone disputed with them or avoided paying? Do they actually send people to collections.

Hello, there may be a better group for me to ask this in, but I’m not sure where. Hoping someone here has some answers.

I’m a full-time employee, and I make probably just a little more than the maximum monthly income to qualify for SNAP normally.

But I’m about to get shoulder surgery, which would put me out of work for minimum 4 to 6 months. I’ll be applying for the FMLAI assistance, but otherwise I won’t have an income. I’m hoping that help will be enough to keep up with my mortgage and other expenses, but with the rising costs of food I’m worried about finances.

Anyone know if I’d qualify for SNAP benefits in Colorado if I’m employed, but temporarily inactive due to an injury? And how those benefits interact with the FMLAI benefits in Colorado?

Thank you!

I moved here about 2 months ago. I’m looking quite shaggy. I’ve always kept a beard but it’s gotten kind of crazy along with my head in general.

I’m a white guy (just saying because of hair texture) and normally get a taper and had my barber clean my beard up.

I’m generally pretty quiet in the chair but still appreciate a good atmosphere. I’m looking to find a barber that can be my go to. I’m pretty loyal to a good barber 😅

It might be rushed but I have an interview Wednesday so I’m looking for a place tomorrow.

Just wanted some recommendations. Thanks in advance!

This post is inspired by some of the recent meetups and "where to meet" posts that seem to have generated good conversations.

Does anyone have any weekly or monthly events they enjoy and want to highlight? Maybe trivia nights, bingo, free poker, dinner specials? Farmers markets? Live music nights?

Thank you all for sharing!

I just moved here and I’m used to there being recycling drop offs at grocery stores or target/costco type places. Is there any accessible easy drop offs for aluminum, plastic, cardboard, and paper around here? I’m looking for the big green dumpsters for regular household recycling, nothing huge. Sloans lake area.

I just spent like 15 minutes trying to find a white dog I saw roaming down 13th when passing Krameria. I saw it twice and then it kept running down 13th and looked like it crossed Monaco but after cutting through the neighborhood I was stuck at the light on 14th behind all the work traffic and officially lost track of it. It didn’t get hit at that intersection at least. I drove down 13th and 14th again trying to glance down alleys and streets but no luck. It was medium size maybe 30-40 lbs, and looked possibly like a husky mix/spitz type breed, all white or very light cream color. It had a collar on.

Sorry if anyone saw the crazy girl in the grey Outback pulled over on 13th with their hazards on lol

This thread is sorted by "new" by default so folks can see the most recent commentary. Please mind the posting rules when commenting here. It may be useful to state which specific protest you're referring to when typing a new comment thread, and to scroll through to look for one that may be already exist to best talk to like-minded folks.

I'm currently a City Employee and I'm considering changing to other departments/offices. I'm very interested in the Auditor's Office due to my background, experience and future goals. Does anybody has any insight on the work culture and work-life balance at the Auditor's Office. Also open to hear good and bad things about other Offices and Departments (or even other local governments). I want to have as much information as possible before making that change. Thank you!

I found a couple things on denvergov which say the current closure started January 6, but one says it’ll last through early summer 2025, and the other says April 2026.

I used to draw a few years ago then stopped completely. I really want to start again and take art seriously, so I'm looking for drawing or painting classes near Denver. I want a class that preferably meets more than once a week for at least a month.

It's time to stop Elon Musk, and I'm going to make this as easy as possible for you. (This text was taken from another thread.)

Email these two senators at the links below https://www.hickenlooper.senate.gov/email-john/

https://www.bennet.senate.gov/contact/write-to-michael/

Copy/paste this message:

Dear Senator Lastname,

I am writing to express my deep alarm and concern over what appears to be a hostile takeover of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) by Elon Musk—a private citizen who has neither been elected nor appointed to any governmental role, nor does he possess the necessary security clearances to access sensitive federal systems. If these reports are accurate, this situation is tantamount to a coup and represents a clear and present danger to the United States, our national security, and the well-being of every American citizen.

The potential ramifications of this unprecedented breach cannot be overstated. Elon Musk's unchecked influence over federal operations, personnel, and financial decision-making poses extreme economic and security risks:

National Security Threats: Unrestricted access to the OPM’s systems could expose classified and sensitive federal employee data, weakening our intelligence community, federal workforce, and national defense capabilities.

Economic and Government Stability Risks: The influence of a single, unappointed individual over government operations jeopardizes financial markets and threatens the economic security of millions of Americans.

Erosion of American Global Leadership: The paralysis of federal operations undermines American exceptionalism and weakens our standing as a beacon of democratic governance, ceding influence to adversaries who will eagerly fill the vacuum left by our inaction.

Direct Impact on Military Readiness: Attacks on federal workers and government spending will inevitably weaken our armed forces, jeopardizing both domestic stability and global security.

I urge you to take immediate and decisive action to restore integrity, security, and constitutional order to our government. 

What steps are you taking to investigate this apparent unauthorized takeover of OPM?

Why is Congress and this administration allowing an unelected and unappointed private individual—one who has openly admitted to drug use and erratic decision-making—to seize control of critical government functions?

What legislative and security measures are being pursued to safeguard federal institutions from external interference?

This is not a partisan issue; it is a matter of national survival. If we fail to act now, we risk the very foundation of our democracy. I urge you to fulfill your oath to defend the Constitution and protect the American people from this unprecedented threat.

I look forward to your prompt response and to seeing immediate corrective action taken to restore accountability, security, and stability to our federal institutions.

Sincerely,

Your name

PHONE NUMBERS

Bennet: (303) 455-7600

Hickenlooper: (303) 244-1628

EDIT: MAGAts, Nazis, and Conservatives, you can keep reporting me to Reddit as much as you want, crybabies. lol

It’s been vacant for months and it looks untouched like they just walked away. Curious who owns the property and why they would just leave what appears to be thousands of dollars worth of equipment inside.

Looking to buy my wife some artisanal chocolates for Valentine’s Day. Don’t have a budget and I’m cool with unique assortments. If anyone has any recommendations with places they like I would really appreciate it!

Happy Monday /r/Denver! In this post the mods will update you on protest posts and explain recent mod actions regarding public hate speech and moderation of developing stories. This is a long one, but we've taken a lot of time to come up with it so I hope you read the whole thing.

Let's start off with protest post moderation, and some background on how we've handled them since 2020.

Following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer there were mass racial equity demonstrations nationwide, including Denver. We tried to strike a balance of allowing the subreddit to help people connect and organize their protest actions, while not allowing the subreddit to be used to incite or celebrate violent actions or spread misinformation. Some users felt our actions overcorrected, and as the Denver Protests subreddit grew and as the protests waned, we began referring posters of protest content to that subreddit. Protest content continued to be allowed, if sparingly, around stay at home and mask mandate protests that affected Denver, including counterprotests, and counter-counter protests. After the November election those became far less frequent and slowly petered out, making it more manageable for mods to moderate.

The previous Presidential adminsitration garnered far fewer protests for the past four years, but starting in October of 2023 mass protests again rose up nationwide over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While there were protests in Denver, they were more self-contained and the subject of the protest had little or nothing to do with Denver and there was violent rhetoric being used on both sides of the discussion. While in the past we forwarded protest content to the Denver Protests subreddit, the moderation team of that subreddit made it clear that they would only allow commentary, discussion, organizing for one particular faction of one particular side of that conflict, were organizing mass brigading actions of /r/denver on it, and in order to prevent retaliatory brigading from users of this subreddit to their subreddit, we as a mod team stopped referring people to that subreddit and largely just removed any protest content as it proved too inflammatory and the discussion only involved the most extreme of both sides of the conflict screaming at each other and. (And it was not actually Denver-related.)

With the swearing in of the current administration a couple weeks ago, mass protest action has again flared up, this time over changes in the Federal govermnent that has and will continue to directly affect Denverites and all Coloradans. Intially we were removing every post as we have for the past year and a half or so, but users and mods alike recognize that is not what is needed or wanted and does not suit the moment.

After reaching an inflection point last week, we asked for input on how you'd like the mod team to handle protest posts.. The three most common responses were as follows:

1. Do nothing, leave any post up when posted.

2. Allow one post per protest, but lock the comments.

3. Have a single megathread for all protests and do not allow any others.

The modteam discussed these and feel that the first option is untenable. Most users are not happy with this option and it's not tenable for the mod team to moderate so many threads in so many places. Additionally it would not allow normal functioning of the subreddit for users who are not interested in protests. For suggestions 2 and 3, allowing either one post per protest and locking the comments or pushing all protest content to a megathread would make moderation far easier, but it would not allow users to discuss things or organize with one another which is kind of the point of protest.

We've decided to go with a hybrid of options 2 and 3. We're going to allow one top-level post per protest, per week, and we're going to lock the comments. We're also going to create a protest megathread and sort it by "new" to allow people to still chat with one another and organize. Mods will leave a comment on locked protest posts with a link to the megathread.

In order for a protest post to be approved it must contain the date, time, and location of the protest. If this information is not in the post or a comment left immediately after posting by the user, it will be removed.

This rule applies only to promotion/advertising of protests, and does not apply to news articles from reputable organizations about political or governmental response to protests. Posts will still be required to adhere to all /r/denver rules.

Hopefully this will provide a good middle ground, help organizers and protesters focus their interactions, allow users who are disinterested in protest content to see less of it, and allow mods to more effectively manage the workload by being able to focus on discussion in a single post.

This isn't a permanent or absolute change, and if it's not working we'll change our approach, but for the next few weeks this is what we're going with. The specific language of the new rule is as follows:

Rule Title: One post per protest per week and post must include date, time, and location of protest.

Report reason: Specific protest has already been posted this week or missing date/time/location.

Rule text: We allow one advertising post per week, per protest. The post must contain the date, time, and location of the protest. All protest posts will be locked and a sticky comment directing users to a megathread for discussion will be left by a mod. Questions about what protests may be in process or planning will be removed and directed to the megathread.

Now, let's move on to posting about public hate speech on /r/Denver.

Going back many years, people have posted instances of public hate speech witnessed or experienced in Denver to /r/Denver. In general, we have not allowed those posts. Whether it was unverified claims of a man who was later found to have cut his own head with a knife to generate outrage and false stories about anti-trump leftist violence, or nazis putting up nazi stickers and posting them to reddit with titles like "oh my god i saw this nazi sticker", or extremists on any side posting inflammatory stories and inciting people to take violent action, we simply do not allow it here. We have no way to verify most claims, know that the far right uses "wow i found this" posts to in effect just advertise their sect of nazism under the guise of outrage, and we as mods ultimately feel some responsibility for the content we allow to be posted here in the space we curate. The rules broken with posts like this are generally rules 3, 5, and 10. A news story from a reputable local organization about public hate speech would be allowed, but posts that could be construed as instigating violent action against an individual are not allowed and will not be allowed. The same would be true if someone was posting someone's left-leaning home decor and encouraging people to vandalize it. If that's content you want to see, I would encourage you to find or create a subreddit for it, but it will not be allowed here.

Finally, let's talk about developing incidents/stories. Specifically, the shooting in Wash Park yesterday.

As many of you are likely aware, there was a shooting in Wash Park yesterday. Most of the mod team was afk-- I was on my way back from the western slope yesterday and was in the car from ~10am to ~8pm, other mods similarly were living their lives. The initial posts about the situation were unverified, third-party posts. This is a big city, and loud noises are not uncommon. Taking a look through the mod logs this morning, it took about 24 minutes from the first unverified and third-party reports/requests for info to the first post containing a verified report that the police were investigating to be posted. The unverified posts were removed, and the post with verification from the police that they were investigating was approved. A famous example of this that led to harassment and false accusations would be the well-meaning but misguided witch hunt in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing. Unverified reports being completely unmoderated can have drastic consequences.

We have a long-standing rule against "what did I just hear?" posts (rule 3)-- this subreddit serves a metro population of nearly 3 million people and it's not prudent to allow every single car misfire, dumpster slam, and transformer blowing post to remain live. As soon as there was some clear information on the situation, the mod(s) who were active approved the posts. We're all volunteers and try to do our best with the resources we have available to us. Additionally, we do not allow twitter links on this sub as a general rule, but if the only official information we have available to us during an emergency event is a twitter link, those will be allowed. We would prefer a screenshot to a direct link, and if the mod queue has two official links and one is twitter, even if the twitter one was posted earlier it will likely be removed in favor of the other.

I understand this might not be a satisfying answer, but it's the answer we can provide. None of us want to prevent anyone from receiving timely, life-saving information, but we also have to balance the usefulness of that information and the validity of the information. False reports can be as or more dangerous and damaging than no reports at all, and so we have to err on the side of caution while we wait for confirmation before approving some posts. Furthermore, reddit as a platform is not well-designed to function as a real-time breaking news platform like twitter or bluesky-- it's a discussion forum. I would urge you to find a platform for breaking news that will provide you the up-to-date, real-time information from agencies and organizations for situations like these, and rely on reddit for more in-depth discussion and conversation after the fact which better suits its design.

Are there any good super bowl parties happening in the Denver metro area this Sunday?

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It's April 29 – May 4, 2025 • Grand Junction, CO. This is really cool, both my daughters are; my 18 and my 12 year old are really excited, they're trying to get some autographs, from Team Glock - Ashley, Callerina, Thy and Morgan Glock shooting team. Check it out! Support our Gun rights! A Girl & A Gun, And both my daughters on the High school and jr high shooting team. They always make me proud of anything they do!

I am giving birth in June and am considering where to do it. So far my experience at Denver Health has been very positive but my OB is office-only so even though I like her a lot, she will not be the one delivering my baby, so I want to hear about other people's experiences. This is my first baby so I don't have any previous experience to help guide me in what I want and should be looking for. I do know that I would like to give birth someplace that allows me freedom to get up and move, has a things like a tub/birthing balls to help aid labor, won't make me feel rushed to give birth/take pitocin (if not medically necessary) and has open and honest communication with their patients. I'm also open to hearing about other hospitals that people have given birth at. Thank you so much!

I recently started lifting and I’m too chicken to lift heavy (for me) without a partner. Any other semi-beginners want to lift together once a week, preferably on the weekend? I go to the Wash Park rec center.

I’m 5’8”, 110 lbs, squatting about 90, deadlifting 135, chest pressing 20 lbs dumbbells and hoping to graduate to the bar soon. Ideally you’re about the same strength. I’m also open to going in a small group of multiple people are interested!

Edit: I’m working with a trainer once a week to learn proper form. Just looking for a workout buddy!

Seeing a lot more foot and car traffic heading that way. Just wondering if something is going on today.

Edited to clarify, this isn't a job that needs to be done in office as people are objecting to my description.

Hi all, I'm asking for a friend. She's been working a crappy customer service, phone/email based job that's been primarily remote, with 1 scheduled day for each team member in office for 2 years. Recently, boss has gotten wacky and started demanding random in-office days without notice, that aren't part of the scheduled in-office rotation, and the job only pays $20/hour! She'd be losing money big time to commute and pay for pet-care.

She's been applying to a lot of random stuff but she'd afraid of leaving and ending up somewhere with an even crappier culture. She could definitely work in-office, but she can't for $20/hour because that barely pays enough to commute and again, have to hire dog walkers since she's been remote for 2 years and has dogs.

She's early 30s, has a bachelor's degree, has years of experience in office admin, retail (including management), and is an all around great person. I thought I would ask if anyone has any advice or if you personally are hiring or your place of work is.

I'll pass any advice and leads to her. Thank you in advance - Denver!