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Colorado employers who missed cutoff for paying state-leave premiums face fines

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:33:02 GMT

Colorado employers, large and small, had until May 31 to pay premiums into the state’s new Family and Medical Leave Insurance program or face late fees and other fines.About 85% or close to 189,000 employers met the deadline, registering for the program and submitting a wage report and payment, according to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, which is administering the program.“The deadline for the first quarter was April 30. But because it was a new program, we extended that to May 31. Even an employer with one employee must register,” said Cher Haavind, the deputy executive director at CDLE, during a town hall call on May 25.Employers who didn’t meet the deadline now face late fees of $50 per employee, as well as interest rates of around 8% annually on unpaid premium amounts.“The longer you wait, the more expensive it gets. We don’t want to put a huge financial burden on someone who is late with us, but we do want that information,”...

Spiritual, secular intersect in “The Oldest Son” at Miners Alley

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:33:02 GMT

A ring of the doorbell will change everything for a married couple — and the world? —  in playwright Sarah Ruhl’s involving drama “The Oldest Boy: A Play in Three Ceremonies,” at Miners Alley Playhouse.Lama Rinpoche (Tessa Fuqua, left) and Mother (Lisa DeCaro) connect over lost teachers and mothers. Photo: Sarah Roshan, provided by Miners Alley PlayhouseThe central character, Mother (Lisa DeCaro), has just settled onto her meditation cushion — although the doorbell is hardly the first distraction to her practice. There was the cooing coming from a baby monitor; a bag of chips also beckoned.The unexpected guests turn out to be the tangerine-robed lama Rinpoche (Tessa Fuqua) and a younger monk (Tim Inthavong). Mother thinks they’ve come to pay her husband, Father (Peter Trinh), a visit. He owns a well-regarded Tibetan restaurant in town. But they’ve ostensibly come to see Mother and Father’s 3-year-old son, Tenzin.The lama Rinpoche believes the child is the reincarnation o...

“The Lost Wife,” two “Past and Present” books and others of regional interest for May

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:33:02 GMT

“Denver: Past and Present,” by Mark A. Barnhouse (Arcadia Publishing) and “Douglas County: Past and Present,” by Jean Jacobsen and Susan Rocco-McKeel (Arcadia Publishing)“Denver: Past and Present,” by Mark A. Barnhouse (Arcadia Publishing)Then-and-now pictures are always fun.  But they can be disturbing when you see a once-elegant old building stripped of its adornments or a wildlife scene replaced by a cheesy housing development. These authors show changes that have taken place in Denver and in Douglas County in 50 to 150 years.In “Denver,” popular author Mark A. Barnhouse, known for his histories of the city’s retailing establishments and 17th Street, concentrates on commercial street views. Curtis Street once was aglow with so many lightbulbs it was called “Denver’s Great White Way.” It is now a strip of sedate office buildings.  Lakeside has fared better: Its tower is still there minus a few light bulbs.Barnhouse includes residences, such as t...

Colorado’s largest indoor pickleball complex will open 13 courts in a space once called Lucky’s

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:33:02 GMT

Lucky’s Market hasn’t sold a jar of pickles in Wheat Ridge for more than three years.But the 35,000-square-foot space at West 38th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard that was home to the Boulder-based natural foods-focused grocery chain that carried Grillo’s pickle chips and Bubbies Kosher dills until 2020 will soon house a different kind of pickle — Colorado’s largest indoor pickleball complex.Nascent operator 3rd Shot Pickleball plans to lay out 13 courts inside the empty box store, complete with bar and lounge for après-smacking snacking. The company signed a 10-year lease with building owner Quadrant Properties last week and hopes to open for business Oct. 1.“It’s a beautiful coincidence,” 3rd Shot co-owner Max Ireland said of the juxtaposition of having a decidedly cursed number of courts in a building emblazoned with the word Lucky’s. “Thirteen fit in there really nicely.”Ireland, who has worked in hospitality and r...

Denver school board considering whether to rescind 2020 policy barring police on campuses

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:33:02 GMT

The Denver school board could vote as early as Monday on whether to rescind or reaffirm its 2020 policy prohibiting armed police in schools, potentially paving the way for officers to return to campuses long-term.Denver Public Schools’ Board of Education met Thursday to discuss two proposals that, if passed, would change that policy. But during the conversation, members raised the possibility of only voting on whether or not they should rescind the 2020 resolution that bars school resource officers, or SROs, from campuses.Rescinding the policy would open the door for Superintendent Alex Marrero to station SROs in schools without the board needing to craft a new policy, board member Michelle Quattlebaum argued, saying she does not support having police on campuses.“It’s not a foregone conclusion that SROs are going to come back into the schools until we take a vote that we want to remove (the policy),” Quattlebaum told her colleagues, adding, “Do we want to remove (the policy)? Take ...

2 more taco stands held up in South L.A. armed robberies

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:33:02 GMT

Police are searching for two armed robbers who held up a pair of taco stands early Friday morning.The first robbery took place around midnight near the intersection of East 103rd Street and Compton Avenue in the Watts neighborhood. The workers said that two men approached the stand and demanded money. One of the suspects pulled out a handgun and pointed it at workers. Although a cash box was given to the robbers, workers said that wasn't enough. The employees also had to empty their pockets while being held at gunpoint, worker Esteban Jimenez said. The suspects fled westbound on 103rd Street with about $600. About an hour earlier, two robbers armed with a handgun held up a taco stand near the intersection of 92nd Street and South Central Avenue in the Green Meadows neighborhood.The robbers demanded cash from workers and customers before fleeing with about $1,200. The workers said all of their money was taken in during the robberies and they were shaken by the experience. A third, si...

Drivers keep crashing at this San Dimas on-ramp; residents fed up

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:33:02 GMT

Locals are fed up with a freeway onramp in San Dimas that is continually the site of rollover crashes.Residents want officials to address the dangerous issue before a crash eventually turns deadly.Business owners said they remain frightened to park their vehicles near the 57 Freeway onramp, wondering whether the next car that tumbles down the embankment will kill someone.Surveillance video captured the latest crash as an SUV is seen running off the ramp, tumbling down an embankment and smashing through a fence before landing on a parked car.The crash happened on Wednesday around 5 p.m. just behind the Salvage Hair Studio in San Dimas.“I was just terrified,” said Jesica Davenport, a stylist at the salon who witnessed the crash. “I just saw this 4Runner launch and roll about three to four times and hit a red Honda on its way down.”Locals are fed up with a dangerous 57 Freeway onramp in San Dimas that sees cars continually rolling over and crashing into a parking lot below. (KTLA)Local...

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These San Jose residents’ water bills could jump big time in July

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:33:02 GMT

Over a tenth of San Jose’s population may soon see their water bills significantly jump if councilmembers approve an increase on Tuesday, making it one of the largest rate hikes in the Bay Area this coming year.Customers of the city-operated San Jose Municipal Water System (SJMWS), which serves approximately 140,000 city residents, could see a 14% rise in their monthly water bills — roughly $16 extra per month. Price increases will go into effect July 1 if the San Jose City Council gives the thumbs up.Officials blame the cost bump on increasing charges by third-party groups who dispense the water, drought-related impacts on supply and usage, and infrastructure improvements that need to be completed. The city-run system serves customers in North San Jose, Alviso, Evergreen, Edenvale and Coyote Valley.Despite the rise in prices, water usage is not expected to change in the coming year, officials said. The SJMWS is expecting to bring in an additional $8.9 million from the a...

Historic debt ceiling vote aligns Bay Area progressives with Freedom Caucus, ties Nancy Pelosi to Kevin McCarthy to … Marjorie Taylor Green?

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:33:02 GMT

It splintered the Bay Area’s deep-blue congressional delegation, aligning progressive reps. Barbara Lee and Ro Khanna with far-right Republicans Matt Gaetz and Paul Gosar on one side, and putting Nancy Pelosi alongside Kevin McCarthy and Marjorie Taylor Green on the other.The roll call from this week’s historic debt ceiling vote created once-unthinkable alliances, contorting House members into a bipartisan game of Twister to keep the country from a disastrous default.In the end, more Democrats (165) than Republicans (149) supported the agreement between President Biden and McCarthy, the Republican House Speaker. More members of the GOP majority (71) voted no than Democrats (46).But in California, not a single Republican crossed McCarthy, their leader from Bakersfield, including newly-elected U.S. Rep. John Duarte from Modesto, who narrowly beat his Democratic rival in November.With the extreme factions of both parties opposing it and plenty of bipartisan support in the m...