{"id":52015,"date":"2020-08-21T23:43:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T05:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-governor-lets-bars-restaurants-serve-alcohol-until-11-p-m\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:58:13","slug":"colorado-governor-lets-bars-restaurants-serve-alcohol-until-11-p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-governor-lets-bars-restaurants-serve-alcohol-until-11-p-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado governor lets bars, restaurants serve alcohol until 11 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=eff9f33d-022e-4a6c-85a6-8bf15c26b762&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1016\" alt=\"Gov. Jared Polis speaks to reporters at the governor\u2019s mansion in downtown Denver on Aug. 20.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Gov. Jared Polis speaks to reporters at the governor\u2019s mansion in downtown Denver on Aug. 20.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Colorado Sun<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Gov. Jared Polis on Friday said he will allow bars and restaurants in Colorado to serve alcohol until 11 p.m. starting on Saturday, but extend his last-call order earlier for at least another 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>Polis last month required bars and restaurants to cut off alcohol service at 10 p.m. for a month in light of rising coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in the state. He said booze was a common factor in the spread of the disease among young people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully it will give folks a little bit more breathing room,\u201d Polis said of the extra hour during a briefing with reporters at the governor\u2019s mansion in downtown Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Bars and restaurants, furious about the limitation, sued Polis over the action, but a Denver District Court judge sided with the governor and kept the order in place.<\/p>\n<p>Alcohol service in Colorado is typically allowed until 2 a.m. Bars and nightclubs in Colorado that don\u2019t provide food service are still not allowed to be open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re now in a better place,\u201d Polis said in explaining why he made the last-call change. \u201cOur viral presence has gone down 30-40%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rachel Herlihy, Colorado\u2019s state epidemiologist, said that the last-call order was initially put in place to slow rapid spread of the disease among people ages 20 to 29 years old. The rate of increase, she said, has since decreased.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_headline2-18\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2020\/08\/21\/colorado-governor-coronavirus-last-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more at The Colorado Sun<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported, journalist-owned news outlet exploring issues of statewide interest. Sign up for a newsletter and read more at coloradosun.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_headline2-18\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2020\/08\/21\/colorado-governor-coronavirus-last-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more at The Colorado Sun<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>restaurants, furious about the limitation, sued Polis over last-call order<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[233,685,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-52015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coloradosun-com","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88034,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52015\/revisions\/88034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52015"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=52015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}