Attorney Jason Flores-Williams provides an update on the federal lawsuit in which thousands of people experiencing homelessness are suing Denver for violating their constitutional rights during sweeps.
The local March for Our Lives is being organized by Tay Anderson, a nineteen-year-old activist who has emerged in recent months as a prominent voice in the Mile High City.
Despite blustery comments from President Donald Trump on Twitter, it’s now difficult to refute that Russia influenced the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. The 37-page indictment that emerged from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation on Friday, February 16, was a political bombshell; the stunning document charges that three…
The Hancock administration decided in January to fold the office of HOPE under the Office of Economic Development. That came along with a job posting for a new “Chief Housing Officer” that will oversee HOPE, a $20 million budget and up to twenty employees dedicated to housing issues. The job posting closed yesterday, February 12, the same day HOPE head Erik Soliván resigned.
Will the Stanley Hotel’s new performance space make Estes Park a culture hub?
Immigrant rights groups around Denver are scrambling to reach out to Temporary Protected Status communities in the Centennial State and provide information about the changes coming out of Washington, D.C — and what to do if they find themselves subject to immigration enforcement.
Troy Riggs is the new executive director of Denver’s Department of Public Safety, which oversees Denver’s law enforcement agencies, fire department, and jails.
The city’s main response to the housing crunch is a five-year plan called “Housing an Inclusive Denver,” which utilizes a $15 million a year fund that was approved by City Council in 2016. But now that amount of funding, and the urgency with which it’s being deployed, is being heavily criticized.
On Tuesday, January 30, the Colorado Democratic Latino Caucus sent a letter to the Chief Justice of Colorado’s Supreme Court, Nancy Rice, demanding that all state-run probation offices cease voluntary assistance with federal immigration enforcement.
Just as Amazon compiles data about consumers’ searches and web activities to push product recommendations, the company is obtaining a shocking amount of economic, demographic and infrastructure data from the cities bidding for HQ2.
It turns out that, yes, Denver does have a busing program for its homeless, but it’s not robust or conspiratorial.
On January 24, Attorney General Jeff Sessions threatened to subpoena 23 jurisdictions to produce documents showing whether those jurisdictions are cooperating lawfully with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A judge in North Dakota has accepted a plea deal bargain for Red Fawn Fallis, a member of Denver’s indigenous community who was arrested on October 27, 2016, during the Standing Rock demonstrations.
If there was one Denver activist who was propelled into the spotlight to an almost surreal degree in 2017, it was Jeanette Vizguerra.
Colorado’s immigrant rights advocates are still calling for a “clean” DREAM act — one that’s not tied to a complicated spending bill and focuses just on DACA recipients and a pathway to citizenship.
Prominent among a new guard of activists who captured Denver’s attention in 2017 was Tay Anderson, the eighteen-year-old who ran for the Denver board of Education. He has big plans for 2018, too.
Midway through St. Vincent’s full run-through of her 2017 album Masseducation at the Fillmore Auditorium on Monday, an object shot up from the audience, traced a graceful arc in the air, and then landed silently at the front of the stage.
After Donald Trump’s election, Queen Phoenix quickly rose to prominence as a protest organizer. But now she’s disappeared, leaving behind disappointed supporters and a pending trial.
Shorter Community AME Church was nearly packed to the brim on Saturday, January 13, when several hundred Denverites congregated there for a six-hour summit to discuss Denver’s response to gentrification.
On Saturday, January 13, a new coalition will host a Gentrification Summit from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Shorter Community AME Church, located at 3100 Richard Allen Court.
Tonight, January 8, City Council is expected to approve another six-month permit for a new location for the village, which had to pay $25,000 to move 200 feet.
There were 4,647 individual “contacts” in 2017, or interactions that include, at a minimum, law enforcement telling someone violating the ban to pack their belongings and move to another location. That’s down slightly from the 5,055 contacts in 2016, though still significantly higher than the 972 made in 2013, the first full year the law was enforced.
