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Democrats in the Senate took a page out of the lower chamber’s playbook when they voted to expel Senator Randy Baumgardner last night over sexual harassment allegations that an outside investigator found was “more likely than not” to be credible. And while ex-Representative Steve Lebsock did get the boot last month, Baumgardner survived his expulsion vote. But he is still under investigation for two other complaints.

An attorney representing Wayne McDonald, a former Hancock friend and city employee fired in 2012 for his own alleged behavior toward Branch-Wise, is now demanding a review of all lawyers who played a role in a $75,000 payment to the detective by the City of Denver over the matter. The 2013 settlement precludes Branch-Wise from suing Hancock, even though his texts to her (including one that asked her if she’d ever taken a pole-dancing class) were not known to McDonald’s legal team in 2016, when they accepted $200,000 to resolve a lawsuit filed after his firing four years earlier.

Building upon the momentum of the March For Our Lives, the group Never Again Colorado will be host a town hall on April 7 at 6 p.m. at ThunderRidge High School, with speakers including Colorado students and survivors of mass shootings.

Late last night, April 2, Denver City Council president Albus Brooks announced that the panel will not investigate the question of whether inappropriate texts sent by Mayor Michael Hancock to Detective Leslie Branch-Wise during the 2011-2012 period when she was on his security detail constitute sexual harassment.

Today, April 2, Calderón and her attorney Trish Bangert filed a lawsuit and request for a jury trial with the U.S. District Court in Colorado that alleges that her jail re-entry program was not renewed by Denver for reasons of gender discrimination and political retribution.

According to a new report cited by Denver-based Center for Health Progress, the immigration policies enacted by the administration of President Donald Trump are not only making undocumented individuals in Colorado sick, but they’re hitting the rest of the citizenry directly in the pocketbook.

“I’m obviously not a politician, but Denver has a lot of blood on their hands this year especially; over 230 homeless people died, most of them disabled.”

After a Colorado Coalition for the Homeless project was rejected by a federal agency, we caught up with Cathy Alderman, the nonprofit’s vice president of communication and public policy, to find out what happens next and address some of the concerns by Lakewood residents who oppose the project.

Denver Meadows Mobile Home & RV Park residents in Aurora have been fighting to save their community from redevelopment for two years. This week, they successfully lobbied Aurora City Council to halt any redevelopment for the next ten months in an attempt to pressure their landlord to sell the park to the community, not a developer. But the fight isn’t over for residents just yet.

The theory that the Denver City Council isn’t that into investigating Mayor Michael Hancock for possible sexual harassment against Detective Leslie Branch-Wise during the 2011-2012 period when she was on his security detail got a boost yesterday evening, March 29, when council president Albus Brooks released a statement revealing that he and his colleagues are still mulling over whether or not to launch an inquiry and suggesting strongly that whatever happens will take place beyond public view. Accompanying these remarks was a collection of frequently asked questions about the case — some surprising, others indicating that plenty of ass-covering is underway.