Cynthia Coffman is Colorado Attorney General, but she’d like to be the state’s next governor. In the following in-depth interview, she lays out the case for why voters should throw their support behind her candidacy.
If it survives, it will head to John Hickenlooper’s desk.
The hearing was scheduled to last two days in mid-March, but required an additional five days of arguments and testimony that extended into April.
With oil and gas-related explosions, fires and spills happening across the state, environmental activists are working hard to gather signatures that could halt new oil and gas development in the state and insulate communities from encroaching development. Colorado Rising for Health and Safety have cleared the final hurdle to begin circulating a petition to set 2,500-foot setbacks between new oil and gas development and occupied buildings. Petitioners have to gather nearly 100,000 valid signatures by August 6 to get the 2,500-foot setback on the November ballot.
There are many scenarios for Saturday’s Republican Party state assembly, ranging from several centrists being shut out of the June primary to a potential boost for them as well. It could simply come down to who gives the best speech.
What is being touted as the first lawsuit over kratom tainted with Salmonella, the subject of a nationwide health warning issued in February by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in conjunction with the Food and Drug Administration, targets Soap Korner, a store in Colorado Springs. The suit, accessible below, maintains that plaintiff Ashley Lemke, who lives in North Dakota, was hospitalized after consuming kratom products ordered from Soap Korner’s website that later tested positive for Salmonella.
Denver Police Chief Robert White has received the equivalent of a warning from Mayor Michael Hancock regarding two internal affairs investigations into events that took place in 2016 and 2017. Nick Rogers, the president of the Denver Police Protective Association, the city’s most powerful police union, calls the decision “absurd.”
As of late last year, rent prices finally seemed to be moderating in Denver and its neighboring burgs following a long period in which rental costs continued to go up and up and up in the Mile High City’s red-hot housing market. But the latest data suggests that bargain hunters’ hopes have been squashed again, with rents across the metro area again heading upward, with many of the places analyzed notching double-digit bumps over this time in 2017.
The absurdity of a sativa called Somali Taxi Ride might pique my interest, but Hash Plant is straight to the point, and I respect that.
Jason Crow posted big numbers for his Q1 fundraising, and Mike Coffman lost his lone primary challenger as eyes increasingly turn toward the November general election.
We spoke with every major candidate running in Colorado’s gubernatorial election ahead of the state assemblies.
The hilarious twin duo recently made a long, strange stop in Denver while recording a comedy special.
The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission ruled on Monday that Senator Vicki Marble violated state law when she allowed Extraction Oil and Gas to pick up the tab on a constituent town hall that was purporting “the facts” on oil and gas development in Broomfield, a city and county that has posed strong opposition to fracking by the very company who picked up the tab. But Marble isn’t going to drop the issue; she plans to appeal.
Attorney Anne Sulton says she’s calling for a review of all lawyers involved in Denver’s $75,000 settlement with Detective Leslie Branch-Wise because of concern that the cash may have been intended to pay for the latter’s services as a witness in a trial over a lawsuit filed by fired city employee (and Sulton client) Wayne McDonald that never actually took place.
Launched by Colorado students, Vote for Our Lives will hold voter-registration rallies and build upon recent student organizing in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, shooting and the March 24 March for Our Lives calling for sensible gun laws and increased safety in schools.
For decades, the University of Colorado Boulder student government, known as CUSG, has been among the most powerful organizations of its type in the country, overseeing cost centers valued in excess of $20 million per annum. Last week, CU Boulder administrators announced their intention to strip all but a token amount of that responsibility from the group, only to temporarily back down in the face of protests by students and former CUSG members led by state senator Steve Fenberg. But Fenberg fears Chancellor Phil DiStefano and his staff plan to push through their proposal over the summer, when they have a better chance of dodging demonstrations.
Congratulations, my friend: You’ve found another cannabis gray area.
In 2016, drugs of various types killed 912 people in Colorado, nearly 300 more than the 627 who died in auto accidents here. Moreover, preliminary numbers from 2017 suggest that the total will rise for that year to 959, fueled largely by heroin and opioid overdoses in Denver and the Colorado Springs area, each of which suffered well over 100 fatalities each the previous year, and a startling number of casualties in some of the state’s least populous areas.
On March 14, the Denver Post announced the impending layoffs of thirty newsroom employees, or approximately one-third of the staff. Later this afternoon, the paper will issue a final list of those who’ll be leaving. But a preliminary roster assembled by the Denver Newspaper Guild and provided to Westword by Kieran Nicholson, the newsroom unit’s guild chair, suggests that the total number of people losing their jobs won’t be quite as high as previously expected.
A new lawsuit maintains that employees at the Summit County jail knew 31-year-old inmate Jacqueline Bickford was suicidal but ignored her medical needs for days prior to her death by hanging inside her cell. It’s at least the third suit this decade against Summit County over alleged institutional misconduct at the facility, with the previous two, including the in-custody death of Zackary Moffitt, resulting in big payouts.
According to a new report from California-based CoreLogic, homes in the Denver area are generally overvalued, meaning the price buyers are being asked to pay is simply too high. But while that’s bad news for house hunters right now, it could result in improvements down the line in the Mile High City and beyond.
Last August, when veteran reporter Peter Marcus announced that he was leaving the ambitious ColoradoPolitics.com project he helped launch the previous year in favor of a communications-director position with the rapidly growing marijuana dispensary chain Terrapin Care Station, he stressed that he wasn’t leaving journalism behind and planned to start a website that would mix original stories with posts intended to counter misinformation being spewed by pot enemies. That site, TheNewsStation.com, is now live, and included among offerings that he says “promote the positive business and economic impact of the cannabis industry” is a section in which Marcus tears apart what he sees as marijuana “Fake News.” Check out six examples below.
