The second Women’s March of the Trump era motivated thousands of people to take to the streets in downtown Denver on Saturday, January 20, and speak their minds, express their anxiety, proclaim their power, and generally make the statement that they will not go quietly into that political good night.
Last week, twenty locations, including Denver, found out that they were the finalists for Amazon’s planned second headquarters.
If there was one Denver activist who was propelled into the spotlight to an almost surreal degree in 2017, it was Jeanette Vizguerra.
DACA — the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — is still under attack by the Trump Administration after it appealed directly to the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to kill the program. Colorado representatives are urging Congress to codify the program once and for all and is standing in opposition to any federal actions that would threaten deportation against or the work status of DACA recipients.
As your anger rises because your favorite Kottonmouth Kings track didn’t make it, twist one up and listen to one of these. The nostalgia will take over before you know it.
We’re now only months away from the midterm elections, so we’d thought we’d give you an early heads up for which races you’ll really want to keep an eye on.
On the eve of his first anniversary as commander-in-chief, Donald Trump is already the worst president in U.S. history according to University of Colorado Boulder history professor Thomas Zeiler, among a team of CU historians who shared their picks for the ten poorest U.S. presidents of all time with us for a post published just prior to Trump’s inauguration last year. But Trump supporters have a very different and infinitely more positive view of the Donald’s performance, including Steve Barlock, who led the now-president’s 2016 campaign effort in Denver and is currently running as a Republican for governor of Colorado.
News that a Houston-area grand jury had been looking into a sexual assault accusation against wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders is something of a gift to the Denver Broncos, the franchise for which he’s played since 2014. Speculation has been rife that the team was looking to dump him for economic reasons, even though jettisoning the fan favorite would have almost certainly stirred controversy. Now, however, getting rid of Sanders despite him dodging an indictment in the Houston case can be spun as team executive John Elway and company taking a stand against the sort of bad off-the-field behavior that’s led to the Broncos racking up 49 arrests since 2000, a total that’s tied for the most in the NFL over that span.
One bill to fix the pot-tax gaffe has zero co-sponsors. The other has fifty. One bill was sponsored by Steve Lebsock. The other was not.
Last year, the Great Love Debate declared that Denver was the worst city for dating in the country. But the dating app Hinge is much more upbeat about hooking up in the Mile High, as evidenced by its list of the ten most eligible singles in Denver circa 2018.
Several Colorado state representatives have put their names on a brief supporting the industrial hemp industry in federal appeals court.
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.
A proposed bill would remove the cap on out-of-state and international marijuana-industry investors. While some say the bill is necessary to keep Colorado an attractive place to do business, others are concerned about big money.
Amazon has just announced the twenty finalists for HQ2, a second headquarters for the giant company that’s expected to create 50,000 new jobs and result in a $5 billion investment for the winner. And Denver made the list, besting more than 200 other applicants.
From January 18 to 21, the annual conference of the Washington-based Gay Christian Network will take place in Denver; get the details below. According to Isaac Archuleta, GCN’s interim executive director (who’s from Denver), the gathering will give gay Christians living in less welcoming places the opportunity to gather in a warm and inclusive environment with other folks like them.
On January 19, 2017, the day before Donald Trump’s inauguration, we listed the ten worst American presidents of all time as chosen by members of the CU Boulder history department and interviewed Professor Thomas Zeiler, a key part of the group, about Trump’s odds of joining this roster. A year later, we checked in again with Zeiler in an effort to gauge The Donald’s progress in regard to this dubious potential achievement, and the prof says Trump has reached the peak in record time. According to Zeiler, Trump is already the lousiest chief executive ever elected in the U.S., and he sees no way for his status to rise during the remaining three years of his current term.
Any physician who doesn’t know the difference between THC, CBD and hemp-seed oil isn’t worth talking to about medical marijuana.
As we’ve reported, Erika Lee, widow of Loveland Ski Area employee Adam Lee, who was killed last month beneath the Magic Carpet lift, a conveyor belt used in beginner ski lessons, has been frustrated by the dearth of information released to date about the circumstances of the tragic incident. But the first major study of the accident, just released by the Colorado Passenger Tramway Safety Board, raises as many questions as answers. The report reveals that there was nothing mechanically wrong with the lift even though Lee spent more than an hour beneath it. The device only stopped after crushing Lee to death.
And don’t miss the library’s Pink Progression art exhibit, which will highlight the stories of participants in last year’s Women’s March in Denver.
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.
Fort Collins-based New West Genetics received certification for its ELITE hemp genetics from the Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies and Colorado Department of Agriculture.
Today, January 17, a hearing continues in Adams County court to determine if a fifteen-year-old accused of killing ten-year-old Kiaya Campbell in June 2017 will be tried as an adult. Such efforts have been attempted at least fourteen times in Colorado over recent decades, and the results are decidedly mixed no matter what decision was ultimately made.
