Politics & Government

Would Donald Trump come to the rescue — or severely hurt — of Walker Stapleton’s campaign?

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock has just released an ambitious budget for 2019. Get your first look here.

CBS4 reporter Shaun Boyd critiqued a political ad in which she appears and found it misleading.

The tiny home village must move again. But organizers have found a ready host at the nearby TAXI development.

Psilocybin advocates have submitted ballot initiatives for the May 2019 election to allow for use of psychedelic mushrooms in Denver.

Today, September 7, Democratic leaders and gubernatorial hopeful Jared Polis’s campaign hosted a press conference on the GOP state treasurer’s parking spot at the State House to make a point about Stapleton’s supposed regular absences from work.

David Reid Ross became the official Republican nominee for state representative in House District 12 after winning the primary in June. But after Westword revealed racist and homophobic content from Ross’s personal blog, The House of David, the Colorado Republican Party has tried to distance the organization from him. That’s left Ross with intestinal distress.

The fight for the 6th Congressional District is one of the increasingly rare American political races where both Democrats and Republicans are actively, openly and successfully courting votes from immigrant communities.

The Colorado Republican Party now wants nothing to do with House District 12 candidate David Reid Ross after being informed by Westword about The House of David, a personal blog populated by well over a decade’s worth of posts that include rants and musings most sentient humans would regard as racist, homophobic, Islamophobic and more, more, more.

The first shot has been fired by the folks backing Representative Jared Polis, the Democratic Party nominee, who’ve launched Where Is Walker, a site that needles Republican Party selection Walker Stapleton for his dubious attendance record during his stint as Colorado Treasurer.

The international success story got its start in Denver.

Think before you vote this election.

Joe Neguse is in a tricky position. As the Democratic nominee for Congress in the 2nd District, which includes Boulder and is currently represented by gubernatorial hopeful Jared Polis, pretty much the only way he can lose is if a bizarrely specific virus kills every progressive voter before November.

Immigrant-rights organizations in Colorado and Wyoming have joined forces to create a 24-hour, interstate hotline to report ICE raids.

Former Parker mayor Lopez finished behind Colorado GOP gubernatorial nominee Walker Stapleton and entrepreneur Victor Mitchell, both of whom had being war chests and dipped into them with abandon. But he still feels that “you don’t need a lot of money. You just have to have the right candidate with the right message and the right ability — the ability to connect and make people understand that you’re there not for yourself, but to help the state and make things better.”

The price list from Biological Resource Center Inc. offered a variety of options for the connoisseur of human body parts. A customer wanted an elbow? That would be $200. A whole arm and shoulder cost just $400 more. For those with more money to spend, a torso with head (referred to as a “cephalus”) went for $3,300. And an entire cadaver was available for the bargain price of $5,000.

The ACLU has sent letters to 31 cities in Colorado demanding an end to laws against panhandling, saying such ordinances are unconstitutional.

Walker Stapleton looked at me the way a bull calf must regard a castration knife. “I can’t talk to you,” he said, turning on his heel as I extended my hand and introduced myself.

Like Lieutenant Governor Donna Lynne and entrepreneur Victor Mitchell, former state senator Mike Johnston qualified for the Colorado gubernatorial primary but fell short of earning a spot on the November ballot. Afterward, Lynne and Mitchell expressed frustration with the current system. But Johnston speaks with fondness about the campaign and gives every indication that he’s ready for another major race.

As hinted at this past March, the attorney representing former City of Denver employee Wayne McDonald, who was paid $200,000 in 2016 to settle a lawsuit over his firing, has filed a notice of claim that foreshadows a potential new complaint focusing on Denver Mayor Michael Hancock.

Dianne Primavera, who’s running for lieutenant governor alongside Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jared Polis, is a former state representative whose personal experiences as a cancer survivor inspired her to become one of the state’s most passionate health-care advocates. Get to know her in the following interview.

Beyond increasing animosity toward immigrant and refugee populations, DRIVE predicts this administration will expand the original scope of this de-naturalization effort and that the current Congress will ignore increasingly unprecedented acts toward these populations without consideration or compassion.