Back in 2003, the City of Denver convened the 45-member Commission to End Homelessness, a coalition of service providers, business people and politicians tasked with creating solutions and advising the city on the complicated issue. But the commission has been plagued with problems, especially after the group concluded its “ten…
Representative Ed Perlmutter is currently the biggest name to have announced that he’s running for Colorado in 2018, and the Democrat, who’s represented the state’s 7th Congressional District since 2007, emphasizes his experience and willingness to reach across the aisle in a wide-ranging interview.
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard is a Lakota historian and member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota. In April 2016, she started the Sacred Stone Camp, the first occupation to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline. Allard was named 2017’s Rebel with a Cause Honoree at Conservation Colorado’s Rebel…
At the City of Denver’s annual housing summit that took place on May 19, Denver’s new housing czar, Erik Soliván, announced that the city would take on thirty short-term initiatives by the end of 2017, including actions aimed at assisting Denver’s homeless population. The city is already following through on…
Across Colorado, but especially in Costilla County, officials are contending with off-the-grid residents who hold “sovereign” beliefs and do not observe the laws of the U.S. government.
Have you ever wondered how Colorado’s legislature works? Or perhaps you don’t care, because you’re convinced that all politicians are corrupt. In either case, former state senator Linda Newell, a Democrat who recently finished an eight-year term representing Littleton at the State Capitol, hopes that a video documentary series she’s…
Indivisible Denver, a collective formed to oppose the agenda of President Donald Trump and hold local officials accountable, has undergone a division of its own. Co-founder Eric Shumake, who recently told us about weekly protests against Senator Cory Gardner dubbed the Sunday Gardner, has split off from numerous ID members who are now part of a separate outfit.
Jacob Ayol, a security supervisor at the Denver International Airport who came to America from Sudan in 2003, was working at the airport when Trump’s first travel ban took effect in January.
Denver’s Ben Higgins, who gave up on a potential run for the state legislature over pressure from the producer of a reality TV series intended to build on the popularity he’d gained during his season starring in ABC’s The Bachelor, has broken up with Lauren Bushnell, his fiancee and co-star on both shows, including Ben and Lauren: Happily Ever After?
Doug Robinson, the latest hopeful to announce for the 2018 Colorado governor’s race, is the nephew of Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and the 2012 Republican candidate for president. But Robinson is optimistic that his experience in the technology industry, his passion for issues such as education and his status as a political outsider will help him top the better-known candidates with whom he’s competing.
Though many people in Denver — and around the globe, for that matter — look to Jeanette Vizguerra, an undocumented mother-turned-activist, for inspiration, she’s got plenty of detractors, too, as we learned after Chris Walker wrote “Jeanette Vizguerra Will Stay in U.S. Until at Least 2019, Leaves Sanctuary.” Says Henry: How is…
When Jeanette Vizguerra took sanctuary in the basement of the First Unitarian Society in mid February, the undocumented mother of four from Denver became one of the faces of resistance to President Trump and his platform of increased immigration enforcement. Vizguerra’s story has been carried by publications across the globe,…
In the wake of the deadliest season at Colorado ski resorts in five years, a national snow-sports safety advocate recently argued in this space for ski areas to share data about injuries and casualties and publish their safety plans. At present, though, there is no legislation pending or in the works at either the state or federal level that would make such actions a requirement for the ski industry, which fears that greater transparency could lead to a flood of lawsuits. Moreover, no state legislators and just one member of Colorado’s Congressional delegation, Representative Jared Polis, appear to have the issue on their radar.
Five days into his presidency, Donald Trump told ABC News’s David Muir that DREAMers — young undocumented immigrants that are currently protected under a provision enacted by President Obama called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) — needn’t worry about deportation under this new administration. “They shouldn’t be very worried. They…
The Meyer Law Office released two videos that show agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement are continuing to arrest suspected undocumented immigrants in and around Denver’s courthouses, despite the City of Denver sending ICE a letter on April 6 asking that agents stay away from “sensitive…
North Korea’s branding of Cory Gardner as a “psychopath” and a “man mixed in with human dirt” is not just a boon for the Colorado senator, whose reputation as a foreign policy hawk will no doubt be enhanced by the rogue nation’s decision to attack him. It’s also among the country’s ten best insults of all time, joining a memorable list shared below.
The Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, which requires tax increases to be okayed by popular vote, was approved in 1992, meaning that it’s been in place for nearly a quarter-century and a pain in the neck to legislators for the same amount of time. Six years ago, a coalition of lawmakers and other notables filed suit in federal court to overturn it. But their efforts have been stymied again, this time by a U.S. District Court ruling that says the plaintiffs don’t have standing to have brought the suit in the first place.
Because Senator Cory Gardner is still refusing to hold any in-person town halls, Indivisible Front Range Resistance, the group that staged its own town hall sans Gardner back in February, has assembled a collection of more than 225 videos in which his constituents pose questions they’d like to ask him in person.
Nearly four years after an initial proposal for partnership, Boulder and Nablus, Palestine, are officially Sister Cities: In a special ceremony on Monday, May 1, Boulder Mayor Suzanne Jones and Nablus Acting Mayor Ass’ad Salwalmeh signed the paperwork to cement the pairing, the final step necessary for recognition by and support…
Former Denver reporter Eli Stokols left Fox31 in favor of Politico in early 2015, and since then, he’s seen his star rise on the national journalism stage. He was recently named a White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and from this high-profile position, he has a closeup view of the Trump administration, for better or worse.
Last night, May 2, Arturo Hernandez Garcia, a Mexican immigrant and former sanctuary seeker who was detained on April 26 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, received a temporary reprieve that will allow him to attend his daughter’s graduation from high school. During this brief period of freedom, his attorney hopes to convince an appeals court to take another look at his case, which his supporters see as representing everything that’s wrong and unjust about the current U.S. immigration system.
Erik Soliván is Denver’s latest hope when it comes to bridging the gap between homelessness, affordable housing and home ownership; even the name of his department, the Office of HOPE (Housing and Opportunities for People Everywhere), suggests as much. In January, Soliván was selected to head up the new department…
