This month, a bill will be introduced before the state legislature to outlaw anti-homeless ordinances enacted by municipalities across Colorado, including the urban-camping ban in Denver. The bill — sponsored by House representatives Joseph Salazar, a Democrat from Thornton, and Jovan Melton, a Democrat from Arapahoe County/Aurora — will not…
If you’re mentally ill and in crisis in Colorado, you can be legally put in jail for 24 hours even if you haven’t committed a crime. Moreover, an attempt to change this rule last year was driven by law enforcers who wanted the hold time for innocent sufferers to be extended, not eliminated. A task force assembled at the behest of Governor John Hickenlooper came to a very different conclusion. In a report on view below, the group called for so-called M-1 holds to end and provided some ideas about how to make it happen.
“We are going to protect the people of Denver. Period.” That’s what Alan Salazar, chief of staff for Mayor Michael Hancock, told a standing-room-only crowd at North High School last night. For two hours on February 2, hundreds of community members heard from city officials, state representatives and immigration advocates…
Michael Huttner got his start as a trouble-maker as an intern for Westword. Now he’s CEO of the Fenton Group, a social-change agency, making trouble for the Trump Administration.
Five days into his administration, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that threatens to pull federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities that shield undocumented immigrants. Does Denver qualify as one?
Beginning shortly after 10 a.m. this morning, as part of a campaign dubbed 100 Days of Action, members of the Colorado People’s Alliance will be among those scheduled to show up in force at the local office of a U.S. Senator, where they’ll make it clear that putting out a statement critical of President Donald Trump’s refugee ban isn’t enough.
Tuesday night, President Donald Trump nominated Denver-based 10th Circuit Court of Appeals justice Neil Gorsuch, a native Coloradan with an Ivy League background and a Ronald Reagan-approved pedigree, to fill the seat vacated by the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. But while Gorsuch, 49, was assured and impressive in what was essentially his national debut, his selection immediately triggered a partisan backlash that will likely roil the American political scene for many months to come.
The actions didn’t stop with the Women’s March on Denver or the protests at Denver International Airport this weekend. Here are more ways to stay involved this week.
Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett has been named to a working group of DAs from across the country who will advise the administration of President Donald Trump on marijuana policy. Garnett hopes to influence the Justice Department and presumptive attorney general Jeff Sessions, an avowed pot hater, to be thoughtful about cannabis and not make the sort of mistakes he associates with their actions to date regarding immigration, as exemplified by the chaos that followed an executive order about a temporary refugee ban and more.
Three Republican Congressmen from Colorado who didn’t immediately share their thoughts on President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order about immigration have now publicly endorsed it, although two express minor reservations.
Emad Alayoubi had never been to a protest.
As President Donald Trump grapples with a campaign promise to complete a wall between the U.S. and Mexico — and protesters rally at Denver International Airport to welcome an immigrant’s arrival to the place he considers home — Colorado continues to struggle with its own immigration issues. See the slide show…
Joy prevailed as roughly 1,000 people gathered in Denver International Airport’s Great Hall, Saturday, January 28, to welcome an unsuspecting passenger named Omar to town and to rebuke Donald Trump’s vision of the United States as a nation that would ban people fleeing violence and discriminate against immigrants based on their religion.
The momentum of the Women’s March on Denver will continue with activities this week…and beyond.
Forty individuals camped out along Denargo Street in north Denver were made to move their tents and belongings on Thursday morning, January 26.
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper just returned from an international gathering in Davos, Switzerland, and rumors are swirling that he’s considering a 2020 run for president.
During the six days that I spent in Washington, D.C., covering President Donald Trump’s inauguration, I found myself in the middle of some striking situations – from the historic Women’s March on Washington to an intense riot that destroyed four city blocks of the nation’s capital and caused upwards of $100,000 in damage.
Less than a month after the start of 2017, we’ve already got a candidate for Colorado’s race for governor in 2018. Last week, former state senator Mike Johnston, a Democrat, formally launched his campaign, and he’s already running hard to succeed John Hickenlooper as the state’s chief executive.
On Saturday, January 21, as at least half-a-million demonstrators flooded the National Mall in Washington, D.C, for the Women’s March on Washington, there was a very different kind of scene in the basement of the nearby H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse of the D.C. Superior Court. While the mood at the Women’s March was buoyant, there was an air of gravity at the courthouse.
While tens of thousands of women filled Civic Center Park during the Women’s March on Denver, hundreds of Coloradans joined in the Women’s March on Washington
Like it or not, on Friday, January 20, Donald Trump officially became the 45th president of the United States. But his impact on Colorado began when he became the Republican candidate. From more anti-Trump protests to marijuana and immigration, here are six ways Trump has already riled us up (and…
The Women’s March on Denver broke through the glass ceiling of all attendance expectations on Saturday, January 21, drawing huge crowds that wound up tripling the initial estimates of 40,000 attendees (and the count could grow). One day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, which itself disappointed in terms of numbers, the American people were clearly determined to make a statement. What that statement was, of course, varied from person to person and sign to sign. Some were traditional, some were profane, some were poignant — and some were beautifully geeky. After all, while you’re speaking your mind and participating in the democratic process, you might as well let your freak flags fly, too. In that spirit, here are the top ten nerd-tastic signs we saw at the Women’s March on Denver.
