At first blush, a proposed amendment to the Denver city charter seems unlikely to stir passions. But including Denver’s Office of the Independent Monitor in that document is important to the Denver Justice Project, which is planning a rally in favor of such a proposal at 4:30 p.m. today at the…
Yesterday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced that, if elected, he will institute an ideological test for Muslim immigrants and visitors to the United States — or, in his words, “extreme, extreme vetting.” The uproar that followed was undoubtedly familiar to former Congressman Tom Tancredo, who previously ran for president, as…
Ever since the March 8 and 9 sweeps of homeless encampments near the Denver Rescue Mission, the city has engaged in a sustained crackdown on uprooted and displaced individuals throughout the city. These actions have been documented by “camping ban” statistics kept by the Denver Police Department, as well as…
Is Colorado’s election system “rigged”? That’s what Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has suggested. But there’s no better day than today to see democracy in action at the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office, where all signatures on petitions for measures aiming for the statewide November ballot are due at 3…
“You,” says the Grand Junction woman in a Facebook video. “Your kind. You’re the ones that gives brown people the bad name. Just fucking want to get something for nothing. Well, get your ass a job if you don’t have one.” At that point in the clip, which is on view…
When recent CU Boulder graduate Josie Valadez Fraire made plans to take part in a July 1 demonstration against Donald Trump, the featured attraction for the Western Conservative Summit at the Colorado Convention Center, she expected merely to add her voice to those of fellow protesters unsettled by the presumptive Republican…
Among the droves of non-natives relocating to Colorado for our beautiful, expansive outdoors are thirteen brown and black bears rescued from deplorable conditions in Ohio. The bears, which include several cubs, were relocated to the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg in late May, several years after Ohio passed a law that…
A month ago today, when Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump visited Colorado to attend the Western Conservative Summit, our Ana Campbell wrote that he had a no good, very bad day. But if anything, his latest trip to our fair state was even worse. The Donald was almost an hour…
When Donald Trump visited Colorado back on July 1, he had a no-good, very bad day. But that didn’t dissuade him from returning to our fair state four short weeks later. The Republican presidential nominee is scheduled to make two appearances here today — a town hall at the University of…
“Please Read! Do not erase. Your life may depend on it!” So begins “They Are Taking Over!,” one of the featured items on ConspiracyMadLibz.com, a new website launched the week of the Republican National Convention (and just in time for the Democratic confab that gets underway next week) by Krista…
A few hours before festivities for the third night of the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland got underway, Steve House, chairman of the Colorado Republican Committee, predicted a change of tone at the gathering, whose first two days had been marked by controversy over plagiarism charges aimed at the…
On the first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, the delegation from Colorado earned the reputation as upstarts when they walked out of the Quicken Loans Arena en masse following a failed attempt to force a vote that would have changed convention rules and challenged Donald Trump’s bid…
As we’ve noted, most of America didn’t get a chance to see Colorado senatorial hopeful Darryl Glenn speak at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Monday, since major cable news network personalities talked over his words rather than focusing on his fierce delivery and the passionate reaction he elicited…
Colorado got plenty of pub during day one of the Republican National Convention yesterday in Cleveland, thanks to the decision by delegates from the state to briefly walk out after the powers-that-be smothered the last dying embers of the “Never Trump” movement in Quicken Loans Arena, where the shindig is taking place…
Today, we prepare to bid adieu to Gordon Klingenschmitt, who chose not to run again for his Colorado House District 15 seat and instead made a bid for a State Senate seat, then lost in last month’s primary to comparably moderate incumbent Bob Gardner by over twenty points. That landslide loss…
Our cover story this week focused on Casa De Paz, a facility founded by Sarah Jackson to house families of undocumented immigrants who are in the Denver Contract Detention Facility — and to help those immigrants after they are released. The story brought some strong responses, including this from Dave: After…
Beginning at 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning, police started arriving at Confluence Park at the intersection of 15th and Little Raven streets to enforce curfew rules that ban individuals from sleeping in Denver parks overnight. According to videos live-streamed from the Facebook page of Denver Homeless Out Loud, there were…
In the midst of a grim summer of terrorist attacks, political strife and racial tension, it can be difficult to stay focused on the positive. But folks at the Denver Public Library, which has been in the vanguard of discussions about homelessness in the city, have an unusual day of…
Jose Cruz-Hernandez knew very little about where he was, aside from the fact that he was in a city named Aurora. He’d never been to the state of Colorado before, and yet suddenly he found himself blinking into the bright Colorado sunshine for the first time, the Rocky Mountains posing…
Mayor Michael Hancock delivered his annual State of the City address yesterday on the plaza outside Denver International Airport. His speech touched on a number of controversial issues in this city, including homelessness — but protesters who came to the event with signs were told to put them away and…
Just over a week ago, Denver officials admitted they used tens of thousands of dollars from a private donation fund connected with Denver’s Road Home to help pay for street sweeps that dismantled homeless encampments in early March. Calling it an “accounting error,” Mayor Michael Hancock said that the funds would…
Denver’s Civic Center will live up to its name today, with several civic demonstrations set for the park, from protests over police brutality to a satire of the mayor’s State of the City speech. Black Lives Matter 5280 started a 135-hour vigil — to honor the 135 black people killed…
