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…
In response to the tragedies in Dallas and “for the lives lost in St. Paul, Baton Rouge and too often across the nation,” yesterday Mayor Michael Hancock issued a call to action in Denver. In response, churches and community organizations across metro Denver “are opening up their doors so that…
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has been a political success in Colorado, and over the past few years his name has repeatedly popped up in talks of a Hillary Clinton vice-presidential running mate, most recently on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and inVanity Fair, where he ranks in the top seven possibilities as…
You don’t have to look far to see the long-term impact former Colorado Senator Bill Armstrong, who died of cancer yesterday at age 79, has had on the local and national political scene. Note that Friday’s Western Conservative Summit, at which presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had a very…
Many women could be credited with paving Hillary Clinton’s road to the White House, but none are as familiar to Coloradans as Pat Schroeder, the first woman elected to Congress from Colorado — who considered her own run for president almost thirty years ago. Schroeder formally endorsed Clinton for president…
Darryl Glenn, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, characterizes himself as “an unapologetic Christian-Constitutional-conservative-pro-life-Second-Amendment-loving American.” But onetime Alaska governor/ex-veep candidate Sarah Palin, who continues to have EDM-star status among a certain percentage of the GOP faithful despite holding no current electoral office, winnowed that description down to a single word:…
Donald Trump would probably tell you he had a good day Friday. Others might have a different take. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was in Denver Friday morning at the Western Conservative Summit, “the largest gathering of conservatives outside Washington, DC,” its website boasts. Trump tried to sell the crowd on…
In the weeks following the controversial March 8 and 9 street sweeps that dismantled homeless encampments along Park Avenue West, Westword learned via Colorado Open Records Act requests that the city had spent months preparing a revised “public encumbrance removal procedure” that dictated how the city would confiscate, and then…
Colorado is a purple state, but it was looking mighty black and blue two months ago after a pummeling by Donald Trump, who charged that this state’s political system was “crooked” and “rigged” on talk shows and in tweets — the last a form of communication ideally suited to the…
