As part of the “Every 5th” series of monthly rallies organized by the groups Anonymous and Occupy Denver, demonstrators took to the streets near the State Capitol on Monday night to protest police brutality. The Denver Police Department soon got involved in what an Anonymous release describes as violent shoving…
Update: Earlier this week, we reported about legislation that would have established a felony DUI law in Colorado, as well as the arguments in favor of the bill made by Mother’s Against Drunk Driving; see our previous coverage below. In the end, however, the measure fell short, and a representative…
With Republicans determined to take back control of the U.S. Senate by unseating a handful of vulnerable Dems and polls showing the race between Senator Mark Udall and challenger Representative Cory Gardner devolving into a dead heat, it’s hardly a surprise that interest groups on both sides are pouring money…
Last week, administrators of the city’s 911 system revealed that federal, state and local dignitaries — like the governor, the mayor and others — have been receiving “a more robust Denver police response than the public,” according to the Denver Post. The new policy went into effect in December, less…
Last week, we noted that a bill to ban red-light cameras (after years of failed attempts) had managed to win approval in the state senate. But it was flagged yesterday by a House committee after heavy lobbying from a number of local mayors, including Denver’s Michael Hancock, and the Colorado…
A proposal that aims to bring Colorado civil rights laws in line with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act was approved last week at its first and second Senate committee hearing — and if it passes one more hurdle today, it will reach the House this week. “The current Colorado…
In January, Colorado Department of Corrections chief Rick Raemisch drew headlines when he sent himself to the hole for twenty hours, so he could get some idea of what it’s like for prisoners serving time in solitary confinement. Raemisch believes that isolation cells are overused in the state prison system,…
For years, Senator Scott Renfroe has tried to ban red-light cameras — devices mounted near traffic signals or in police vans that snap shots of vehicles allegedly breaking traffic laws — under the theory that they’re more about revenue than safety. The effort failed in 2012, but it’s got a…
A new poll finds John Hickenlooper leading four Republican challengers in the 2014 governor’s race. But the gender gap in the survey is more like a chasm, with men backing each of the GOP hopefuls but women favoring Hick by an even larger margin. We’ve got a numbers breakdown, supplemented…
In February 2013, we told you about Craig Brittan, the Colorado Springs man behind Is Anybody Down?, a website that published “involuntary” nude photos — meaning intimate images typically intended to embarrass ex-lovers. The popular term for such web destinations? Revenge porn sites. Brittan’s address is now history, but the…
Sixteen-year-old Nicole Castaneda had one request of the supporters who gathered in front of the Denver immigration court before her hearing: to sing John Lennon’s “Imagine” because, as an advocate explained, Nicole wanted them to “imagine a world where kids could just be kids, without fear of deportation.” Nicole was…
Update: Jaime Leon Rivas, a nineteen-year-old undocumented immigrant who we wrote about last week (see below), has been released from detention, where he was awaiting deportation. On April 2, a week after his friends and family held a vigil outside the GEO immigrant detention center in Aurora on the occasion…
Libertarian politics in Colorado have always been among the most fun to watch. After all, the nation’s third-largest political party was founded in Colorado Springs 42 years ago and has attracted all kinds of colorful characters, from Lakewood City Councilman Doug Anderson, who became the first Libertarian elected to office…
Washington Park is without question one of Denver’s favorite parks. But is this status endangered by the bad behavior associated with alcohol? That’s among the assertions made in a letter by Denver City Councilman Chris Nevitt, who’s calling for a ban on alcohol in the park. Continue for more information,…
Update: Earlier today, we noted that the Republican National Committee was on the cusp of determining the finalist sites to host the Grand Old Party’s 2016 convention. Denver was one of eight contestants — and a short time ago, the Mile HIgh City made the final cut, along with Cleveland,…
“Should I write movies or work for a production company?” a fresh-faced Miguel Ali (formerly Miguel Ali Hasan) asked his professor, John Badham, the director of Short Circuit and Saturday Night Fever. Badham replied: “Go get some life experience. It will make you a better director.” So Ali did: He…
Jaime Leon Rivas turned nineteen years old yesterday. But he didn’t spend his birthday with his girlfriend, his friends or his family. No, the Summit County resident spent it inside the GEO immigrant detention center in Aurora, where his girlfriend says he’s the youngest person in the custody of federal…
It’s March Madness time, when everyone decides to create their own Sweet Sixteen matchups for everything from movies to hot dog condiments. And speaking of hot dogs, Progress Now’s 22 state affiliates have tapped twenty politicians that they consider the “most outrageous, radical, out of touch right-wingers” for their “March…
Just over three years after 21-year-old Jose Medina, a valet at the now-defunct Rockstar Lounge at 940 Lincoln Street, died after getting struck by a hit-and-run driver, Governor John Hickenlooper signed House Bill HB14-1191 into law and created the Hit and Run Medina Alert Program, the first of its kind…
Renegade Colorado crafters will be out in force this morning, delivering handmade “no thank you” cards to Attorney General John Suthers and telling him that birth control is #NotMyBossBusiness. Suthers filed a friend-of-the court brief in the Sibelious v. Hobby Lobby case, which the Supreme Court will hear today along…
Reporters generally do a lousy job of analyzing the incarceration rate in the United States — which, despite recent sentencing reforms, remains the highest in the world, with more citizens per capita behind bars than in Cuba, Rwanda or Russia. That’s why a recent report by the Prison Policy Initiative,…
We have nothing bad to say about fruits or vegetables. They are beautiful and amazing parts of this world, upstanding members of the ecosystem and, according to many sources, apparently healthy to eat. And even if we did have something bad to say about them — cauliflower, in particular –…
