That car driving slowly or erratically in front of you? Odds are good the person behind the wheel is talking on a cell phone. But unless the driver is under eighteen, doing so is perfectly legal in Colorado. Representative Jovan Melton would like to change that. A new Melton-sponsored bill…
Update: Javier Gallegos Rosales, the young immigrant whose story we posted earlier today, has been granted a continuance in his deportation case. His lawyer, Hans Meyer, tells us that Gallegos Rosales is due back in court in October — and Meyer says they’ll use the extra time to strengthen their…
Alfredo Carrillo, Norma Barron and more than 150 other immigrants will attempt to cross the California-Mexico border today as part of #BringThemHome, an effort being led by the National Immigrant Youth Alliance. The purpose? To reunite family members who’ve been separated by deportation and other immigration laws. Carrillo’s wife and…
When GQ offered to make over Colorado Congressman Jared Polis — caught on camera wearing a polo shirt with a bow tie — we couldn’t resist offering our own makeover suggestions for the Boulder Democrat. So when two Republicans recently announced they were going to join the hordes going for…
Rocker/gun-rights fan Ted Nugent is backing Tom Tancredo for governor and has even authorized a fundraising letter in which donors are entered into a contest for a new AR-15. (See it below.) But will such support cost Tancredo as much as it gains? After all, Texas gubernatorial hopeful Gregory Abbott…
Representative Jared Polis was not doing a great job of representing Colorado earlier this week, when he was spotted on the House floor wearing a bow-tie and a purple polo. Afterward, GQ offered to give him a makeover, stating in an article “Okay. Calm. Breathe. Alright, Congressman…Jared Polis of Colorado…
Should Medicaid payments for circumcision be cut off in Colorado? That’s the argument of The Whole Network, a national organization that’s encouraging its members to contact Colorado legislators who might be thinking about reinstating such funding. A network spokeswoman says the fight has taken place behind the scenes at the…
Last month, Rick Raemisch, executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, decided to get a taste of his own medicine. He cuffed up and shuffled in leg shackles to an administrative segregation cell, bereft of TV or books. Sitting in solitary, listening to the noise from other cells, soon…
When she was sixteen, Aubrey Lloyd ran away from an abusive and dysfunctional home in Colorado Springs. But where she ended up was arguably worse: Lloyd was drugged, raped and then forced to work as a prostitute. On Thursday at the Capitol, she was the last speaker at an afternoon…
Under the newly re-gilted Capitol dome, lawmakers are debating budget cuts and trying to wrestle pork into and out of familiar barrels. It’s unlikely, though, that any of them are losing sleep over one burning issue that’s been a source of constant grumbling in places like Ordway, Sterling, and Buena…
On Valentine’s Day eve, while last-minute lovers were raiding grocery stores for cheap chocolates, plastic-wrapped flowers and prefab love notes, Jordan Garcia raced east on 14th Avenue toward the GEO Aurora ICE Processing Center. “I want to get there before Wade Castle leaves for the day. He’s the guy in…
In December 2010, Karina Sartiaguin Vargas was shot while standing outside Aurora Central High School. Then sixteen, Karina was left paralyzed below the belly button. As we explained in our recent cover story, “Bullet. Proof.,” the teenager eventually began speaking out about gun violence — even testifying before Colorado lawmakers…
Talk about a Mile High-plus example of Broncos pride: Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has temporarily renamed all the 14ers in the state after Denver players. The numbers work out well: The standard NFL roster boasts 53 players — and the number of Colorado 14ers just happens to be 53. That…
The GOP in Colorado wants to bring the Republican National Convention to Denver in 2016 — an interesting move, considering the acute political and social divisions in the state. Colorado, which for many years had settled comfortably into red-state territory, now swings the other way. And today, it’s known more…
An e-mail written by an outspoken sociology professor at Colorado State University-Pueblo, comparing job cuts at the school to the deadly Ludlow Massacre, has prompted university officials to cut off his access to the school’s computer system and accuse him of violating a campus communication policy that prohibit messages intended…
Sinice 2008, Colorado voters have repeatedly rejected personhood ballot measures, each time by wide margins. But another version of the proposal has already been certified for the November 2014 election — and a group of anti-abortion legislators have just introduced a bill, HB 14-1133, with very similar language. A pro-choice…
Immigrant Jeanette Vizguerra, who has been fighting her deportation case for five years, announced a victory today: Federal immigration authorities have granted her a stay of deportation for six months. The mother of four, who is a vocal activist for immigration reform, will be allowed to remain in the United…
The Colorado Consumer Health Initiative’s Adam Fox has kept us up to date on pro-Obamacare ads aimed at young, uninsured people — a campaign doubters have alternately derided as “brosurance” and “hosurance” due images of dudes doing keg stands and a babe eager to take advantage of free birth control…
Update: A proposed ballot initiative that would ban concealed handguns on public college and university campuses was given the go-ahead yesterday by a state board that reviews such measures. But that doesn’t mean the initiative will automatically be on the ballot. Starting in mid-January, the proposal’s backers will have six…
Unless you’re a fan of Major League Soccer, you may not have heard of Robbie Rogers, but the speedy winger made big news last February when he came out, and briefly retired, before returning to soccer and being traded to the LA Galaxy; in doing so, he became the first…
They’ve targeted Snooze and the Palm, and now an Occupy Denver-supported coalition of protestors is going after the Tattered Cover Book Store because of the store’s position on Denver’s controversial ban on urban camping — or, rather, because of the Tattered Cover’s lack of a position on the subject. Last…
The video created by the national organization called Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America to mark the anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre on December 14 (see it below) counts 26 school shootings in the year after that tragic day in Newtown, Connecticut. But since the clip was…
