The Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition is helping Veronica Delgado urge ICE to issue a stay that would stop the deportation of her husband, saying that she needs him to care for her and potentially save her life due to her life-threatening liver disease.
It’s not often that a TV-news anchor essentially agrees with those calling a leading gubernatorial candidate a liar. But that’s exactly what 9News’ Kyle Clark did in regard to Colorado Treasurer and Republican frontrunner Walker Stapleton in a commentary segment on the June 11 edition of Next with Kyle Clark. He explains why in the following Q&A.
The big showdown between the homeless and Denver in a federal courthouse isn’t scheduled to start until March next year
If whimsical racist and Peter Dinklage stunt double Jeff Sessions is surprised that he’s still the U.S. Attorney General given the number of times his boss, President Donald Trump, has said he wishes he’d never given him the job, he didn’t let on during a peppery address at the Western Conservative Summit this afternoon.
“It’s popular to hate Trump.”
These days, Lucia Guzman can be seen sporting a casual look — shorts, a cotton blouse and cat-eye sunglasses — a marked departure from the suits she wore while serving at the Capitol this year.
Two immigrant rights organizations file a detailed complaint with the federal government listing serious accusations of medical and mental health maltreatment at Colorado’s only immigrant detention center.
Just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Lakewood baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, Republican state lawmakers jumped on the chance to get voters to turn out for the November elections. They say that if a red majority sweeps into office, there could be reforms to the Colorado Civil Rights Division and its commission, which started it all.
Attorney Paula Greisen is no fan of the 7-2 U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phililps and fears negative repercussions. But she sees positives in some of the language used in the majority opinion, as well as the lack of sweeping pronouncements that might have turned back the clock on LGBTQ rights.
Jeff Hunt, among the main coordinators of the Western Conservative Summit at Colorado Christian University, says comic Samantha Bee’s recent description of First Daughter Ivanka Trump as a “feckless cunt” isn’t the only reason representatives of Full Frontal, her take-no-prisoners TBS show, have been denied press credentials for this year’s event, which gets underway on Friday, June 8.
Did Cary Kennedy break the Clean Campaign Pledge?
Three months into the petition approval process, and Denver for Psilocybin still hasn’t received approval to circulate its petition. Will Denver get the opportunity this year to become a psychedelic safe haven?
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has joined chief executives from thirteen other states in signing a letter decrying new restrictions floated by the Trump administration on reproductive healthcare providers that accept funding under the federal Title X program. Opponents refer to the proposal as a “gag rule,” since even so much as the mention of the word “abortion” would be forbidden.
Sixth District Democrat Levi Tillemann’s campaign chief has departed under unknown circumstances. With less than four weeks until the Democratic primaries, it’s probably a bad sign for the progressive underdog.
Here are the two Democrats duking it out for Steve Lebsock’s seat in advance of the November general election.
Diana DeGette visited a faith campus on Tuesday to provide an update on immigration legislation in Washington, D.C., and meet Araceli Velasquez, a mother of three from El Salvador who is currently living in sanctuary.
Colorado’s treasurer is MIA in the land of the fee.
Campaign ads for the hottest political race of the season are taking over television screens and are even popping up over your favorite YouTube videos. From Vic Mitchell’s paranoid ramblings of Colorado becoming California and Polis’ #epicfail on his anti-gun ad, we’ve cherry-picked the worst and the funniest ads in the run up to the primary election for Colorado governor.
Catering employees with United Airlines that want to unionize held demonstrations around the country, including at DIA, on Wednesday.
The Independence Institute’s Jon Caldara is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against Boulder’s recently enacted assault weapons ban. But in talking about the suit, he goes well beyond a traditional defense of the Second Amendment, arguing that the measure discriminates against gun owners in ways Boulderites would never permit if the persons targeted were homosexuals.
“What I learned listening to the people talking about it on the floor, there was a clear misunderstanding of what the policy actually did.”
On June 26, Coloradans will vote in primaries, and for the first time, unaffiliated voters can take part, thanks to a 2016 ballot measure. That’s good news for democracy, but it also makes voting a bit more complicated this year.
