Recently declassified documents reveal that Colorado computers were amount the earliest targets in the first confirmed intergovernmental cyberwarfare campaign: a two-year-long operation carried out by Russia against the U.S. in the late ’90s that was dubbed “Moonlight Maze.”
Noel Ginsburg, a successful Denver manufacturer whose decades of public service work have mostly taken place behind the scenes, is running as a Democrat for governor of Colorado in 2018. In the following in-depth interview, he argues that he’s the best person for the job because of his business experience, outsider’s perspective and a moderate philosophy that he thinks will appeal to voters across the political spectrum.
Name.com, a domain/host registrar that got its start in Denver in 2003 and today serves clients around the globe, on July 12 joined hundreds of Internet companies in a Day of Action protest of the Federal Communication Commission’s proposed rollbacks of Obama-era internet regulations.
The media critic who’s been encouraging Colorado officials and politicians to promise not to share fake news online is making progress, but his successes haven’t been bipartisan. So far, seven elected Democrats have signed the no-fake-news-pledge, while the Republican count stands at zero.
Republican Congressman Mike Coffman has raised over $350,000 in his bid for reelection in 2018, more than double any other Colorado congressional candidate.
Brandt and Brown are suing Adams County, Adams County Sheriff Michael McIntosh, and several of the Sheriff’s deputies including former sheriff’s deputy Jeffery Stovall, who was fired and acquitted on assault charges last year after being caught on video kicking a subdued suspect outside of a bar in May 2015.
After 46 years, Escuela Tlatelolco, an alternative school founded by Chicano activist Rudolfo “Corky” Gonzalez, is closing in the face of financial difficulties; it’s building is on the block for $4 million
Representative Ed Perlmutter has officially dropped out of the race for Colorado governor in 2018 just three months after announcing his candidacy and being branded the Democrat to beat in many quarters. Perlmutter insisted that the reasons for this move had more to do with the difficulties of serving in Congress and seeking statewide office at the same time than the entry into the contest of fellow Colorado rep Jared Polis, a multi-millionaire who plans to put plenty of his personal resources into his campaign. But the press corps had a tough time buying it, despite Perlmutter’s repeated assertions.
After protesters took to Senator Cory Gardner’s office last week to protest his involvement in the American Health Care Act, the Republicans’ proposed replacement for Obamacare, readers had plenty to say about the Colorado senator and health care policy in general.
In late June, HR 3003 — the “No Sanctuary for Criminals” bill — was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. In response, fourteen elected officials in metro Denver penned this commentary.
In March, we reported that the local activist Dezy Saint-Nolde, who goes by Queen Phoenix, pleaded not guilty to five felony and three misdemeanor charges related to her “gifting” marijuana in exchange for donations. Queen Phoenix says that since March, when she entered her plea, the Denver County District Attorney…
Katie O’Donnell and her eighteen-year-old son, Conner, found relief from the sun under a tree outside Senator Cory Gardner’s office in downtown Denver around noon today, July 6. In many ways, the tree has been the only comfort Gardner has provided O’Donnell and her son in recent weeks. At age…
Denver Parks and Recreation crews have embarked on a series of landscape improvements outside the Hiawatha Davis Jr. Recreation Center only days before Mayor Michael Hancock is scheduled to deliver his 2017 State of the City Address at the rec center.
Red Fawn Fallis, a member of Denver’s indigenous community, has been in jail in North Dakota ever since she was arrested at Standing Rock on October 27, 2016; she is the most seriously charged water protector, having been accused of possessing and discharging a firearm as she was being restrained…
In fall 2017, the City of Denver plans to turn over management of the Globeville Recreation Center to community members or organizations, and the Birdseed Collective, a nonprofit started by Anthony Garcia Sr., hopes to get the contract.
Representative Jared Polis is among the biggest names to enter the race for Colorado governor in 2018, and in the following in-depth interview, he cites his experience in business, the nonprofit world and Congress, as well as proposals related to education, energy, infrastructure and more, as reasons voters should cast a ballot for him.
When immigration lawyers with the Meyer Law Firm first captured video evidence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducting arrests inside the hallways of the Lindsey Flanigan Courthouse in February, it caused panic in Denver’s immigrant communities. Within weeks of the video’s release, Denver City Attorney Kristin Bronson announced that at least…
Hugh Jackman is reportedly set to play former Colorado Senator Gary Hart in The Frontrunner, a new film by writer-director Jason Reitman. The movie will examine Hart’s 1988 run for the presidency, which imploded after the publication of a photo showing the senator and a model named Donna Rice posing in a friendly manner in front of a boat named the Monkey Business.
The event provided dozens of services — including medical and mental-health check-ups, clothing, food and help with finding affordable housing — free of charge.
On Wednesday, June 21, Cristina Rodriguez became the latest instance of someone in Colorado who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while reporting to a scheduled ICE check-in. According to ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok, Rodriguez was deported to Mexico on Friday, June 23; her family and immigrant-rights advocates…
President Trump’s current budget proposal includes sweeping cuts to long-distance train services, gutting the Amtrak budget by $630 million.
State officials say there’s no danger that the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo will be shutting down any time soon, despite the recent departure of its director and a finding by federal regulators that patients faced “immediate jeopardy” as a result of a severe staffing shortage.
