Former President Donald Trump in a speech Friday identified Aurora, along with Springfield, Ohio, as cities from which he would deport immigrants if he is elected in November. “We’re going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country,” Trump told reporters in Los Angeles, according to an account of the speech from … Read more
At Raíces Brewing Company, a sea of festival-goers — many wearing the yellow soccer jerseys of the Colombian national team — braved the summer heat on a July afternoon. With cumbia music pounding over the speakers and cold cocktails in hand, they celebrated their culture at Denver’s eighth-annual Colombian Festival. Attendees visited vendors selling fresh … Read more
An Adams County judge has handed a small victory to former residents of a condemned apartment building in Aurora by ordering the property owners and managers to immediately find housing for the dozens of families displaced. District Court Judge Sarah Stout on Wednesday afternoon granted a temporary restraining order requested by Javier Hidalgo the previous … Read more
Residents living in a condemned apartment building in Aurora pleaded with city officials Thursday for more time to find new housing ahead of a move-out deadline looming early next week. “We are humans. We are not animals,” said Emanuel Chabrier, 27, a renter for about three years. “This is not fair.” On Wednesday morning, police … Read more
U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo backed Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic presidential nomination less than a week ago. Then, days later, she supported a Republican-sponsored House resolution “strongly condemning” Harris for the Biden administration’s “failure to secure the United States border.” The vote Thursday was the latest to turn heads as Caraveo faces a … Read more
Here is the new Republican Party platform as adopted by the Republican National Committee this week and shared by former President Donald Trump’s campaign staff. “Our Nation’s History is filled with the stories of brave men and women who gave everything they had to build America into the Greatest Nation in the History of the … Read more
Money. Incumbency. Near-universal name recognition. U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has uncorked a powerful political brew in her quest to clear a field of five Republican primary opponents, all of whom have deeper roots in Colorado’s easternmost district than the second-term congresswoman. That time-tested formula has given Boebert, less than half a year after she abandoned … Read more
Thousands of Coloradans responding to a survey by their local newsrooms say candidates competing for their votes this year need to be focused primarily on several broad issues: democracy and good government, the economy and cost of living, the environment, climate and natural resources, immigration and abortion. Which concerns weigh most heavily on respondents’ minds … Read more
John Deaton, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate, took a long flight south this week to visit the United States-Mexico border to “truly understand” the root causes of immigration issues that have sparked contentious debates in both Washington and Massachusetts. Planning for the trip to Yuma, Arizona came in the wake of Gov. Maura Healey’s decision … Read more
DEL RIO, Texas — I’ve been to Texas many times. Those Lone Star trips were confined to the habitat of American salesman. Cookie cutter hotels, training rooms, frigidly chilled convention centers, and that blast of Texas heat whenever you venture outside. A recent trip changed all that. I traveled from San Antonio through Uvalde to … Read more
