Carrie Olson remembers the first time she was told Denver Public Schools would need to close schools because fewer babies were being born. She had only been on the Board of Education for a year or two when the state demographer predicted the difficult decision that Olson — first elected in 2017 — and her … Read more
The Archdiocese of Denver and a nonprofit representing the state’s Catholic bishops have contributed $225,000 to a Colorado anti-abortion group in its fight against Amendment 79, which would enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution. The Pro-Life Colorado Fund, a coalition of more than 50 anti-abortion groups, received $175,000 on Oct. 22 from the Denver … Read more
Aurora Mayor Pro Tem Dustin Zvonek is resigning from the City Council at the end of October, one year before the end of his term. Zvonek announced his resignation during an Aurora council meeting Monday and did not go into detail about why he was leaving. “Sometimes in life, you get thrown a curveball, or … Read more
Attorneys representing anonymous animal rights activists on Wednesday released edited video footage filmed by their clients that they allege shows criminal mistreatment of lambs inside Denver’s only existing slaughterhouse. The same facility — the Superior Farms lamb processing plant in north Denver’s Globeville neighborhood — is the focus of a measure on the city’s ballot … Read more
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
Most Colorado workers are now eligible to receive at least part of their salaries while recovering from illness or caring for a baby, but people who are new to their jobs may not have protection from firing or demotion. Colorado’s Family and Medical Leave Insurance program has paid out about $420 million on 82,000 claims … Read more
This article was produced and originally published by Bolts, a nonprofit publication that covers criminal justice and voting rights in local governments. Republished with permission. Lorelei Cloud, vice-chair of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, at the tribe’s headquarters in June. (Photo by Alex Burness / Bolts) Lorelei Cloud was born in 1967, three years before … Read more
Golden dropped the hammer on more than two dozen retail outlets last year when it banned the sales of all flavored tobacco and nicotine products in the city, costing the businesses thousands of dollars in revenue. Now, this city on the western edge of the metro area is setting up a one-time $100,000 relief fund … Read more
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is joining a Justice Department antitrust lawsuit against real estate software company RealPage Inc., accusing it of an illegal scheme that allows landlords to coordinate to hike rental prices in Colorado and elsewhere. The lawsuit, filed Friday alongside seven other attorneys general in states including North Carolina and California, alleges the … Read more
Denver Parks and Recreation has fenced off portions of Sonny Lawson Park and La Alma-Lincoln Park in what the department described Friday as its latest effort to curb rising drug sales, violence and vandalism in those spaces. A pocket of grass and trees near the intersection of West 14th Avenue and Kalamath Street also was … Read more
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