Hey, fellow bike commuters in Denver, you have it so good here, and many of you don’t even realize it. This past year I’ve noticed increased amounts of negative press coverage and complaints on social media about the lack of bike lanes, drivers parking in them (where they exist) and dangerous intersections in Denver.
The extent to which hackers and other shadowy operatives from Russia meddled in the U.S. election last November seems to be expanding as additional evidence comes to light. Facebook has come under scrutiny after it was revealed that the social-media company sold and displayed over 3,000 political advertisements related to…
A local civil rights attorney is filing a federal lawsuit on behalf of the Colorado River, hoping to establish “personhood” for the natural resource and its legal rights to exist, flourish and regenerate.
Documents reveal arrests of undocumented immigrations at courthouses in Denver are more common than anyone, including the City of Denver, suspected.
Immigration enforcement is an especially contentious issue right now, and it should come as no surprise that Denver’s recent decision to pass an ordinance that limits the city’s cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement has divided Denver residents.
When the ACLU of Colorado heard that Iraqi detainees being held inside Aurora’s immigrant detention center – a 1,500-bed facility run by the private prison company GEO Group – were being singled out and harassed by the facility’s guards, ACLU attorneys and staff members went to investigate.
“The change in federal policy will not impact the Denver Police Department as it has no intention of requesting surplus military equipment,” says Doug Schepman, a DPD spokesman.
The students came from schools all across Denver. Many marched miles from their respective campuses in long lines that stretched along streets and boulevards. Some chanted. Some held signs. But they were all headed to one location on Tuesday morning: the Tivoli Student Union on the Auraria Campus, to protest President Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
As President Trump reportedly considers ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Mayor Michael Hancock had a message for the White House on Thursday, August 31: “Mr. President, leave our DACA children alone.”
Standing behind a podium at a welcoming ceremony on August 23, Araceli Velasquez, a young mother of three U.S.-born children, holds back tears as she surveys a crowd gathered on her behalf in a large worship hall. The building, and many of the faces, are still unfamiliar to her, but they won’t remain so for long.
With the support of Mayor Hancock and a majority of Denver City Council already secured, the bill, called the “Public Safety Enforcement Priorities Act,” went to a vote before Denver City Council on Monday night, August 28.
Terese Howard, perhaps Denver’s most outspoken advocate for individuals experiencing homelessness and a principal organizer of the group Denver Homeless Out Loud, believed that she was facing jail time when she reported to a probation violation hearing at the Lindsey Flanigan Courthouse on Thursday, August 24.
After diving into how ticketing works at Red Rocks, we wondered how other Denver Arts & Venues properties, like the Buell Theatre, handle ticketing for high-demand theatrical productions, such as Frozen and Hamilton.
A deep dive into the inner workings of ticketing at Red Rocks.
In late 2015, Denver Activist Theo Wilson went undercover online as a black man amongst the alt-right. By creating a fake white supremacist Facebook profile as well as a YouTube account under the moniker “Lucius25,” Wilson set out to trick the social media platforms’ algorithms into feeding him the same…
In response to increased immigration enforcement under President Trump and lower numbers of crimes being reported by immigrants, Denver has looked for ways to reassure residents that it is doing no more than what is legally necessary when following federal immigration laws. But the city hasn’t always agreed on how…
Mayor Hancock and Denver City Council are considering different approaches to limiting Denver’s cooperation with ICE, but some immigrant advocates like attorney Hans Meyer believe that neither goes far enough.
On Tuesday, the Colorado Rapid Response Network confirmed five ICE raids throughout Colorado, that occurred on Monday and Tuesday, July 24 and 25.
On January 20, as supporters and protesters alike gathered inside the National Mall and along a parade route in Washington, D.C., for Donald Trump’s inauguration, a different kind of protest was gathering about ten blocks north, in Logan Circle.
This morning, Denver City Council members Robin Kniech and Paul Lopez introduced a draft of a bill that they’ve been working on that would codify and clarify Denver’s practices around federal immigration enforcement and interacting with ICE. Kniech and Lopez held a listening session with the public to answer questions…
Devastating earthquakes. Unprecedented storms. Life-killing droughts. Unpredictable weather patterns. If these sound like worst-case scenario predictions for climate change, then that’s intentional. But in this case, the dystopian conditions do not apply to planet Earth, but instead to a fictional world that’s captured in the comic book series Acid of the Godz.
The National Cybersecurity Center has its origins in an economic development trip that Governor John Hickenlooper took in 2015, when he visited Tel Aviv and learned about an Israeli cybersecurity center that brings together government officials, university researchers and private businesses to trade knowledge about preventing cyberattacks.
