Politics & Government

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.”

Former Parker mayor Greg Lopez and Colorado 2018 gubernatorial candidate shocked the political establishment when he guaranteed his place on the Colorado Republican Party primary ballot by earning more than 30 percent support at the April 14 state assembly. He describes his surprising victory and the policies he sees as setting him apart from the still-sizable pack in the wide ranging conversation below.

Ideologically opposed ballot petitions to fund Colorado’s transportation projects are competing for the requisite 98,492 signatures to get on the November ballot. And that could get sticky.

Members of the Topeka, Kansas-based hate brigade known as the Westboro Baptist Church have announced a series of seven protests along Colorado’s Front Range beginning today and running through Sunday, May 27. And while the group doesn’t always show up as planned/threatened, a large counter-protest is planned for this afternoon at Broomfield High School, with the weapon of choice being a group hug.

A mock tribunal hosted by activists in Aurora took ICE and the Geo Group-run immigrant detention center to task.

As it turns out, the mayor is no more immune to traffic woes than the rest of us are.

“Lift The Label” is a statewide movement to reduce the stigma for individuals with opioid addiction through education.

On Thursday, May 10, the North American Aerospace Defense Command invited journalists to come celebrate its sixtieth birthday. The tour guides never told us what made sixty any different from 59 or 58, but when NORAD sends you an invitation (via “unclassified” email!), you don’t turn it down.

If you would like to learn about how you can participate in the struggle for detained immigrants, attend the people’s tribunal to be held in Del Mar Park at 2 p.m. on May 18. Members of Detention Watch Network, along with AFSC-CO, will be hosting the event as part of the ongoing #ICEonTrial campaign.

Talk about a crazy ride. This year has been filled with controversy and hot button issues, like sexual harassment allegations, gun reform, basic LGBTQ+ civil rights and, who can forget, angry teachers storming the Capitol as part of the #RedforEd campaign. Of the more than 700 bills legislators considered this session, here are the most significant pieces of legislation that passed and failed.