Politics & Government

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.

Virginia’s Law aimed to protect Colorado immigrants, but the bill sponsors spiked the effort last legislative session after realizing Republican lawmakers in the State Senate were never going to pass it.

And Polis baaaarely eeked out of the radical left.

The City of Denver disagrees with some of the key findings in an explosive new report about laws in the Mile High City affecting the homeless. The University of Denver is defending its report.

Today is the last day of the state legislative session. Normally, that would mean that it’s time to party — not for the legions of Colorado legislative fans (if those exist, please let us know), but for the legislators themselves, along with the lobbyists and the interns and the staff and the hangers-on.

It took 119 days to pass what is arguably the most important piece of legislation to come out of the Capitol this year. After unanimous support in the Senate and an almost exclusively Democratic push from the House, a multibillion-dollar transportation bill was finally pushed out of the legislature and onto the governor’s desk.

The Homeless Advocacy Policy Project at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law has just released a report showing that thousands of Denver’s homeless are being displaced under the city’s urban camping ban.

A political movement is recruiting centrist-minded Coloradans to run in eleven state legislature seats this fall.

Although Lisa Raville has worked hard to build the Harm Reduction Action Center into the Colorado’s largest syringe exchange, she feels strongly that even more good could be done if the state had supervised use facilities, where individuals could inject drugs in an environment that put safety first, as opposed to the Denver Central Library branch, where six people overdosed during the first three months of 2017.