Politics & Government

While the city released its “playbook,” the council advanced two bills that will help meet the $90 million migrant budget.

Over 100 members of the AI industry are rallying against the bill, but some say it’s necessary to build trust.

The encampment appeared a few weeks ago, and the city wanted to sweep it while it was “still a manageable size.”

West African migrants aren’t used to eating leafy greens, mushrooms and other common American vegetables, so volunteers taught them how.

“We’ve made it a little bit easier to be trans in Colorado.”

“If they could just get it at their local doctor’s office, it would make a lot more sense.”

“It seems like an ordinary trial, but it is an extraordinary trial underneath if we really look at some of the details.”

On the same day, an abortion rights initiative submitted nearly double the signatures needed for the November election.

Mayor Mike Johnston said he planned to offer housing when the encampment was at forty people, but it grew too fast.

Representative Don Wilson isn’t the first state legislator to forget a loaded gun in the Colorado Capitol.

Affordable housing advocates believe the end of certain assistance vouchers are a glaring problem for the city’s plans to house another 1,000 people.

Another fifteen ballot measure proposals are currently collecting petition signatures.

“Misgendering is not a crime!” one of the plaintiffs shouted during a committee hearing. “Gender is nothing, it means nothing.”

“We are working to hire an attorney, but it’s just been kind of hard with the prices.”

“We think we finally cracked the code on how to help people.”

The city has no housing for the 140 people at the encampment, but residents are worried about their neighborhood’s safety.

A bill to expand consumer protections in ticket sales passed its first vote Wednesday.

Over 7,400 people have already applied for a rental assistance program in Denver, with nearly 4,000 housing evictions from January to March.

Repairs take months and mold goes unremediated, allegedly, so residents are considering legal action.

Governor Jared Polis, Senator John Hickenlooper, Mayor Mike Johnston and Mayor Mike Coffman don’t want to lose anything in translation.

“One of the biggest questions is, how much are we spending on it?”

Migrants from Colombia and Venezuela aren’t used to spicy food, which accounts for a lot of donations to Denver shelters, but they’re thankful to get it.