Politics & Government

The international success story got its start in Denver.

Think before you vote this election.

Joe Neguse is in a tricky position. As the Democratic nominee for Congress in the 2nd District, which includes Boulder and is currently represented by gubernatorial hopeful Jared Polis, pretty much the only way he can lose is if a bizarrely specific virus kills every progressive voter before November.

Immigrant-rights organizations in Colorado and Wyoming have joined forces to create a 24-hour, interstate hotline to report ICE raids.

Former Parker mayor Lopez finished behind Colorado GOP gubernatorial nominee Walker Stapleton and entrepreneur Victor Mitchell, both of whom had being war chests and dipped into them with abandon. But he still feels that “you don’t need a lot of money. You just have to have the right candidate with the right message and the right ability — the ability to connect and make people understand that you’re there not for yourself, but to help the state and make things better.”

The price list from Biological Resource Center Inc. offered a variety of options for the connoisseur of human body parts. A customer wanted an elbow? That would be $200. A whole arm and shoulder cost just $400 more. For those with more money to spend, a torso with head (referred to as a “cephalus”) went for $3,300. And an entire cadaver was available for the bargain price of $5,000.

The ACLU has sent letters to 31 cities in Colorado demanding an end to laws against panhandling, saying such ordinances are unconstitutional.

Walker Stapleton looked at me the way a bull calf must regard a castration knife. “I can’t talk to you,” he said, turning on his heel as I extended my hand and introduced myself.

Like Lieutenant Governor Donna Lynne and entrepreneur Victor Mitchell, former state senator Mike Johnston qualified for the Colorado gubernatorial primary but fell short of earning a spot on the November ballot. Afterward, Lynne and Mitchell expressed frustration with the current system. But Johnston speaks with fondness about the campaign and gives every indication that he’s ready for another major race.

As hinted at this past March, the attorney representing former City of Denver employee Wayne McDonald, who was paid $200,000 in 2016 to settle a lawsuit over his firing, has filed a notice of claim that foreshadows a potential new complaint focusing on Denver Mayor Michael Hancock.

Dianne Primavera, who’s running for lieutenant governor alongside Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jared Polis, is a former state representative whose personal experiences as a cancer survivor inspired her to become one of the state’s most passionate health-care advocates. Get to know her in the following interview.

Beyond increasing animosity toward immigrant and refugee populations, DRIVE predicts this administration will expand the original scope of this de-naturalization effort and that the current Congress will ignore increasingly unprecedented acts toward these populations without consideration or compassion.

Steve Barlock, who led Donald Trump’s campaign in Denver, wants Treasurer Walker Stapleton to become Colorado’s next governor, a position for which Barlock made a run for earlier this year. But should Stapleton subsequently prove insufficiently loyal to Trump, Barlock promises that he and others in the president’s corner will take swift and decisive action.

An effort is underway to get a measure on the May 2019 ballot that would raise the minimum wage for airport workers at DIA to $15 an hour.

Entrepreneur and former state legislator Victor Mitchell is proud of his campaign for Colorado governor in 2018 and treasures many of his experiences prior to finishing second behind Treasurer Walker Stapleton in the June Republican primary. But several weeks later, he blasts what he characterizes as a shadowy process that rewards liars and places one obstacle after another in front of outsiders interested in shaking up the status quo.

An organization called Coloradans to Stop Predatory Payday Loans has submitted nearly twice the number of signatures required to get a payday lending initiative on the November ballot. If approved, the measure would impose a 36 percent cap on loans that can sometimes charge interest as high as 200 percent.

Chris Conner, the new director of Denver’s Road Home, has big ideas and ambitions to house the city’s homeless.

On August 14, a new lawsuit was filed on behalf of Masterpiece Cakeshop’s Jack Phillips.

Enacted into law in 1964, LWCF provides funding for the acquisition and management of federal, state and local public lands nationwide so that all Americans can enjoy access to the outdoors.

Brianna Titone hopes to make history this fall, but she’s got her work cut out for her, running against a GOP incumbent in a fairly conservative district.

Today, August 16, the Denver Post published an editorial taking President Donald Trump to task for consistently branding any media coverage he doesn’t like “fake news” as part of an effort joined by more than 200 newspapers across the country.  Its defiant headline reads, “We Tell the Truth: Denver Post Decries Trump’s Attacks on Journalists.”