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.
Get your pistols ready! Denver Guns Day is just around the corner.
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.”
The New York Times released a hyper-local map outlining the 2016 election, and it’s so detailed it almost allows you to see how your friends and neighbors voted.
A lawsuit filed this week in U.S. District Court argues that a new State of Colorado complaint about Masterpiece Cakeshop, whose owner, Jack Phillips, won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June over his 2012 refusal to make a wedding cake for a gay couple because of his Christian views, is essentially harassment that could have dire consequences.
Cliff Willmeng is the Green Party candidate for Boulder County commissioner. He’s also a socialist, and he sees his possible win in the November election as “a game changer…. Coming into office as Boulder County’s first socialist would be historic. I don’t know how else to describe it.”
The Gazette acknowledges that Walker Stapleton’s great-grandfather, Benjamin Stapleton — who was a five term mayor of Denver — was a once a Klansman. But in a bizarre twist, the editorial also seems to suggest that Polis may have more of a tie to the KKK than Stapleton does.
In May, Broomfield police arrested an undocumented immigrant named Mario Carlos Amaya Ortega and handed him over to ICE, which deported him to El Salvador. But immigration law experts say the original arrest was illegal.
Jared Polis has made universal health care a cornerstone of his campaign. But what, exactly, is universal health care, and how will he implement it?
In 2015, Walker Stapleton and his wife Jenna traveled a lot and left their three children in the care of as many nannies. But according to the Stapletons, the nannies behaved badly, stealing a variety of things including cash, some jewelry, a hat, a belt, hair ribbons, a sippy cup, underpants. You know, the usual.
Roger Barris is trying to do what no other libertarian has done in Colorado: get into Congress.
