The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless is seeking a restraining order and preliminary injunction from the U.S. District Court of Colorado to prevent a federal agency from selling 59 acres of government land in Lakewood that had been awarded to the nonprofit to build permanent supportive housing for the homeless.
The state says Brad Levin is 1,521 signatures short on his ballot petition to be a Democratic primary candidate for attorney general. Levin mounted every argument he had in court to get his name on the June primary ballot, but he was shot down. Now he’s asking the state’s highest court to intervene before Colorado starts mailing out ballots this month and he’s completely knocked out of the race.
The Colorado Civil Rights Division is at stake this legislative session. The House passed a bill to reauthorize the agency. The Senate amended it, but representatives in the lower chamber were not keen on those changes. House Democrats have said the proposed changes to the civil rights agency would overly politicize and radicalize it. Now, the two have to negotiate their differences before the end of session. But the House Democrats seem to have all the leverage.
Doug Lamborn has been battered by lawsuits this election cycle over his petition to get on the June Republican primary ballot. He finally caught a break this week when a court ordered the state to reinstate his name on the Republican primary ballot for the Fifth Congressional District of Colorado. But it’s unclear how long this reprieve will last.
Everyone is buzzing about Colorado’s proposed red-flag law, which might have the strongest due process provisions of any state in the country that currently has red-flag legislation. In other instances, the American Civil Liberties has been an outspoken opponent of red-flag laws, which would allow law enforcement to seize an individual’s firearms with a court order. So what does the ACLU think about Colorado’s proposal?
Last night, May 1, the Castle Rock town council voted unanimously to adopt a new animal ordinance that effectively ends the community’s prohibition on pit bulls. Advocates for pit bulls are overjoyed by this turn of events and feel optimistic that the move will trigger new efforts to overturn similar bans in six other Colorado cities.
A committee that advises the city on issues of homelessness has been revised and rebooted; its initial lineup consists of fifteen individuals, including people who have experienced homelessness.
U.S. Congressman Doug Lamborn of Colorado Springs is suing to get his named placed back onto the primary ballot after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled last week that his campaign illegally gathered signatures by using two out-of-state petition circulators. After the ruling, Lamborn was 58 signatures short of the 1,000 he needs to be eligible for the primaries, so he sued twice. But if the courts don’t make a decision before Wednesday, he could still be left in the dust.
Denver has a new rule requiring that all single-occupant public restrooms in the city have gender-neutral signs, and businesses that violate the ordinance may face escalating fines. But Laura Swartz, a spokesperson for the city’s Community Planning Department, thinks that in most cases, a warning will be enough.
Thousands of Colorado educators followed the lead of states like West Virginia, Oklahoma and Arizona in demanding that state legislatures stop carving up public education and start putting money back into its public schools. Colorado legislators have cut $6.67 billion out of the state education budget since the Great Recession. And although the economy has bounced back, the practice of cutting education dollars continues. So what can protesters actually do to keep the #RedforEd momentum going?
The search is on to replace Denver Police Chief Robert White, who formally announced his retirement on April 24, and Nick Rogers, president of the Denver Police Protective Association, the city’s most powerful police union, knows exactly the type of person he’d like to see in the post: “someone who has a tremendous amount of honor and integrity.”
This weekend is the fortieth anniversary of the Rocky Flats Truth Force, and the truth keeps spilling out.
Brad Levin thought he had the ballot petition in the bag. He collected 16,000 signatures, far more than the 10,500 signature requirement to get on the statewide ballot. He was wrong. The state threw out 7,000 of his signatures. Some were thrown out over technicalities. Others were thrown out because the signatures were of unaffiliated voters, who are not legally locked out of the candidate petition process. Now, the Democratic candidate for attorney general is suing to get his signatures back.
In a recording obtained by Westword, Walker Stapleton told a crowd earlier this month that he pitches out-of-state donors by telling them that property taxes on their vacation homes in Colorado would double or triple under a Democratic governor.
Two Democratic lawmakers in the Colorado House have introduced a bill that would severely limit non-mandatory cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
Protests, like plutonium, lasts forever.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Department of Justice has changed its mind about suspending legal orientation trainings at immigration detention centers.
United Airlines is threatening the community as the company pushes back against an effort by its catering workers to unionize.
The anti-queer agenda under the guise of religious liberty is still rampant at the Capitol.
On April 19, a Senate committee approved several amendments to civil rights commission’s composition and procedures.
A revision of Castle Rock’s animal code that removes its pit-bull ban passed on first reading on April 17.
Colorado is consistently ranked as one of the most productive state legislatures in the country,
