The Sentinel: Add DACA reform to the list of items fall voters will decide in Colorado
After decades of angst and political histrionics over illegal immigrants and elusive reform, change still eludes America.
The country has actually been closer than ever to come to grips with the need to enact comprehensive immigration reform. Congress, again, appears ready to resolve the issue of undocumented children who’ve lived here almost their entire lives.
We have little faith this Congress or this president are capable of doing anything but making a bad situation worse.
Former President Barack Obama compelled the country onto a path of common sense and decency in 2012 when he imposed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals by executive order. The measure gives children raised in the United States, brought here by their undocumented parents, a reprieve from the threat of deportation.
Read more here.
Garfield County sheriff illegally collaborated with ICE, cease and desist letter claims
Michael Braithwaite
michael.braithwaite@gazette.com
Updated 15 minutes ago
A cease and desist letter filed Wednesday alleged that the Garfield County sheriff intentionally violated state law by collaborating with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The letter, filed by the law firm Towards Justice, claimed that Garfield County...
Male wolf dies after capture attempt, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials confirm
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 hours ago
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife said the wolf, identified as #2305 — meaning it was one of the original 10 animals that came from Oregon — died on Jan. 28 in Routt County. The wolf was the male of the...
Gov. Jared Polis moves to end ICE subpoena fight over Colorado workers’ personal data
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 11 minutes ago
The effort by Gov. Jared Polis to comply with an administrative subpoena from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for information held by several state agencies is over. Polis, in a motion filed Feb. 20, asked for a permanent injunction and...
House oversight to grill Bill Clinton about Epstein visiting White House 17 times
Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner
kaelan.deese.washington.examiner@gazetteedit.wpenginepowered.com
Updated 6 hours ago
Former President Bill Clinton is set to testify Friday before the House oversight committee, where Republicans say they plan to press him about Jeffrey Epstein’s visits to the White House and his past travel aboard the late disgraced financier’s private...
Ex-Colorado Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis avoids prison, gets probation for forged ethics letters
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 6 hours ago
Former state Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, D-Longmont, was sentenced Friday to two years of supervised probation and 150 hours of community service, and a $3,000 fine, to be waived if she completes an additional 100 hours of community service. The...
Bipartisan bill aims to launch Colorado ‘Cradle to Career’ anti-poverty grant program
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 7 hours ago
The bill’s sponsors say it will help Colorado families living in poverty, and the organizations that support them have cleared their first hurdle, but they will need to raise just over $1 million before things get off the ground. Senate...
Senate GOP sends warning to House SAVE Act agitators: Don’t tell us what to do
Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner
ramsey.touchberry.washington.examiner@gazetteedit.wpenginepowered.com
Updated 7 hours ago
If there’s one thing senators don’t take kindly, it’s outsiders telling them how to run their chamber. It’s in that spirit that the resistance among Senate Republicans to skirt the traditional 60-vote filibuster threshold and advance the SAVE America Act...
Benavidez chosen to fill Senate District 21 vacancy after Michaelson Jenet resigns
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 8 hours ago
A Democratic Senate District 21 vacancy committee Thursday night chose former Rep. Adrienne Benavidez, D-Adams County, to replace former Sen. Dafna Michaelson Jenet. Michaelson Jenet resigned on Feb. 13 to become the director of the David and Laura Merage Foundation...
Colorado delegation’s plus-one picks convey messages at Donald Trump’s State of the Union | TRAIL MIX
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 10 hours ago
It’s become a tradition for members of Congress to deliver messages of their own at the State of the Union address, though this year none of the Colorado lawmakers shouted at the president during the speech, nor did the delegation...
Colorado Democrat John Hickenlooper becomes first statewide candidate to submit nominating petitions
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 10 hours ago
U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper on Thursday became the first statewide candidate to submit petition signatures for Colorado’s June Democratic primary, according to his campaign and the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office. Seeking reelection to a second term, Hickenlooper is facing...
PREV
PREVIOUS
Darryl Glenn is paying himself a salary from congressional campaign funds
Darryl Glenn, one of four Republicans challenging U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn in the June 26 primary, has been paying himself a salary out of campaign funds equal to what he makes as an El Paso County commissioner, according to campaign finance documents filed Thursday. State Sen. Owen Hill, retired Texas judge Bill Rhea and former Green […]
GOP primary race turns ugly in Jeffco House district
A Republican primary race for a state House of Representatives seat in south Jefferson County has turned ugly, with candidate Colin Larson sending out campaign literature referring to opponent Frank Francone’s “arrest for dealing cocaine base” nearly three decades ago as well as tax problems, and Francone calling Larson a “swamp creature.” The GOP primary […]