WATCH: Penfield Tate on why he’s running for Denver mayor
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s highest-profile challenger yet is getting into the race.
Penfield Tate III, a former Colorado state lawmaker, is looking to capture discontent over the ways Denver is developing and changing.
> CLICK HERE to read Joey Bunch’s interview with Tate.
In the video below, he talks to Kyle Clark about his bid for mayor.
Democrats are poised to trigger government shutdown if White House won’t meet demands for ICE reform
Mary Clare Jalonick
mary-clare-jalonick@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 22 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are threatening to block legislation that would fund the Department of Homeland Security and several other agencies Thursday, potentially bringing the government a step closer to a partial shutdown if Republicans and the White House...
From child actors to ‘kidfluencers’: Colorado lawmakers consider digital-age Coogan Act
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 17 minutes ago
Jackie Coogan had been an actor since birth, or just about. His first acting gig was as a toddler in the 1917 silent film “Skinner’s Baby,” where he played the titular infant. At age 7, he starred alongside Charlie Chaplin...
Colorado Democratic Rep. Jason Crow’s reelection campaign hauls in over $750K in 4th quarter
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 31 minutes ago
U.S. Rep. Jason Crow raised more than $750,000 in the final three months of 2025, marking the Aurora Democrat’s largest quarterly haul since his first run for Congress in Colorado’s 6th District, when he unseated a Republican incumbent, according to...
Colorado hit a population milestone in 2025; numbers ‘don’t lie,’ but what do they say?
Stephanie Earls
stephanie-earls@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 27 minutes ago
Colorado is: full Standing room only How ‘bout, More crowded than it was but less crowded than we thought? Local takeaways from the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent data drop are too complex for bumper sticker treatment, but here’s the...
We tested vapes in Colorado for signs of hemp. This is what we found.
Christopher Osher
chris.osher@gazette.com
Updated 4 hours ago
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Denver Gazette. Sign up for Dispatches to get our stories in your inbox every week. Leaders in the Colorado marijuana industry have complained in recent years that...
Taxpayer money squandered in conservative school district’s defending selves from lawsuits | NOONAN
Paula Noonan
paula-noonan@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 10 hours ago
Elizabeth School District, with 2,666 students, has refined the art of wasting dollars on faulty lawsuits. Last year, the district lost an open meetings case when it imprudently failed to properly notify the public of agenda items. That suit ran...
D-49 board repeals policy separating facilities based on biological sex
Eric Young
eric.young@gazette.com
Updated 14 minutes ago
Less than six months after passing a policy segregating the use of district facilities based on biological sex, School District 49’s board of education voted to repeal it during a contentious special meeting Tuesday night. Policy JBAA was adopted by...
Denver backs Minnesota’s legal action to end ICE deployment
Deborah Grigsby
deborah.smith@denvergazette.com
Updated 10 minutes ago
The City of Denver has joined dozens of U.S. cities and counties in filing an amicus brief backing Minnesota’s legal action seeking to end “Operation Metro Surge” and the deployment of thousands of federal immigration agents to Minnesota. The brief...
Tax bill shock: Colorado homeowners could see property taxes jump by as much as 40%
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 14 hours ago
Mike Fitz, 76, who lives in Centennial in a single-family home he has owned since 2001, paid $3,876.98 in property taxes to Arapahoe County two years ago. Fitz just learned after checking the website of the Arapahoe County Assessor’s Office...
Aurora files Petition for Rehearing in court ruling on crime punishment, seeking ‘clarity’
Kyla Pearce
kyla.pearce@gazette.com
Updated 2 minutes ago
The city of Aurora filed a Petition for Rehearing with the Colorado Supreme Court on Monday, seeking clarity on a court decision in Aurora v. Simons. The court determined that municipal criminal penalties cannot exceed state sentencing caps for similar...