WATCH: Denver Gazette hosts Mayoral Forum at CU Anschutz Medical Campus
The 16 remaining candidates in Denver’s Mayor race are participating in a forum today Wednesday, March 22, hosted by the Denver Gazette at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. Contestants will be broken into three timed groups for a more in-depth policy discussion amongst themselves and moderators. Watch the forum live here:
Top 10 Colorado political stories define an off-kilter 2023 | YEAR IN REVIEW
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 months ago
If years earned grades, 2023 might get an incomplete. Punctuated by a slew of off-year elections – congressional, municipal, party leadership and statewide – Colorado’s political news was marked by interim steps, open-ended solutions and plenty of unfinished business. The...
Colorado Rep. Said Sharbini becomes latest to resign from General Assembly
Marianne Goodl
marianne_goodl@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 months ago
State Rep. Said Sharbini, D-Brighton, a first-year lawmaker, announced Monday he is resigning effective Dec. 31. Sharbini is the second first-year legislator to resign in recent weeks. Rep. Ruby Dickson, D-Greenwood Village, announced on Dec. 1 she would resign, effective...
Q&A with Wendi Strom | Lakewood’s newly elected mayor says leading city not a ‘zero-sum game’
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 months ago
Wendi Strom was sworn in as mayor of Lakewood on Nov. 27 following the former city council member and mayor pro team’s election weeks earlier to the part-time position leading the Colorado city. With a population estimated at just over...
County clerks call on officials to defend Colorado’s election system against ‘dishonest actors’
Marianne Goodl
marianne_goodl@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 months ago
The Colorado County Clerks Association said it is fighting back against “dishonest actors, grifters, and bullies” – people and entities that, the group said, undermine voter confidence in Colorado’s election system. On Friday, the association’s Republican-dominated executive board sent a letter to...
Lessons from Colorado’s off-year elections augment campaign rules of thumb | TRAIL MIX
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 months ago
The dust is still settling on the last of Colorado’s off-year elections, but it’s not too soon to glean conclusions from the results dealt by the state’s voters in a series of local and statewide plebiscites. As state lawmakers gear...
Aurora council’s swing further right ‘insulates’ city from more progressive ideas
Kyla Pearce
kyla.pearce@gazette.com
Updated 2 months ago
As Aurora’s city council swings further right following Tuesday’s election, conservative councilmembers said it strengthens their position and “insulates” the city from progressive ideas that – without explicitly saying so – neighboring Denver has embraced. Though the city’s political races are nonpartisan,...
What do the school board wins mean for the future of Denver Public Schools | ANALYSIS
Nicole C. Brambila
nicole_c._brambila@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 months ago
After losses by all three Denver school board candidates endorsed by the teachers union, school advocates from different points of the political spectrum predicted changes ahead. “I think we’re going to have a lot less drama and more focus on...
Colorado Springs mayor concedes defeat on police training funding
Mary Shinn
mary_shinn@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 months ago
Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade conceded Wednesday morning residents voted down a ballot question to set aside about $5 million for a new police training academy. The ballot count Wednesday morning showed the question failing 52.22% to 47.48%, along the...
Colorado voters render mixed verdicts in school board races statewide
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 months ago
Voters delivered different messages in Colorado’s school board elections across Tuesday, with candidates backed by teachers unions sweeping in multiple districts across the state even as conservatives and reformers picked up sizable wins. “There were a lot of mixed messages,”...
Prop HH: 3 takeaways from the defeat of Colorado Democrats’ property tax proposal
Marianne Goodl
marianne_goodl@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 months ago
Gov. Jared Polis and his Democratic allies at the state Capitol tasted defeat on Tuesday, following the landslide loss of a measure that sought to offer property tax relief by using Taxpayer’s of Bill of Rights refund dollars. Unofficial results...
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Federal judge allows men who harassed passersby at Denver Union Station to sue officer, RTD
Two men who yelled obscenities at children, hurled sexist comments and broadcast a torrent of swear words through a megaphone outside Denver Union Station may sue their arresting officer for allegedly lacking probable cause of a crime, a federal judge ruled last week. In declining to dismiss Abade Irizarry and Kyle Shockley’s claims, U.S. District […]
Western Slope's Gordon Gallagher confirmed as federal judge
Gordon P. Gallagher is Colorado’s newest federal trial judge after the U.S. Senate voted 53-43 to confirm him to the state’s seven-member U.S. District Court on Wednesday. Gallagher is the first appointee to the district court since 1989 to live on the Western Slope. The court has not announced whether Gallagher will remain in Grand […]