Author: ALAYNA ALVAREZ

The same day the Regional Transportation District joined public transit systems across the country to urge Congress to bail out the industry in the face of a dire financial crisis, news broke that President-elect Joe Biden will name Pete Buttigieg as his secretary of transportation.  Although RTD faces a $140 million revenue deficit next year,…

Denver’s climate action office unveiled a new task force on Thursday that will be dedicated to lowering pollutants from commercial and multifamily buildings, which city officials say represent 51% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the city. The new Energize Denver Task Force is a 25-member team representing a wide variety of sectors, including real estate,…

The Denver City Council unanimously approved a trio of contracts on Monday, worth $4.1 million, to establish 98 new units of supportive housing and a 75-bed recuperative medical care center in the Five Points neighborhood for people living without housing. The nine-story project will be made possible in partnership with the Colorado Coalition for the…

With its hands tied, Denver City Council on Monday approved a collective bargaining agreement with the Denver Police Department’s union that was decided earlier this month by an independent arbitrator after council members rejected the contract in September.  The move was the first time in recent memory that the city council had tossed out a…

Power struggles within Denver City Hall are nothing new, but they just seem worse these days as Mayor Michael Hancock and a cadre of council members are constantly going at it. Go back to March 25, 1894, when Gov. Davis Waite called out the infantry to City Hall to oust problematic members of the police…

Denver police officer Thomas McClay has been removed from his patrol duties, pending the outcome of the Internal Affairs investigation, safety officials say. Police Chief Paul Pazen launched an internal investigation Monday after becoming aware of a social media post in which McClay allegedly shared a picture of himself and two other Denver officers in riot gear…