Author: BY JULIA CARDI

Dennis Gallagher, the Colorado politico and eponym of the Gallagher Amendment whose political career spanned five decades, has died at age 82. Gallagher was known as a warm social butterfly who had a genuine interest in helping the communities he was elected to serve. He understood “you can be successful alone, but it’s so much…

The Denver City Council’s safety committee on Wednesday morning sent two contracts worth a combined $10 million for halfway house operations to the full council. The contracts are intended to replace community corrections services lost when city council ended contracts with two private prison operators in the summer of 2019.  The contracts would make 231…