Author: Caitlin Curley, Colorado Politics

Five airports in Colorado will receive a total of $7.6 million in grant funding for infrastructure updates. U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced in a release Monday that the funding will come from the Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Improvement Program. Denver International Airport will receive two grants totaling $1,323,068 for the Voluntary Airport Low Emissions…

A bill introduced by Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and Rep. Joe Neguse would protect 400,000 acres of land in Colorado. The Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act, introduced to the House in January and most recently considered by committee in June, includes protections from oil and gas development for natural areas around the state,…

Denver rents have dipped slightly since July, but are still 3% higher than this time last year, a new report from RENTCafe says. The average rent in Denver for August of this year was $1,670, compared to the national average of $1,472, according to the report. August rents were down 0.3% from July but still…

A Denver businesswoman has ended her campaign for the Colorado U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Cory Gardner just days after launching it. Denise Burgess’ campaign website went live early this week but is no longer active. Denise Burgess. (Photo courtesy of https://burgessforcolorado.com/) The Colorado Sun reports that her withdrawal came after the Denver news outlet…

Three people at a protest outside the Aurora home of the warden of a privately operated immigration detention center were arrested late Thursday. The protest in a residential neighborhood triggered a tweet from Aurora’s police chief, who called the incident “vile & disgusting.” 9News quoted police as saying they arrested three people at the scene…

Kamyar Samimi had lived in the U.S. for over four decades as a lawful permanent resident when he died in an Aurora ICE facility, according to a report by the American Civil Liberties Union. The report, released Tuesday, claims that Samimi and others at the GEO-owned Aurora ICE Processing Center have suffered or died after…

Gabrielle Giffords says that Omar Montgomery is the best candidate to fight gun violence as Aurora’s mayor. The former Arizona congresswoman became a gun reform advocate after surviving a mass shooting at a supermarket in Tucson in 2011. Giffords was wounded and six were killed in the attack. She noted in a release Sunday that…

Some of Colorado’s laws might seem excessive, arbitrary or bizarre enough to make one wonder what its origin story was. CLICK THROUGH THE PHOTOS ABOVE for a look at some of the sunshine state’s strangest laws. – – – – – – In Aspen, it is illegal to throw a snowball (or catapult it, which is…

A Colorado-based home construction company will pay fines for failing to protect its employees. An inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that Greenwood Village-based Century Communities was not properly inspecting its jobsites nor establishing sufficient safety standards during framing and roofing. Century will now have to pay $132,596…

A public-insurance option could cost thousands of Colorado health care workers their jobs and harm the state’s economy, a study by a business-affiliated group says. A bill passed by the state legislature in May required Colorado health care officials to create a proposal for such an option which could be implemented as early as next…