Author: Mary MacCarthy
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One take w/Peter & Joey: If voters wanted change, they got it
How will the 45th U.S. president be viewed for his impact on Colorado history? ColoradoPolitics.com’s Joey Bunch and Peter Marcus agree that the opening days of the Trump administration have amounted to a whirlwind of upheaval for our state, with Colorado’s local, state and federal elected officials not knowing what to expect next. But is that…
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Immigrant groups on edge as White House crackdown moves ahead
Refugees, immigrant-rights groups and lawmakers held another rally in Denver Thursday in the wake of President Trump’s controversial executive order on immigration and border security – and as he’s expected to issue a second order targeting Syrian refugees and other immigrants from Muslim countries. This comes as a community center for refugees, Mango House in…
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VIDEO: Anxious demonstrators fear the unknown as new immigration policy looms
Immigrants-rights groups expressed solidarity in a demonstration at the State Capitol Wednesday as they awaited word of President Trump’s impending executive orders on immigration. The protest actions in Denver mirrored those organized around the country as the Trump administration moved to implement a promised crackdown on undocumented immigrants nationwide.
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VIDEO: A call for unity as the president’s immigration crackdown looms
“They’re cruel and inhumane, and maybe even possibly unconstitutional,” Democratic Rep. Joe Salazar of Thornton says of the announcements on immigration policy expected from President Trump today. Salazar has been one of the General Assembly’s most outspoken opponents of Trump’s call for a Muslim registry and a wall on the Mexican border. Colorado Politics’ Joey Bunch caught…
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One take w/Peter & Joey: …So, is bipartisanship dead or alive?
ColoradoPolitics.com’s Peter Marcus is pretty frustrated these days by all the on-again-off-again talk of bipartisanship in the 2017 legislative session. Do lawmakers mean it, or don’t they? Opening week, they were flying high with kumbayas all around; one week later, House Republicans already had accused ruling House Democrats of standing bipartisanship before a firing squad after the House…
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VIDEO: ‘With Trump, it’s harder…to figure out what he really will do’
Donald Trump, “goes in as the least popular president-elect in modern times,” warns Dr. Paul Teske, Dean of the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Public Affairs, in this video interview with ColoradoPolitics.com. Teske also told us, on the eve of inauguration, that in the early days of the new administration, we’ll definitely see some version of the promised wall on…
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36,000 expected in Denver Women’s March; 2,000 Coloradans head to D.C.
The latest numbers on the Facebook page of the Women’s March in Denver this Saturday now show 36,000 people have signed up so far – up about 5,000 since our report just two days ago. And that’s without the estimated 2,000 Coloradans who have opted instead to go to the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. – the event that inspired the…
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Women’s March on Denver expects turnout of 30k+
If you’re downtown on Saturday, it will be hard to miss: tens of thousands of people are expected to turn out for the “Women’s March on Denver,” which starts at 9 a.m. at Civic Center Park. Jessica Rogers is one of three Denver women organizing the event. A contract librarian and book conservator by day, Rogers…
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Colorado transgender journalist Eden Lane steps onto the national stage
Eden Lane is a familiar face in Colorado, but she is quickly becoming a national voice for transgender people as a journalist. And that reputation is about to get bigger when she debuts in a lead role in an American Repertory Theater production on the Harvard campus this week. Lane is referred to as the…
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Pantsuit Nation’s flock fights on, spawns spinoffs in Colorado
The future of the national Pantsuit Nation group is up in the air these days – after its founder, Libby Chamberlain, announced she had signed a book deal, sparking a major backlash. But here in Colorado, members of the secret Facebook group that was formed in the days before the presidential election are trying to…