Author: Special to Colorado Politics

A handful of Colorado’s top Democrats formed a masked front line at the Denver Elections Division on Monday morning to defend the state’s mail-in ballot system.  Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, who appeared at a press conference with U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, Gov. Jared Polis, Secretary of State Jena Griswold and Denver Clerk and Recorder…

Think of Fort Knox — but with ballots instead of gold. The door to the election room in Steamboat Springs is locked with a numbered plastic tag that breaks if it’s tampered with. A log shows when the room was sealed, what the seal number is and a record of everyone who enters. The election…

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock called on residents to be a partner in helping to tamp down the rise in violence and put the safety and well-being of children first. “We need people to put their guns down, we need community members to step forward, we need family and friends to sound the alarm,” Hancock said…

To try and aid the “most vulnerable communities” in Denver, the city is launching the Priority Neighborhood Small Business Fund, a grant program meant to support micro and small businesses in “priority” neighborhoods.   These neighborhoods, selected through the Denver Economic Development and Opportunity’s division of the Neighborhood Equity and Stabilization, include East Colfax, Elyria-Swansea, Globeville,…