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Denver City Council fails to override mayor’s veto of flavored tobacco ban
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Denver’s proposed ban against the sale of flavored tobacco products was officially shut down Monday after the City Council narrowly failed to override the mayor’s veto of the ban. Council members voted 8-4 in support of the ban on Monday with one council member absent; however, they needed nine votes to override Mayor Michael Hancock’s…
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Denver City Council newcomers oppose oversight screener
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The Denver City Council on Monday voted to approve the appointment of a lobbyist who made campaign contributions to several council members to vet candidates to a board that oversees allegations of police misconduct. The council voted 9-3 to appoint Roger Sherman as their representative on a three-member nominating committee that screens application for the…
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COPO PODCAST | ‘I am going to miss it’: Denver Councilwoman Susman reflects on 2 terms in office
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Mary Beth Susman’s first visit to Denver came in 1960 when her dad drove his three kids on a road trip from Omaha to Colorado in a pink 1957 Chevrolet Station Wagon. Susman remembers how they rode along Colfax Avenue that day until checking into one of the many tourist motels that lined the road…
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COPO PODCAST | A conversation with Denver District 5 City Councilwoman-elect Amanda Sawyer
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Amanda Sawyer, Denver City councilwoman-elect, representing the city’s 5th District.(Courtesy photo) Meet Amanda Sawyer. Lawyer. Mother of three. And soon to be the next Denver City Councilwoman representing council district 5. Sawyer dropped by recently to talk with Colorado Politics. We discussed her reasons for getting into the race and how she intends to work…
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DENVER COUNCIL NEWCOMERS | Meet District 5’s Amanda Sawyer
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Amanda Sawyer, Denver City councilwoman-elect, representing the city’s 5th District.(Courtesy photo) Former U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neill once famously declared that “all politics is local,” back in 1935 when he first ran for public office. Newly-elected Denver City Councilwoman Amanda Sawyer is a living example of that adage. Sawyer, a 40-year-old lawyer and mother of…
