colorado independent
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Can Denver Mayor Hancock weather sexual harassment allegations?
Last week, two-term Denver Mayor Michael Hancock admitted to sending inappropriate text messages to Denver Police Detective Leslie Branch-Wise when she was an officer serving on his security detail in 2012. Denver7’s Tony Kovaleski first broke the story , airing out the slew of text messages from Hancock to Branch-Wise, six years ago. “You look sexy in…
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Colorado Independent’s Susan Greene wants records from George Brauchler that might blow up AG’s race
Susan Greene doesn’t sugarcoat her thoughts. Ask George Brauchler, whom she compared to a kid hiding under his mother’s skirt in a column last week. She’s vowing to chase him out. My friend for 16 years, Greene is a veteran investigative journalist in this state who is the editor of the Colorado Independent. She wants…
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Good government advocate Peg Perl will run for Denver clerk
Marianne Goodland of the Colorado Independent was the first to report Thursday that Peg Perl will run for Denver County clerk and recorder. Perl hinted at such a move in a chat with Colorado Politics in June, and our Ernest Luning outright predicted she would jump in, if Debra Johnson chose not to seek a third…
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Reason mag: Clear the Bench’s Arnold clogs the courts with campaign complaints
Matt Arnold reputedly resides on the political right, but over the years the pugnacious political activist has stirred at least as much controversy – and drawn as much fire from detractors – within his own philosophical ranks as he has across Colorado’s political landscape in general. Now, a national magazine of libertarian bent is calling him out…