erica meltzer
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Two new seats, high stakes in Colorado State Board of Education election
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Colorado’s State Board of Education is growing from seven to nine seats, and political control of the body that sets education policy could be at stake in November’s election. The addition of two seats due to Colorado’s growing population – one representing a new 8th Congressional District that includes Adams and Weld counties and another…
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Fueled by gentrification, community activist vying for Denver Council President Brooks’ seat
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The election isn’t until May 2019, but one community activist is already eyeing Albus Brooks’ seat on the Denver City Council. Denverite has the report about Candi CdeBaca, founder of the Cross Community Coalition and executive director of Project VOYCE, who told the online news outlet her decision to file paperwork to run for District…
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Public funding for Denver’s political campaigns? Not this year
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Denverite’s Erica Meltzer reports that Denver residents once again won’t get to vote on a wide-ranging campaign-reform proposal that, among other features, would have introduced public funding for campaigns. When all the tallying was done at the Denver Clerk and Recorder’s Office, the ballot initiative and petition drive by the group Clean Slate Now had…
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Denver’s pols have a bone to pick with President Trump’s budget
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… But of course, that comes as no surprise. Sure, the depth and breadth of the cuts in federal funding proposed by the White House have sweeping implications for urban centers like the Mile High City. Then again, it’s not like Denver’s Democratically inclined political establishment has had many kind words for The Republican Donald since his unexpected elevation to the…
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‘Compromise’ or ‘casserole’? Rural-sustainability bill does a lot; here’s an in-depth look
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As we mentioned in passing just a day ago when Gov. John Hickenlooper signed the wide-ranging Senate Bill 267 into law, “Sustainability of Rural Colorado” (the measure’s title) can mean a whole bunch of things. It’s all very complicated. In other words, Tuesday’s signing was about more than Hick and Senate President Kevin Grantham shooting hoops…
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Assisted suicide gets a ‘no’ — and then a ‘heck no’ — from the church
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Terminally ill patients who invoke Colorado’s new law permitting physician-assisted suicide will, of course, need a place to carry out the act. And their loved ones likely will want a funeral. To which the Catholic Church responds: Don’t expect much help from us. Not only have two of the state’s largest hospital systems, both Catholic-affiliated, opted…
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Denver sets high bar for hate crimes, lowers it for panhandling, breaking park curfew …
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… urinating in public and other such “quality of life” offenses. Which is to say they diminish quality of life – but not enough, in the eyes of Denver’s City Council, to warrant sending someone packing to his native land over a violation. Denverite’s Erica Meltzer reports the changes represent a sweeping sentencing reform of the city’s…
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Public funding for political campaigns? It could happen in Denver
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You say it’s already taxing enough just listening to them, not to mention carting their campaign mailers to the recycle bin? OK, but maybe there’s more to it than that, so read on. What single-payer is to the national health-care debate, publicly funded campaigns long have been to the movement for campaign-finance reform – a…
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U.S. Senate vote to ‘defund’ Planned Parenthood is moot in Colorado
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Some perspective is in order – and usually overdue – when hot-button issues are debated in Congress and aired in the press. Planned Parenthood, for example. And Denverite’s Erica Meltzer offers a timely dose of perspective in the wake of last week’s U.S. Senate vote to let states withhold federal Title X funding from family-planning clinics that perform abortions. The…
