growth and development
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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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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…
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DENVER RUNOFF 2019 | Scenes from the mayoral campaign (GALLERY)
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What a campaign season this year’s Denver municipal election has been. The campaign featured big complex issues like homelessness, affordable housing, growth and development, traffic congestion and, yes, even magic mushrooms. After millions in campaign spending, hundreds of volunteer hours, lots of debates and candidate forums, it all comes down to a very competitive race…
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COVER STORY | Meet Penfield Tate III, candidate for Denver mayor (AUDIO)
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This is the third in a series of profiles of Denver mayoral candidates. Penfield Tate III said he started thinking about making a second bid for Denver mayor last year while traveling throughout the city in his job as a public finance lawyer. And no matter the neighborhood he was in or the income level…
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COVER STORY | Meet Jamie Giellis, candidate for Denver mayor (AUDIO)
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This is the second in a series of profiles of Denver mayoral candidates. Jamie Giellis may have one of the most diverse backgrounds of any of the candidates running for Denver mayor. She grew up on an Iowa farm. She covered the 2000 Iowa primary as a local television reporter. At age 26, she helped…
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COVER STORY | Meet Michael Hancock, candidate for Denver mayor (AUDIO)
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This is the first in a series of profiles of Denver mayoral candidates. Denver Mayor Michael Hancock is the presumptive front-runner in the municipal election that ends May 7, having raised more campaign funds than all five of his opponents combined through March. But despite that advantage and the natural competitive edge of being the…
