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Denver’s Mayor Hancock will kick-start campaign for $937 million in bonds
The mother of all bond issues – seven questions in all, totaling just under a billion bucks – will be on the Nov. 8 municipal ballot in Denver, and Mayor Michael Hancock is gearing up for the campaign. He’ll kick off the “Yes on 2A thru 2G” campaign Saturday in west Denver’s Rude Park. The…
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It’ll be official today: Denver won’t play ball with the feds on immigration
As ColoradoPolitics.com’s Joey Bunch noted Tuesday, the Denver City Council made official this week its already-well-established resistance to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The council action makes it a matter of black-letter law that Denver isn’t cooperating with feds. Sure, it has been the practice of of the city all along not to work too…
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Denver proposal aims at protecting immigrants from a federal crackdown
Immigrant rights leaders are applauding Denver for nearing a final agreement on an ordinance that would protect immigrants from a federal crackdown. City leaders this week announced plans to prohibit city employees from releasing immigration information, an exchange of data that can lead to deportation or other federal enforcement activities. Estimates place the city’s undocumented…
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A face-off at Denver City Hall over immigration enforcement
Competing measures formally articulating how Denver law enforcement interacts with federal immigration authorities and laws have set the stage for a City Hall showdown. Just hours before City Council members were set to consider in committee a new ordinance authored by council members Robin Kniech and Paul Lopez on immigration enforcement (it passed 6-1), Denver…
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Denver sets high bar for hate crimes, lowers it for panhandling, breaking park curfew …
… 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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Hancock doubling down, holding immigration forum
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock will co-host a public forum Saturday, Feb. 11, to help tell immigrants and other community members about what the city can and will do in response to President Donald Trump’s recent executive actions regarding immigration. In a statement released the same day Trump announced a ban on immigration from several mostly…
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Building energy efficiency information may be required by city
Around 3,000 commercial and multi-family buildings in Denver would be asked to start providing information to city officials about their energy efficiency under an ordinance before Denver City Council. The information – described as similar to gas mileage stickers for motor vehicles – would help the city meet its Energize Denver climate goals. Municipal, institutional, commercial and…
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Next GO bond program input sought
A series of public meetings begins Tuesday in Denver to help city and county officials decide the amount of general obligation bonds to ask voters to approve next year. Periodically, the City and County of Denver authorizes these types of bonds to restore, replace and expand infrastructure and capital assets across the city. The next…
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Denver City Council starts 2017 budget review
Denver City Council members started a more than two-month-long city budget review process Monday with explanations from Mayor Michael Hancock’s administration about how they developed the proposed $1.9 billion spending plan for the coming year. In a council work session, chief financial officer Brendan Hanlon said the budget assumes Denver’s economy will continue to grow,…