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Denver City Council considers charter change to create transportation department
Denver voters will be asked to approve a charter change creating a new Department of Transportation and Infrastructure under a bill to be introduced at Monday night’s city council meeting. The measure would create a cabinet-level position to oversee such things as transportation design, infrastructure project management, right-of-way enforcement and the city’s bicycle network. Under…
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DENVER COUNCIL NEWCOMERS | Meet District 9’s Candi CdeBaca
Denver Councilwoman-elect Candi CdeBaca, who will represent council District 9, is shown outside The Denver Press Club on June 12, 2019.John C. Ensslin / Colorado Politics Denver City Councilwoman-elect Candi CdeBaca said she believes the five new council members elected this spring have the potential to change the dynamic between the governing body and the…
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DENVER COUNCIL NEWCOMERS | Meet District 1’s Amanda Sandoval
Denver Councilwoman-elect Amanda SandovalCourtesy Amanda Sandoval for Council Denver Councilwoman-elect Amanda Sandoval remembers a lesson she learned from her dad – legendary North Denver power broker Paul Sandoval – when she was in high school and working in the family restaurant. Back then there was a homeless man living behind the restaurant in Denver’s Berkeley…
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DENVER COUNCIL NEWCOMERS | Meet District 3’s Jamie Torres
Jamie Torres, councilwoman-elect for Denver’s District 3. District 3, the West Denver area that Jamie Torres was elected to serve on the City Council, is a bit different from some of the other districts that chose new council members in the June 4 runoff election. As with all those districts, the issues of housing and…
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DENVER COUNCIL NEWCOMERS | Meet District 5’s Amanda Sawyer
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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COPO PODCAST | The inside story of the fierce battle for Denver mayor
Here’s how the fierce battle that was the Denver mayoral campaign looked like on the inside as told by two of the campaign managers. Sheila MacDonald, who managed the Jamie Giellis campaign, and Jake Martin, who managed the campaign for Mayor Michael Hancock, talked about the campaign on June 5, the day after Hancock prevailed…
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COPO PODCAST | Denver Mayor Michael Hancock talks about plans for his 3rd term
On the morning after winning a third term, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock talked about his plans for the next four years during a Colorado Politics podcast interview in his office. Hancock talked about addressing issues such as homelessness, housing affordability, wage stagnation and construction at Denver International Airport. He also discussed how he hopes to…
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Head of Denver’s National Western Center leaves to take Denver Center job
A veteran Denver city official who has overseen the construction of the National Western Center at the site of the annual stock show is leaving to take a new job as chief operating officer of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Gretchen Hollrah, an 18-year employee with the city, will step down as executive…
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Inside the race for Denver mayor: The campaign managers share perspectives
The two people who ran the campaigns of Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and challenger Jamie Giellis say they went into the runoff election night not knowing if their candidate would win. Hancock’s campaign manager Jake Martin said he had a good feeling based upon the field work that day. But he said the campaign has…
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CoPo interview: Denver Mayor Michael Hancock previews his 3rd term
Big-city mayors sometimes grow stale in their third term. Policies stall out. Controversies creep in. And before they know it, someone else is running for their job as their term limit approaches. Denver Mayor Michael Hancock said Wednesday that he’s determined not to let that happen to him. “I’m a guy who, I promise you,…