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Denver mayor’s race: Dueling rallies break out at city hall
Talk about your political street fight. The battle to determine who will be the mayor of Denver took the form of dueling political rallies Tuesday on either side of the street in front of the Denver City and County Building. Denver Mayor Michael Hancock (right) with former Denver mayors John Hickenlooper (left) and Wellington Webb…
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Denver mayor’s race: Former candidates Calderón, Tate endorse Giellis
Lisa Calderón and Penfield Tate III – Denver mayoral candidates who were eliminated in the May 7 election – have endorsed challenger Jamie Giellis in her runoff campaign against Mayor Michael Hancock. Tate, a former state lawmaker, and Calderón, a criminal justice professor at Regis University – are expected to formally support Giellis, an urban…
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Will Denver become the next Amsterdam? The story behind the surprising turnaround of the magic mushroom initiative
Cindy Sovine went to bed on election night thinking that the initiative she and others has worked on for the last 17 months, to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms, had gone down to defeat. True, it had garnered a decent-enough 9 percentage-point loss for a long-shot, first-in-the-nation measure, but it was still a defeat. But when the…
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Denver mayor’s race: Hancock challenges Giellis to 12 debates before runoff
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock has challenged mayoral opponent Jamie Giellis to a series of 12 debates prior to the June 4 runoff election. With just 25 days remaining before the election, that would amount to a debate almost every other day. “There’s a clear choice in this election, and the people of Denver deserve a…
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DENVER ELECTION 2019: Hancock to face Giellis in mayor’s race runoff
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock is headed for a runoff election with challenger and urban planner Jamie Giellis. Unofficial results at 1 a.m. Wednesday showed Hancock with 39% of the vote, falling short of the 50% plus one vote that he would have needed to avoid the June 4 runoff. They also showed Giellis, a former…
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DENVER ELECTION 2019: Voter turnout unusually low; Hancock raises $2M
While Denver’s mayoral contest may prove to be pivotal, and a pair of ballot measures are gathering national attention, voter response so far has been mostly “meh.” Voter turnout as of 10 a.m. Tuesday stood at just over 24% with 101,433 mailed ballots received back by the Denver Elections Division. Spring municipal elections in Denver…
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DENVER ELECTION 2019: Bartels, Ciruli, Brown on what to watch for Tuesday (PODCAST)
As campaigns go, this spring’s Denver municipal election has not lacked for interesting stories and intriguing topics. Start with a mayoral campaign in which Mayor Michael Hancock is facing some serious competition in his bid for a third term. Add several competitive city council races that have drawn an unusually large field of candidates. Factor…
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COPO VIDEO: Denver Mayor Michael Hancock announces deal with Av, Nuggets
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock – with an assist from mascots Bernie and Rocky – announces deal to keep the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche in Denver through 2040.
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ON THE DENVER CAMPAIGN TRAIL | Lisa Calderón, candidate for mayor
This is the fourth in a series of stories on Denver mayoral candidates in their last days on the campaign trail ahead of the May 7 city election. No matter what the outcome of Denver’s May 7 municipal election, chances are that mayoral hopeful Lisa Calderón will be the only candidate who can claim she…
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ON THE DENVER CAMPAIGN TRAIL | Michael Hancock, candidate for mayor
This is the third in a series of stories on Denver mayoral candidates in their last days on the campaign trail ahead of the May 7 city election. The first thing you notice about one of Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s re-election campaign stops is how much it resembles a sporting event. Door-to-door canvassing is a…