sand creek massacre
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A LOOK BACK | Dems attack ‘questionable political morality’ of attorney general
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Fifty Years Ago This Week: In what some Republicans saw at the time to be a partisan election stunt, the Colorado Democratic Party issued a scathing “key issue statement,” charging Republican Colorado Attorney General Duke Dunbar with mismanagement of state funds in the operation of his office. The statement, signed by the Democratic candidate challenging…
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Controversial Colorado Union soldier statue will stay where it is — for now
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Though it now has a possible new home, Colorado’s controversial Union Soldier statue will stay where it is in the lobby of History Colorado while Colorado officials do one more run-through to check the pulse of interested parties to make sure this is the right decision. During Friday’s Capitol Building Advisory Committee meeting, members said…
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Opioids, vet benefits, civil rights top Hickenlooper’s bill signings this week
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has begun the last round of statewide bill signings for his time in office, with ceremonies starting on the Front Range and ending the week on the Western Slope. Hickenlooper has until June 8 to sign, veto or allow bills to become law without his signature. The General Assembly sent 432…
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Legislature green lights Sand Creek memorial. But what will it look like? Where will it stand?
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Lawmakers passed a resolution green lighting a memorial to be placed on the Capitol grounds dedicated to the 1864 Sand Creek massacre, in which Colorado Volunteer soldiers killed as many as 163 Cheyenne and Arapaho, many of them women and children. The memorial has been years in the making. The 12-member Capitol Building Advisory Committee…
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This week in #copolitics is getting very Joe Salazar
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It has already been a Joe Salazar week in Colorado, and it’s not over yet. The firebrand Democratic House representative from Thornton declared his candidacy for attorney general on Friday, saying he would be the people’s lawyer and touting his civil rights background as ideal in the Trump-era when, he said, civil rights and the…
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Sand Creek Massacre Capitol grounds memorial plan moves forward
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State officials on Friday advanced a plan to site a new memorial to the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre on the grounds of the Capitol in Denver after more than an hour of emotional testimony delivered mostly by members of regional Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. The proposal won unanimous support from the 12-member Capitol Building Advisory…
