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Is Boulder safe and welcoming? City spent $167,000 to find out
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…And the conclusion of the recent, city-commissioned survey on the subject is: … not for everyone – despite the college town’s reputation as a center of free thinking, social engagement and open minds. Particularly, “… those outside the Boulder majority – that is, affluent, liberal, heterosexual white people – feel less welcome on average in the city,”…
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Trending: The 5 hottest Colorado Politics stories of the week
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Deep thinkers, you Colorado Politics readers. This week two of our five top stories were pithy Insights columns, and one was a news piece about a fantastically fascinating – and good looking, some say – newcomer to the CD6 race. Hey, it’s a good mix, right? And now, your top five stories of the week –…
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Colorado’s Cory Gardner travels to South Korea amid jitters over the north
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Following a barrage of ballistic missile tests by the regime of North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un – who over the weekend debuted a new anti-aircraft weapon system – Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner set out on mission to South Korea this week to meet its new leadership and reinforce U.S. ties. The Republican junior senator is making the east Asia…
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Assisted suicide gets a ‘no’ — and then a ‘heck no’ — from the church
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Terminally ill patients who invoke Colorado’s new law permitting physician-assisted suicide will, of course, need a place to carry out the act. And their loved ones likely will want a funeral. To which the Catholic Church responds: Don’t expect much help from us. Not only have two of the state’s largest hospital systems, both Catholic-affiliated, opted…
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Denver fights back against Trump’s deportation crackdown with surprisingly simple change in law
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As the Trump administration’s war on “sanctuary cities” heats up, cities have come up with increasingly creative ways to fight back. The latest example comes from Denver, which just passed a law aimed at protecting legal immigrants from being deported for committing relatively petty crimes, those carrying maximum sentences of 365 days – the federal…