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Denver mayor announces food assistance task force as SNAP benefits set to expire Saturday
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Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced a new food task force on Thursday to help residents who might have a difficult time accessing food in the coming weeks. Just days before benefits from the federal Supplemental Nutritional Awareness Program (SNAP) — also known as food stamps — are set to expire this Saturday, the mayor and…
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Denver joins suit against Trump administration claiming grants have unlawful conditions
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Denver has joined Chicago, New York, Boston, Baltimore, New Haven, Minneapolis and St. Paul in suing the Trump administration over what they claim are unlawful conditions imposed on federal grant funding. The lawsuit, filed Monday in a U.S. District Court in Illinois, “aims to prevent the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Federal Emergency Management…
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What happens during a government shutdown and how will it affect Colorado?
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A looming government shutdown could leave hundreds of thousands of federal employees without a paycheck and close many government services. The impact of a shutdown would vary from state to state. Among its most visible impact in the state could include the temporary closure of the Rocky Mountain National Park. Officials in Colorado have offered to “partner”…
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Denver backs legal challenge to Trump’s use of National Guard
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Denver has joined 26 other local governments in an amicus brief supporting California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and Marines in Los Angeles. “In Denver, our residents are connected with police who live on the same streets they patrol and with officers who grew up in the same…
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Ruling that voided Colorado’s ‘midnight gerrymander’ prevents mid-decade redistricting | TRAIL MIX
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Colorado can’t join in the frenzy currently sweeping a handful of solidly partisan states across the country whose Republican or Democratic leaders, respectively, are plotting to redraw congressional districts in a bid to sideline the opposition and give their own party an advantage in next year’s midterm elections. Hardly any prominent Colorado Democrats have called…
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Community Solar Innovation Summit discusses future of solar energy amidst potential turmoil
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Participants in the annual Coalition for Community Solar Access (CCSA) conference were set to discuss innovations in the energy source this week, but looming legislation thrust the industry’s potentially shaky future into the spotlight. “We’ve ridden this solar coaster. Uncertainty is something we’ve faced before,” Jeff Cramer, CEO and president of CCSA, said to an…
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Q&A with John Leopold | Retired Colorado judge signed brief about federal arrest of Wisconsin judge
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In late April, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation posted a picture to social media of handcuffed Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah C. Dugan, who authorities arrested at her courthouse for allegedly obstructing immigration agents. The charging documents accused Dugan of confronting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel who were planning to arrest…
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Q&A with Judge Gordon Gallagher | Colorado’s first federal district judge stationed on Western Slope
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Gordon P. Gallagher first joined Colorado’s federal trial court in 2012 as a part-time magistrate judge stationed in Grand Junction. In March 2023, the U.S. Senate confirmed him to a lifetime appointment as a district judge — one of five Biden administration appointees to the state’s U.S. District Court. Gallagher became the first district judge in…
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A ‘stay-in-your-lane’ philosophy: Colorado’s chief justice speaks to role of government at MSU Denver
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In a wide-ranging discussion last week at Metropolitan State University of Denver, Chief Justice Monica M. Márquez spoke to her own views on the proper role of government, describing her belief that all branches should adhere to their designated “lanes.” “It requires every part of democracy to kind of play its role in that system. And when…
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Judge handling Denver schools’ challenge to ICE policy changes course, sets hearing
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The federal judge overseeing Denver Public Schools’ challenge to the Trump administration’s new policy for immigration enforcement announced on Monday that he will hold a hearing on the district’s request for a restraining order — a seeming about-face from his position just one week ago. The DPS lawsuit against U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem seeks…
