THE MIX
Denver City Council to vote on protecting watchdog over city’s police
The Denver City Council is expected to decide tonight whether to pass on to voters a measure that would create permanent independent oversight of the Denver […] > read more
The DEA’s decision on marijuana doesn’t mean what you think it does
The DEA’s announcement last Thursday that it doesn’t plan to change marijuana’s status as a Schedule I drug left plenty of Coloradans surprised and disappointed. […] > read more
This weekend’s RedState gathering in Colorado took place in heart of the Trump rebellion— and it showed
DENVER — Former Fox News host Glenn Beck looked weary as he addressed reporters in a conference room of the downtown Grand Hyatt hotel […] > read more
Wiretap, Olympics Edition: How Usain Bolt stole the spotlight once again
The GOAT, still Michael Phelps has his 23 golds, and Simone Biles is being called the greatest gymnast ever, and Katie Ledecky is smashing records […] > read more
A community curbs pain pill abuse, but heroin addiction grows
In December 2014, as snow clung to the San Luis Valley in southwestern Colorado, nurses in the community helped deliver four babies that tested positive for […] > read more
Colorado’s opt-out rates stay steady, mostly
Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Nicholas Garcia on August 11, 2016 Colorado continued to see a large percentage of older students skip standardized tests in […] > read more
Littwin: Trump is ready to face the prospect that he might lose
We’ve reached that point in the campaign where everyone is suddenly afraid to state the obvious. What we need is a truth teller. Someone who […] > read more
What Democrats and Republicans learned from the 2014 U.S. Senate race (and why, in 2016, it might not matter)
On a Friday afternoon in July, dozens of Republicans in the most heavily Republican county in Colorado crowded into an industrial park office building […] > read more
The Indy’s Corey Hutchins talks Colorado politics on Devil’s Advocate
Colorado Independent journalist Corey Hutchins sat down with political editor Ernest Luning of The Colorado Statesman and host Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute, to […] > read more
Inside the race for Denver Press Club president
You won’t see any TV attack ads or candidates waving from parade floats, but an election for president of the private Denver Press Club is in […] > read more
Trump’s Colorado Hispanic outreach director: Mexico paying for a wall is doable but unlikely
Tom Lucero, the man in charge of running Hispanic outreach for Donald Trump’s campaign in Colorado, has a message for Latino voters he’s trying […] > read more
Wiretap: Finding Michael Phelps’ human side; biased policing, and, yes, Trump
It doesn’t seem to matter which city’s police force is investigated. The answer is always the same. This time the city is Baltimore, and in […] > read more
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A community curbs pain pill abuse, but heroin addiction grows
In December 2014, as snow clung to the San Luis Valley in southwestern Colorado, nurses in the community helped deliver four babies that tested positive for […]... > read more
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It’s often said that a district attorney has more direct power over people’s lives than a mayor. If that’s so, Denver voters need to know […]
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Denver City Council to vote on protecting watchdog over city’s police
The Denver City Council is expected to decide tonight whether to pass on to voters a measure that would create permanent independent oversight of the Denver […]
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