Tag: Joe Salazar
Can Colorado create a multicultural curriculum without twisting arms?
High schooler Tlatoani Garcia used to get kicked out of class for questioning his teacher about who discovered America. He worried he'd become just...
Colorado clergy demand lawmakers end legal slavery. Huh?
Clergy members are celebrating a new bill to nix a law that allows slavery to be used to punish convicts.
Slavery has been abolished in the...
New smartphone app helps the public keep cops accountable
"If you see something, say something."
It's a mantra that's constantly drilled into us in post-9/11 America. But what if you see the cops do something wrong?...
Denver City Council may proclaim today “Indigenous Peoples’ Day”
The United States shouldn't celebrate a guy who led a genocide against Native Americans. We should celebrate indigenous people instead.
So goes the anti-Columbus Day...
Homebrew: Cherry Creek School District beefs up security after controversy takes...
Food fight
Della Curry was kitchen manager at Dakota Valley Elementary School until getting the boot in late May. She says she was fired for giving...
Colorado sheriffs, immigration activists, lawmakers join forces for ICE-detainer reform
Last summer Alejandro Menocal was about to be released from the Adams County Jail, where he had served time for dodging court fines. But...
Walking Dead: Doomed-to-die bills and the Colorado lawmakers breathing life into...
Each session, zombie bills lurk at the Colorado Capitol. Minimum wage increases, high-capacity-magazine-ban repeals, the Parent's Bill of Rights, the gay-conversion-therapy ban – these are just...
House approves police chokehold ban
In 2010, deputies choked and killed street-preacher Marvin Booker in the Denver jail. Last year, his family won a $4.6 million civil settlement from...
Under threat: Lawmakers work to end digital harassment
Lawmakers and their families face frequent threats; death and rape top the list. Former state lawmaker Amy Stephens, R-Monument, knows this well. In 2011,...
House U-turns on immigrant driver’s license funding
DENVER -- The House rejected a program-funding standoff on Wednesday that threatened to bring hallmark D.C.-style dysfunction to the state Capitol this legislative session....