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Overtime pay at the city and County of Denver shot up 23 percent in 2015, reports Art Kane at ColoradoWatchdog.org. Taxpayers are footing $8.6 million...
Cynthia Coffman is doing her job defending Colorado's gun control laws she has politically opposed. Her predecessor John Suthers did the same thing and...
The City of Denver refuses to release the footage of sheriff's deputies killing Michael Lee Marshall in the city jail. Denver pastors have launched a...
Less incarceration
130 police chiefs, sheriffs and prosecutors joined the movement to end mass incarceration. They will be meeting with Barack Obama Thursday. "With momentum for criminal...
This time, it's the sheriffs.
Led by Larimer County's Justin Smith, sheriffs in Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska say they're facing a "crisis of conscience" brought...
It's primary week and finally there's news. We have our first-ever shakeup at the top of the Littwin Weekly GOP Governor's Race Rankings. As LeBron James so ably put it, history is made to be broken.