Politics & Government

Nick Thomas is trying to break up the Democratic and Republican duopoly on national politics from right here in Colorado.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Clint Eastwood has just wrapped up two days of shooting in Colorado on his next movie, The Mule. Eastwood’s visit was unexpected, admits Colorado Film Commissioner Donald Zuckerman, since last year, the general assembly slashed the amount of film incentive money by 75 percent, essentially bringing a previous upswing in the number of Hollywood productions in the state to a grinding halt.

Colorado Senate President Kevin Grantham’s GoFundMe campaign to finance a portrait of President Donald Trump to hang in the State Capitol has raised more than $6,300 toward a goal of $10,000, the amount needed for commissioning the artwork.

Things just got worse for Colorado Rising, which has faced numerous hurdles to placing its 2,500-foot oil and gas setback initiative on the November ballot. This time, an alleged competitor has paid a petition circulating firm to drop Initiative 97.

“Abolish ICE Denver” is holding a week-long, all-day-and-night vigil in front of the local ICE field office to protest family separation at the border and in Colorado.

On Saturday afternoon, July 28, along the portion of West Eisenhower Boulevard bordering the lake that shares its name with the City of Loveland, hundreds of folks lined up with no specific goal beyond sharing their fondness and admiration for President Donald Trump and America in general.

Lieutenant Governor Donna Lynne says her experience running for governor of Colorado has convinced her of the need for campaign finance reform, and she hopes to spend time after she’s out of office working toward fixing what she sees a system that’s seriously out of whack.

Stapleton resident JoyAnn Ruscha is running for District B, representing Five Points all the way to Denver International Airport.

The estimated 20,000 signatures in support of an anti-fracking ballot initiative that were allegedly stolen last week have been returned to Colorado Rising.

Mayor Benjamin Stapleton was in the KKK back in the ’20s. Tom Tancredo is supporting his great-grandson today.

The fight for 2,500-foot setbacks has taken an unexpected turn after the signature-gathering firm quit.

Prepare yourselves: The onslaught of ads in the 6th Congressional District are coming.

She’s been pushing the bill for twenty years; this time it’s part of a pushback against Trump administration policies.

In Democrats’ quest to re-take control of the House of Representatives this fall, all Colorado eyes are fixated on Mike Coffman’s 6th District. Quietly, however, there may be another district that some Democrats may believe to be in play, thanks to one key issue.

Immigrant lawyers were caught by surprise after their undocumented clients who had been separated from their children were transferred to Texas. After all, just because their clients have been transferred doesn’t mean their court cases have.

House Democrats on the Capital Development Committee have accused Republican gubernatorial candidate and State Treasurer Walker Stapleton of delaying funding for $120 million in critical infrastructure projects.

Energized by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s primary win in New York, a surge of new members are flooding to Denver’s chapter of Democratic Socialists of America.

NARAL Pro-Choice America president Ilyse Hogue spoke to Westword about gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis and his Republican opponent, Walker Stapleton, who’s publicly pledged to protect the rights of the “born and unborn” but typically tries to skirt the subject.

Treasurer and gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton says he has a reason for not funding high priority construction and maintenance projects in the state, but he does an about-face almost as soon as he utters the words.

Glenn Morris, her uncle and a longtime AIM activist in Denver, reflects on her case.

The young activist who caught Denver’s attention with his 2017 school board run says he needs to take time to focus on school and family, but that he’s thinking of running for school board again.

The man behind Denver FUGLY and Denver Cruiser Ride is known as an elaborate prankster, but this year, he is trying to run as a first-time candidate for RTD’s board of directors.