Denver Post: Politics
- Homeless shelters get biggest chunk of money in Denver’s latest round of COVID-19 relief spending
Thursday - 08/06/2020 - 03:39 PMDenver is putting $25.6 million in federal money toward shelters, small business grants and other areas, city officials announced Thursday — the city’s second release of federal money to combat the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Biden won’t go to Milwaukee to accept Democratic nomination
Wednesday - 08/05/2020 - 03:00 PMJoe Biden will not travel to Milwaukee to accept the Democratic presidential nomination because of concerns over the coronavirus, party officials said Wednesday, signaling a move to a convention that essentially has become entirely virtual.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Chasm grows between Trump and government coronavirus experts
Wednesday - 08/05/2020 - 12:40 PMWASHINGTON — In the early days of the coronavirus crisis, President Donald Trump was flanked in the White House briefing room by a team of public health experts in a seeming portrait of unity to confront the disease that was ravaging the globe.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Ferguson protester Cori Bush ousts William Lacy Clay from Missouri congressional seat he held for 20 years
Wednesday - 08/05/2020 - 12:56 AMCori Bush, a onetime homeless woman who led protests following a white police officer’s fatal shooting of a Black 18-year-old in Ferguson, ousted longtime Rep. William Lacy Clay Tuesday in Missouri’s Democratic primary, ending a political dynasty that has spanned more than a half-century.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump signs a major public lands bill. Here’s what it means for Colorado.
Tuesday - 08/04/2020 - 12:02 PMPresident Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law a major public lands bill that will pump hundreds of millions of federal dollars into Colorado’s national parks.
“This is a very big deal,” the president said in the East Room of the White House.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Denver City Council approves 0.25% sales tax increase, sending it to November ballot
Monday - 08/03/2020 - 10:14 PMDenver City Council passed a measure to the November ballot Monday which would increase the city’s sales tax rate by a quarter of a percent to fund renewable energy goals over the coming decades.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- “If not now, when?”: Black women seize political spotlight
Monday - 08/03/2020 - 09:38 AMMARIETTA, Ga. — The little girl ran up to her, wide-eyed and giddy.
“Are you Charisse Davis?” the fourth grader asked.
Davis was stunned. A former kindergarten teacher and librarian, she was more accustomed to shuttling her two sons to basketball practice than being seen as a local celebrity.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Negotiators report progress in coronavirus relief talks
Saturday - 08/01/2020 - 05:29 PMBy ANDREW TAYLOR
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers reported progress on a huge coronavirus relief bill Saturday, as political pressure mounts to restore an expired $600-per-week supplemental unemployment benefit and send funding to help schools reopen. - The Spot: Hick campaigns in-person, more homeless raids are coming, and there’s a race to the ballot
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump administration easing more Obama-era oil and gas rules
Thursday - 07/30/2020 - 04:04 PMBILLINGS, Mont. — The Trump administration is seeking to ease more rules for oil and gas drilling that were adopted under the Obama administration, with the latest changes projected to save energy companies more than $130 million over the next decade.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Kanye West will appear on Colorado’s ballot for president
Thursday - 08/06/2020 - 12:11 PMRapper Kanye West, who is attempting to mount an independent presidential campaign, has been approved for Colorado’s Nov. 3 ballot, the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office said Thursday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Coronavirus aid: Where things stand in high-level Washington talks
Wednesday - 08/05/2020 - 05:27 PMWASHINGTON — After more than a week’s worth of meetings, at least some clarity is emerging in the bipartisan Washington talks on a huge COVID-19 response bill.
An exchange of offers Tuesday and a meeting devoted to the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - St. Louis prosecutor who charged couple for pointing guns at protesters wins Democratic primary for another term
Wednesday - 08/05/2020 - 12:08 AMSt. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, whose job performance has been lauded by some civil rights activists and criticized by President Donald Trump and other leading Republicans, held off a challenge from a former homicide prosecutor in Tuesday’s primary election.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Proposed Colorado ballot measure comes up short – waaay short
Tuesday - 08/04/2020 - 05:55 PMAdvocates of a proposed Colorado ballot measure for expunging nonviolent criminal offenses only turned in 255 signatures to the Secretary of State’s Office by the petition deadline Monday.
They needed at least 124,632 to qualify, raising the question of why organizers submitted signatures at all.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Effort to expunge criminal records in Colorado turns in signatures
Monday - 08/03/2020 - 06:33 PMProponents of creating a new process to expunge low-level nonviolent criminal offenses turned in petitions to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office on Monday, the deadline for measures seeking a spot on the November ballot.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Coronavirus relief bill remains up in air as negotiations resume
Monday - 08/03/2020 - 01:35 PMWASHINGTON — Slow, grinding negotiations on a huge COVID-19 relief bill are set to resume Monday afternoon, but the path forward promises to be challenging and time is already growing short.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- In HBO film, Ken Buck suggests he will leave Congress soon
Sunday - 08/02/2020 - 08:00 AMIn an upcoming HBO documentary, U.S. Rep. Ken Buck paints a bleak picture not only of Congress but also of his own political party and the conservative movement in this era of President Donald Trump, before suggesting he will retire soon.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Should Denver city government enter the internet business to compete with Comcast and CenturyLink? Voters will get a say in Nove
Saturday - 08/01/2020 - 08:00 AMDenver City Councilman Paul Kashmann estimates as much as a fifth of Denver’s homes are without high-speed internet, a serious gap in coverage during the work-from-home and online education era sparked by the novel coronavirus pandemic.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Denver Mayor Hancock warns of COVID-19 limits, city to increase mask enforcement
Friday - 07/31/2020 - 02:31 PMDenver Mayor Michael Hancock repeated a warning Friday: If the city’s coronavirus numbers continue moving in the wrong direction, he’ll be forced to undo recent reopenings.
The number of cases remains too high, Hancock said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Stakes rise for coronavirus relief talks as jobless aid lapses, GDP drops
Thursday - 07/30/2020 - 04:12 PMWASHINGTON — Frustrated negotiators of a massive coronavirus relief bill face heightened pressure with Thursday’s brutal economic news and the rapidly approaching lapse in a $600 per-week expanded jobless benefit that has helped prop up consumer demand.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Joe Biden launches new national ad aimed at Black Americans
Thursday - 08/06/2020 - 09:41 AMDETROIT — Joe Biden’s Democratic presidential campaign has launched a new national ad focused on Black Americans, urging them to stand up to President Donald Trump the way their ancestors stood up to “violent racists of a generation ago.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Denver clears out homeless encampment outside Morey Middle School
Wednesday - 08/05/2020 - 10:47 AMDenver city officials, including police, on Wednesday morning cleared out a homeless encampment outside Morey Middle School.
The Denver Department of Public Health and Environment posted a temporary area restriction, meaning “environmental conditions are hazardous,” Tammy Vigil, a department spokeswoman, said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kanye West files paperwork to get on Colorado ballot as presidential candidate
Wednesday - 08/05/2020 - 03:33 PMRapper Kanye West filed as a presidential candidate for Colorado’s November ballot on Wednesday after his campaign enlisted help from a local Republican operative.
Betsy Hart, a spokesperson for the Colorado secretary of state’s office, confirmed just before 1:30 p.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump nursing home plan limits supply of free COVID-19 tests
Tuesday - 08/04/2020 - 10:41 AMWASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s plan to provide every nursing home with a fast COVID-19 testing machine comes with an asterisk: The government won’t supply enough test kits to check staff and residents beyond an initial couple of rounds.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - “A line in the sand”: Both sides dig in on coronavirus relief bill
Tuesday - 08/04/2020 - 09:12 AMWASHINGTON — Negotiators on a huge coronavirus relief bill reported slight progress after talks resumed in the Capitol, with issues like food for the poor and aid to schools struggling to reopen safely assuming a higher profile in the talks.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Homeless encampment around Morey Middle School starts to empty
Monday - 08/03/2020 - 02:18 PMThe homeless camp around Morey Middle School started to empty Monday as advocates and city workers urged residents to move out before the city takes more aggressive action to clear the area.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ransomware feared as possible saboteur for November election
Sunday - 08/02/2020 - 04:49 PMWASHINGTON — Federal authorities say one of the gravest threats to the November election is a well-timed ransomware attack that could paralyze voting operations. The threat isn’t just from foreign governments, but any fortune-seeking criminal.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - House Democrats subpoena Pompeo for documents on Biden’s son
Friday - 07/31/2020 - 04:36 PMWASHINGTON — The House Foreign Affairs Committee has subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for documents he turned over to a Senate panel that is investigating Hunter Biden, a son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Measure to raise taxes on wealthiest Coloradans, cut them for everyone else won’t make ballot
Friday - 07/31/2020 - 12:44 PMGroups proposing a ballot measure to increase taxes on the wealthy in Colorado and cut them for everyone else announced Friday that they weren’t able to gather enough signatures to get their question on the ballot.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain dies at 74
Thursday - 07/30/2020 - 01:11 PMATLANTA — Herman Cain, former Republican presidential candidate and former CEO of a major pizza chain who went on to become an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, has died of complications from the coronavirus.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share