Denver Post: Politics

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump denied Monday that he had offered military aid to the president of Ukraine only if the country launched a probe into former Vice President Joe Biden and his family, as the burgeoning controversy consumed the first day of Trump’s visit to the United Nations General Assembly.

When Colorado’s casinos opened their doors in October 1991, one establishment had a dirt floor and served beer from an ice-filled trough that horses previously used for drinking water.
“Black Hawk still had dirt roads.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

When Democratic Senate candidate Lorena Garcia arrived at a trendy bar in Denver’s LoHi neighborhood last month, a young Republican named Derrick was one of the first people she hugged.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

GRAND JUNCTION — The Bureau of Land Management’s new headquarters here will share an office building with oil and gas groups, provoking strong criticisms from environmentalists and a defense from the senator who orchestrated the headquarters move to Grand Junction.

It only took April Martinez about five minutes Thursday to enroll in the program that could change her family’s lives.
While her infant suckled at a bottle on the dining room table, Martinez, 35, used her phone to navigate the website of the Denver Housing Authority.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A group of activists marched through an Aurora neighborhood Thursday evening as part of a protest outside the home of a warden of a local immigration detention center.
Organizers of the protest, a group called Abolish ICE Denver, said on Facebook that the purpose of the protest, which was held outside the home of Johnny Choate, was to demand the end of immigration raids in Colorado, while raising “the level of confrontation against Border Patrol, ICE, DHS, and GEO affiliates.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

WASHINGTON — The government’s intelligence watchdog is set to testify Thursday in a closed session before the House intelligence committee about the handling of a whistleblower complaint.
The Washington Post reported the complaint involves an intelligence official’s allegation that President Donald Trump made an unspecified “promise” to an unidentified foreign leader.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Colorado’s process for investigating and ruling on civil rights complaints is too slow, is handled without transparency and accountability, and violates the state’s open-meeting law, a newly released state audit found.

The city of Denver may become one of the first in Colorado to set a local minimum wage. A proposal to be announced Thursday would set minimum pay for workers in Denver at $15 an hour by 2021, according to Hancock administration spokesman Mike Strott.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

After a request from Gov. Jared Polis, the RTD board is reconsidering a vote that has thrown a wrench in plans for Denver to host the National Medal of Honor Museum.