Denver Post: Politics

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump lashed out Friday at current and former aides who cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, insisting the deeply unflattering picture they painted of him and the White House was “total bullshit.”
In a series of angry tweets from rainy Palm Beach, Florida, Trump laced into those who, under oath, had shared with Mueller their accounts of how Trump tried numerous times to squash or influence the investigation and portrayed the White House as infected by a culture of lies, deceit and deception.

Mayor Michael Hancock on Friday announced an effort to provide new housing options and expand shelter services for people experiencing homelessness.
Over the next few years, the city will put about $5 million to provide 400 “bridge housing vouchers” — funding for housing that people can use while they wait for a permanent home.

WASHINGTON – The long-awaited report from special counsel Robert Mueller details abundant evidence against President Donald Trump – finding 10 episodes of suspicious behavior – but ultimately concluding it was not Mueller’s role to determine whether the commander in chief broke the law.

The Colorado Economic Development Commission earmarked $500,000 from the state’s strategic fund on Thursday to pay for a new state initiative to promote employee-ownership.
The Employee Ownership Program is a top priority for Gov.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

President Donald Trump’s most vocal supporter in the Colorado congressional delegation says a long-awaited report released Thursday clears the president of wrongdoing, but Democrats in the delegation called for more transparency and hearings into special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

Colorado progressives are in the early stages of creating the infrastructure necessary to fight any number of legislative recalls that could pop up this summer.

Denver’s long-running population boom revved up last year — but the surge again was eclipsed in new census estimates by growth in El Paso County, threatening its status as the state’s largest county.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The elite academies that educate officers for the nation’s armed forces have begun to implement the Trump administration’s ban on transgender service members.
The U.S. Naval Academy will ban people who are transgender from attending the school, beginning with the 2020 school year.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump vetoed a resolution passed by Congress to end U.S. military assistance in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.
The veto — the second in Trump’s presidency — was expected, and Congress lacks the votes to override it.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Thornton this week filed suit against Larimer County over the county’s decision to deny a permit for a 72-mile water pipe that the city wants to use to transport water it owns in the Cache le Poudre River to its growing population north of Denver.