Magnus Boee found himself unexpectedly featured on national television on Monday during a White House event honoring college championship athletes.
Boee, a member of the championship ski team at the University of Colorado Boulder this year, stood behind Vice President Kamala Harris during a speech — on the day delegates and key party leaders rallied behind her candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination — wearing a CU Buffs ski team shirt.
Just days after Mayor Mike Johnston urged Denver voters to pass an affordable housing sales tax measure this November, City Council members on Wednesday questioned if the measure was ready for the ballot — and delayed its progress for at least two weeks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareCastle Rock’s attempts to stop a church from housing homeless families in vehicles in its parking lot is a violation of the church’s practice of religious freedom, a federal court has ruled.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
CONCORD, N.H. — Four years ago, a Zoom meeting to build support for Kamala Harris as the Democratic vice presidential nominee attracted just 90 participants. On Sunday night, an estimated 90,000 Black women and allies logged on at the same time to support her brand-new presidential campaign.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA state-ordered recount has confirmed that three votes separated the Republican contenders in a primary last month in southwest Colorado’s House District 58, where more than 370 mail ballots were not delivered to voters in one county ahead of Election Day.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
By ZEKE MILLER and SEUNG MIN KIM
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris moved swiftly Monday to lock up Democratic delegates behind her campaign for the White House after President Joe Biden stepped aside amid concerns from within their party that he would be unable to defeat Republican Donald Trump.
Police mounted patrols Sunday night around the Loveland house of Republican state lawmaker Ron Weinberg after someone posted a message on Facebook saying he and U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, along with a GOP candidate running for Larimer County commissioner, should be “put in the crosshairs.”
Weinberg, who serves in the House, said the comment was made on the Facebook page of a Loveland politics group on Sunday afternoon.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on Sunday, ending his bid for reelection following a disastrous debate with Donald Trump that raised doubts about his fitness for office just four months before the election.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBy KEVIN FREKING and STEPHEN GROVES
WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers hailed President Joe Biden’s historic decision on Sunday not to seek reelection, praising him as putting his country and his party before himself.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
State Rep. Jennifer Parenti, an Erie Democrat running in one of the tightest Colorado House races this November, announced Friday that she’s dropping out of a race that may decide the extent of Democrats’ control in the Capitol next year.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWASHINGTON (AP) — Even though President Joe Biden won’t be on the ballot in November, voters still will be weighing his legacy.
As Vice President Kamala Harris moves to take his place as the Democratic standard-bearer, Biden’s accomplishments remain very much at risk should Republican Donald Trump prevail.
By COLLEEN LONG, CHRISTINE FERNANDO and AMANDA SEITZ
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden might not often use the word “abortion” when he talks about the overturning of Roe v. Wade, but Vice President Kamala Harris sure does.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
By AAMER MADHANI
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday evening on his decision to drop his 2024 Democratic reelection bid.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris is zeroing in on four potential candidates as she races to choose a running mate for her fledgling campaign, fast-tracking a process that usually takes months but must be finalized in only a few weeks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareDenver Mayor Mike Johnston celebrated his administration’s progress on some of the city’s biggest challenges during his first year in office on Monday, while making a pitch for the first big initiative of his second — a sales tax increase to tackle affordable housing.
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Vice President Kamala Harris spoke Monday at a White House celebration with the NCAA championship teams, her first appearance since President Joe Biden announced he was leaving the race.
By CHRIS MEGERIAN
WASHINGTON — She’s already broken barriers, and now Kamala Harris could become the first Black woman to head a major party presidential ticket after President Joe Biden abruptly ended his reelection bid and endorsed her.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Colorado Democrats quickly praised President Joe Biden’s decision to step out of the race for reelection on Sunday, while at least one Republican official called for him to resign immediately.
More | Talk | Read It Later | SharePresident Joe Biden’s proposal this week to cap rent increases in larger apartment buildings across America has elevated an idea that’s long been embraced by progressive housing advocates in Colorado — but, in a split among Democrats, is opposed by Gov.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
By BILL BARROW and MICHELLE L. PRICE
MILWAUKEE — The Republican National Convention celebrated former President Donald Trump not just as a party leader but a living martyr who survived a would-be assassin’s bullet and is ready to work for everyday Americans after a sweeping victory in November.
State lawmakers behind Colorado’s push for increased high-density housing around transit hubs see trouble ahead: a lagging Regional Transportation District bus and train system.
When they invited agency leaders to a transportation hearing at the Capitol this week to talk about it, RTD balked.
On a razor-thin 4-3 vote, the Westminster City Council this week knocked down a proposal that would have opted out of a new state law that prohibits firearms from being brought into local government buildings.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied an emergency request from former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters as part of her effort to halt her criminal case, less than two weeks before her trial is set to begin in Grand Junction.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareColorado’s delegation to next month’s Democratic National Convention has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s nominee for U.S. president, joining delegates across the country who have pledged enough support for her to secure the nomination.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBy ZEKE MILLER
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris is making her first visit to a battleground state Tuesday after locking up enough support from Democratic delegates to win her party’s nomination to challenge Republican former President Donald Trump, two days after President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid.
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and FARNOUSH AMIRI
WASHINGTON — The assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump was the Secret Service’s “most significant operational failure” in decades, Director Kimberly Cheatle told lawmakers Monday as calls mounted for her to resign.
No city or town in Colorado is allowed to prohibit natural medicine healing centers from opening and offering supervised consumption of mushrooms and other psychedelics to adults — that much was plain in an initiative passed by the state’s voters two years ago.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
By BILL BARROW
ATLANTA — With President Joe Biden ending his reelection bid and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats now must navigate a shift that is unprecedented this late in an election year.
An animal rights group backing a ballot initiative that would ban slaughterhouses in Denver is adamant that its campaign is not targeted at any individual business — even if just one slaughterhouse is active in the city.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBy LISA MASCARO, ZEKE MILLER, MICHAEL BALSAMO and AAMER MADHANI
WASHINGTON — Critical days ahead, President Joe Biden is facing the stark reality that many Democrats at the highest levels want him to consider how stepping aside from the 2024 election to make way for a new nominee atop the ticket could be the party’s best chance of preventing widespread losses in November.