Tomorrow, El Paso County Clerk Steve Schlieker will administer the election in Colorado’s most populous county. Last Thursday, Schlieker sent a letter to his election staff and the county’s bipartisan team of poll workers assuring them that tomorrow’s election is secure and that the recent password leak from Colorado Secretary of State Jen Griswold’s office will not impact vote counting.
When the Colorado Times Recorder covered a eucharistic march around a Denver Planned Parenthood, we reached out to the Archbishop’s office for comment. Although Archbishop Samuel Aquila did not respond to the questions posed, the Director of Communications for the Archdiocese of Denver Kelly Clark did respond. You can find her answers on behalf of the Archdiocese below.
As part of our weekly roundup of articles on political extremism in Colorado, the Colorado Times Recorder is featuring Jason Salzman’s article documenting which candidates who have denied the results of the 2020 election through some form or another, Erik Maulbetsch’s coverage of the Colorado Chamber of Commerce not endorsing Republican Matt Burcham, who has pushed election conspiracy theories. We’re also featuring an article from Susan Green at Aurora Sentinel on Aurora City Councilor Danielle Jurinsky’s verbal abuse of her colleagues, and 9News’ Darren Whitehead’s on the sentencing of a Douglas County man who participated in the January 6 Capitol insurrection.
A public relations consultant with the conservative Steamboat Institute is among the people and institutions in Colorado with connections to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which some say would provide a right-wing guide for a possible second Trump presidency.
On a chilly November morning, the Archbishop of Denver Samuel Aquila led a Eucharistic procession around a Planned Parenthood health center in Denver’s Park Hill neighborhood ahead of the 2024 general election in which Coloradans will vote on enshrining the right to abortion in the state constitution.
Colorado congressional candidate Gabe Evans is saying that his strident opposition to gay marriage ended long ago.
On October 24, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-Lakewood) joined a virtual rally advocating for national cannabis reform hosted by country singer Willie Nelson. Nelson organized the event in tandem with Vicente, a Colorado-based cannabis law firm, around the issue of cannabis legalization. Referred to as the Cannabis Community for Kamala, the event was moderated by Nelson, his wife Annie D’Angelo, and lawyer Dahr Jamail.
A new study has found that those who ate right had both a lower chance of contracting COVID-19 and, on average, fared better if they caught the coronavirus.
Denver’s housing market is seemingly stuck at a crossroads. Low inventory is causing home prices and rents to climb upwards, putting additional financial pressure on low-income workers and contributing to the city’s growing homeless population. Meanwhile, the city’s office vacancy rates remain among the nation’s highest, and the chances of converting these underused buildings into new housing units seem slim because many office layouts are incompatible with residential uses.
Rick Brandt, who’s the police chief in the northeastern Colorado town of Evans, considers himself a bit of a myth buster on the fentanyl front – a battle he’s been in the trenches of since 2007 when he took over as top cop in this city of 22,000 south of Greeley following 26 years with the Aurora Police Department.
