Acclaimed author and public radio personality David Sedaris shared his unique powers of wit and perception with a near-capacity crowd at Denver’s Tattered Cover Bookstore on Colfax Thursday night. Touring to promote his latest book, a collection of short stories, Sedaris read from both the new work, Calypso, as well as his 2017 collection of diary entries, Theft by Finding.
In May, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) took legislative action to acknowledge the “dark moment” of Japanese internment camps, but faced with the current reality of the Trump administration’s child internment camps, he refused to join any of the several legislative efforts to stop them, instead only signing on to a letter.
U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) is heading to Texas Saturday with officials from the Department of Health and Human Services to assess a federal child detention facility and to receive briefings from U.S. border patrol agencies, Coffman’s office announced today in a news release.
As disturbing details were emerging regarding the Trump Administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents, Colorado Treasurer Walker Stapleton, who’s favored to become the Republican nominee for governor, released an ad that paints immigrants as a threat to national security.
Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams issued temporary rules yesterday explaining how to file complaints about possible violations of Colorado’s campaign finance and disclosure laws.
After saying he didn’t have the power to stop immigrant children from being taken from their families, Trump is now saying he’ll sign an executive order to stop the child grabbing on the border.
New election rules have left some voters, especially those who are “unaffiliated” with the Democratic or Republican Parties, confused about how to cast a ballot in Colorado’s current primary election.
Republican “sabotage” at the federal and state level is expected to drive another year of “substantial” increases in health insurance costs for individual plans, a progressive health insurance analyst told reporters in a conference call today.
Despite widespread condemnation of Trump’s mandate to separate immigrant children from their parents at the border, U.S. Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) doubled down on his support for the Trump policy today, telling a radio host that the “children are being separated from their parents out of consideration for their own safety.”
Colorado Campaign for Life, a statewide anti-abortion group, says two leading Republican candidates for governor won’t answer specific questions about abortion.
