Gaylord Rockies Resort will face old foes in any new state incentive request

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 9/28 12:00A Aldo Svaldi

Almost eight years after the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center, located southwest of Denver International Airport, opened its doors , a long-dormant battle between it and competing hotels and restaurants has reignited. The Ryman...

Two more metro Denver cities pass moratoriums on new data centers

The Dever Post (Local Politics) 9/23 8:27A John Aguilar

Thornton and Commerce City this week became the latest Colorado communities to halt new data center development, following similar moratoriums passed recently in Denver , Jefferson County and Larimer County. Commerce City s moratorium, passed by...

How the ballot proposal to overhaul Colorado taxes could change your tax bill — and who pays more

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 9/20 12:00A Nick Coltrain

Colorado voters will decide this November whether to make one of the largest changes to the state s tax code in a generation but it s one that would have vastly different effects depending on a person...

Colorado Supreme Court tells judges they can stop livestreaming their hearings despite state law...

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 9/15 9:11A Shelly Bradbury

The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday told judges they can stop livestreaming court proceedings for the next 90 days a move that directly contradicts state law and escalates an ongoing power struggle between the state s highest court and its...

Aurora focuses on water savings with restrictions on data centers, new turf

The Dever Post (Local Politics) 9/15 6:40A John Aguilar

Reducing water use was front and center at the Aurora City Council meeting Monday night as the city s elected leaders passed a pair of ordinances designed to conserve water amid a severe drought in Colorado . The council unanimously gave initial...

Aurora set to embark on data center regulation with a measure aimed at reducing water consumption

The Dever Post (Local Politics) 9/14 12:00A John Aguilar

The Aurora City Council is set to consider its first regulation for data centers as the fast-multiplying facilities central to modern digital life spur pushback from people worried about impacts to neighborhoods and the environment. But the item...

Pushes for expanded county commissions play out in Douglas and Boulder counties

The Dever Post (Local Politics) 9/8 12:00A John Aguilar

It s been nearly a decade and a half since voters in Colorado last approved the expansion of a county commission from three to five members. Residents of two Colorado counties each at opposite ends of...

Pay advance company that backed efforts to change Colorado lending laws now faces AG lawsuit

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 9/6 12:00A Seth Klamann

For the past two legislative sessions, an emerging financial technology company that offers a different kind of paycheck advance has backed efforts to carve its industry out of Colorado s regulations...

Denver leaders want to curb ‘hidden epidemic’ of domestic violence strangulation

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 8/26 12:00A Shelly Bradbury

On the Tuesday after July 4, a 40-year-old woman was arguing with her longtime boyfriend in their Villa Park home when he grabbed her, put her in a headlock, punched her in the face and strangled her. The woman reached for anything she could use...

Colorado’s new limits on sports betting deposits — and credit card ban — to take effect

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 8/7 12:00A Noelle Phillips

Colorado gamblers will no longer be allowed to use credit cards to make deposits on sports betting apps, and their deposits will be limited to six per day, beginning Wednesday. The new rules are part of the bipartisan Senate Bill 26-131 passed in...

Denver family’s home lost to foreclosure sits empty in legal limbo: ‘The system feels like...

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 8/5 12:00A Noelle Phillips

A two-story house that once sheltered a family of six sits empty on a corner lot in Green Valley Ranch as years of legal wrangling over homeowners association fines, metro district foreclosures and Denver s affordable housing covenants continue...

This barrier-busting astronaut became one of Colorado’s most famous artists

The Denver Post (Airlines & Aerospace) 8/3 12:00A Ray Mark Rinaldi

Ed Dwight is as close to a true Colorado hero as any living human might be. He was a barrier-busting aviator, becoming America’s first Black astronaut candidate in 1962, before being diminished in...

Colorado lawmakers said no to private equity for law firms — but most attempts to rein it in have...

Denver Post (Colorado Legislature) 7/29 12:00A Nick Coltrain

Colorado lawmakers this year drew a hard line barring private equity investment in law firms. They also built new regulations for autism treatment providers which are increasingly owned by private...

Denver DSA will try to hold at-large council seat in an unusual special election: ‘The wind is at...

The Dever Post (Local Politics) 7/27 12:00A Elliott Wenzler

The Denver chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, fresh off its most significant electoral win , is already gearing up for its next fight. This November, the organization is preparing to...

US appeals court upholds injunction that blocks Trump’s order to create a federal voter list

The Dever Post (National Politics) 7/26 6:25A The Associated Press

By RUSS BYNUM A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that in nearly half of U.S. states halted President Donald Trump’s executive order to create a federal list of eligible voters and limit delivery of mail ballots only to people on that...