April 30, 2017 in 3,505 words
Reader: If We Want People Off the Streets, We Need to Help Them This week U.S. District Court Judge William Martinez granted class certification in a lawsuit that challenges Denver’s homeless sweeps,...
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Immigrant-Rights Groups Unveil Sanctuary City Policy Since early February, a coalition of immigrant-rights advocates, lawyers and community members have been working on a detailed sanctuary city...
View ArticleMay 2, 2017 in 5,237 words
Palm trees are set ablaze next to an empty 101 freeway in downtown. 25 Years After the L.A. Riots: An Oral History When did you realize the riots had broken out? It’s a simple enough question, and the...
View ArticleMay 3, 2017 in 5,103 words
This Year’s DragCon Was a Reminder That Drag Has Always Been the Resistance From the ribbon cutting to the weekend’s close, DragCon was about the political climate. This weekend, RuPaul’s DragCon...
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Arturo Hernandez Garcia with his family during 2015, when he was in sanctuary at a Denver-area church. Arturo Hernandez Garcia Temporarily Freed After ICE Detention: New Hope? Last night, May 2,...
View ArticleMay 5, 2017 in 1,850 words
How the Obamacare Repeal Could Cost Republicans the House The House’s passage of its new health-care bill is an immediate win for Trump. But he’s not thinking ahead, argues David Frum. According to a...
View ArticleMay 6, 2017 in 4,500 words
Opioids: Where’s the outrage? (glad you asked) So where’s the outrage? The Trump administration is trying to gin up the drug war again, only this time the focus is on “opioids.” Opiods is a term that...
View ArticleMay 7, 2017 in 5,965 words
ICE detains, then releases, man who entered sanctuary Arturo Hernandez García entered sanctuary on Oct. 21, 2014, the day he was scheduled for deportation. He lived in a Denver church basement for...
View ArticleMay 9, 2017 in 2,620 words
They Voted to Repeal Obamacare. Now They Are a Target. Protesters waited outside the office of Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen in Morristown, N.J., on Friday to confront him after he voted with...
View ArticleMay 11, 2017 in 5,247 words
“A psychopath? Mixed with human dirt.” Cory “Human Dirt Psychopath” Gardner and North Korea’s Ten Greatest Insults North Korea’s branding of Cory Gardner as a “psychopath” and a “man mixed in with...
View ArticleMay 12, 2017 in 4,911 words
Are House Republicans murderers? It is time for consequences. A time for the members of the U.S. House of Representatives who voted for this abomination of a health care law to feel the earth shake...
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SHAME!!! ‘This is our land’: New Mexico’s tribal groups gear up to fight for their home President Trump’s decision to review the designations of 27 national monuments has raised fears of a corporate...
View ArticleMay 14, 2017 in 3,176 words
Why We Need Horror Movies Now More Than Ever Now is the time for horror. As a lifelong horror fan (both film and literature), I’ve encountered a number of gross misconceptions about the genre. Many of...
View ArticleMay 16, 2017 in 3,125 words
7 Unexpected Side Effects Of Trump In The White House If you hadn’t heard yet, a good deal of America doesn’t much care for President Trump. They have their reasons. Too much golf, they suggest. He...
View ArticleMay 18, 2017 in 7,021 words
A photo of protesters outside the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C., shared on the original Indivisible Denver Facebook page in January, before the split. The Division of Indivisible Denver Indivisible...
View ArticleMay 19, 2017 in 4,163 words
Warning: Oil and gas development may be hazardous to your health As more people find themselves living near oil and gas wells, scientists scramble to fully understand the health risks. Every medical...
View ArticleMay 20, 2017 in 4,069 words
What Republicans have proposed isn’t health care The battle over health care is literally a life and death struggle. In a piece in the Washington Post, doctors David Himmelstein and Steffie...
View ArticleMay 21, 2017 in 4,054 words
The Real Estate Tactic That Can Save or Screw Desperate Denver House Hunters A home-bidding tactic known as the escalation clause is currently ubiquitous in Denver’s red-hot housing market. But while...
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Changes in ICE protocol limit Congress’ ability to aid immigrants Two high profile immigrants who took sanctuary in Denver churches were each granted a two-year stay of removal last week by...
View ArticleMay 24, 2017 in 4,343 words
Sovereign Movement Is Anti-Government, Off the Grid….and Gunning for Justice “Don’t come in or I’ll shoot,” Vince Edwards shouted at Costilla County Undersheriff Ricky Rodriguez, who was standing near...
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