Author: Alayna Alvarez
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Denver protesters to hold fifth march Thursday to raise awareness of deadly civil war in Ethiopia
Demonstrators within Colorado’s Ethiopian community will come together for the fifth time on Thursday morning to march down Lincoln Street to the state Capitol in protest of the deadly conflict unfolding between the Ethiopian government and rebel forces in Tigray, the northernmost region of the East African country. Colorado is home to a large population…
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Denver Mayor Hancock orders downtown city buildings to shut down due to possible protests
Denver city officials and staff received an emergency alert that the City and County of Denver government offices in the downtown area will be closing immediately on Thursday as a “proactive safety measure” related to anticipated pro-Trump protests downtown. In Washington, D.C., pro-Trump protesters breached the U.S. Capitol, halting the Electoral College vote. At least one…
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POWER PLAYS | Denver’s power struggle makes City Hall conflict business as usual
Power struggles within Denver City Hall are nothing new, but they just seem worse these days as Mayor Michael Hancock and a cadre of council members are constantly going at it. Go back to March 25, 1894, when Gov. Davis Waite called out the infantry to City Hall to oust problematic members of the police…
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Mayor Hancock taps Murphy Robinson as deputy mayor in 2021
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s office announced Friday that Murphy Robinson will be the city’s deputy mayor in 2021. Robinson, a Denver native who Hancock appointed in May to lead the city’s safety department, will wear his dual title beginning Jan. 1. Robinson served as deputy mayor in 2019 for roughly eight months before transitioning to…
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Denver forms new task force to lead clean energy plan for current, future buildings across the city
Denver’s climate action office unveiled a new task force on Thursday that will be dedicated to lowering pollutants from commercial and multifamily buildings, which city officials say represent 51% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the city. The new Energize Denver Task Force is a 25-member team representing a wide variety of sectors, including real estate,…
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Police watchdog meets with city officials to discuss scathing report on DPD response to protests
Chilling. Validating. Fair. Those were just a few of the descriptors that Denver City Council members used Dec. 9 when they met with the independent monitor to discuss the 94-page report his office released the day before, an investigation the council unanimously called for his office to take on in June. During the safety committee,…
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Denver will continue with minimum wage increase as scheduled in 2021
Despite pleas from business owners to postpone the next phase of the city’s minimum wage hike until after the pandemic, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s office confirmed that the city will raise wages to $14.77 on Jan. 1, as scheduled. City leaders met last week with stakeholders, including the Colorado Restaurant Association, to deliver the decision,…
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East Colfax Neighborhood Association plans ‘ritual burning’ of east-Denver plan adopted Monday
The East Area Colfax Neighborhood Association will conduct a “ritual burning” of a 20-year plan that will guide urban development throughout Denver’s Hale, Montclair, East Colfax and South Park Hill neighborhoods. The plan was adopted late Monday night by the Denver City Council. The igniting of the East Area Plan, the name of the policy…
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Denver City Council approves Mayor Hancock’s $1.3B budget
The Denver City Council approved Mayor Michael Hancock’s $1.3 billion budget on Monday night after a month of push and pull over funding sources and additions from council members. The more than 800-page document outlines a plan to close a $190 million budget gap caused by a coronavirus-addled economy. City employees face furlough days and…
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Denver firefighters are helping battle blazes in Colorado, throughout the U.S.
For months, the Denver Fire Department’s 150-member wildland team — one of the largest in the country — has been fighting the flames that continue to ravage Colorado and other parts of the U.S. late into fall. Climate change has played a key role in increasing the frequency and magnitude of wildfires, particularly in the…