Author: By Deborah Grigsby The Denver Gazette
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Denver Clerk López launches petition to amend city budget
Earlier this week, Clerk and Recorder Paul López launched an online petition to help convince members of the Denver City Council to amend Mayor Mike Johnston’s proposed 2026 spending plan to “adequately fund” the city’s elections office. Using the platform change.org, López argues that “fully funding the Clerk and Recorder’s Office is not about politics…
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Colorado National Guard hosts first State of the Guard briefing
Leaders of the state’s citizen-soldiers mustered alongside their civilian counterparts on Friday for the first-ever Colorado National Guard “State of the Guard” briefing, an effort to not only share what the Guard does, but how its mission fits into the fabric of the community they serve. More than 125 people, including local government and civic…
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Arvada pond continues its carp-tivating tale of invasive species
For the third time in less than a month, Colorado Parks and Wildlife aquatic biologists have removed invasive giant bighead carp from a pond in Arvada’s Jack B. Tomlinson Park. The removal operation employs a boat-deployed technique called electrofishing. “So on our boats, we have generators that will push an electrical current into the water…