Author: Nicholas Riccardi
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Colorado congressman booed as people demand action on guns
GREENWOOD VILLAGE — Grumbling and jeers met the request for a moment of silence for the 17 people killed last week in the Florida school shooting. “Let’s do something for them!” one man yelled at the beginning of Republican Rep. Mike Coffman’s town hall Tuesday night. Another participant cried out, “We’re done with thoughts and…
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Colorado Walmart shooting victims: Grandparents, young dad
DENVER — The three people who died in the shooting at a suburban Denver Walmart were identified Thursday after police took suspect Scott Ostrem, 47, into custody. One was a grandfather, another was a grandmother and the third was a young father with another child on the way. A GRANDFATHER WHO LOVED ADVENTURE Carlos Moreno,…
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US conservatism expands to final frontier: City Hall
DENVER — For decades, a well-funded conservative group has helped state lawmakers across the U.S. write legislation to rein in unions, expand charter schools and lower taxes. Now, it’s expanding to the final frontier: normally nonpartisan city halls and county governments, which have become a bastion of liberal resistance to President Donald Trump. The American…
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Anti-Trump groups stick to resist tactics despite shooting
DENVER (AP) — Liberal groups resistant to Republican policies say they have no plans to change their tactics or approach after a gunman apparently driven by his hatred of President Donald Trump opened fire at a GOP baseball practice, grievously injuring a House Republican leader and several others. Within hours of the shooting, leaders from…
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A DIY resistance in Colorado tries to keep the fight against Trump fresh
GREENWOOD VILLAGE — Stationing herself outside a bank building and holding a sign in the unforgiving midday sun, Katie Farnan was multitasking, as usual. She’s a mother of two young children and works for a nonprofit firm but also has a third job: Chair of the town hall committee of the activist group Indivisible Front…
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Colorado electors make last bid to prevent Trump presidency
DENVER — Colorado’s nine electors must vote for Hillary Clinton because she won the state’s popular vote, a judge ruled Tuesday, stopping a longshot effort by a handful of Democratic electors to unite with Republicans behind a compromise presidential candidate other than Donald Trump. Denver Judge Elizabeth Starrs also ruled that any electors who fail…
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Judge says Colorado electors must vote for statewide winner
DENVER — A federal judge dealt a severe setback Monday to a longshot plan to deny Donald Trump the presidency through the Electoral College, refusing to suspend a Colorado law requiring the state’s nine electors to vote for the presidential candidate who won the state in November. U.S. District Judge Wiley Daniel denied a request…
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Election exposes generational divide among Hispanics
PUEBLO — Donald Trump’s rhetoric on immigration is testing a long-term trend among Hispanics: Members of a family that has been in the country for multiple generations and uses primarily English are more likely to vote Republican than those who more recently arrived in the United States. The number of Latinos in the United States…
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How the Trump and Clinton tax plans would affect Americans
WASHINGTON — For America’s wealthiest families, the presidential campaign presents a stark choice: A big tax increase if Hillary Clinton wins the election — or a big tax cut if Donald Trump wins. For everyone else? Right now, neither candidate is proposing major tax changes. Tax policy is one of the issues on which the…
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Clinton struggling to win over the young voters she needs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save BOULDER — John Morales was interning for Bernie Sanders’ campaign when the longshot Democratic candidate’s hopes started to fade in the spring. That’s when Libertarian Gary Johnson caught his interest. In many ways Johnson and…