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The story of Albus Brooks didn’t end on Denver’s runoff election night June 4. To think that is to admit you don’t know the soon-to-be-ex city councilman. College football star, pastor, community activist and charmed politician, the bright lights of his life have a way of hiding the dark corners he’s had to crawl out…

If former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper becomes president, his administration will have a White House Council on Boys and Men. He said so when he met in Iowa with Warren Farrell, the author of the 2018 book “The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It.” Dottie Lamm, the…

There’s never a good way to lose, but the mayoral race in Denver is going to leave Jamie Giellis second-guessing four weeks in spring May for a very long time. The newcomer to the political game had a great chance to win, despite being outspent by a mile. Two-term Mayor Michael Hancock stumbled out of…

Let the games begin. U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner is more than a year away from having a Democratic opponent in his re-election bid, and Democrats, instead of vetting the best possible challenger, are unhooking their kitchen sinks to throw at the Republican from Colorado. First up: Campaign money — where he gets his, but not…

Did that really happen, that mushroom thing in Denver? Colorado’s capital became the first city in the nation to take the law and order out of magic mushrooms, the kind that make you see vivid colors and stuff that’s not really there. That’s kind of the feeling I had when I took a clear look…