Governor Polis abruptly cancels unpublicized meeting with Joint Budget Committee
None of the meetings with lawmakers were publicly announced, as is required by the state’s open meetings law ...
Denver mayor quietly adjusts Park Hill land swap deal, as transparency concerns continue
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is dealing with scrutiny over transparency and credibility as federal regulators flag problems with previously unknown changes to a high-profile land swap deal. The issue comes just as voters prepare to decide on the city's near-billion-dollar Vibrant Denver bond measure ...
Young: ICE masks more than faces
But ICE and its partners in the lawless implementation of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation program mask up in other ways. As Newsline reporter Sara Wilson recently discovered, the numerous daily flights that crisscross the country to transport immigrants are difficult to track ...
Denver considers commissioning civic assembly
By next spring, Denver could be among the first major U.S. cities to commission a civic assembly, if the City Council moves forward with an ordinance to establish it. ...
Editorial: Fake news
Local papers earn trust through transparency and accuracy, and the Herald’s editorial board hopes to retain that trust – and we know we speak for our newsroom colleagues as well – through continued, fact-based reporting ...
Lawbreaking YouTubers prompt judge to shut down livestreaming in Barry Morphew case
A Colorado judge stopped public livestreaming of court proceedings in the high-profile murder case against Barry Morphew after at least two YouTube accounts violated state law that prohibits the recording and rebroadcasting of the court’s videos ...
Complex property deal involving Lakewood, Jeffco Schools and a nonprofit group has landed in court
The core problem, Springsteen says, is that Lakewood did not properly announce two September 2024 executive sessions during which officials discussed details of the deal in private ...
Denver Civil Service whistleblower sues city citing retaliatory firing
The former executive director of Denver’s Civil Service Commission, Niecy Murray, filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging she was fired in retaliation after speaking publicly about the lowering of standards for new police academy recruits ...
Boulder police radios going encrypted means public, press won’t be able to listen in
The Daily Camera will also no longer be able to tune in to the department’s radio, which it regularly uses to listen for police actions as they happen. Every day, Camera reporters hear police talk about an active crime scene, car crash or other police activity on the radio. When it sounds serious, important or otherwise newsworthy, reporters take what they heard and ask the relevant authorities about the incident ...
Judge tosses request for JonBenet murder investigative materials
Boulder County District Judge Nancy Woodruff Salomone rejected a subpoena by Michael Clark’s defense attorney that sought the first 48 hours of police investigative records in the infamous 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey ...
