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Using the Big Lie as pretext, Republicans are in panic mode to alter voting laws to help them hold onto power.

A few miles from the permitted street-art frenzy of the RiNo Art District, on a stretch of the Sand Creek Regional Greenway between Commerce City and Denvers Central Park, graffiti artists, activists, vandals and a muralist have been painting walls and signs. In the process, theyve created a display of competing ideologies and emotions as baffling and fraught with contradiction as any cultural space in this country. Some works beg viewers to fight for justice or pay attention to nature; others...

Today Scattered thunderstorms early, then partly cloudy after midnight. A few storms may be severe. Low 46F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40%.. Tonight Scattered thunderstorms early, then partly cloudy after midnight. A few storms may be severe. Low 46F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40%. Updated: May 15, 2021 @ 6:51 pm

To get to the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site near Eads, where 230 Native Americans were murdered, you might drive through a town named for their murderer. In between Eads and the turnoff, you’ll go through the unincorporated town of Chivington. It’s named for Civil War-era Col. John Chivington, who led the attack by the 1st and 3rd Colorado cavalries on Arapaho and Cheyenne living at Sand Creek that resulted in the slaughter. Half of those killed were women and children. While C...

Portrait of racist Colorado governor to remain on Capitol walls alongside context of KKK involvement Alex Burness © Provided by Denver Post A painting of former Colorado Gov. Clarence Morley (1925-1927) hangs at the state Capitol. A committee has decided to put up a QR code alongside to let people know that he was a part of the Ku Klux Klan. A painting of a Colorado governor who was part of the Ku Klux Klan will stay on the walls of the state Capitol, the advisory board that ...

When he retired from his Denver bench at the end of last year, there was no doubt in Judge Gary Jackson’s mind as to where he would go next.

George Floyd Protests Just a few days after the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police on May 25, first dozens, then hundreds and eventually thousands took to the streets of Denver to protest police brutality and demand accountability and reform. The size and scale of the protests caught the Denver Police Department by surprise, and law enforcement responded in an unnecessarily heavy-handed manner, demonstrators charged — and a judge agreed. The protests led to some major ...