Denver City Council

But Elliot, uh, you just published a story this morning.

There are currently 10 folks running for Denver City Council's vacant seat.

Before we get into your story and some of these candidates in particular, can you explain again, like, the TLDR of what this race for the vacant seat is about, what it means, and how we got here?

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So earlier this week, Denver City Council approved a lease for Key Lime Air.

This is the airline that works with Federal Immigration Enforcement.

So today, I have a special guest, and this guest brings over 40 years of experience in public policy arena.

Eighteen years as an elected official, eight of those as a Denver City Council member, and then he went to the lower level of government, the s- Colorado State Representative.

Now...

And senator.

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Also, I do wanna mention Jeff W., who shared this information with us, is a candidate for Denver City Council at large seat B.

Can we do the voicemail from John H.?

Yes.

The deadlines that the voters wrote into it just came and went.

So in September of last year, not this past September, of last year, the Denver City Council took the voters' law, and they rewrote it themselves, ten to two.

[laughs] It's like, wait, voters approved an ordinance, and then you just rewrite it yourself.

Look at what the rewrite did.

Well, I happen to be with the voters on this.

The voters set deadlines, the city ignored them for three years and then rewrote the law entirely.

If you wanna talk about disrespecting a vote, start at Denver City Hall, Denver City Council.

But I'm also looking at the voters and thinking, sometimes you just do stupid stuff, like vote for reintroducing wolves.

The campus was purchased by Aurora Council to provide shelter, services and support for people experiencing homelessness on the assumption it was under its jurisdiction.

Aurora City Council is now pursuing a land transfer with Denver City Council so the area can be managed and abated under a single set of rules.

And finally to Canada, where a new national report released by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities reveals local councils are experiencing the earliest impacts of Canada-US trade disruption, reporting rising costs, supply chain bottlenecks and delayed investment projects.

Researchers note that local governments act as real-time barometers for economic disruption, detecting local employer challenges well before they appear in broader national data sets.

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I, I don't know who this is, but I get an email at 8:00 this morning, and of course it's f- announcing my run for Denver City Council, parentheses, Jacob Luria, District 3, close paren.

This comes from Jacob@luriafordenver.com. Now, I'm already tempted to send in a contribution, because the email is so personal.

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Chantel Lewis, a black member of the Denver City Council in Colorado, is withdrawing a proposal to begin council meetings with an acknowledgement of slavery and forced labor.

Lewis said efforts to broaden the measure to include additional groups would dilute the specific historical injustices she intended to recognize.

And an arrest has been made in the hit-and-run death of former Nickelodeon star Kiana Underwood.

He gets a couple of minutes, which is about what the city ever gives anybody anyway.

The council, the Denver City Council, is about to move a bill that rewrites the penalties for Denver's low-level crimes like shoplifting, disturbing the peace, public urination, camping, you know, all the stuff that Dragon does.

And for a lot of those offenses, the maximum is about to drop from 300 days in jail to 10 days in jail.

So Michael Damania reminds the council that its first job is to protect the taxpayers.

Then he asks them when they're going to notice that the city keeps sliding downhill.

And then he tells them why he thinks people stay away from downtown.