Megan Ives

Denver’s $250M budget hole will force major cuts, furloughs and layoffs The city’s budget will need to be slashed by more than 12 percent.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston broke the news to city workers Thursday morning: The city is facing a $50 million deficit in 2025 and will have a $200 million deficit in 2026.

We're here live from the committee hearing on HB25-1208, the awful anti-worker bill that would cut majy tipped workers' wages by thousands of dollars a year. And well - it's so packed the room is overflowing into the hall! #coleg #copolitics

Final Denver eviction filings for 2024. Denver set a new eviction record for the second straight year, shattering its 2023 record by 3,000 filings (a 23% jump). Note, too, that not all filings result in displacement and that evictions are often an undercount of actual displacement.

It was a brutal year. The city put $30m toward rental assistance over the year too. But the human cost of this wave of eviction has been staggering.

Here's your daily dose of union joy, straight from one of our pickets in Denver, CO! 🥰✊🎶

Denver leaders want lower hiring standards for police and firefighters, civilian oversight board alleges Minimum standards were slightly lowered in 2020, but the city still struggles with understaffing.

“Now people are asking ‘Why do we need a minimum score at all, we can probably fix them in the academy... Simultaneously, academy staff have shared increasing frustration with the quality of recruits that show up for duty. If you show up with a pulse, you’re in there.”

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Emissions from Israel’s war in Gaza have ‘immense’ effect on climate catastrophe Exclusive: First months of conflict produced more planet-warming gases than 20 climate-vulnerable nations do in a year, study shows

We calculated some of the climate emissions from the invasion of Gaza so far. As the UN Special Rapporteur for Environment and Human Rights says in this Guardian coverage of our research, war is an idiotic way to spend our dwindling carbon budget on top of the needless suffering it creates

One in 100 people in Gaza has been killed since October 7 | CNN About one in every 100 people in Gaza has been killed since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted on October 7, according to Palestinian statistics.

One in 100 people in Gaza has been killed since Oct 7; one in 120 children is dead.

UNICEF estimated that in the coming weeks “at least 10,000 children under 5 yrs will suffer the most life-threatening form of malnutrition, known as severe wasting, & will need therapeutic foods.”

This is a choice.

Every Colorado Democrat voted yes, except DeGette, who voted present.

“According to the agenda, Mayor Johnson discussed “how the ideas explored throughout the day can be implemented in the Denver community. How can these concepts work in a city as ideologically diverse as Denver?“

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston + Sen. James Coleman featured as speakers @ right-wing American Enterprise Institute conference last wk w/ speakers of far-right Christian hate groups that oppose abortion, gay marriage, + promote discrimination.

????? HELLO ???

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