‘WE WERE DUPED’: Mayor’s Ex-Aide Says Payout Was Hush Money

More details are spilling out in the Han(d)cock sextgate scandal, including an allegation by his honor’s security detail that her $75,000 settlement with the city was hush money to keep those texts under wraps. The Denver Post, in a thorough report, says Leslie...

$PRINGTIME IN PARI$: How Hancock Blew Our Bucks

Denver officials are scrambling to explain their very expensive, all-taxpayer-paid vacation trade mission to Paris for Mayor Hancock and his 30-person entourage, that came with a price tag of $12,500 per official, KCNC news reports. Unless you were a member of...

HANCOCK WHO? City Council Suddenly Squishy on Mayor’s Reelection

The Denver City Council saved Mayor Han(d)cock’s bacon by refusing to look into charges of sexual harassment from his honor’s former security detail officer. Now that they’ve done him that favor, they are basically refusing to acknowledge the mayor’s existence — or at...

BRING ON THE BULLDOZERS! Sierra Club Fails to Delay I-70 Construction

Construction can begin this summer on the Interstate 70 widening project through northeast Denver, in spite of a bogus lawsuit field by the Sierra Club arguing the project would cripple the health of nearby neighbors. It’s hard to take this lawsuit seriously, because...