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Thu 2/24
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Destination World: Italy @ 4pm Anythink Wright Farms, 5877 East 120th Avenue, Thornton. mhibben @anythinklibraries.org, 303-4053200
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Ryan Hutchens at Bitto Bistro @ 6pm
Bitto Bistro, 14697 Delaware St #1000, Westminster Sarah Christine Live @ The Roxy Theatre!
@ 7pm Roxy Theatre, 2549 Welton St, Denver
Fri 2/25
Winter Wonder Art Series 2/25
@ 5pm Eagle Pointe Recreation Center, 6060 E. Parkway Dr., Commerce City. 303-2893760
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Keith Hicks @ 6pm Mother Tucker Brewery, 2360 E 120th Ave, Thornton 02/25/22 - Dave Halchak - Buffalo Rose
@ 7pm Buffalo Rose, 1119 Washington Ave, Golden
Sat 2/26
DJ Minx: The Party Portal Danceportation
@ 12am Feb 26th - Feb 25th Meow Wolf Denver | Convergence Station, 1338 1st St, Denver
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Dinosaur Jr. @ 1pm Ogden Theatre, 935 East Colfax, Denver
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Jay_Martin
@ 6pm Ironton Distillery & Crafthouse - Denver Distilleries, 3636 Chestnut Pl, Denver
Saturday Night Stand-Up
@ 6pm / $15-$18 The Denver Comedy Lounge, 3559 Larimer Street, Denver
Saturday Night Stand-Up
@ 10pm / $15-$18 The Denver Comedy Lounge, 3559 Larimer Street, Denver
Sun 2/27
@ 2:30pm / $17 Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton Street, Au‐rora
Face Vocal Band: Police Unity Tour Fundraiser
@ 5pm Flatirons Community Church, 355 W South Boulder Rd, Lafayette
Mon 2/28
Jazmine Sullivan
@ 7pm Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St, Denver
Louis Tomlinson
@ 7pm Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St, Denver
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An Evening With Fran Lebowitz @ 7:30pm / $35-$70
Paramount Theatre, 1621 Glen‐arm, Denver Tue 3/01
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Legal Self Help Clinic @ 2pm Anythink Wright Farms, 5877 East 120th Avenue, Thornton. morgan@ hayday.org, 303-405-3298
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Colorado Avalanche vs. New York Islanders @ 7pm / $25-$9999
Ball Arena, 1000 Chopper Circle,
Denver Alix Page
@ 7pm Marquis Theater, 2009 Larimer St, Denver
Evann McIntosh
@ 7pm Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St, Denver
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Discovery Kids- Random Acts of Kindness
@ 9pm Mar 1st - Mar 31st Bison Ridge Recreation Center, 13905 E. 112th Avenue, Commerce City. 303-2893760
Wed 3/02
Healthy Sleep Class
@ 4pm Eagle Pointe Recreation Center, 6060 E. Parkway Dr., Commerce City. 303-2893760
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Denver Nuggets vs. Oklahoma City Thunder @ 7pm / $15-$3000 Ball Arena, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver
Jeff Pike: ABBA MANIA at The Paramount Theatre
@ 7:30pm Paramount Theatre, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver
Thu 3/03
Project Grow- Soil Testing
@ 12:30am Mar 3rd - Mar 2nd Eagle Pointe Recreation Center, 6060 E. Parkway Dr., Commerce City. 303-2893760
Laurie D
@ 6pm Spotted James, 1911 11th St, Boulder Junction
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Antonio Lopez Band at The Longmont Museum and Cultural Center (Stewart Auditorium) @ 7pm City of Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Rd, Longmont
Campaign will look di erent than 2018
BY ANDREW KENNEY COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO
Gov. Jared Polis formally launched his re-election effort at a brewery in Pueblo on Feb. 15.
It could be a very different campaign than his 2018 bid for the office. In that “blue wave” year, Polis successfully ran on promises to change how Colorado approaches health care, education and more.
Four years later, he’s emerging from a first term that was overwhelmingly shaped by the pandemic, as well as wildfires, mass shootings, and other disasters. And he will have to make his pitch in an election year that will likely be focused on the rising cost of living and increasing crime.
“These last three years have really taught me that leadership matters and judgment matters, and I’m very proud of the work we’ve done to save thousands of lives while keeping our schools and economy open,” Polis said in an interview this week.
Polis came in on a ‘blue wave’ in Colorado. Now, Republicans are trying to recover some of those losses.
Polis was elected governor by more than 10 points in 2018, a year that saw Democrats take full control of state government amid a backlash against then-president Donald Trump. In 2022, Republicans hope to recover some of those losses, with a platform focused on crime and inflation.
A dozen GOP candidates have filed paperwork to run in the party’s gubernatorial primary, although only half of them have raised or spent any money. Polis also faces one little-known Democratic challenger.
In the early days of his re-election campaign, Polis has tried to get ahead of his opponents by zeroing in on messages like “saving people money” and improving public safety.
“We as a state can’t address every issue you face. Some are a result of international or national issues,” he said. “But what can we do? We can reduce your costs, save you money and protect our amazing quality of life in Colorado.”
The campaign launch has included few of the kind of dramatic policy proposals that marked his first campaign. Instead, he has talked about a narrower set of cost-savings efforts, such as delaying a 2-cent-per-gallon surcharge for gas and reducing vehicle registration fees by $11.50.
“We, as government, need to tighten our belt and we need to pass the savings along to you,” he said.
What Polis is emphasizing as he launches his campaign, and how his opponents are countering.
However, his opponents are trying to make the case that Polis is either acting too late on these issues, or that he contributed to them. For example, the gas fee that Polis has asked to delay is the result of a Democratic transportation spending package that he approved.
And while Polis argues that crime is increasing nationally as a result of complex social factors, Republicans put the blame on recent criminal justice reforms, such as laws that lowered certain drug possession penalties and reduced the use of cash bail for low-level offenses. (Both of those laws had Republican co-sponsors.)
Polis has “showed that he will never accept responsibility for the role his failed, far-left policies have played in the rise of crime in our state,” wrote challenger Heidi Ganahl.
Polis is also trying to remind voters of some of his larger priorities that were approved in his first term but are still being implemented, including free full-day kindergarten, preparations for “universal” pre-K and the drafting of the “Colorado option” health care plan.
Polis’ public health messaging during the pandemic has caught national attention.
Polis also has a hand in directing billions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief money, which will go toward housing, workers, businesses and behavioral health.
As the campaign gets underway, Polis is getting national attention for his message about COVID-19: Months before other Democratic governors, Polis relaxed state mask restrictions, declared that the emergency for state government was over and pushed for a reopening.
“We have a very powerful tool in three doses of the vaccine to prevent severe health outcomes from COVID 19. And we’ve done everything in our power to use it along with that means that we have to go about our lives,” he said in the interview.
In his efforts to re-open the state, Polis has focused more on individual responsibility and action than on public health measures.
“And we have to understand that while of course there’s an economic cost of caution, it’s also about the social emotional cost of people,” he said of the closures forced by the pandemic. “It’s about young people who weren’t able to date. It’s about people in retirement homes who weren’t able to play bridge on Fridays or have a movie night. And we’re only on this planet for so long.”
Polis planned 22 stops in cities and towns across the state following the reelection annoucement.
This story is from Colorado Public Radio, a nonprofit news source. Used by permission. For more, and to support CPR News, visitcpr.org.
Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, fresh o arrest, to run for Colorado’s top election o cial
The Republican announced her candidacy on a show by Steve Bannon
BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN
Embattled Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who was briefly jailed last week on charges of obstructing a peace officer and obstructing government operations, said she is running to become Colorado’s top election official.
Peters, a Republican, announced her candidacy to become Colorado secretary of state on Monday on a show run and hosted by Steve Bannon, the controversial former adviser to former President Donald Trump. Bannon was indicted in recent months on suspicion of being in contempt of Congress.
“Colorado deserves a secretary of state who will stand up to the Biden administration that wants to run our country into the ground with nationalized elections,” she said.
Peters is under grand jury investigation for a security breach of her county’s election system after she allegedly allowed an unauthorized person to attend a sensitive Dominion Voting Systems software update and facilitate the digital copying of her election system.
Peters, who has spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election being stolen, has not formally filed to run to be Colorado secretary of state. She was initially running for reelection to a second four-year term as Mesa County’s clerk and recorder.
She cannot simultaneously run for both positions.
There are a few other Republicans running this year to be Colorado’s secretary of state, including Pam Anderson, Jefferson County’s former clerk and recorder and the former leader of the Colorado County Clerks Association. Anderson has been critical of Peters and has rejected baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
Anderson and Peters are running to unseat Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat.
Peters was barred from having an oversight role in the 2021 election because of the ongoing local, state and federal criminal investigations into her conduct. Griswold is seeking to bar her from having an oversight role in the 2022 election.
Griswold on Monday called Peters “unfit” to be secretary of state and “a danger to Colorado elections.”
“Peters compromised voting equipment to try to prove conspiracies, costing Mesa County taxpayers nearly $1 million dollars,” Griswold said. “She works with election deniers, spreads lies about elections, was removed from overseeing the 2021 Mesa County election, and is under criminal investigation by a grand jury. Colorado needs a secretary of state who will uphold the will of the people; not one who embraces conspiracies and risks Coloradans’ right to vote.”
Griswold has already been invoking Peters in fundraising emails for her 2022 election, pointing to Peters as the reason why voters should elect to her another term as Colorado’s top election official.
Peters’ arrest last week came as she was being investigated for allegedly filming a court hearing for her deputy, Belinda Knisley, who is facing felony and misdemeanor charges. The Associated Press reports Peters is accused of resisting police efforts to seize the iPad she allegedly used to record the hearing.
Tina Peters’ mugshot. (Mesa County Sheriff’s Office)
Peters allegedly tried to kick an officer who was trying to arrest her, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
David Winney, a Colorado Springs man who also has questioned the results of the 2020 presidential election, and Mike O’Donnell, a nonprofit executive who lives in Kirk, are also running for the GOP secretary of state nomination. O’Donnell objects to Election Day voter registration and claims that many registered voters aren’t citizens.
Colorado’s primary will be held June 28.
This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.
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