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Finalists Kassaw, Lammon and McMillan being interviewed for seat by Aurora councilmembers
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Finalists Kassaw, Lammon and McMillan being interviewed for seat by Aurora councilmembers

By Kyla Pearce | Denver Gazette Aurora city councilmembers will interview three top candidates for an open council seat on Monday, a process that will take about two-and-a-half hours and will be open to the public via livestream. Dustin Zvonek, the city's previous mayor pro tem, announced his early departure from his position on the council in October, opening up a seat on the 11-person body. The council received a total of 34 applications for the position and, at the last council meeting, chose three final candidates: Amsalu Kassaw, Danielle Lammon and Jonathan McMillan. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Denver teachers’ union cost of living dispute heads to arbitration
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Denver teachers’ union cost of living dispute heads to arbitration

By Nicole C. Brambila | Denver Gazette Denver Public Schools officials will face an arbitrator next month over a disputed 5.2% cost of living adjustment the teachers’ union officials said they are owed. A cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, is intended to help employees keep up with inflation. Raises — which district officials appear to be conflating in their argument — are separate from a cost-of-living increase. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Illegal immigrant surges in Denver have cost $356 million, study finds
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Illegal immigrant surges in Denver have cost $356 million, study finds

By Nicole C. Brambila | Denver Gazette A new study estimated that the nearly 43,000 immigrants who have come to Denver over the past two years have cost $356 million. Conducted by the Common Sense Institute (CSI), the estimate examined the outlays by the city of Denver, as well as associated health care and education costs across the region. Founded in 2010, the institute is a nonprofit organization in Greenwood Village that conducts fiscal and economic research. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Denver to activate emergency shelters for cold Thanksgiving weekend
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Denver to activate emergency shelters for cold Thanksgiving weekend

By Noah Festenstein | Denver Gazette Denver is activating emergency shelters for five days starting Wednesday as cold weather is expected to blanket the region this Thanksgiving weekend. This week's emergency shelter operation is the longest so far this year. The city's cold weather plan provides additional shelter for people who are not in city shelters or third-party homeless units. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Douglas and Arapahoe counties open long-term care facility for homeless families
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Douglas and Arapahoe counties open long-term care facility for homeless families

By Noah Festenstein | Denver Gazette Douglas and Arapahoe county officials on Wednesday celebrated the opening of a newly upgraded residential facility focused on helping homeless families. The care facility's mission includes serving families that entered through Douglas County’s homeless program. The long-term care facility is operated by Colorado nonprofit The Family Tree, an agency focused on working with domestic abuse, child abuse and family-related homeless cases. It's located in Aurora. The new residential care center for homeless families is called the GOALS facility, which stands for the "generational opportunities and achievement long-term success program." READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Aurora lawmakers vote to go forward with repealing employee tax on businesses
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Aurora lawmakers vote to go forward with repealing employee tax on businesses

By Kyla Pearce | Denver Gazette Aurora lawmakers on Monday night decided to keep a promise made to businesses that they would repeal the occupational privilege tax, which taxes businesses for each employee. The decision came after a series of meetings during which councilmembers went back and forth on the issue and ended up in arguments with each other over whether they should keep the promise, made last year, or go back on it and keep the tax to fund new fire stations.  The occupational privilege tax collects $4 monthly from companies for each employee. Employers and employees split the dues, paying $2 respectively. The tax began in 1986 to support street maintenance, police and fire services. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Colorado’s unemployment rate ticks up to 4.1%, surging up to the national average
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Colorado’s unemployment rate ticks up to 4.1%, surging up to the national average

By Bernadette Berdychowski | Denver Gazette Unemployment in Colorado is growing. The state reported its unemployment rate hit 4.1% in October, up from 4% the month before — matching the national average after being below the U.S. rate all year, according to data from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment's report released Monday. The number of unemployed grew by nearly 4,000 over the month to a total of 134,000. The national unemployment rate of 4.1% was unchanged from September. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Appeals court limits e-scooter companies’ liability for injuries caused by negligent users
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Appeals court limits e-scooter companies’ liability for injuries caused by negligent users

By Michael Karlik | Colorado Politics, via Denver Gazette Colorado's second-highest court ruled on Thursday that electric scooter companies cannot be held liable simply for making scooters available to users who, in turn, cause injuries to others. Answering the question for the first time, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals stressed that, even though e-scooter providers have no general duty to protect third parties from their users, there could be specific scenarios in which companies can be held responsible — for example, by renting to a customer known to be dangerous. "We express no opinion on the existence and scope of a company’s duty to third parties in circumstances not alleged in this case. Nor do we consider the nature of any duty Lime might owe to the users ...
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Littleton procession honors Golden police officer who died on duty
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Littleton procession honors Golden police officer who died on duty

By Sage Kelley | Denver Gazette Countless people stood under the November sun, silently looking onto a parade of hundreds of police cars moving through Littleton. The moment was a somber celebration of the life of a Golden Police Department officer who was killed while working just a week ago. A memorial service was held Wednesday for 33-year-old Evan Dunn, who was struck and killed during a crash on Highway 58 around 5 p.m. Nov. 6.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Buena Vista middle schooler competes in first-ever National Civics Bee
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Buena Vista middle schooler competes in first-ever National Civics Bee

By Daniel Boniface | The Denver Gazette A Buena Vista middle school student on Tuesday represented Colorado in the first-ever National Civics Bee. Joseph Drexler, a student from Darren Patterson Christian Academy, competed in the first two rounds of the National Civics Bee in Washington, D.C., answering multiple-choice questions on history and democracy against competitors from across the country. The top 10 competitors from the opening rounds advanced to the third round, during which the middle school students delivered civic-minded speeches. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
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