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Barry Farah, a successful entrepreneur, author and speaker, is a late entrant into the 2018 Republican race for governor of Colorado. In the following in-depth interview, Farah says the exit from the contest of former Congressman Tom Tancredo and 18th Judicial District DA George Brauchler (who’s now focusing on a bid for Colorado Attorney General) left voters without a heartfelt conservative to support, and he’s eager to fill that role.

A press release announcing Denver’s fourth annual Start By Believing campaign, which supports sexual assault victims, does not include any mention of Mayor Michael Hancock or his office. In contrast, Hancock’s name was front and center during the previous three years, with the mayor offering strong comments about the importance of believing victims on each of those occasions.

Democrats in the Senate took a page out of the lower chamber’s playbook when they voted to expel Senator Randy Baumgardner last night over sexual harassment allegations that an outside investigator found was “more likely than not” to be credible. And while ex-Representative Steve Lebsock did get the boot last month, Baumgardner survived his expulsion vote. But he is still under investigation for two other complaints.

An attorney representing Wayne McDonald, a former Hancock friend and city employee fired in 2012 for his own alleged behavior toward Branch-Wise, is now demanding a review of all lawyers who played a role in a $75,000 payment to the detective by the City of Denver over the matter. The 2013 settlement precludes Branch-Wise from suing Hancock, even though his texts to her (including one that asked her if she’d ever taken a pole-dancing class) were not known to McDonald’s legal team in 2016, when they accepted $200,000 to resolve a lawsuit filed after his firing four years earlier.

Building upon the momentum of the March For Our Lives, the group Never Again Colorado will be host a town hall on April 7 at 6 p.m. at ThunderRidge High School, with speakers including Colorado students and survivors of mass shootings.

Late last night, April 2, Denver City Council president Albus Brooks announced that the panel will not investigate the question of whether inappropriate texts sent by Mayor Michael Hancock to Detective Leslie Branch-Wise during the 2011-2012 period when she was on his security detail constitute sexual harassment.

Today, April 2, Calderón and her attorney Trish Bangert filed a lawsuit and request for a jury trial with the U.S. District Court in Colorado that alleges that her jail re-entry program was not renewed by Denver for reasons of gender discrimination and political retribution.

According to a new report cited by Denver-based Center for Health Progress, the immigration policies enacted by the administration of President Donald Trump are not only making undocumented individuals in Colorado sick, but they’re hitting the rest of the citizenry directly in the pocketbook.

“I’m obviously not a politician, but Denver has a lot of blood on their hands this year especially; over 230 homeless people died, most of them disabled.”