Tag: Aurora City Council
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Aurora City Council to discuss tobacco retail license to address youth access
On Monday night, Aurora City Council members will discuss a possible retail license that would limit and impose certain requirements on businesses that sell tobacco and psychoactive products. The intent of the license is to prevent youth access to such products by requiring local licensure and compliance checks, according to council documents. It does not…
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Aurora council member arrested for DUI was 3 times legal limit, police say
Aurora City Councilmember Rob Andrews, who was arrested on suspicion of DUI on Saturday, had a blood alcohol content of more than three times the legal driving limit when he was pulled over, arrest documents show. Andrews, elected to the City Council in November, was pulled over Saturday evening and arrested, Aurora police said, after…
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Aurora City Council member arrested on suspicion of DUI
Aurora police on Saturday arrested recently elected Aurora City Council member Robert Andrews. Aurora Police Department officials confirmed Andrews, 41, was arrested after patrol officers noticed a truck that was weaving. The incident started about 9:30 p.m. Saturday, when “officers on proactive patrol observed a red Ford F250 driving north on South Chambers Road at…
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A theater of the absurd at Aurora City Hall
What unfolded at Monday night’s meeting of the Aurora City Council was not governance. It was performance. Carefully staged, morally theatrical, and intellectually thin. A civic chamber meant for deliberation became a stage, and a resolution presented as public business functioned instead as a prop in a familiar drama: America as villain, crisis as currency,…
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EDITORIAL: Don’t backtrack on Aurora’s big strides
Aurora already has been down the well-beaten path toward urban despair. Crime, both serious and petty, proliferated in some neighborhoods in the not-too-distant past. The city’s streets teemed with chronically homeless substance abusers, who littered public spaces with their tent camps and their very public use of drugs and alcohol. As the pandemic set in,…
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Aurora City Council Q&A: police reform
In November’s election, Aurora voters flipped what was previously a seven-to-three conservative majority on the City Council to a six-to-four progressive majority. With the significant shift of the council’s political leaning could come policy changes and reversals. The Denver Gazette asked both new and old councilmembers about their thoughts on specific hot-button issues in Aurora…
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Aurora to hold first meeting under new public comment rules, vote on homelessness funding
The Aurora City Council will hold its first meeting under new rules for public comment Monday night, giving the public one hour at the beginning of the meeting and one hour at the end to speak to councilmembers. Under the old council, there was a separate public comment session before the meeting in which each…
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Aurora seats new progressive council
Aurora’s four new councilmembers and an incumbent were sworn in Monday night, marking the beginning of a progressive-majority council rule in the city that has been led by conservatives for years. “This is what democracy looks like,” new at-large member Gianina Horton said, thanking the audience for showing up. It remains to be seen if…
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Aurora to hold first council meeting with new members
Aurora’s four new councilmembers and an incumbent will be sworn in Monday night, marking the beginning of a progressive-majority council rule in the city that has been led by conservatives for years. In November’s election, Aurora voters chose progressive candidates over their conservative counterparts, who included several incumbents. Conservative Councilmembers Danielle Jurinsky, Steve Sundberg and…
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Aurora council bids farewell to outgoing members in packed meeting
At Aurora City Council’s first in-person meeting since June on Monday night, members of the public filled almost the entire council chamber — notably missing from the dais was Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky — as the council bid farewell to four outgoing members. Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman read proclamations for the four outgoing members — Amsalu…