Tag: Denver Mayor Mike Johnston
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Denver’s budget deficit shaped 2025 news coverage
It was a year of big goals on a tight budget for the Mile High City, where Mayor Mike Johnston’s announcement of a $200 million city budget deficit dominated the news coverage. Facing a $50 million gap in its 2025 budget and a projected $200 million in 2026, Johnston announced plans to tighten the city’s…
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EDITORIAL: Guess who’ll be minding Denver’s sheltered
The hardcore “homeless” population that regularly wanders the streets of the Denver metro area is disproportionately afflicted by addiction. That typically means illegal drug use — heroin, meth, fentanyl — and the lawbreaking lifestyle that goes with it. So, here’s an idea: Let’s staff one of Denver’s city-run shelters — with ex-criminal convicts! Many of…
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Denver mayor’s legal bill for sanctuary city hearing tops $1 million
The bill for Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s legal defense for a March 5 hearing before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on “sanctuary” cities just crossed the $1 million mark. City financial records show that a fourth payment of $250,000 was made to Covington & Burling LLC, the D.C.-based law firm that represented…
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Mayor Johnston’s legal fees for sanctuary city hearing hit $800,000
The legal bill for Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s March 5 appearance before a Congressional hearing on “sanctuary” jurisdictions has now ballooned to $800,000, according to invoices obtained by The Denver Gazette. City financial documents show that on Nov. 5, 2025, a third payment of $250,000 was made from the city’s general fund to the D.C.-based…
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Broncos stadium: Denver begins community planning for Burnham Yard
Initial steps are underway to develop Burnham Yard into a mixed-used entertainment district with a Broncos stadium. The city of Denver hosted an open house Wednesday at the La Alma Recreation Center to begin a yearlong neighborhood planning process to create a vision for Burnham Yard — a historic 58-acre railyard south of Colfax Avenue…
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Broncos stadium: Denver begins community planning for Burnham Yard
Initial steps are underway to develop Burnham Yard into a mixed-used entertainment district with a Broncos stadium. The city of Denver hosted an open house Wednesday at the La Alma Recreation Center to begin a yearlong neighborhood planning process to create a vision for Burnham Yard — a historic 58-acre railyard south of Colfax Avenue…
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Denver council rejects 2026 budget, but mayor’s $1.66B spending plan will still govern operations
The Denver City Council rejected Mayor Mike Johnston’s $1.66 billion spending plan, but the proposal, as amended, will still govern operations, as the charter requires the city to have a budget in place by Nov. 12. In a split 6-6 vote on Monday, councilmembers expressed disappointment with various aspects of the budget process, citing its…
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Denver mayor agrees to council’s 2026 budget amendments
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced he will not exercise his veto authority and has accepted all 10 of the Denver City Council’s amendments to his proposed 2026 spending plan. As a result, the $1.66 billion budget, as amended, will now become the city’s official budget for the coming year, according to Johnston’s office, which issued…
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Denver Civil Service whistleblower sues city citing retaliatory firing
The former executive director of Denver’s Civil Service Commission, Niecy Murray, filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging she was fired in retaliation for speaking publicly about the lowering of standards for new police academy recruits. “My decision to file this lawsuit was not made lightly,” Murray said in a statement issued by her attorney…
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Anger grows as Denver mayor extends Flock camera contract
Inside a modest equipment rental building in north Denver, close to 700 people gathered for a community town hall on Wednesday evening to call for Mayor Mike Johnston to turn off the city’s 111 Flock Safety license plate-reading cameras. Just hours before the meeting, Johnston announced that the city would extend its contract with the…