Tag: Kerry Tipper
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Former Airbnb legal counsel tapped for Denver City Attorney
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver Mayor Mike Johnston nominated Miko Brown as the next City Attorney for the City and County of Denver, pending City Council approval. Brown is a 2001 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, with more than 20 years of litigation experience and most…
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DPS board president reprimands Auon’tai Anderson, backs up his claim Denver mayor poised to step in
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After three days of denials, Denver Public School Board President Xóchitl Gaytán backed up Auon’tai M. Anderson’s claim that the Denver mayor was poised to step in with an executive order if the Board of Education failed to act. She did so with a five-page…
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City Attorney Kristin Bronson to depart, Kerry Tipper nominated as replacement
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock announced Monday that City Attorney Kristin Bronson will resign her position effective Nov. 2. Hancock nominated Deputy City Attorney Kerry Tipper as Bronson’s successor. During her time in office, Bronson led one of the state’s most prominent legal offices. The news release from the mayor’s office said she applied herself in…
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Mayor Hancock appoints Rep. Kerry Tipper as Denver deputy city attorney
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save State Rep. Kerry Tipper, D-Lakewood, will become Denver Deputy City Attorney effective May 31. Tipper has served two terms in the Colorado legislature, representing House District 28 in central Lakewood since 2019, but decided earlier…
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House Democrats say nuance on simple possession of fentanyl is lost in deadly overdose rhetoric
With a hearing on how to deal with the state’s fentanyl crisis just a few hours away, Democrats attempted Tuesday to counter some of the rhetoric around the issue of simple possession. Democrats also appear to be open to the discussion of lowering the fentanyl felony from 4 grams to 1 gram, but that comes…
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Colorado could become first legislature in the nation to pass law on parental leave for lawmakers
Colorado could become the first legislature in the country to have a formal law in place that grants paid family leave to legislators. A month ago, Senate President Steve Fenberg of Boulder toyed with the idea of paid leave for lawmakers, but wondered whether it would be constitutional, given that lawmakers cannot obligate future legislatures…
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Capitol M: New senator and alter ego edition | Week of March 5, 2022
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The lighter side of the Capitol, usually. Meet Joaquin. Joaquin is the alter-ego of Rep. Alex Valdez of Denver, who points out he’s a Gemini, so it works. Joaquin occasionally shows up in the House…
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Dominoes: State Rep. Lisa Cutter declares she’s in for Senate District 20
The announcement Monday by U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Arvada, that he won’t run for a ninth term in Congress has started a round of dominoes in Jefferson County. The latest, less than 24 hours later, is state Rep. Lisa Cutter, D-Littleton, who told Colorado Politics she’s running for Senate District 20. Cutter made the move…
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Imagination Library of Colorado launches statewide expansion
When last we saw Republican former state Sen. Jack Tate, he was headed off to his hometown of Nashville, Tenn., to help manage a nonprofit called Project Return and take care of his mother. But longing to come home to his Colorado family, he’s now managing another nonprofit that he had a hand in setting…
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Colorado’s legislative session experiencing a rising tide of law enforcement bills
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s a buzzing undercurrent in the legislative session: the volume of law enforcement bills working their way through the General Assembly like a river carves a canyon. One law enforcement official said he’s monitoring 40 bills, including about two dozen — more are coming —…