Tag: Mike Coffman
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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 homeless navigation campus welcomes 176 people on first day
Aurora’s homeless navigation campus opened its doors to 176 homeless people Monday two weeks after its official ribbon cutting. The navigation campus — formerly a Crowne Plaza hotel — at 15500 E. 40th Ave., has been in the works for more than a year after the city purchased the building in May 2024 for $26.5…
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Aurora mayor offers ‘deal’ to Denver after mutual aid lawsuit
Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman celebrated the upcoming opening of the city’s regional navigation campus and other city successes in his State of City speech Tuesday, June 24, during which he also talked about immigration and addressed a lawsuit against Denver. In October, Coffman held a similar speech, in which he also celebrated success but honed…
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Trump claimed Aurora is a ‘beautiful town destroyed’ by illegal immigration
President Donald Trump once more cited Aurora, Colorado in his address to Congress on Tuesday night, calling the city a “beautiful town destroyed” by illegal immigration and a transnational gang now operating in metro Denver. Blaming the “open border policies” under the Biden administration, Trump referenced Aurora as a city that “buckled” under the influx…
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Aurora Police impound dozens of cars in first weeks of new law
In the first few weeks since a new law went into effect, the Aurora Police Department impounded dozens of cars. The new ordinance, Aurora Municipal Code 134-37, was passed on Sept. 23 during an Aurora City Council meeting. It says officers must have a car towed away and impounded if the car’s registration is not…
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Accusations of neglect surface against owner of Aurora apartments
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Similar story, different address. A near-fatal drive-by shooting at an Aurora apartment complex Sunday night brought renewed attention to a management company accused of a pattern of neglect. The Edge at Lowry, located at East 12th Avenue and Dallas Street, is less than two miles…
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Town hall: Regional leaders delve into Denver’s illegal immigration crisis
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save America’s illegal immigration crisis is spilling into metro Denver. At last count, nearly 41,000 immigrants have arrived in the city in the last 16 months, and officials said the response this year will cost $90 million. Meanwhile, Aurora, Douglas County and other jurisdictions have adopted…
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Tackling the No. 1 issue in Colorado: Immigration | Vince Bzdek
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country. … I said, ‘No, they’re not humans, they’re not humans,…
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Aurora council kills proposal to eliminate marijuana excise tax
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Aurora councilmembers shot down a proposal at Monday night’s study session to get rid of the excise tax on marijuana cultivation in the city, saying the city relies on the tax money to pay for road work and debt. In Colorado, on top of regular sales tax rates, the marijuana industry pays an excise tax…
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Tension boils over at Aurora Council meeting about public defenders, call for ceasefire
Tension boiled over at the Aurora City council meeting on Monday, when two items — a call for a “cease-fire” in Gaza and efforts to undo the request for proposals to examine the potential effects of privatizing the city’s public defender’s office — were removed from the agenda. Councilmember Alison Coombs, who had championed the “cease-fire”…