Denver

‘We feel like we’ve been attacked’: Superior Farm employee speaks against ban headed to voters

Isabel Bautista has been working at Superior Farms in Denver since Sept. 19, 2000. Her mother worked in the harvest department at the time and encouraged Bautista and her brother to join her at Superior. The two siblings began the same day. She was a single mom with a three-month-old baby in a new city and spoke only Spanish.

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J.D. Vance, potentially the next VP, set to attend high-dollar fundraiser in Denver in October

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance is scheduled to headline a fundraiser hosted by former U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner in Denver in October, with tickets starting at $3,300 apiece, according to an invitation to the event.

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Denver to consider $197M contract for Colfax transit project; total project cost is $280.5M

After postponing the matter last week, the Denver City Council on Monday will consider a $197.3 million contract for construction of a bus rapid transit system that would dramatically reshape the “longest commercial street in the country.”

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Denver’s Initiative 309 slaughterhouse ban impacts national lamb supply chain

As J. Paul Brown of Ignacio, Colo., gets ready to bring his sheep back to the lowlands for the fall roundup, he contemplates the impact of Denver’s Initiative 309, which singles out the largest lamb processing plant in Colorado for closure.  He worries that, if passed, the state has yet again, compromised the domestic food chain.

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