# Emily Sirota

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Not Your Typical Town Hall Episode 3

A community meeting, at Knight Center for Early Education, generated feedback on how decision makers can help stop the violence. The town hall-style meeting started with a moment of silence for those impacted by the STEM school shooting. Soon after, students were invited to speak. Moderated by ...

Not Your Typical Town Hall Episode 2

A community meeting, at Knight Center for Early Education, generated feedback on how decision makers can help stop the violence. The town hall-style meeting started with a moment of silence for those impacted by the STEM school shooting. Soon after, students were invited to speak. Moderated by ...

Could a $1500 Tax Credit Make a Difference for the Caring Economy?

In this episode, we’re diving into an effort to create a State Income Tax Credit for Careworkers, which would credit $1,500 to child care workers and caregivers, direct care workers, home health aides, and other people who work in the caring economy.    Melissa Mares, Director of Early Childhood ...

The Case Against Ranked Choice Voting

With a little less than two weeks left to gather the signatures needed, canvassers are working hard to get Initiative 310 on the ballot. This piece of legislation could fundamentally change the way we vote in Colorado, introducing the concept of ranked choice voting. Supporters of RCV say it wou ...

Was Mayor Mike ‘Factually Incorrect’? Plus, Michael Bennet vs. Dark Money

There’s only a week left until Election Day! So we’re digging into all the latest election news and gossip as millions and millions of dollars are flooding the local airwaves with campaign ads. First, political insiders are saying that that the polls on Proposition 131 (aka, open primaries and r ...

Colorado Democrats introduce bills to crack down on rent algorithms, ‘junk fees’

Two bills were introduced Thursday by Democratic state legislators intended to protect renters from increasing or excessive costs. The first bill would prohibit rental building owners from using algorithms to set leasing prices, which critics say leads to illegal collaboration. The bill prohibi ...

‘A Neglected Metropolis,’ the Allure of the Suburbs, and a BBQ Spot Gets Smoked

Has Denver become a “neglected metropolis”? The entire GOP caucus at the state legislature signed onto a letter to Mayor Mike Johnston this week saying they feel unsafe going to work. But the mayor told a very different story about our not-so-Mile-High crime rates to Congress in his big hearing ...

Immigration Bust on the Bus, Downsizing Juneteenth, and Who’s Our Next ‘Quirky’ Governor?

9News obtained footage of US marshals boarding a crowded RTD bus on Colfax to capture an escapee from Aurora’s ICE detention facility. So on this week’s Friday news round-up, our politics and green chile correspondent Justine Sandoval joins us to talk about the latest local developments in the f ...

Democrat scheme violates TABOR and Constitution | Mike Rosen

The governor and progressive Democrats that dominate the state legislature and every statewide office in Colorado have been masterful ― if not ethical and honest ― in devising devious schemes to circumvent the TABOR amendment in the Colorado Constitution. That’s the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, pa ...

05-29-26 Interview - Tony Milo - The Legislature Wants Our Roads to Suck

THE LEGISLATURE WANTS OUR ROADS TO SUCK That is the only conclusion I can draw from House Bill 26-1430, passed at the end of the session, whose sole purpose is to screw taxpayers who have the nerve to vote for Initiative 175. What is 175? Initiative 175 would constitutionally require a shift ...