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Conventional thought says that the best way to achieve progress is to install a figurehead in a position of authority to dispense justice: i.e. President, Prime Minister, Senator, Judge, CEO, etc. This top-down approach to dispensing justice makes sense to a lot of people who have accepted that not only is this hierarchical approach the best system, but it is the way the system must function. In reality, the opposite is true: true justice does not come from…

In September 2025, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston reduced the city’s 2025 Temporary Rental & Utility Assistance (TRUA) budget by about $9 million, down from an original allocation of roughly $23 million. City leaders described the move as part of broader budget tightening and said the money would be “rolled forward” into the 2026 budget instead of being spent in 2025. The timing mattered. The cut came as eviction filings in Denver and across Colorado were hovering near record…

Greystar, the nation’s largest apartment owner, Denver-based Simpson Property Group, and more than twenty other major property management companies have agreed to pay $141 million to settle a nationwide class-action lawsuit brought by renters. The lawsuit claims these landlords used rent-setting software created by RealPage, Inc. to push rents higher in cities across the country. The settlement, reached in October 2025, is currently before a federal judge in Nashville and is awaiting final approval. According to the renters…

A recent video from More Perfect Union draws attention to the hidden costs of big-tech infrastructure, and it raises some familiar questions for Colorado. The report follows residents in rural Georgia who live just a few hundred yards from a Meta data center. What they describe sounds less like progress and more like intrusion: the constant hum of cooling systems, light pollution that turns night into dusk, and higher utility bills they never agreed to pay. Closer to home, Aurora’s massive…

The State of Colorado has filed a lawsuit against Aurora’s M&M Mobile Home Park, alleging that park owners failed to notify residents that their tap water may have been contaminated with E. coli and other bacteria. The suit, brought by Attorney General Phil Weiser under the Mobile Home Park Water Quality Act, highlights growing attention on safe drinking water and habitability standards across Colorado’s affordable-housing communities. This case hits close to home for anyone who’s ever turned on…