🔎 Local strip clubs under scrutiny

🔎 City Investigates Local Strip Clubs

The Denver Auditor's Office is exercising its new subpoena powers to investigate three local strip clubs on suspected wage theft. [Westword]

• Take a closer look: What happens behind the curtains at Denver’s strip clubs? Denver Post reporter Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton helps us get a better picture of the city’s exotic dancing scene. [City Cast Denver 🎧]

🧳 Denver Reduces Newcomer Support Services

With the number of new arrivals trending down, Mayor Mike Johnston is dialing back his Asylum Seeker Program, which earlier this year he touted as a “playbook” for the rest of the nation. City Council also approved a $6 million contract with a local nonprofit to contribute to the city’s newcomer support services in 2025. [Denver Post 🔒]

🐺 Did CO Botch the Wolf Reintroduction?

State wildlife officials are planning to release as many as 15 more gray wolves into the Colorado wilderness at the end of the year as part of the voter-mandated wolf reintroduction program. But Republican lawmakers are asking for a “pause” after more than two dozen reported livestock kills. [Axios Denver]