🏢 Why do bad landlords still get licensed?

🗳️ Bill Aims to Make It Easier to Form Unions

The Labor Peace Act would eliminate a second vote for union formation that requires 75% of employees at a business to approve the union’s ability to negotiate dues and fees. Negotiations between labor unions and business lobbyists, who oppose the bill, broke down when proposed compromises stalled. Gov. Jared Polis has threatened to veto the bill if it gets to his desk. [Colorado Sun]

🏢 Landlords of Neglected Housing Keep Getting Licensed

A Denver Post investigation found that the city continues to license building owners with years of documented violations, including issues like rooms without heating, bodily fluids in common spaces, and cockroaches in units. The city rarely revokes or suspends licenses out of fear of displacing tenants and removing housing stock, but tenants argue there should be consequences for landlords of buildings with uninhabitable conditions. [Denver Post 🔒]

⚽ Stadium Investment Discussion Heats Up

Will City Council support the construction of a National Women’s Soccer League stadium in Denver to the tune of $70 million? City leaders will vote on the project in less than a week — but after the City Cast Denver podcast’s own reporting on the economics of such a deal, the conversation between council, the mayor, the potential team’s owners, and Denverites is heating up. [City Cast Denver 🎧]

🏛️ Immigrant Protections Move Closer to Becoming Law

A bill to further limit local government cooperation with federal immigration officials is one step away from Gov. Jared Polis’ desk, but it’s unclear if Polis will sign it into law. Laws already on the books that limit how police can cooperate with immigration enforcement have already drawn a federal lawsuit from the Trump administration. [CPR]

We love when we spot something cool/weird/wacky around Denver. Like another friendly neighborhood skeleton — this one in Hale has a message for drivers 💀

Or a new mural on the Cherry Creek Trail 🎨

Artist Kerry Cesen graced the trail with one of its newest artworks, a blue and red scene featuring details of the natural environment and the human body. The Cherry Creek Trail features dozens of art pieces along its 11 mile stretch, which you can tour anytime!

Have you seen something quirky or curious around town recently? We’d love to see it, too.