Denver Spot Daily newsletter
Your daily Colorado politics update for Thursday, March 12
 ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Israel widens evacuation warning to a large area of southern Lebanon as it battles Hezbollah

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei issued his first statement.

Read more →

Lawmakers vent frustration over DHS shutdown as lines grow at nation’s airports

Most of the employees at DHS continue to work but are going unpaid.

Read more →

Denver’s new license plate reader deal is for 50 cameras — less than half as many as Flock has now

If a majority of the council approves the not-yet-finished contract, it will replace the city’s current system with the controversial company Flock Safety.

Read more →

Federal judge criticizes ICE agents at Denver hearing for not knowing about earlier order limiting arrests

“Those guys were not examples of what we hope ICE officers would know and do in the field,” U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson told a lawyer for the Department of Homeland Security.

Read more →

Social Security watchdog opens probe into alleged misuse of data by ex-DOGE employee

The agency is currently being sued over DOGE’s access to taxpayer data.

Read more →

ICE agents who left ‘death cards’ in immigrants’ cars removed from field duty, senior official testifies

Gregory Davies, the assistant field office director, testified in federal court that an investigation into the incident was still underway by ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility.

Read more →

Some states are reviving a push to tax the rich

Advocates hope growing inequalities will help more states adopt policies taxing the rich more.