Hannah Metzger

5 days ago | westword.com | Hannah Metzger

There were more than 19,000 reported sexual assault incidents during Uber and Lyft rides between 2017 and 2022, according to the companies' safety reports. Colorado Representative Jenny Willford joined those thousands of victims in February 2024, when she says her Lyft driver sexually assaulted her outside of her Adams County home. When Willford reported her assault to Lyft, she says the company merely issued a refund.

6 days ago | westword.com | Hannah Metzger

Colorado's 2025 legislative session concluded on Wednesday, May 7, putting an end to 120 days of lawmaking. Legislators passed hundreds of bills, including numerous proposals touching on the most hot button political issues of the day. Change is the law of life. Many of the bills still need final approval from Governor Jared Polis before they can become law, including measures that would ease the formation of workers' unions and increase safety measures in ride-sharing operations.

1 week ago | westword.com | Hannah Metzger

After years of discussion, the Denver City Council took a major step toward changing how electric scooters and bikes operate in the city on Tuesday, May 6. The Land Use, Transportation & Infrastructure Committee unanimously advanced a bill to establish mandatory parking zones for rentable e-scooters and bikes in certain neighborhoods.

1 week ago | westword.com | Hannah Metzger

Just ten people voted to designate Jamie Jackson as the representative of nearly 90,000 people in Colorado House District 41 in Arapahoe County. A vacancy committee appointed Jackson in January to finish the two-year term of Iman Jodeh, who was re-elected to the seat merely two months prior.

1 week ago | westword.com | Hannah Metzger

Beginning on Wednesday, May 7, state driver's licenses and identification cards must be federally-compliant Real IDs to be used to board domestic flights and access certain federal facilities, including TSA airport security checkpoints, federal buildings, military installations and nuclear power plants. The era of "Real IDs" has finally arrived. This change is twenty years in the making.