Mike Coffman

A dried-up irrigation ditch is filled with tumbleweeds near Crowley on March 25, 2025. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

In the drying West, here is how Aurora is leading water conservation (抖阴ap)

February 10, 2026 at 8:58 a.m.

People who call Colorado home know the sun is often shining and that chapstick is a necessity due to the dry air. Annual precipitation along the Front Range averages around...

Flowers, a candle and photos of Nick Burkett were placed by his family during a vigil near where he was killed at the corner of Wazee Street and 16th Street Mall in Denver, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. Burkett was one of two people killed in a string of stabbings along 16th Street Mall over the weekend. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Three Colorado mayors ask for legislative response on crime and AI (抖阴ap)

January 15, 2026 at 9:12 a.m.

As mayors with varying political affiliations representing the three largest cities in our state, we are writing to ask Colorado lawmakers and Gov. Jared Polis to address these priorities aimed...

The Aurora City Council made a decision, approving the acquisition of the Crowne Plaza Hotel, located at 15500 E. 40th Avenue, in Aurora, Colorado on March 28, 2024. Aurora is hopping to turn the 255-room hotel and convention center for nearly $26.5 million into temporary housing and essential services for people who are homeless. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Aurora’s new shelter strikes the right balance between work-first and housing-first approaches (抖阴ap)

November 10, 2025 at 12:24 p.m.

The program is neither a 鈥淗ousing First鈥� model, where individuals experiencing homelessness are given private rooms with the understanding that once stabilized they will want to take advantage of the...

A hotel employee answers the phone at the front desk in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Hotel, located at 15500 E. 40th Avenue, in Aurora, Colorado on March 28, 2024. Recently the Aurora City Council made a decision, approving the acquisition of the 255-room hotel and convention center for nearly $26.5 million. This move is part of the city's strategy to address homelessness, aiming to provide temporary housing and essential services. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Coffman: Aurora and Denver have vastly different approaches to homelessness — work first and housing first

June 4, 2024 at 1:37 p.m.

"While the efforts to tackle homelessness in Denver tend to dominate headlines, it is important to highlight and clarify the work we are doing in Aurora and provide a reminder...

Aurora police do not ask for immigration status and a resolution passed by City Council affirming the city is not a "sanctuary jurisdiction" doesn't change that, Mayor Mike Coffman writes.

Coffman: Aurora police enforce local laws, not immigration laws, and our resolution doesn’t change that聽

March 13, 2024 at 1:19 p.m.

A recent Denver Post editorial reiterated a tired, old, inaccurate trope that Aurora鈥檚 police department 鈥渨ill check the immigration status and tell ICE for deportation cases.鈥� This is patently wrong...

DENVER, COLORADO - JULY 16: A Denver crime scene investigator photographs a bullet casing found at the site of a shooting in the East Colfax neighborhood of Denver that left a woman dead, Saturday, July 16, 2022. (Photo by Jintak Han/The Denver Post)

Hancock, Suthers and Coffman: Our cities need Colorado lawmakers to help reduce crime

January 14, 2023 at 6:01 a.m.

Crime remains a serious issue in Colorado, and we, as mayors of Colorado's three largest cities, are committed to working with the state legislature and the governor on this issue...

AURORA, CO - MAY 23: Delaney Benson of Heritage hits a shot on the 16th during the first round of the girls 5A state golf tournament on Monday, May 23, 2016. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)

Mike Coffman: We must limit turf in new developments and ban new turf golf courses

May 11, 2022 at 2:16 p.m.

While western water issues have been receiving news coverage for several years, those challenges have recently become common knowledge. Ensuring safe, reliable water is becoming more of a challenge for...

DENVER, CO - JANUARY 25 : Snow pelts tents at a homeless camp along Park Avenue West in Denver, Colorado on Tuesday, January 25, 2022. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Mike Coffman: Aurora cannot turn a blind eye to the dangers of urban camping

February 7, 2022 at 6:05 a.m.

Lisa Isom has owned an office building in Aurora for eight years. The first five years were fine but the last three have been hell.

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Hancock and Coffman: Coloradans are suffering. Congress must put aside partisanship and pass the COVID relief plan.

March 5, 2021 at 9:25 a.m.

As bipartisan mayors, we -- along with an overwhelming majority of Americans -- are united in our support of the American Rescue Plan because we understand that the cost of...

DENVER, CO - JUNE 24 : The encampment site around Morey Middle School in Denver, Colorado on Wednesday. June 24, 2020. The encampment has grown in the past seven weeks or so, prompting neighbors to call the police multiple times. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Mike Coffman: What I learned immersed in a homeless community

January 12, 2021 at 12:11 p.m.

What was surprising to me about the shelter population and the encampment inhabitants was that I found them to be two very distinct groups that never intersected.

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