Dennis Gallagher=Denver. RIP.
passed away on Friday, April 22, after a short illness. He was 82. Word spread quickly through this city where he was born and raised, this city he'd devoted his life to serving. He did so everywhere from the Colorado Legislature to Denver City Council to the Denver Auditor's Office, from classrooms to coffeehouses.
Gallagher grew up in north Denver and graduated from Regis University, where he taught off and on for forty years after getting a master’s degree from the Catholic University of America in 1967. Just three years later, he was elected to the legislature, where he made his mark with the Gallagher Amendment, a 1982 measure that voters repealed in 2020...an act that many of them regretted as soon as they opened their last property tax bill.
By then, he was officially, finally out of public office — most recently the Denver Auditor's Office, where he'd served since 2003 after eight years on city council, two runs for mayor and 22 years in the legislature. But he was still always out in public, hosting his St. Patrick's Day celebrations, offering tours of cemeteries and other spots around town, and opining on just about everything, with that impish Irish wit and great, deep voice.
That page is topped with the words"Gallagher's World" in his perfect, precise penmanship, and now filled below with messages from those he touched.Since we started, it has been defined as the free, independent voice of Denver, and we'd like to keep it that way. With local media under siege, it's more important than ever for us to rally support behind funding our local journalism.
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