The Home Front: Cory Gardner’s protesters win in court
“The lobby of the Chase building where U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner had his Denver office until this week might be private property, but it’s public enough — people come and go without having to pay money or...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Will voters dissolve a county council in Colorado for...
“Former Weld County Council members on Monday banded together to urge county commissioners to disband the council via a ballot initiative in November,” reports The Greeley Tribune. “Two former council...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Is Medicaid really the hungry, hungry hippo of Colorado’s...
“Among Republican candidates to be Colorado’s next governor, a common argument has emerged: Medicaid spending in Colorado, driven upward by the Affordable Care Act, is unsustainable,” reports The...
View ArticleThe Home Front: This small Colorado town wants to run on 100 percent...
“The town of Nederland is poised to [become] the 42nd community in the country to commit to achieving 100 percent renewable electricity by 2030,” reports The Boulder Daily Camera. “But Mayor Kristopher...
View ArticleThe Home Front: What is Denver doing to ‘step up the city’s resistance to...
“Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and two City Council members on Tuesday said they reached an agreement on competing proposals to step up the city’s resistance to federal immigration enforcement,” reports...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Beyond incumbents, no one wants to run for city council in...
“If nothing changes in the coming days, this fall’s Steamboat Springs City Council election won’t be a competition,” reports The Steamboat Pilot. “And, the council may even have to appoint someone...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Three students from ‘a group from Afghanistan’ have gone...
“Three students from the International Correctional Management Training Center in Cañon City are reportedly missing, a news release said Sunday morning,” reports The Cañon City Daily Record. “According...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Council member in Colorado: Elected officials behaved in a...
“Weld County Council Chairman Brett Abernathy had a point to prove Monday night at the county council’s regular meeting,” reports The Greeley Tribune. “It went something like this: The council-approved...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Cory Gardner says Congress should protect the disabled, ‘an...
“Congress should be able to design protections for the disabled community as lawmakers look at shrinking the growth in the Medicaid program, Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner said Tuesday to the Pueblo County...
View ArticleThe Home Front: In Colorado, ‘fed up’ towns take on the oil-and-gas industry
“Colorado residents fed up with what they see as the state’s failure to protect people and the environment are fighting fossil-fuel development inside their towns by making new rules requiring odor...
View ArticleThe Home Front: As word of ICE raids hits Roaring Fork Valley, Carbondale...
“Carbondale trustees have approved new town policies in an attempt to gain the trust of immigrants, while word has spread of arrests by federal immigration officials in the Roaring Fork Valley,”...
View ArticleThe Colorado Statesman turns a page. Now it’s called Colorado Politics.
When Clarity Media bought The Colorado Statesman a couple months ago, the plan was to eventually strip the print-and-online politics trade journal of its name and replace it with Colorado Politics....
View ArticleThe Home Front: The ‘happy hippies of Manitou Springs’ say what Trump’s...
“For yoga instructor Jess Saffer and the other happy hippies of Manitou Springs, last year’s presidential election was an emotional body blow – intense, raw and visceral,” reports The Gazette in...
View ArticleThe Home Front: A Colorado hunter shot himself in the wrist after tripping...
“A hunter in South Routt County shot himself in the wrist early Monday morning after tripping on a tent stake,” reports The Steamboat Pilot. “Emergency responders were called to help the Parker man in...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Colorado’s Xcel energy company plans to retire a coal plant...
“Xcel Energy would cut about 90 jobs in Pueblo under its proposal to retire early about half of the Comanche coal-fired power plant and replace the power by developing new natural gas, wind and solar...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Hickenlooper-Kasich healthcare mind meld is ‘expected to...
“The Hickenlooper-Kasich coalition is expected to present their ideas Thursday, and the duo promised substantive policy initiatives that can win support from Democrats and Republicans,” reports The...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Pueblo’s pooch problem, where dogs bite mail carriers more...
“The cliche image of a mail carrier tentatively approaching a house and opening the gate, only to be instantly charged and bitten by a vicious dog may seem like a scene from a comedy movie or old...
View ArticleMEDIA: The Denver Post, troll slayer
Don’t read the comments, don’t feed the trolls. It’s something you hear plenty in digital media as comment sections become swirling cesspools of incivility. One of those cauldrons of scum boiled over...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Colorado’s water law is ‘a complex set of rules and regulations’
“In Colorado, the difference between who can use water and who can’t is as simple as seniority,” reports Vail Daily. “Colorado’s water law is a complex set of rules and regulations, but Rule No. 1 is...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Newspapers across Colorado localize the impact of Trump...
“With the fate of nearly 800,000 young immigrants, including 17,000 in Colorado, put neatly in the hands of Congress by President Donald Trump, local officials, regardless of their support for Trump’s...
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