The Denver Post politics team rebuilds, CPR expands ‘while other places are...
Following last month’s implosion of The Denver Post’s politics team, the paper has rebuilt the desk, pulling in hires from Oklahoma, Cincinnati, and elsewhere. Ben Botkin, formerly of the nonprofit...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Six Colorado counties are trying to create a model to prevent...
“La Plata and Montezuma counties are among six in Colorado selected to participate in collaboration to create a model for suicide prevention that could be used nationwide,” reports The Durango Herald....
View ArticleThe Home Front: ‘Colorado is expected to gain an eighth seat in Congress’...
“No matter how Coloradans vote Nov. 6 on whether to change how the state draws congressional district boundaries, the people who draw the lines after the 2020 Census likely will have a little more work...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Windsor is ‘the safest community in Colorado,’ according to...
“Six Weld County municipalities were named among Colorado’s 20 safest cities, according to 2016 FBI crime data analyzed by safewise.com,” reports The Greeley Tribune. “Windsor claimed the top spot as...
View ArticleThe Home Front: A district attorney in Colorado is dismissing cases because...
“As he pledged to do, Henry Solano is lightening his office’s workload in light of what he terms the chronic underfunding of his office,” reports The Pueblo Chieftain. “Solano, the Trinidad-based...
View ArticleThe Home Front: ‘Links between wildfires and climate change in Colorado’
“Colorado residents grew accustomed to the sight of smoke this summer as a faint haze from wildfires across the state formed an ominous backdrop against the mountains on the Western Slope,” reports...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Wage theft is on the rise in Eagle County where working...
“Megan McGee Bonta, of Catholic Charities in Eagle County, has numerous heart-wrenching tales of local working families stiffed on pay and forced into near insolvency by unscrupulous employers,”...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Grand Junction restricted outdoor water use ‘in what may be...
In what may be the time first ever, the city of Grand Junction on Tuesday imposed mandatory outdoor water use restrictions, as the ongoing drought has drained area reservoirs and rivers that will...
View ArticleThe Home Front: U.S. Senators Bennet and Gardner want $9M reimbursement for...
“Colorado lawmakers are making a second bid to get local water utilities reimbursed for cleaning up toxins tied to the Air Force after failing to get their provision in the National Defense...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Highway deaths with pot in the bloodstream is up, but those...
“The number of highway deaths involving Colorado drivers who had marijuana in their system grew again in 2017, a new state study shows,” reports The Gazette in Colorado Springs. “At the same time,...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Two of Colorado’s largest remote wildfires are ‘on their way...
“Two of northwest Colorado’s bigger and more remote wildfires, the Cabin Lake and Cache Creek fires burning north and south of Rifle, respectively, are on their way to containment after a month-long...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Colorado’s ACLU is ‘demanding 31 towns and cities across the...
“The Colorado chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is demanding 31 towns and cities across the state repeal ordinances restricting panhandling, seeking to capitalize on a 2015 federal district...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Death penalty for Chris Watts? If Weld County’s DA makes the...
“If the Weld County District Attorney makes the call, a jury could decide if the Colorado man accused of killing his pregnant wife and two daughters faces the death penalty if convicted of the crimes,”...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Durango’s decision to close a homeless camp near a cemetery...
“The city’s decision to close a homeless camp near Greenmount Cemetery last week has left some homeless residents feeling angry and exasperated with nowhere to sleep overnight,” reports The Durango...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Energy company’s turn away from coal ‘put the national...
“Xcel Energy’s plan to turn away from coal-fired energy by decommissioning two units at its Comanche Station is being watched by energy-industry observers as a potentially landmark judgement about...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Several drilling companies are looking to drill ‘near Denver...
“The oil and gas boom could soon make its first mark on northeast Denver — or, rather, beneath it,” The Denver Post reports. “Several drilling companies have submitted plans in recent months for...
View ArticleThe Home Front: After Trump rescinded DACA, Colorado’s young immigrants who...
“One year after the Trump administration rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, many young Coloradans who relied on it to attend school, apply for work permits and pay taxes...
View ArticleThe Home Front: In Colorado Springs, jaywalking is ‘one of the most frequent...
“As in most cities, jaywalking is a common sight in Colorado Springs. Even the most law-abiding citizens do it from time to time,” reports The Gazette in Colorado Springs. “But Colorado Springs police...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Meth ‘made a deadly comeback in El Paso County and across...
“Methamphetamine use made a deadly comeback in El Paso County and across Colorado last year while festering in the shadow of the nation’s opioid epidemic,” reports The Gazette in Colorado Springs....
View ArticleThe Home Front: The U.S. Olympic Committee, based in Colorado, ‘will be led...
“Ahead of meetings that could lead to changes in how the U.S. Olympic Committee governs individual sports, the organization on Monday announced big changes in its board of directors,” reports The...
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