The Home Front: Is a smoke-free proposal for downtown Denver a war on the poor?
“A proposal that would make the 16th Street Mall smoke-free isn’t about public health, opponents say, but about creating another means to push homeless and impoverished people out of Denver’s public...
View ArticleThe Home Front: ‘2,500 children and pregnant mothers’ could lose health...
“After Congress let funding for the national Children’s Health Insurance Program expire at the end of September, local health care providers are working to educate families on options should they lose...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper says ‘I’m not a very seasoned...
“After eight years as Denver’s mayor and seven as governor, John Hickenlooper still fumbles with the finer points of politics. The governor’s energetic warmth, which has always served him well, filled...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Boulder County commissioners file protests aimed at drilling...
“Boulder County commissioners have filed two formal protests with the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission aimed at plans submitted last month by 8 North LLC, a subsidiary of Extraction Oil and...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet unveils public-option...
“Americans living in rural counties would get a public option for health insurance under a bill introduced by two U.S. senators,” reports The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. “The Medicare-X Choice Act...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Dozens of Denver officers disciplined for ‘violating the...
“Dozens of Denver police officers have been disciplined so far this year for violating the department’s body camera policy, and the city’s police watchdog is urging the department to provide more...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Boulder County residents ask if a meeting about drilling is...
“East Boulder County landowners are sharply questioning whether a Denver energy company with plans to drill nearby is meeting the spirit of a state regulation designed to encourage public participation...
View ArticleThe Home Front: No other state ‘has as many people living in a church or...
“On Mother’s Day, Sandra Lopez was one of a handful of immigrant leaders who spoke at a prayer vigil in Carbondale where Two Rivers Unitarian Universalist announced it was becoming a sanctuary...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Big money politics as TV ads target Greeley’s local elections...
“A political committee launched what is thought to be the first TV ad campaign in Greeley municipal election history, buying a 30-second ad that will run through Election Day, Nov. 7,” reports The...
View ArticleThe Home Front: ‘Please do something about this,’ say rural Coloradans about...
“Ultimately, it comes down to money,” reports The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. “That’s what it’s going to take to build out a broadband network in rural Colorado, those close to the issue say. But...
View ArticleThe Home Front: ‘It’s a crazy world we live in,’ says police spokesman after...
“Thornton police have identified the suspect in the apparently random Walmart shooting in which a man almost casually fatally shot two men and a woman before turning around and walking out of the store...
View ArticleThe Home Front: A Fort Carson Green Beret was killed in combat in Afghanistan
“A Fort Carson Green Beret was killed Saturday in combat in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said. Sgt. 1st. Class Stephen B. Cribben, 33, died after being wounded in Afghanistan’s eastern Logar Province,”...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Colorado Springs will overtake Denver as the state’s largest...
“Northern Colorado and the Western Slope will claim larger shares of Colorado’s population as the state adds 3 million new residents over the next three and a half decades, according to state...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Across Colorado, voters opened their wallets for schools,...
Voters across Colorado chose public broadband access despite a flood of big money against it and opened their wallets for sales, pot or property tax hikes to pay for schools, public safety, workforce...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Multiple Colorado communities grapple with ‘a surge in...
“Whether local governments should have more say over oil and gas drilling remained a potent issue this week at the ballot box and at the municipal dais, with multiple Front Range communities grappling...
View ArticleThe Home Front: FLC biz school dean: ‘It makes me happy to know I work at an...
“A day after President Donald Trump’s choice for the White House’s top environmental official expressed doubts over the link between human activity and climate change, an event at Fort Lewis College...
View ArticleThe Home Front: A ‘startling statistic’ about youth suicide in Mesa County,...
“Nearly 60 percent of people who attempted suicide in Mesa County during a roughly six-month period earlier this year were under the age of 30, that local health officials say affirms the need to...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Why a clean-air advocate is suing Colorado Springs for...
“A Monument clean-air advocate filed a defamation suit against the city of Colorado Springs on Monday, alleging that city officials and elected leaders smeared her reputation for exposing concerns...
View ArticleThe Home Front: How to counteract declining enrollment at this college in...
“Fort Lewis College has begun its process of considering renaming the school, in part to counteract enrollment decline,” reports The Durango Herald. “Talk of a name change has been taking place for at...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Tax plan could add $1.4 trillion to deficit. Colorado’s...
“Colorado Congressmen Ken Buck and Cory Gardner want to see the final version of the Republican tax plan, but they both like what they’re seeing so far, despite a Congressional Budget Office report...
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