The Home Front: Gov. Hickenlooper came to Colorado Springs and ran into an...
“An El Paso County commissioner on Tuesday publicly accused Gov. John Hickenlooper of turning a blind eye to potential negative effects of legal recreational marijuana to protect an industry that has...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Colorado Sen. Randy Baumgardner is ‘facing another allegation...
“Sen. Randy Baumgardner is facing another allegation of sexual misconduct after a former legislative aide filed a formal sexual harassment complaint against the politician that accused him of...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Colorado GOP chair lectured incoming lawmaker ‘about racist...
“Newly selected state Rep. Judy Reyher no sooner claimed the House District 47 seat this week than she was lectured by Colorado Republican Chairman Jeff Hays about racist comments she made to a Denver...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Amid uncertainty of Child Health Plan Plus, Colorado advises...
“As uncertainty around the funding for Child Health Plan Plus drags on, the state is advising pregnant women and parents of children enrolled in the public low-cost health insurance program to research...
View ArticleThe Home Front: The latest in an ex-detective’s charges linked to evidence in...
“A motions hearing was postponed Monday in the case involving a former Fremont County Sheriff’s Office detective accused of altering an investigative file, two weeks after he was charged with an...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Ex-Colorado GOP chairman charged with voter fraud blames...
“In the first day of testimony in Weld District Court on Tuesday, a former Colorado Republican Party chairman accused of committing voter fraud blamed a diabetic blackout for his filling out his...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Sheriffs’ office shakeup in Denver
“A reorganization in the top ranks of the Denver Sheriff Department has stripped the sheriff of his budget staff and elevated a former sheriff who had fallen from grace after a colleague secretly...
View ArticleThe Home Front: ‘There is no contingency plan’ for the estimated 90k Colorado...
“Everyone from government officials to late night hosts are sounding the alarm as the Child Health Insurance Program runs out of money, putting almost nine million children nationwide at risk of losing...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Gov. Hickenlooper chooses ‘arguably the most left-leaning of...
Six of Colorado’s largest newspapers put yesterday’s news that the FCC voted to end net neutrality on their front pages today. I would not underrate just how far this topic has come from "ugh that...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Could Colorado Springs allow recreational marijuana despite...
“At the two malls in town you can buy key chains and Christmas ornaments shaped like marijuana leaves,” reports The Los Angeles Times on the front page of The Cañon City Daily Record. “Along a downtown...
View ArticleThe Home Front: 2017 was bad news for bears — 60 were euthanized statewide
“A record number of bears were euthanized this year in La Plata County – partly the result of a poor natural food cycle and partly the result of food sources made available by humans,” reports The...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Why did Mike Coffman vote for the Trump tax bill?
“U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman thinks the tax bill approved by Congress this week will spur growth in the economy, pay for itself over time and provide the necessary impetus to pass changes in health care...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Arch Coal, one of the nation’s largest coal miners, is...
“After years of legal challenges, weather might be the only remaining obstacle to Arch Coal beginning work in a national forest roadless area in hopes of expanding its West Elk Mine near Somerset,”...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Trump’s BLM revokes chemical disclosure rules for fracking
“The Trump administration is proceeding with revoking a 2015 rule requiring chemical disclosures and otherwise regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal and tribal lands,” reports The Grand Junction...
View ArticleThe Home Front: An officer killed, multiple others wounded, and the shooter...
“Zackari Parrish, the Douglas County sheriff’s deputy killed in a New Year’s Eve ambush, had boundless energy that fueled him through the night shift and kept him going during the day so he could play...
View ArticleThe Home Front: About Denver’s rapid growth, area man tells paper he ‘wants...
“Jack Keener is a Denver native who feels like he’s being robbed of his city, and he’s not alone,” reports The Gazette in Colorado Springs. “The 51-year-old McDonald’s manager walked out of the public...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Man ‘convicted of throwing two large rocks and a Bible’...
“The man convicted of throwing two large rocks and a Bible through the windows of the Islamic Center of Fort Collins in March was sentenced Thursday morning,” reports The Coloradoan in Fort Collins....
View ArticleHere’s what rocked the Colorado media world in 2017
For this week’s column on Colorado media, I thought I’d take a look back at 2017 and all that happened in our little niche corner of the world. Or at least all that made its way across my keyboard for...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Cory Gardner and Michael Bennet are working on a deal to...
“Colorado Sens. Cory Gardner and Michael Bennet are still working on a bipartisan plan to get Congress over its budget deadlock and satisfy the changing priorities of President Donald Trump,” reports...
View ArticleColorado Springs ‘remains committed to coal’ as other Front Range utilities...
“While other Front Range utilities are accelerating the switch to renewable energy, Colorado Springs remains committed to coal to a much greater degree to keep rates from spiking,” reports The Gazette...
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