The Home Front: Oil and gas producers ‘favoring Wyoming’ because of ‘mounting...
“Citing mounting public opposition to oil and gas drilling in the state, a growing number of producers in the Denver-Julesburg Basin are favoring Wyoming, North Dakota and Texas as they look to take...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Credit rater says downtown coal plant in Colorado Springs is...
“Colorado coal-fired power plants serving municipal electric utilities and rural cooperatives remain economically competitive despite the availability of cheaper natural gas and renewable energy, but...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Shots fired, 11 vehicles damaged, and ‘several people’...
“Shots were fired, 11 vehicles were damaged, and several people were injured Saturday night during law enforcement’s pursuit of a stolen tractor-trailer truck, according to the Morgan County Sheriff’s...
View ArticleThe Home Front: 22-year-old from Colorado was ‘killed in action Monday while...
“A Berthoud High School graduate was killed in action Monday while serving in Afghanistan, weeks before his unit’s deployment in the country was scheduled to end,” reports The Loveland Reporter-Herald....
View ArticleThe Home Front: Boulder voted unanimously to ‘advance a ban on the sale and...
“The Boulder City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to advance a ban on the sale and possession of assault weapons, bump stocks and high-capacity magazines in the city,” reports The Boulder Daily...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Lawyer says transgender inmate was raped in Colorado prison....
“A transgender prison inmate who identifies as a female was raped hours after a … federal judge denied her request not to be sent to a pod occupied by male inmates who had previously propositioned her...
View ArticleChuck Plunkett, architect of The Denver Post Rebellion, suddenly quits the...
Last week witnessed the first firing amid what’s now known as The Denver Rebellion. This week witnessed the first resignation. On Thursday, Denver Post editorial page editor Chuck Plunkett abruptly...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Colorado Springs city leaders want $2,500 in fines or 189...
“In a move affecting countless homeless campers across Colorado Springs, city leaders want to more aggressively ticket people living alongside creeks and waterways, even when no alternative shelter...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Colorado business owner, ‘husband and father of three,’...
“Edin Ramos, a Bayfield business owner who has been held in an Immigration and Custom Enforcement detention center in Aurora since February, has been deported to his home country, Honduras,” reports...
View ArticleThe Home Front: The third day of a ‘historic’ teachers strike in Pueblo ends...
“The third day of the historic teachers and paraprofessionals strike against Pueblo City Schools (D60) ended, once again, with plenty of passion and spirit but no movement toward neither continued...
View ArticleThe Home Front: On Day 4 of the Pueblo teachers strike, has a ‘viable’ offer...
“Thursday, the fourth day of the teachers and paraprofessionals strike against Pueblo City Schools (D60) ended with a hastily called press conference and news that Superintendent Charlotte Macaluso had...
View ArticleThe Home Front: In Boulder area, ‘a disproportionate ratio of local Hispanic...
“Disparities in discipline rates for students of color are a longtime concern for local school districts, with a disproportionate ratio of local Hispanic students suspended or referred to police,”...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Another Colorado city passes a law banning ‘anyone from...
“Durango City Council unanimously approved an ordinance Tuesday that prohibits anyone from sitting or lying down on downtown sidewalks, curbs and other public areas,” reports The Durango Herald. “The...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Fort Collins might support lawsuit that ‘would make it much...
“Fort Collins might support a lawsuit that would make it much harder, or perhaps impossible, to drill oil and gas wells in our backyard and beyond,” reports The Coloradoan in Fort Collins. “The goal of...
View ArticleThe Home Front: A legal challenge to Boulder’s ‘ban on assault weapons’ hits...
“Cody Wisniewski made good on his threat Tuesday night to sue Boulder and its council, mounting a legal challenge to the city’s ban on assault weapons fewer than 24 hours after it was voted into law,”...
View ArticleThe Home Front: In Colorado, delay by feds to release H-2B work visas ‘is...
“Local landscaping, paving and other firms were supposed to have some additional seasonal help by now,” reports Vail Daily. “It hasn’t happened yet. A delay by the federal government in releasing more...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Hyperloop transit tube to ‘whisk passengers across the state...
“A company trying to build a high-speed tube transit system that could whisk passengers across the state in minutes has a message for Colorado Springs-area governments and residents,” reports The...
View ArticleThe Home Front: ‘Several candidates’ want to become mayor of Denver
“Nearly a year out from Denver’s next mayoral election, several candidates have declared their intention to run — well before Michael Hancock is expected to make his bid for a third term official,”...
View ArticleThe Home Front: El Paso County sheriff renewed a jail deal with ICE despite a...
“El Paso County’s sheriff is renewing his deal to jail suspected undocumented immigrants for federal officials, despite the high-profile legal battle prompted by that pact,” reports The Gazette in...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Colorado’s largest driller is ‘closing a natural gas...
“Anadarko Petroleum Corp., the largest energy driller in the state, is closing a natural gas gathering system in northern Colorado, citing safety considerations,” reports The Denver Post. “The system —...
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