The Home Front: A ‘fight club’ in the El Paso County jail where jailers...
“Wearing a tiara and posing for a camera, El Paso County sheriff’s Deputy Sandra Rincon smiled next to a cake with two candles on top displaying the number 50,” reports The Gazette in Colorado Springs....
View ArticleThe Home Front: Trump’s embrace of U.S. foe Putin leads front pages of...
At least seven of Colorado’s largest newspapers carried the news of Republican U.S. President Donald Trump’s news conference with Rusian President Vladimir Putin under bold headlines on their front...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Man who ‘accidentally fired his gun during a youth baseball...
“The man who accidentally fired his gun during a youth baseball game in Steamboat Springs on June 15 is a Wyoming police officer,” reports Steamboat Today. “Markum King, a 37-year-old officer with the...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Federal Bureau of Land Management wants to move its...
“Members of Colorado’s congressional delegation and local officials are welcoming confirmation that came Thursday about the Interior Department’s plans to move the Bureau of Land Management...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Springs politicians blame ‘cartels’ for black-market pot. But...
“A frequently used criticism by law enforcement of Colorado’s legalized marijuana industry is that it invited dangerous drug cartels into the state, where they operate in black market shadows,”...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Colorado Springs coal plant ‘poses an air-quality concern’...
“A controversial sports and events center that 1½ years ago was deemed all but dead now is set to go, split between two downtown locations, Colorado Springs officials announced,” reports The Gazette in...
View ArticleThe Home Front: ‘Boulder County does not have a previously undisclosed...
“The recent notice in the Federal Register could be somewhat alarming on the face of it, given its consecutive use of ‘Superfund site’ and ‘Boulder County’ in the same sentence,” reports The Boulder...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Advocates in Lafayette hope fracking laws can save ‘dozens of...
“Last week, as dozens of prairie dogs marked for eradication sat caged for hours in the sweltering afternoon heat, advocates calling on Lafayette leaders to spare the colony were quick to cite...
View ArticleThe Home Front: In Pueblo, Colorado, ‘there are 25 candidates running for mayor’
“When Colorado Springs created its strong-mayor style of government in 2011, it included a provision that said members of City Council needed to give up their seats to run for the mayor’s job,” reports...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Under public scrutiny, Fremont County’s sheriff resigns...
“Fremont County Undersheriff Megan Richards in an email Tuesday confirmed that Sheriff Jim Beicker tendered his resignation effective Sept. 1,” reports The Cañon City Daily Record. “No other...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Group trying to restrict fracking in Colorado accuses...
“For the second time in just over a week, a group hoping to restrict oil and gas operations in Colorado says a contractor it hired to circulate petitions for Initiative 97 has hurt instead of helped...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Colorado is smoky and hazy from wildfires. The ‘good news is...
“It’s smoky out. So what does that mean for your health? The best approach is to limit exposure as much as possible, said Anne Eckhardt, a registered respiratory therapist with UCHealth Yampa Valley...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Court fight over policy to police pot doctors was ‘hidden...
“A lawsuit that accused Colorado regulators of quietly and illegally concocting a policy to police doctors who recommend medical marijuana to patients was entirely hidden from public view during a...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Boulder eyes pollution tax on drillers as Longmont preps for...
“Boulder’s City Council wasted little time Tuesday night in advancing two measures aimed at potential oil and gas drilling, including a pollution tax on any future extraction and a statement condemning...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Colorado has the ‘largest disparity between white and Latino...
“Among the states with the largest Latino populations, Colorado has the largest disparity between white and Latino residents attaining post-secondary education, according to a new report,” reports The...
View ArticleThe 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: Boulder eyes pollution tax on drillers as Longmont preps for...
“Boulder’s City Council wasted little time Tuesday night in advancing two measures aimed at potential oil and gas drilling, including a pollution tax on any future extraction and a statement condemning...
View ArticleThe Home Front: Colorado has the ‘largest disparity between white and Latino...
“Among the states with the largest Latino populations, Colorado has the largest disparity between white and Latino residents attaining post-secondary education, according to a new report,” reports The...
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