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• Colorado health exchange premiums expected to drop by 18% because of reinsurance bill
• Coloradans enjoy one of the best rafting seasons on record
• Broncos training camp started this week
• Anti-abortion extremists stumble with getting abortion-ban on the 2020 ballot
• BLM relocates to Grand Junction
• El Chapo convicted, heading to Colorado Supermax
• Appreciation for air conditioning soars as Coloradans manage consecutive 100 degree days
• Thousands come together to protest treatment of asylum seekers outside of the Aurora private immigrant detention Center
• Highway 36 between Boulder and Denver collapses
• Trump enables racist chants of, “Send her back!” directed towards Congresswoman Ilhan Omar at campaign rally
• Sen. Cory Gardner honors Islamophobe at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver

• You Can Watch Movies In Bed Under the Stars in Denver
• Butterfly Pavilion Will Create World’s First Pollinator District to Save Bees and Butterflies
• Rockies’ Charlie Blackmon Homers in the MLB All-Star Game
• Gov. Polis and New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham roast each other online over Pueblo/Hatch chile supremacy.
• United States Women’s World Cup Win
• Kids Show Off Fabulous Outfits, Strut Past Protesters at All Ages Drag Show
• Rabid Bat Found along Greeley 4th of July Parade Route
• Transgender Colorado Inmate Wins Rape Case and Prompts Institutional Changes
• Driver’s Give Collective Sigh as I-70 Lane Expansion Construction Starts
• ICE raids set to begin this weekend
• Possible anti-choice ballot proposal could be on next year’s state ballot
• Recall Petition for Gov. Polis Approved

• Injured Bald Eagle Rescued After 3-Hour Operation In Freezing Colorado Weather
• Heart Of Denver Prepares For First Ice Climbing Wall
• Equal Pay for Equal Work Act gets first hearing at Colorado State Capitol
• 10th Circuit backs “Free the Nipple” advocates, says Fort Collins’ topless ban “likely unconstitutional”
• 50 million gallons of polluted water pours daily from mine sites across the U.S., including Colorado
• Former RTD Driver Charged With Train Derailment Now Faces Charges
• Colorado hunters warned about zombie deer as chronic wasting disease spreads
• Weiser announces probe of state’s Catholic dioceses, reparations program for child sex abuse victims
• Democrats abandon supervised drug injection sites
• Crow Sends DHS Letter Over ‘Serious Concerns’ With Aurora ICE Facility Expansion

• Colorado unemployment at record-low 2.3 percent for third straight month
• Colorado passes a milestone for pot revenue
• Beatles legend Ringo Starr was just hiking in Colorado high country
• Levitt Pavilion opens at Ruby Hill Park
• World-renowned cheese festival coming to Denver next week
• CAUGHT ON TAPE: Glass-Smashing Goat Vandalizes Business, Goes On The Lam
• Social Security numbers were showing up in 311 databases, Denver auditor finds
• Colorado’s construction landscape currently understaffed by 10,000 workers
• Tiny houses running into obstacles in Colorado
• Broncos season tickets: Some just want them before they die; others are signed up before they’re born
• State Senator allows comments suggesting the use of violence against political opponents on his Facebook page

Colorado Week in Review

• Toking Up? Colorado Delegates’ Walkout at RNC Happened at Exactly 4:20
• Summertime visitors to Colorado, Utah and Wyoming up 11 percent
• Denver City Council selects Albus Brooks as president amid cancer recovery
• Taste of Colorado to bring Boyz II Men to Civic Center Park
• MLB umpire crew from Rockies-Rays series popped in on Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children
• A new law could open more Colorado bike paths to e-bikes
• Four doctors suspended over medical pot plant counts
• Gudy Gaskill, the 89-year-old mother of the Colorado Trail, dies
• Expanding development associated with declining deer recruitment across western Colorado
• Bad directions from Texan lead to family getting lost hiking for days
• Former Colorado soldier says medals, belongings taken during eviction
• West Nile Virus spreads to 4th Colorado county

Colorado Week in Review

• Former CU Buff headed to Rio
• Traffic aside, 2 Colorado cities among the best to live in
• New 14ers Record
• UCH opens new LGBT mental health clinic
• One in a billion shot
• Almost $500 million in pot sales so far
• So Colorado: bear locks itself in Subaru
• Anti-Trump Delegates Have A Plan For The RNC
• Rod Blagojevich starts band called ‘Jailhouse Rockers’ in Colorado prison
• 2 charged with arson
• Homeless Sweeps: Large Police Crackdown on Individuals Along Platte River
• Endangered trout may be extinct in Southern Colorado due to wildfire

Colorado Week in Review

• OSIRIS-REx, the made-in-Colorado asteroid miner, delivered to Kennedy Space Center
• Music and remembrance mark weekend event at Colorado Freedom Memorial
• Mancos, near Mesa Verde National Park, named one of Smithsonian’s 2016 Best Small Towns to Visit
• 10,000 new homes expected in Denver this year as builders kick into overdrive
• Congress pushes VA to recommend pot for patients
• Olympic athletes training with technology
• Maureen Moss, signature collector for Jon Keyser, avoids answering forged signature questions
• Where people drink the most booze and do the most drugs
• CDOT Supervisor, Mechanic Fired For Misappropriation
• Colorado woman who says Bill Cosby assaulted her reacts to him standing trial
• El Paso County sheriff: Racial slur led to lieutenant’s retirement
• Former El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa faces felony charges

Colorado Week in Review

• Gov’t report: 8 states had significant drop in uninsured
• Porter Milner of Broomfield named 2015-16 Gatorade Colorado boys soccer player of the year
• What’s in Hickenlooper’s Super Bowl bet? (Hint: It isn’t beer)
• Mike Coffman, Jared Polis want to abolish the military draft
• 1 million people, just one arrest at Denver Broncos Super Bowl parade and rally
• Fewer people charged in Colorado with driving while high in 2015
• Colorado bill to allow death sentence without unanimous vote dies
• Cosby cases inspire Colorado bill for more time for victims
• Colorado teen severely burned in e-cig explosion
• Mesa County deputy removed from life support 2 days after shooting
• EPA: Traces of contaminant found in 3 Colorado water systems
• Colorado Springs man stabs neighbor in dispute over loud TV

Colorado Week in Review

• Colorado Dems in pivotal role
• Colorado’s construction unemployment rate lowest in the U.S.
• Science Ranch 2016 will be in Colorado
• Broncos players intend to make sure “This one’s for Pat”
• CDOT launches new online system to address “Where are all the snow plows?”
• Colorado pot sales top $1B in 2015
• Durangoans demand more Superfund involvement
• Bill would gut state funding for mass transit in Colorado
• Sports Authority preparing to file for bankruptcy
• Ramsey drama ‘Casting JonBenet’ to film in Boulder, metro area — with state rebate
• Fast-growing motorcycle group involved in deadly Denver clash is largely for law enforcement
• Colorado Researcher suspects he gave his wife the zika virus

Colorado Week in Review

• Marijuana dispensary among Massachusetts senators’ stops in Colo.
• 2016 Colorado General Assembly Got Underway This Week
• Those large jet engines on planes? A Colorado co. will join General Electric creating them
• Puppy Bowl XII: Three pups from Denver make roster
• Attention Grabbing Sign Warns Of ‘Suicidal Deer,’ Inspired By Colorado
• Bassnectar announces Colorado-based mini-festival Bass Center
• Zillow Predicts Denver’s Housing Market to be the Hottest in the Nation in 2016
• Colorado glacier could be gone in 20 years
• Colorado Bureau Of Investigation Admits Dozens Of Faulty DUI Blood Tests
• Stay classy, Jerry Sonnenberg
• Colorado funds higher ed at one of lowest rates in USA – and now CSU is spending $400M on a college football stadium
• White supremacist Nate Marshall woos Colorado politician