Colorado Week in Review

awesome + uniting

• “Extinct” fish found reproducing naturally in Colorado waters
• Polis holds double-digit lead over Ganahl in new governor’s race poll
• World record for longest hopscotch set at Colorado state park

awesome + controversy

• Broncos win ugly over Texans
• Coloradans can now pay state tax bills with cryptocurrency
• Colorado sanctuary welcomes rarest wolf in the world

awful + uniting

• Highly invasive zebra mussel appears in Colorado waters for first time ever
• Video shows train slam into Platteville police vehicle with woman inside
• Threats close Denver’s public libraries, area high school amid surge in “traumatizing” hoax calls nationwide

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• December natural gas bills will jump 54% as Xcel passes a stack of price hikes on to Colorado customers
• Leaked Oath Keepers list includes nearly 1,000 Coloradans, including cops and military
• Judge says alleged Planned Parenthood shooter can be forcibly medicated

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• New classified space fighting center ready to fight ‘hostile extraterrestrials’ as well as ‘adversaries China & Russia’
• Why you should keep your lights off in Denver this week
• Colorado’s fall leaves may appear more brilliant this year thanks to this summer’s monsoon rains

awesome + controversy

• Mayor Hancock proposes record spending for Denver in 2023, with focus on homelessness, cops and downtown
• Democratic Attorney General Phil Weiser endorsed by Cynthia Coffman, his Republican predecessor
• ‘We know it works’: Denver piloting program to provide some of city’s poorest direct cash assistance

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• Northern Colorado air quality downgraded to “severe” by EPA
• Midair collision kills three people, Colorado authorities say
• ‘They should be protecting us, not attacking us’: Parents of man killed by Clear Creek County deputies speak out

awful + controversy

• FBI Seizes Mike Lindell’s Phone During Investigation of Colorado Clerk & Other Election Conspiracists
• Big Lie Bucks: Joe O’Dea Campaigns With Election Deniers at National and Local Fundraisers
• Denver’s Rocky’s Autos closes after 40 years; goodbye Shagman

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• ‘Hospital Discounted Care Law’ goes into effect in Colorado
• Free public transit month ends with ridership up throughout Colorado
• Crowds pour into Water World for its last weekend of the season

awesome + controversy

• Denver teachers union, district reach agreement on 8.7% pay increase
• Thousands of Colorado students will see Westwood College loans forgiven
• Thousands of Xcel customers locked out of thermostats during ‘energy emergency’

awful + uniting

• Summer 2022 finishes as 3rd-hottest in Denver history
• Denver police chief Paul Pazen retires amid pressure after 28 years
• Residents react to being displaced after lightning causes large fire in Northeast Colorado Springs

awful + controversy

• Republican candidate in CD-8 scrubbed abortion stance from her website
• Texas governor orders state to bus migrants to sanctuary cities, including Denver and Aurora
• Wardrobe malfunction at DougCo PrideFest stirs controversy about future of festival

awesome + uniting

• Humans are again aiming at the moon with NASA’s Artemis missions — and Colorado is at the center of it
• More than 770,000 Coloradans potentially eligible for loan forgiveness under Biden plan
• The 150th Colorado State Fair begins Friday. Here’s your guide to the Pueblo event

awesome + controversy

• Colorado voters will decide whether to allow wine sales in grocery stores as booze battle heads to November ballot
• LoDo food truck ban lifted this weekend
• Colorado lawmakers target turf amid unprecedented drought

awful + uniting

• After euthanizing 63 bears so far this year, wildlife officials urge Coloradans to bear-proof homes
• Final police officer submits resignation at Nederland Police Department
• Colorado mom guilty of Qanon kidnapping conspiracy

awful + controversy

• GOP group launches bid to recall Priola after Colorado lawmaker becomes a Democrat
• Judge to Knisley: ‘Facts both troubling and alarming’
• Denver real estate developer and former Republican candidate for state treasurer charged with security fraud

awesome + uniting

• Doctors in space: CU’s Boulder and School of Medicine campuses will offer a joint degree program to send MDs to infinity and beyond
• Delta County leaders reverse course, say “shear thing” to plan for big solar project on land where sheep graze
• Switch to native grasses estimated to save millions of gallons

awesome + controversy

• Colorado moves another step closer to importing lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada
• One person’s trash, another’s treasure: Donors, buyers flock to Colorado thrift stores amid post-pandemic resurgence
• Stalled in Congress, Colorado Democrats ask Biden to take action to preserve public lands

awful + uniting

• Colorado teachers have the largest pay disparity in the country
• Denver DA wants grand jury probe of police shooting that injured bystanders as body camera footage is released
• New water cuts announced by feds after Colorado River Basin states miss deadline for agreement

awful + controversy

• Trump legal adviser ordered to testify in Ga. election probe
• Abortion becomes a front and center issue in Colorado’s Senate race
• Gun advocacy groups sue more Colorado cities over controls

awesome + uniting

• Democrats laud coming impact Inflation Reduction Act will have on Colorado
• One Coloradan unveils Biden’s dark side as political meme wars escalate
• Xcel Energy plans to generate 80% of electricity with renewables by 2030
• Colorado hopes cash infusion spurs electric school bus adoption

awesome + controversy

• Minimum wage in Denver will increase next year to more than $17 per hour
• Colorado voters to decide in November whether the state should offer free meals to all students
• ‘South Park’ enjoys a silver anniversary of satire

awful + uniting

• Microplastics increasingly found in Colorado’s snowpack
• ‘I feel so violated’: Viral TikTok challenge suspected in Broomfield car theft
• Motorists rescued from I-70 during flash flood as more than 2 inches of rain falls in parts of metro Denver

awful + controversy

• Colorado to spar over discrimination case in Supreme Court
• Crisis pregnancy centers in Colorado steer patients away from abortion
• EXCLUSIVE: GOP Leader Concealed Political Consulting Company from Colleagues

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• Here’s what to know about the $750 TABOR refund for Colorado taxpayers
• Metropolitan State University of Denver locks tuition rate for current, incoming students
• Things to do in Denver this weekend, Aug. 5-7

awesome + controversy

• These restaurants have top burgers in Denver
• After Colorado enacted a salary transparency law, job listings dropped—but employment went up
• Proposal that would fund repairs of Denver’s public sidewalks qualifies for the November ballot

awful + uniting

• Colorado doctors hope for more testing, vaccines as monkeypox outbreak is declared a public health emergency
• Lakewood residents at elevated risk of cancer cases from Terumo medical sterilization plant, EPA says
• Dick Durbin says a Colorado clerk now wears bulletproof vest amidst threats and harassment

awful + controversy

• Congressional Candidate Aadland Endorsed by QAnon, Anti-Immigration Figures
• Denver bans food trucks near LoDo bars to curb violence, but vendors say they’re being treated unfairly
• In a burned-down neighborhood, Coloradans call on Biden to declare climate emergency

awesome + uniting

• 10 highest Colorado rain totals reported to CoCoRaHS this week
• Colorado’s Hickenlooper praised for role in breaking stalemate with Manchin on climate and tax deal
• Colorado angler reels in massive fish, breaks longest-standing fish record in state

awesome + controversy

• Don’t worry, Colorado. Those giant flying bugs aren’t murder hornets, they’re cicada killers
• UFCW files petition for union vote at Boulder Trader Joe’s
• States hopes for revenue boost with Mega Millions craze

awful + uniting

• ‘Do better’: East Colfax community begs Denver Police for help after Ma Kaing’s murder
• 3 Wray men indicted for collecting $7.5 million through threatening phone calls
• Metro Denver homeless population increased by 12.8%, preliminary data show

awful + controversy

• USPS mail has gotten so bad in this small Colorado town that residents are protesting in the streets
• Centennial Institute Pushing Petition Against Respect for Marriage Act
• Emboldened by recent court ruling, Colorado gun rights group sues again to overturn ban on large-capacity magazines

awesome + uniting

• Boulder LGBTQ ally Clela Rorex celebrated on what would’ve been 79th birthday
• You can ride the bus or train for free in August
• Colorado Unemployment Rate Hits Record Low since 2020

awesome + controversy

• Wolf advocacy groups say Colorado can support at least 750 wolves
• Colorado voters will decide in November whether to decriminalize magic mushrooms
• Colorado home sales slowing down faster than the US

awful + uniting

• Report that oilfield methane emissions are down by half is wrong, Front Range cities with own pollution monitors say
• “We want answers”: Denver police didn’t tell two wounded bystanders that officers were the ones who shot them
• Events Mark the 10-Year Remembrance of the Aurora Theater Shooting

awful + controversy

• GOP governor candidate Heidi Ganahl selects a running mate who called the 2020 election a ‘Democrat steal’
• Mitch McConnell ‘all-in’ on Colorado Republican Joe O’Dea’s bid to unseat Michael Bennet: Report
• Barry Morphew pleads guilty to using missing wife’s ballot to vote for Trump in 2020

awesome + uniting

• Wondrous new images coming from James Webb Telescope, which carries a lot of technology created in Colorado
• Colorado Springs man makes history after pushing peanut with his nose to Pikes Peak summit
• Rockies win fifth straight, blank Pirates 2-0 behind Jose Urena and Kris Bryant

awesome + controversy

• Public has a First Amendment right to film police, 10th Circuit rules
• Polis issues executive order on marijuana and workers
• Gas stations finally dipping below $4 per gallon in Colorado

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• San Luis Valley district attorney resigns amid a state investigation and mandate to improve his office
• CU Boulder Police officer fired after investigation into Reddit comments
• Though rattlesnake bites are rare, officials urge caution after bitten child dies near Colorado Springs

awful + controversy

• Jason Van Tatenhove, Colorado man, testifies Oath Keepers are a ‘violent militia group’
• Lauren Boebert’s Shooters Grill restaurant closes after landlord refused to renew the lease
• Tina Peters avoids jail after unapproved trip to Nevada, but she will need court permission for future travel