Colorado Week in Review

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• Denver’s daily holiday drone show: where to watch, what to expect
• Storm blankets Summit County with fresh snow
• Family traditions highlight annual Parade of Lights in downtown Denver

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• Commanders-Broncos takeaways: Bo Nix and Denver defense survive overtime thriller – The Athletic
• Science at the statehouse: experts will embed at the legislature to help lawmakers craft informed policies
• Westminster pet food drive collects more than 4.6K pounds of food for needy pets

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• CU Boulder suspends Phi Kappa Sigma after reports of ‘extreme or severe hazing’
• Jefferson County SWAT leader resigns amid investigation of ‘intoxication’ during Evergreen school shooting response
• Colleagues, both present and past, gather at Colorado State Capitol to remember State Senator Faith Winter

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• Students, Activists Protest CU’s Refusal To End Contract With Deportation Airline
• Colorado governor fires back after Trump calls him a “sleazebag”
• Denver neighbors say city scrapped a finalized road project after opposition from the state’s wealthiest family

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• Brock Nelson has 4 points as surging Avs beat Canadiens 7-2
• Denver Rescue Mission provides Thanksgiving meals to those in need
• First Denver snow brings out holiday crowds for Small Business Saturday

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• Where you can cut your own Christmas tree in Colorado’s mountains
• Entertainers at Denver strip clubs are protected by city’s wage laws, judge rules
• Rocky Mountain Holiday Train Show keeps chugging along

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• Friends and colleagues remember Colorado state Sen. Faith Winter
• ICE conduct in Colorado “unlawful”: Federal judge restricts how immigration officers can arrest people in the state
• Uranium discovered in newly built Colorado dam pauses $600 million project

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• Tina Peters to remain in state custody despite federal request
• Deion Sanders intends to fix Colorado after 3-9 season ‘if it’s the last thing I do’
• Man accused in Planned Parenthood shooting in 2015 dies in federal custody

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• Why Are These Colorado Hats Huge in China?
• Brick Planet: 1.5 million Lego bricks bring wildlife to Denver museum
• Major water right approval could protect ample Colorado River flows

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• This is the second latest first snow in Denver history
• Colorado’s pay transparency law increased wages across the board, study finds
• Colorado updates passenger vehicle traction laws ahead of winter driving season

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• With a potentially rough flu season on the horizon, Colorado has lost nearly $28 million in federal immunization funding
• Trump accuses 6 Democratic lawmakers of ‘seditious behavior, punishable by death’
• Feeling exhausted, Durango family arrested by ICE signs paperwork for self-deportation

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• Trump targets Colorado AI regulations in draft of executive order
• Colorado attorney general, Mesa County prosecutor urge Gov. Polis not to transfer Tina Peters
• Colorado clean air officials poised for another retreat in coal fight, environmental groups charge

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• Solar storms bring colorful northern lights to unexpected places in the US, including Colorado
• Rockies Rewrite the Script: Major Player Development Shake-Up Signals New Era in Colorado
• Colorado opens program offering up to $14,000 per household for heat pumps, stoves and home energy upgrades

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• ‘This fight is far from over’: Colorado Dems join petition to force House vote on healthcare subsidies
• New report shows Colorado is making progress in composting and recycling
• Colorado forges ahead with winter wolf release amid federal, local headwinds

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• The government is open again, but flight cancellations will remain elevated for now
• Colorado hemp faces ‘nail in the coffin’ with new federal THC restrictions
• Adams County to pay $80,000 settlement in First Amendment case after deputy arrested man for videoing traffic stop

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• The penny and me: Denver7 anchor Shannon Ogden says so long to the one-cent piece
• Amid reported pressure from Trump, Boebert keeps name on Epstein discharge petition
• Trump administration takes formal step toward freeing Tina Peters

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• Colorado voters approve raising taxes on high-income households for free school meals
• Northern Colorado city fighting overdose deaths with Narcan kiosk
• No more WWII Howitzers: CDOT revamps avalanche control system

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• Union candidates sweep Denver Public School Board races
• ‘The ground is shaking’: Aurora City Council sees major change as progressives win, Jurinsky out
• 4 things we learned from the Broncos sloppy win over Raiders

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• Dozens of flights to and from Denver canceled as federal order to scale back air traffic takes effect
• 32K Colorado SNAP participants get full benefits before Supreme Court ruling freezes funding
• “Crypto Pastor” charged with racketeering, theft in Colorado after allegedly diverting $1.3 million from investors

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• ICE: Durango father was not mistakenly arrested, claims of in-custody abuse ‘absurd’
• Latino groups denounce Rep. Lauren Boebert’s ‘racist’ Halloween costume
• Joe Oltmann, a Colorado Election Conspiracist, Sues My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, Another Leading Election Denier

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• Denver Film Festival 2025: John Elway doc, new ‘Knives Out’ lead city’s biggest film party
• Wild run launches Nuggets past Pelicans, Jokic makes history
• Northern Colorado butcher hands out $10,000 in free meat amid SNAP concerns

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• Denver celebrates Dia de los Muertos
• A List of Voter Guides from Progressives, Conservatives, & Media Outlets
• Colorado sees major dip in car thefts after taking No. 1 for car thefts per capita in 2022

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• Coloradans who use state’s individual marketplace will see their insurance premiums double
• Colorado lawmakers approve $10 million to bolster food banks as SNAP benefits dry up
• LGBTQ+-Affirming Denver Businesses Vandalized Over the Weekend

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• El Paso County billboard calls for release of Epstein files, targets Rep. Jeff Crank
• Colorado Bureau of Investigation launches probe into use of force at Durango ICE protest
• Colorado sues Trump over ‘retaliatory’ Space Command relocation

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• Inside wild fourth quarter, Broncos’ comeback win over Giants
• Keystone beats A-Basin to open first in North America
• A treasure trove of Colfax Avenue artifacts heading permanently to History Colorado

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• How Netflix’s “Love Is Blind” ended in Denver season 9
• Fate of Colorado’s universal school lunch program hangs on Props LL, MM results
• Colorado pays to keep visitor centers at Rocky Mountain National Park open amid shutdown

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• ‘This is bad’: Deion Sanders’ CU Buffs routed by Utah
• ‘Disbelief’ in Denver after Chauncey Billups arrest
• Castle Rock woman found guilty of voter fraud in the 2022 General Election

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• Flock No! Fear of AI Cameras Brings Hundreds, Including Councilmembers, to Heated Town Hall
• Colorado cattle ranchers upset over Trump’s proposed increase in beef from Argentina
• State agreed to pay British Columbia for more wolves, the federal government said Colorado cannot

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• Denver Broncos win defensive slugfest in London to leave New York Jets as only winless team in NFL
• Students march through Denver to celebrate ‘White Cane Day’
• Colorado records lowest obesity rate in the U.S.

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• UFO? Military operation? Questions surround balloon seen above Colorado mountains
• Crowds gather across Colorado for ‘No Kings’ protests
• Climbing engineers identify possible new 14er in Colorado — and one that might need to be demoted

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• Colorado officials warn SNAP benefits could run out soon
• Bystanders shot by Denver police officer to receive nearly $20 million
• Damage estimates still being calculated following historic floods in southwestern Colorado

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• Denver quietly signs contract with Flock to fly AI drones for police calls
• They Just Can’t Help Themselves, Abortion Ban 2026 Edition
• Colorado Department of Education challenges funding eligibility for ‘first public Christian school’

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• Largest beer festival in America returns to Colorado
• Why a Grand Junction food bank opened a restaurant
• Ballots for November election will be mailed to Colorado voters starting Friday

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• Rep. Lauren Boebert’s reelection campaign asks ‘Are aliens real?!’
• Bloomberg wades into Denver’s fight over flavored tobacco ban with big-dollar contribution
• Denver police adopt Blue Envelope Program to ease communication between disabled residents, officers

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• Colorado was short dozens of air traffic controllers, even before the government shutdown
• Aurora PD sergeant who serves as SRO supervisor arrested by FBI’s Child Exploitation Task Force
• Deputies search for suspect after large swastika found in Colorado hillside

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• CO Springs Teachers Strike for First Time Since 1975
• How Trump funding cuts for Hispanic-Serving Institutions will impact Pueblo colleges
• Supreme Court justices skeptical of free speech limits in Colorado conversion therapy case

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• Colorado’s new ‘Music Advocacy Day’ hopes to lay the groundwork for music policy progress
• These Colorado farmers are trying to bring back long-forgotten apple varieties
• Colorado specialty wolf license plate raises $1M for wildlife, ranchers

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• Colorado becomes first state to cap prescription drug prices, starting with Enbrel
• After 3 years of construction, Denver’s 16th Street is officially reopened
• FasTracks passenger rail lines could be completed by 2034, with $1.6 billion

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• Colorado investigators to review author Hunter S. Thompson’s death more than two decades after it was ruled a suicide
• Dramatic rise in number of pedestrians being killed on Denver’s streets
• Colorado fined over fans’ anti-Mormon chants

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• Trump administration slashes $550 million in Colorado clean energy grants, Democrats call it revenge
• ‘Feeling like political punching bags’: Federal worker, union leader say uncertainty looms amid govt. shutdown
• Black Bear Pass in southern Colorado reopens after Kia Telluride gets stuck near Telluride