Month: March 2021

awesome + uniting

• Gov. Polis launches Build Back Stronger statewide listening tour
• Colorado man builds squirrel houses to keep ‘sweet creatures’ safe
• A New Herbert Bayer Sculpture Has Arrived at Denver’s Alameda Station

awesome + controversy

• New survey shows increased interest, uptake of COVID vaccine in Colorado
• COVID Dial 3.0: No Capacity Limits For Gyms And Outdoor Events Under Lowest Levels
• Colorado’s billionaires are nearly $10 billion richer since March 2020

awful + uniting

• Mass shooting at Boulder King Soopers adds to Colorado’s history of high-profile shootings
• Weld Sheriff Tells Anti-Govt Activists Not to Revolt, Then Calls CO Lawmaker a ‘Terrorist’
• Colorado’s toxic emitters revise their leakage numbers below tough thresholds in law

awful + controversy

• Dominion Voting sues Fox News for $1.6 billion over 2020 election claims
• Colorado baker sued again over alleged LGBTQ bias
• Kristi Burton Brown elected to lead Colorado’s Republican Party for next two years

awesome + uniting

• Sen. Michael Bennet Secures $100 Billion In Child Tax Credits To Help Lift Families Out Of Poverty
• Colorado economists expect worst of COVID recession has passed
• Plug-in And Hike: Colorado Strikes Deal For Electric Car Chargers At Every State Park

awesome + controversy

• Colorado Democrats introduce public option bill to create nonprofit-managed health insurance plan
• Denver may make scooter, bike shares a more permanent fixture on city streets
• Historic snowstorm helps improve drought conditions across Colorado

awful + uniting

• Colorado near top in getting COVID-19 vaccine to people over 65, but middle of pack with overall population
• Shootings In Atlanta Leave Some In Denver’s Asian Community ‘Really Disgusted’
• Counterfeit opioid pills made in Mexico pushed Colorado into a third, deadly wave of the opioid crisis

awful + controversy

• Griswold testifies in support of bill to prevent foreign influence in Colorado elections
• Debate heats up surrounding MeatOut Day after the Gov. Polis’s proclamation
• Permanent fencing around Colorado Capitol has bipartisan opposition from dozens of former lawmakers

awesome + uniting

• Sandhill Crane migration through Colorado’s San Luis Valley
• Vice President Harris to visit Denver to tout COVID relief package
• Colorado relaxes some COVID-19 restrictions, restaurant capacity, last call expanded

awesome + controversy

• Daylight saving time is back this weekend, and so is the annual controversy about the practice
• Retro Green Mountain License Plates Could Return To Colorado Roadways
• Denver weather: Up to 6 more inches of snow possible as storm settles in over I-25 corridor

awful + uniting

• South African COVID-19 variant confirmed in Colorado for first time
• Airline Passenger Accused of Refusing Mask, Then Urinating
• Colorado reports most killings in 2020 in 25 years

awful + controversy

• With governor’s backing, Black lawmakers seek to ban handcuffing young kids in Colorado schools
• Congresswoman calls for ethics investigation into Boebert, other GOP reps because of insurrection
• Denver Resumes Vehicle Registration Enforcement On April 1

awesome + uniting

• $1.9T relief bill: What that means for Coloradans
• Colorado driver’s license will soon feature Mount Sneffels
• Gov. Polis invites elementary students to “Name that Plow” contest

awesome + controversy

• Safe gun storage bill passes out of House committee
• Major Challenges In Denver Metro Area For New Home Seekers As Median Home Price Increases By 21% In Past Year
• Johnson & Johnson vaccine arrives in Colorado with some opposition from Catholic bishops

awful + uniting

• One year of COVID-19 in Colorado: What we’ve learned, and what could still haunt us
• Bradley Bunn Pleads Guilty To Possessing Pipe Bombs In Loveland Home
• Man loses hunting privileges in Colorado, 47 other states after three-county poaching spree

awful + controversy

• Catholic group opposes Colorado bill that would give child sex abuse survivors the ability to sue their abuser at any time
• Help Wanted: Colorado GOP seeks a leader after years of election losses
• Woman sues Denver after eye injury from protest requires multiple surgeries