Month: December 2021

awesome + uniting

• Record-breaking Colorado Gives Day raises $54.4 million for local nonprofits
• Coloradan Nichole Ayers Chosen For NASA’s New Astronaut Candidate Class
• Load of toads: CPW, Denver Zoo team up to save Colorado’s boreal toads with hope to release 20K tadpoles next summer

awesome + controversy

• Snow Drought Ends: It Was 7 Weeks Late, But Denver Finally Recorded A Measurable Snow
• Wellington marijuana initiative officially passes by a single vote
• US approves Indigenous name change to Mestaa’ėhehe Mountain for Colorado mountain

awful + uniting

• More than $73M in unemployment benefits paid to potential fraudsters, audit finds
• Furor Over Plea Deal for Ex-Cop Over Assault on Elderly Man
• RTD, TSA, Denver Police And Colorado Guardian Angels Stepping Up Patrols At Troubled Union Station

awful + controversy

• Mayor Hancock vetoes flavored tobacco ban slated to start in 2023
• Denver to consider outlawing homemade, untraceable “ghost guns” as they become more common nationwide
• Multiple CO Republicans Conceal Their View on Election Conspiracy Question by Saying They Can’t “Speak” for “Other States”

awesome + uniting

• Colorado Space Company Will Help Build The Next Space Station
• Denver Police Prepare To Protect The More Than 100,000 People Expected Downtown For Parade Of Lights
• Are the Broncos ready for prime time?

awesome + controversy

• Colorado Democrats announce plan to protect abortion rights in light of Supreme Court case
• Denver man “damn lucky” to survive COVID-19 after 158 days in hospital
• ‘The Great Resignation’: Colorado Workers Quitting Their Jobs More Often Than Workers In Most Other States

awful + uniting

• Omicron variant detected in Colorado woman who recently traveled to Africa
• “Callous lack of humanity”: Denver police officer fired for not giving first aid to bleeding gunshot victim who died
• Colorado ranks among worst states for internet crimes. Here are ways to avoid them.

awful + controversy

• MyPillow CEO Hires Colorado Conspiracists to Jet Around Country Pushing Big Lie
• Democratic caucus chairs, progressives call for Boebert to be stripped of committee assignments
• ‘Stretch that rope’: Colorado conservative leader suggests Gov. Polis should be hanged