Month: January 2022

awesome + uniting

• ‘We anticipate a continued decline’: Colorado School of Public Health says COVID lull could last into summer
• Denver Broncos hire Nathaniel Hackett for first stint as head coach
• PHOTOS: Snow-sculpting competition returns to Breckenridge

awesome + controversy

• Colorado Springs ballot measure is a test case for marijuana popularity
• Minimum age to buy assault-style weapons in Colorado would change under proposed law
• Judge Rules Against Whitewater Rafting Firms in Wage Dispute

awful + uniting

• Servicemembers in Colorado put on ‘prepare to deploy’ orders because of Russia
• Horrifying funeral home allegations prompt bill that would give Colorado regulators more power to inspect
• Denver to pay $500,000 to student shot in eye with 40mm sponge round during George Floyd protests

awful + controversy

• The Children’s Museum is temporarily closing after ‘unacceptable behavior’ of guests refusing to comply with the City mask policy
• Robert Sigg: Denver Media Mogul’s Criminal Past, Link to Tragedy, Ties to Trump Apologist
• Congressional ethics investigators say Rep. Doug Lamborn may have misused official resources

awesome + uniting

• Colorado unemployment rate lowest since pandemic began
• Mikaela Shiffrin leads 17-member U.S. ski team nominated for Olympics
• Thousands around Colorado march to remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision

awesome + controversy

• Strike ends: King Soopers, UFCW Local 7 reach tentative agreement
• Colorado to give out free KN95 masks at libraries, but program’s rollout leads to confusion
• Grand Champion Steer Takes Center Stage At Brown Palace

awful + uniting

• Lack Of Clean Water Forces Rapidly-Growing Town To Suddenly Stop Issuing Building Permits
• Why Colorado Suffered Most Traffic Deaths Since 2002 Last Year
• Alamosa 911 Dispatcher Arrested On Sexual Assault Charge

awful + controversy

• Who Is Jenna Ellis, the CO Lawyer Subpoenaed by House Insurrection Investigators?
• Boebert asked Jewish visitors to Capitol if they were doing ‘reconnaissance’: report
• Colorado attorney general targets landlord price gouging following Marshall fire

awesome + uniting

• Gov. Polis and Democrats unveil 2022 legislative platform
• Rep. Ed Perlmutter reflects on his retirement from Colorado’s 7th Congressional District
• Colorado Parks And Wildlife Agents Help Remove Trash Can Lid From Deer’s Neck

awesome + controversy

• Researchers say cannabis compounds might prevent COVID-19 infection
• Thousands of Colorado King Soopers workers go on strike for better pay, protections
• Some surviving Marshall Fire homes were built with fire-resistant material

awful + uniting

• Colorado had hottest six months in history, new data shows
• Colorado’s COVID hospitalizations top November peak, but fewer being treated primarily for the virus
• Founder of Impact Locally, a clothing bank for Denver homeless, charged with charitable fraud, theft

awful + controversy

• Navient cancels student loans for over 1K Colorado borrowers as part of nationwide settlement
• Prosecutors take Peters investigation to grand jury
• Jared Polis to “aggressively assert” water rights as Nebraska plans $500M canal in Colorado

awesome + uniting

• All those crows will remember you, so be nice
• Alysa Liu eyes 3rd US figure skating title, 1st Olympic spot, after moving to train in Colorado
• Colorado snowpack up 68% from 4 weeks ago

awesome + controversy

• Polis appoints former rival Walker Stapleton to economic development commission
• Why some Uber and Lyft drivers are trying to start a labor movement in a Denver airport parking lot
• Republican state Sen. Don Coram will run to unseat Lauren Boebert

awful + uniting

• “Hang on to one another”: President Biden promises Marshall fire victims federal help during Boulder County tour
• Vic Fangio fired as Broncos head coach after three losing seasons
• Denver police investigated gunman a year before deadly shooting spree

awful + controversy

• Colorado King Soopers workers formally announce intent to strike
• Polis says he commuted trucker’s sentence to end circus around case; Judge expresses frustration
• On Jan. 6 anniversary, Colorado Democratic members of Congress push for preservation of democracy

awesome + uniting

• Coors Field in Denver Is Chosen as Replacement Host for 2021 All-Star Game
• Colorado venue was world’s most-attended venue in 2021
• How Nikola Jokic got better from his MVP season: “He’s just in control of everything”

awesome + controversy

• Jockeying begins for Colorado’s new 8th Congressional District
• Colorado Election Results: All Three Statewide Measures Go Down in Flames
• 2021 Colorado legislative session comes to an end

awful + uniting

• Colorado surpasses 10,000 COVID deaths
• 58 minutes of terror: How the Boulder King Soopers shooting unfolded
• ‘A force of nature’: Marshall Fire grows to 1,600 acres, forces evacuation of Superior, Louisville, Broomfield

awful + controversy

• Trump Lawyer Blamed Pence for Violence as Rioters Stormed Capitol
• “No such thing as bad publicity”: Lauren Boebert maintains hold over CD3, despite Islamophobic comments
• 2021 in Tina Peters