Month: June 2022

awesome + uniting

• Colorado taxpayers could see $750 refund checks this summer, new forecast estimates
• Still haven’t cast your ballot in Colorado’s primaries? We’re here to help.
• In the face of intimidation, Denver PrideFest presses forward

awesome + controversy

• Colorado moves one step closer to a government-designed health insurance plan
• High court upholds family leave law
• Poll shows Polis, Bennet leading Republican challengers, but voters trust GOP on more top issues

awful + uniting

• Pack it up. It’s heading back to Florida. Game 6 is Sunday night on Denver7
• Family of Olde Town shooting victim Johnny Hurley sues Arvada Police Department
• Colorado sees a drop in life expectancy not seen since WWII, driven by COVID and overdose deaths

awful + controversy

• Tina Peters Campaign Paid $50k to Militia-Affiliated Business
• Colorado Republican Senate Candidate May Not Accept the Results of the 2022 Primary Election
• As leaders react to Roe getting overturned, Coloradans take to the street

awesome + uniting

• Gov. Polis joins Black Democratic Caucus to raise Juneteenth flag
• Avalanche Rout Lightning With Seven-Goal Flurry to Take 2–0 Stanley Cup Series Lead
• Colorado Mammoth capture NLL championship

awesome + controversy

• Children Ages 6 Months To 5 Can Get Vaccinated Against COVID
• This Colorado town might change its name to ‘Kush’ to celebrate its growing cannabis industry
• Smell Lil’ Stinker, the rare corpse flower, at Denver Botanic Gardens

awful + uniting

• Nebraska man pleads guilty to threatening Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold
• Report: Tens of Thousands of CO Children Threatened by Proximity to Oil & Gas Operations
• Colorado River water use may have to be slashed by a quarter to avert crisis, federal official warns

awful + controversy

• Who is John Eastman, the Trump lawyer at the center of the Jan. 6 investigation?
• 4 teens charged in Northfield High paintball gun incident
• Denver’s crackdown on concealed carry results in battle over park

awesome + uniting

• Denver will host 1st Cities Summit of the Americas in 2023
• Ride the Rockies starts this weekend, leads bicyclists on 436-mile route through Colorado’s mountains
• Colorado Avalanche will face Tampa Bay Lightning in Stanley Cup Final

awesome + controversy

• Gun control goes hyperlocal in Colorado, as restrictions pass in four Boulder County cities
• The CPR News voter guide to Colorado’s 2022 primary elections: How to vote, who’s running and more to know
• Denver’s new affordable housing era: Income-restricted housing will now be mandated in large developments

awful + uniting

• ‘We’ve had enough,’ hundreds gather for Denver March for Our Lives
• Colorado officials evaluate complaint that Boebert used campaign funds to pay off tax liens on restaurant
• Bureau of Prisons to pay $300,000 to settle lawsuit after diabetic prisoner was allegedly deprived of insulin at supermax facility

awful + controversy

• The big new player in Colorado’s Senate GOP primary? Democratic groups
• Conservative feedback reshapes draft Colorado social studies standards
• Colorado bishops want state lawmakers who voted for abortion rights to abstain from communion

awesome + uniting

• Aurora’s Vikram Raju Takes 2nd In Scripps National Spelling Bee’s First-Ever Lightning-Round Tiebreaker
• PHOTOS: Five Points Jazz Festival and parade in Denver
• Big investments to address Colorado’s homelessness crisis become law

awesome + controversy

• New law offers hope to would-be employees by automatically sealing criminal records
• Colorado joins list of states waiting to make daylight saving time year-round
• Colorado becomes first state to ban anonymous sperm and egg donations

awful + uniting

• Denver Starbucks workers allege retaliation for union vote
• Denver deputy, officers disciplined after duty guns stolen from cars
• Bodies of 2 men pulled from collapsed coal pile at Pueblo power plant

awful + controversy

• Colorado’s moth invasion has begun. How long will ‘miller moths’ stick around?
• Southwest Airlines faces $1.3 million in fines over “systemic violations” of Colorado labor laws
• Congressman says AR-15 is ‘a gun of choice’ for killing raccoons and foxes on Colorado farms, ranches