Month: August 2022

awesome + uniting

• Humans are again aiming at the moon with NASA’s Artemis missions — and Colorado is at the center of it
• More than 770,000 Coloradans potentially eligible for loan forgiveness under Biden plan
• The 150th Colorado State Fair begins Friday. Here’s your guide to the Pueblo event

awesome + controversy

• Colorado voters will decide whether to allow wine sales in grocery stores as booze battle heads to November ballot
• LoDo food truck ban lifted this weekend
• Colorado lawmakers target turf amid unprecedented drought

awful + uniting

• After euthanizing 63 bears so far this year, wildlife officials urge Coloradans to bear-proof homes
• Final police officer submits resignation at Nederland Police Department
• Colorado mom guilty of Qanon kidnapping conspiracy

awful + controversy

• GOP group launches bid to recall Priola after Colorado lawmaker becomes a Democrat
• Judge to Knisley: ‘Facts both troubling and alarming’
• Denver real estate developer and former Republican candidate for state treasurer charged with security fraud

awesome + uniting

• Doctors in space: CU’s Boulder and School of Medicine campuses will offer a joint degree program to send MDs to infinity and beyond
• Delta County leaders reverse course, say “shear thing” to plan for big solar project on land where sheep graze
• Switch to native grasses estimated to save millions of gallons

awesome + controversy

• Colorado moves another step closer to importing lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada
• One person’s trash, another’s treasure: Donors, buyers flock to Colorado thrift stores amid post-pandemic resurgence
• Stalled in Congress, Colorado Democrats ask Biden to take action to preserve public lands

awful + uniting

• Colorado teachers have the largest pay disparity in the country
• Denver DA wants grand jury probe of police shooting that injured bystanders as body camera footage is released
• New water cuts announced by feds after Colorado River Basin states miss deadline for agreement

awful + controversy

• Trump legal adviser ordered to testify in Ga. election probe
• Abortion becomes a front and center issue in Colorado’s Senate race
• Gun advocacy groups sue more Colorado cities over controls

awesome + uniting

• Democrats laud coming impact Inflation Reduction Act will have on Colorado
• One Coloradan unveils Biden’s dark side as political meme wars escalate
• Xcel Energy plans to generate 80% of electricity with renewables by 2030
• Colorado hopes cash infusion spurs electric school bus adoption

awesome + controversy

• Minimum wage in Denver will increase next year to more than $17 per hour
• Colorado voters to decide in November whether the state should offer free meals to all students
• ‘South Park’ enjoys a silver anniversary of satire

awful + uniting

• Microplastics increasingly found in Colorado’s snowpack
• ‘I feel so violated’: Viral TikTok challenge suspected in Broomfield car theft
• Motorists rescued from I-70 during flash flood as more than 2 inches of rain falls in parts of metro Denver

awful + controversy

• Colorado to spar over discrimination case in Supreme Court
• Crisis pregnancy centers in Colorado steer patients away from abortion
• EXCLUSIVE: GOP Leader Concealed Political Consulting Company from Colleagues

awesome + uniting

• Here’s what to know about the $750 TABOR refund for Colorado taxpayers
• Metropolitan State University of Denver locks tuition rate for current, incoming students
• Things to do in Denver this weekend, Aug. 5-7

awesome + controversy

• These restaurants have top burgers in Denver
• After Colorado enacted a salary transparency law, job listings dropped—but employment went up
• Proposal that would fund repairs of Denver’s public sidewalks qualifies for the November ballot

awful + uniting

• Colorado doctors hope for more testing, vaccines as monkeypox outbreak is declared a public health emergency
• Lakewood residents at elevated risk of cancer cases from Terumo medical sterilization plant, EPA says
• Dick Durbin says a Colorado clerk now wears bulletproof vest amidst threats and harassment

awful + controversy

• Congressional Candidate Aadland Endorsed by QAnon, Anti-Immigration Figures
• Denver bans food trucks near LoDo bars to curb violence, but vendors say they’re being treated unfairly
• In a burned-down neighborhood, Coloradans call on Biden to declare climate emergency