Month: August 2023

awesome + uniting

• Everything you need to know about the 2023 Colorado State Fair
• Colorado Department of Education, Donors Choose partner to help teachers buy some school supplies
• Colorado governor orders his administration to rework its housing initiatives after the legislature killed his signature bill

awesome + controversy

• Colorado’s True Anomaly opens new lab for its space defense vehicle
• Douglas County library board unanimously votes against pulling four LGBTQ+ books
• Federal Court Stops Oil Project Near Colorado River—for Now

awful + uniting

• Serious COVID cases on the rise in Colorado as well as nationally
• 14 Denver schools without air conditioning release students early due to heat Tuesday
• Biden approves major disaster declaration for Colorado following June storms, Highlands Ranch tornado

awful + controversy

• Colorado conservatives launched Trump’s election rigging claims
• Neither Lauren Boebert nor Republican primary challenger plans to sign Libertarians’ pledge
• Accused Boulder King Soopers shooter found mentally competent for trial

awesome + uniting

• Colorado test scores improve, hinting at a pandemic recovery
• Aurora to celebrate its diverse community during tenth Global Fest
• 16 downtown Denver office buildings considered for housing conversions

awesome + controversy

• Colorado closer to banning ‘abortion reversal’ treatment after medical board decision
• Colorado marijuana tax revenue higher than alcohol, cigarettes
• Aurora City Council passes ordinance to ban sale of cats, dogs in pet stores

awful + uniting

• 19 Coloradans hospitalized with West Nile as of Monday
• Southwest flight attendants say “backroom” deal has stripped them of Colorado’s new sick leave protections
• Jared Polis, Democratic state lawmakers call for more changes to Colorado’s HOA laws after Colorado Sun investigation

awful + controversy

• Polis: Catholic schools that want universal pre-K must not discriminate
• CO Lawyer Ellis Is One of Two Right-Wing Christian Leaders Indicted with Trump in Georgia
• Rubinstein: Tina Peters is a flight risk

awesome + uniting

• United, MSU Denver join forces to tackle pilot shortage
• Colorado State University partners with German company to build $150 million laser facility
• This Colorado spa resort claimed top spot for best in US

awesome + controversy

• Move Over, Slow Down law updated
• New workers’ rights laws take effect in Colorado Monday
• New protections for Colorado renters kick in this week

awful + uniting

• Colorado photographer John Fielder dies after battle with pancreatic cancer
• Democrats Disappointed in Court Decision Blocking CO Law Aimed at Keeping Guns Out of the Hands of People Under 21
• Boulder County to pay $2.5M to man who gouged his own eyes out in solitary confinement

awful + controversy

• Colorado’s childhood immunization rates decline as exemptions rise
• Biden bashes Boebert for opposing bill that backed CS Wind expansion in Pueblo
• Driving school employee crashes into Learn to Drive building, according to police in Colorado

awesome + uniting

• “It was the right decision”: state leaders react to news that U.S. Space Command staying in Colorado
• Taste of Ethiopia brings African flavor to Colorado: “this is what Colorado is”
• Meet Colorado’s newest troll: ‘Rita the Rock Planter’

awesome + controversy

• New family leave and retirement benefits rolling out for Coloradans
• Denver’s minimum wage will rise to $18.29 next year
• Notorious California bear to be relocated to Colorado

awful + uniting

• Heat from global warming is drying up the Colorado River, UCLA says
• EPA rejects parts of Colorado’s air quality permit for Suncor Energy refinery
• These cars are stolen most often in Colorado

awful + controversy

• Colorado medical boards consider draft rule on abortion reversal treatment
• Study finds schools within Denver Public Schools remain segregated by race, class and language
• John Eastman, a ‘Co-Conspirator’ in Trump Indictment, Is No Stranger to Controversy in Colorado