Month: June 2024

awesome + uniting

• $75 million in federal funds flow into Colorado Springs to expand computer chip manufacturing
• Team of female Colorado STEM students invents wildlife detection device
• Thousands of cyclists hit the streets for Colorado’s Bike to Work Day

awesome + controversy

• Colorado’s contested Democratic primaries turned on more than ideology, despite prominent lawmakers’ losses
• Mysterious monolith has northern Colorado pointing, theorizing and buzzing
• Colorado State Patrol expands free steering wheel lock program to 9 locations

awful + uniting

• Living near oil and gas sites in Colorado could make irregular heartbeat symptoms worse, CU study says
• Grasshoppers devastating Colorado farmers’ crops and pastures in Yuma County
• ‘There’s not enough of us to go around’: VA nurses rally in Aurora claiming a staffing crisis

awful + controversy

• Boebert will likely fill the House seat vacated by congressman who criticized the GOP’s extremes
• Election losses, party tumult and frustration driving effort to remove Colorado GOP chair
• Xcel says it needs $1.9 billion to prevent future wildfires as it faces nearly 300 lawsuits over Marshall fire

awesome + uniting

• ‘Rooted in the fight for freedom’ — A beginner’s guide to celebrating Juneteenth
• ‘We are here. We’re queer. Get used to it’: 50 Years of Denver Pride
• Denver Basic Income Project gave homeless people cash and saved taxpayers almost $600,000 in the process, report says

awesome + controversy

• Janitors fight for better wages and working conditions in Colorado
• Campaigns and outside groups are pouring millions into Colorado’s congressional races ahead of the primary election
• CPW sights first gray wolf pup from reintroduced wolves, names pack

awful + uniting

• Front Range landscaper likely cause of Japanese beetle threat to western Colorado agriculture
• Former Northern Colorado teacher and Boy Scout leader convicted of raping boys for nearly 20 years
• Club Q shooter pleads guilty to 74 federal charges, sentenced to life in prison

awful + controversy

• Leader of CO Republican Party — Who’s Running for Congress — Raises the Possibility That His Primary Election Will Be Rigged
• Federal judge blocks Colorado’s new cap on interest rates for out-of-state banks
• Colorado Supreme Court hears arguments in transgender cake case Tuesday

awesome + uniting

• Longest-ever flight from Denver International Airport takes off Tuesday
• All the Juneteenth Events in Metro Denver
• Colorado Rockies Do Something Never Done Before in Modern Era of Baseball History

awesome + controversy

• Abortion rights advocates in Colorado prepare for more legal challenges
• Efforts to build an “airport city” called Colorado Aerotropolis are now official
• New Colorado program will make recycling free for everyone

awful + uniting

• Plutonium found in air near former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant
• Report finds Colorado was built on $1.7 trillion of land expropriated from tribal nations
• Alleged Planned Parenthood shooter may be forcibly medicated, appeals court rules

awful + controversy

• ‘No end date in sight’ for RTD light rail repairs, according to state regulators
• Jeffco GOP censures local leader who called for state party chair’s removal
• Pride flags stolen from several Arvada homes in recent weeks

awesome + uniting

• Boeing’s Starliner successfully docks with space station after challenging rendezvous
• Two years of free college? For some students in Colorado, the answer will soon be, ‘Yes’
• Colorado Springs opens new LGBTQ community center nearly 18 months after Club Q shooting

awesome + controversy

• More protections for Uber, Lyft, DoorDash drivers in Colorado as Gov. Jared Polis signs bills
• Colorado governor signs bill regulating prone restraints
• Colorado governor signs law banning hand-held use of phones while driving

awful + uniting

• Southern Poverty Law Center reports 30 antigovernment or hate groups in Colorado
• Nearly 10,000 Suncor air pollution violations in 5 years could lead to citizen lawsuit, groups warn
• Colorado boy, 4, attacked by an elk in Estes Park – the second such attack in less than a week

awful + controversy

• Fallout from Colo. GOP’s anti-LGBTQ+ messages continues as state Republican leaders call on chairman to resign
• Pueblo syringe exchange ban temporarily blocked by district judge
• Donald Trump endorses Republican Gabe Evans in Colorado’s battleground 8th Congressional District

• Trump Guilty on All Counts in Hush-Money Case
• Colorado politicians react to Trump guilty verdict
• Colorado officials react to Donald Trump’s conviction, from saying he “lacks moral capacity” to criticizing “scam trial”
• Donald Trump becomes first former U.S. president convicted of felony crimes. Here’s how Colorado leaders are reacting.
• Colorado officials, politicians react after Trump found guilty on felony hush money charges
• Colorado congressional delegation reacts to former President Trump’s conviction in hush money trial
• Colorado Politicians and Leaders React to Trump Guilty Verdict
• ‘Sham verdict’: Lauren Boebert comes to Trump’s defense, blasts felony conviction
• Trump’s team clamps down on Republicans using him to fundraise
• ‘I was wrong’: Former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis loses her Colorado law license for three years
• Publisher of ‘2,000 Mules’ election conspiracy theory film issues apology
• Colorado Republicans ‘rumble’ over who’s the best fit for 4th, 8th districts