Colorado Week in Review

awesome + uniting

• Colorado couple’s 20-year search for extinct fruit finally pays off
• First round of $300 Lost Wages Assistance payments headed to Coloradans
• Celebrate the Jewish High Holy Days, Pandemic-Style

awesome + controversy

• USPS agrees to scrap confusing election mailers in Colorado
• Colorado economic recovery proceeding at fast pace, two reports show
• George Gore’s bloody legacy could soon be erased from Colorado’s mountains, replaced with a nod to the Utes

awful + uniting

• Air Quality Unhealthy For Everyone As Wildfire Smoke Gets Worse In Colorado
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death pours intensity on, could reshape Colorado’s hotly contested Senate race
• Denver Mayor Michael Hancock Scraps Proposal For Sanctioned Homeless Camp In Five Points

awful + controversy

• Prosecutors file dozens of charges against demonstrators who organized Aurora protests this summer
• What impact will Trump’s slur against fallen service members have in El Paso County?
• State Senate Candidate Lynn Gerber Is Latest CO Republican To Support QAnon

awesome + uniting

• Colorado drug shows promise against COVID-19
• Denver restaurant owner says new cleaning device makes his restaurant the safest in Colorado
• Denver Broncos announce ‘Inspire Change’ initiative focused on addressing social, racial justice issues

awesome + controversy

• Oil and gas regulators signal support for 2,000-foot setbacks
• Call police for a woman who is changing clothes in an alley? A new program in Denver sends mental health professionals instead.
• Cameron Peak fire area received up to 14 inches of snow, dampening wildfire’s growth

awful + uniting

• COVID-19: More Than 200 CU Boulder, CSU Positive Tests So Far
• Colorado stops nearly $1 billion in unemployment benefits from being paid to scammers
• Family, friends of immigrant family killed in Denver arson fire want answers and arrests

awful + controversy

• Colorado’s top election official threatens to refer Trump for prosecution in cases of suspected double-voting
• Crow joins Dem. lawmakers in urging continuation of military newspaper
• Over 130 Faith Leaders Voice Opposition to Colorado’s Anti-Abortion Ballot Measure

awesome + uniting

• Jamal Murray: Shoes Honoring George Floyd, Breonna Taylor Provide Power to Fight
• Free WiFi hotspots for 34,000 low-income households in Colorado
• Study projects high ridership for proposed Front Range Passenger Rail

awesome + controversy

• Denver will mail ballots to voters at first-class rates to ensure on-time delivery
• Why Average Denver Home Price Just Blew Past $600,000
• Board votes to remove Indian and Warrior mascots at Loveland High School, Bill Reed Middle School

awful + uniting

• Gov. Polis makes plea to college students: Don’t party over Labor Day weekend
• Pine Gulch containment estimated by Sept. 15; Grizzly Creek ruled to be human caused
• Colorado AG asks U.S. to investigate Frontier over consumer complaints amid COVID-19

awful + controversy

• Cory Gardner wants to get rid of Obamacare. But it’s not clear what he plans to replace it with.
• Jefferson County sues Bandimere Speedway, claims track violated coronavirus orders
• Colorado-based gun group raising money for alleged Kenosha shooter

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• Denver restaurant El Taco de Mexico receives the prestigious America’s Classics Award from the James Beard Foundation. 
• Denver Restaurant Week runs from February 22 to March 3.  
• Civic Center Park hosts the first annual Downtown Open Rail Jam, featuring a 90-foot snow slope structure and musical performances. 
• 11,000 people show up to a Bernie Sanders rally in Denver. More Presidential candidates have scheduled visits to Colorado as our March 3rd primary inches closer. 
• A bill to lower Colorado’s dangerously low childhood vaccination rate passes its first hurdle but faces organized opposition. 
• The CROWN Act, a bill to end racial hair discrimination by employers, passes in the Colorado legislature. 
• Westminster Strangler captured in Houston after manhunt. 
• No one was hurt after two people shoot at each other at a Broomfield Walmart. 
• NHL Stadium Series game between the Avs and the Kings at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs is marred by an Avs loss, awful traffic, and a death. 
• Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich released from Colorado prison after Trump commutes sentence. 
• Denver Mayor Michael Hancock vetoes pit bull legalization bill. 
• Cory Gardner and Donald Trump praise each other at Colorado Springs rally. 

• Blucifer celebrates 12 years of freaking out travelers at DIA. 
• Colorado’s 2020 presidential primary ballots hit the mail this week. 
• A dog becomes honory Mayor and Police judge of Georgetown. 
• The Denver City Council overturns the city’s pit bull ban, but the Mayor remains undecided. 
• A historic powder day causes huge lift lines at Vail. 
• Tests confirm a wolf pack is living — and pooping — in Colorado. 
• Thieves steal 30,000 bees from a Northglenn farm. 
• Trump’s changes to a key environmental law bring conservation and indigenous activists together in Denver. 
• Sen. Michael Bennett drops out of the Presidential primary after a dissapointing finish in New Hampshire 
• Bills to restrict reproductive rights and descriminate against LGBTQ Coloradans fail in the state legislature. 
• Michael Bloomberg’s racially charged comments on “stop and frisk” from a 2015 Aspen Institute panel cause problems for his presidential campaign. 
• Mel Tucker leaves CU after a single season to coach football at Michigan State 

• A team in Steamboat prepares to send off the world’s largest firework.
• CSU-Pueblo will be the first solar-powered university in the state.
• Kids across the state cheer as major snowfalls cause school cancelations.
• Kids across the state cheer as major snowfalls cause school cancelations.
• Broncos’ rival, the Kansas City Chiefs, win the Super Bowl.
• Garden of the Gods draws controversy for fees, drainage project.
• After Iowa, Coloradans are thrilled that the state switched from caucuses to a presidential primary.
• The Iowa caucuses end in a virtual tie between Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg.
• The STEM School shooting suspect pleads guilty.
• The problematic mobile app that created problems in the Iowa Democratic presidential caucus has Denver ties.
• A state lawmaker, with no evidence, foolishly claims that wolves will attack hikers and skiers.
• An anti-vax Facebook group tells a CO mom to give her son elderberries instead of Tamiflu, and the boy dies days later..
• Arapahoe county DA won’t charge the Aurora cop who was found drunk and passed out in his car.
• Cory Gardner votes to acquit President Trump, Michael Bennett votes to convict, as the impeachment trial comes to an end.

• Pueblo finally opens a permanent shelter for people experiencing homelessness. 
• “Dolly Day” event sets world record for most people dressed up as Dolly Parton in the same room.
• Colorado cannabis and beer industries partner to recycle CO2.
• Colorado struggles with teacher representation. 87% of teachers are white but 40% of students are people of color.
• Denver B-cycle program ends after 10 years.
• Garden of the Gods draws controversy for fees, drainage project.
• No coronavirus cases in Colorado, as a third patient tests negative.
• Broncos fans unsure of who to root for in the “Big Game” this weekend: the Kansas City Chiefs or the San Francisco 49ers.
• Death penalty repeal passes through the Colorado Senate.
• Lawsuit alleges that the Kansas Highway Patrol targets out of-state-cars, particularly ones coming from Colorado.
• Sen. Cory Gardner tows the party line and votes against additional impeachment witnesses.
• Colorado has one of the highest police shooting rates in the country.

• • Senator Brittany Pettersen becomes one of the first female legislators in Colorado history to give birth during the legislative session. She, her husband Ian (PNC’s director), and their son, Davis James, are happy and healthy.
  • Breckenridge hosts the 30th Annual International Snow Sculpture Championships. 
  • Larry walker becomes the first member of the Rockies inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
  • Denver Public Schools will be the first school district in the state to require at least one all-gender bathroom in each of its schools.
  • Boulder City Council updates building code to allow tiny homes in residential areas.
  • Lafayette City Council will most like allow residents to own two miniature pot-bellied pigs. Current law only allows for one.
  • Bill in the Colorado Legislature would end puppy mills in Colorado.
  • An American firefighter, originally from Colorado, died in a plane crash while fighting rampant wildfires in Australia.
  • Woman’s 15 pet bunnies cause neighborhood conflict
  • Most Coloradans can’t watch the Avs and Nuggets on TV, as Comcast and Altitude Sports continue their fight over broadcasting rights.
  • How now Brown Cloud? Front Range air quality is especially awful this week. 
  • Hospital prices are driving up health care costs in Colorado more than anywhere else in the country.

• Halfway through the NBA season, the Nuggets stand at #2 in the Western Conference.
• Denver has two important marches this weekend: (1) The Womxn’s March on Saturday and (2) The MLK Day “Marade” on Monday
• While the Broncos didn’t make it to the Super Bowl, Aspen from Rocky Mountain Puppy Rescue will represent Colorado in the Puppy Bowl.
• This weekend ic Colorado’s second-worst when it comes to ski-traffic along I-70. Expect major delays.
• Durango School District 9-R considers banning cell phones for all middle schools.
• An Aurora police officer pleads guilty to driving and holding a weapon while drunk.
• Denver city council considers the legal registration of pit bulls. Denver banned pit bulls in 1989.
• Rep. Jason Crow (CO-6) will help prosecute President Trump as one of seven impeachment managers.
• Kids try to hold onto sheep as long as possible in the National Western Stock Show’s Mutton Bustin’ event.
• Denver police break up a homeless encampment near Civic Center Park because of “environmental health” concerns.
• CU Study finds that global warming will lead to an increase in violent crime.
• Jorge Zaldivar Mendieta, a father of five who arrived in the U.S. in 1997 and has no criminal record, was deported from the private ICE facility in Aurora after a long battle for residency.