Colorado Week in Review

• Elite smokejumpers train locally
• Fireworks in Colorado 2017: Find all Colorado fireworks shows from Denver, Aurora, Boulder and more
• Report: Colorado has best economy in US
• Colorado Springs cop released from ICU after Pence motorcade crash
• Aurora Fair Brings A Wealth of Services to the Homeless
• Drivers: Expect heavy Fourth of July traffic for next six days
• Rep. Mike Coffman to Trump: #StopTheTwitterTantrums
• EPA alleges widespread air pollution by Colorado oil and gas company
• Disabled protesters arrested at Sen. Cory Gardner’s Denver office after 2-day sit-in
• 74 indictments in ‘Operation Toker Poker,’ AG says it’s largest pot bust since legalization
• Early testimony in Maketa corruption trial reveals feuds, shifting alliances
• Former school board president sentenced for trying to lure 12-year-old

• Protesters plan to greet Mike Pence in ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ garb at Focus on the Family in speech in Colorado Springs
• Colorado students given $420,000 in marijuana tax-funded scholarships
• Xcel Energy gets go-ahead to modernize power grid and recoup costs
• Greeley man helps lead storm chasing tours
• State ramps up boat inspections to keep invasive mussels out of lakes, reservoirs
• Is texting while driving legal in Colorado? State lawmaker says, ‘Hell, no!’
• Coffman to meet with Kislyak over CO mountaineer
• TSA apologizes after tossing Englewood mom’s breast milk at DIA
• New Mexico lab ships mislabeled waste container to Colorado
• Colorado teachers trained on how to use guns in case of school emergency
• Boulder County man guilty of shooting neighbor over squirrel-feeding dispute
• Former immigration detainees challenge labor practices

• Denver introduces program for safe LGBTQ+ spaces
• Thousands to descend on downtown for annual Pride festival
• Not a pop-up shop. Not a pop-up bar. There’s a new pop-up park downtown
• Prime Now, Amazon’s 1-hour delivery service, launches in Denver
• The proposed rules of public pot consumption at Denver businesses
• The surprising Colorado city that has North America’s best-tasting tap water
• CDPHE stopped state testing PFCs plume, blaming end of EPA funding
• Testing on RTD’s Wheat Ridge-Arvada train? Check … But passenger service? Who knows? (Video)
• Colorado’s Republican House Minority Leader seemingly uses congressman’s shooting to raise money
• CU Chancellor DiStefano, HC MacIntyre, AD George penalized in Joe Tumpkin investigation
• Groups clash at march against Sharia rally in downtown Denver, 4 arrested
• Top Denver Sheriff Commanders Demoted For Preferential Treatment

• Deaf singer from Longmont gets standing ovation on ‘America’s Got Talent’
• Birth control bill signed into law, allows Colorado women a one-year supply
• 2 Coloradans among NASA’s 12 new astronauts
• Colorado toughens up on home grows, boosts funding for black market enforcement
• Start paying attention to the 1st-place Rockies
• Mount Evans Highway opens to summit
• Lamborn, Pruitt facing more pressure to continue EPA lawsuit against Colorado Springs
• Crossing Gate Issues Plague RTD, Denver Transit Partners Want Out
• Piano-playing bear strikes viral chord at Colorado apartment
• Longmont city officials to investigate warrantless search accusations
• Pueblo police officer accused of re-enacting body camera footage will be disciplined
• Investigation: ‘clearly deception’ in DPD record handling

• Drone-delivered doughnuts land in downtown Denver
• Governor Hickenlooper signs bill increasing fine for texting and driving
• It’s official: Colorado passes first law to regulate driverless vehicles
• People’s Fair Art & Music Festival Denver, CO – June 3-4, 2017
• Colorado’s weed boom will fund schools and fight opioid addiction
• Kids and families can fish for free in Denver this weekend
• Boulder-area scientists worry about impact of Trump pulling U.S. from Paris climate accord
• Why is Sen. Cory Gardner touring Asia and shaking hands with Rodrigo Duterte?
• Colorado’s high school graduation rates lag behind other states’, but new programs offer hope
• Massive tanker fire shuts down I-25 in both directions near Denver Tech Center
• Sentence For DUI Driver ‘Not Long Enough,’ Widow Says
• Jury: $50,000 To Ex-Denver Inmate Slammed Against Window

• Global SuperTanker could soon fight fires in Colorado
• Colorado’s dropping unemployment rate plunges into uncharted waters
• Governor orders flags lowered Monday until noon in observance of Memorial Day
• Report: Medical marijuana could poach more than $4B from pharma sales annually
• Downtown Denver hotel opening this summer will boast highest open-air rooftop bar in the city
• 19th annual Denver Arts Festival
• Trump budget would allow sale of wild horses for slaughter
• Guv, GOP in dispute over panel appointee
• Pockets of methane gas detected near site of deadly Firestone home explosion
• Transgender woman doesn’t want to press charges over botched surgery
• Criticism of state polygraph program grows
• Man in demonic clown makeup, now accused in killing, lived in dark fantasy world, friends say

• Denver’s interracial marriage rate higher than growing national average
• A DIY resistance in Colorado tries to keep the fight against Trump fresh
• 16 year olds in Boulder could have a say in local elections
• How Colorado’s prison system is training inmates to be better dads
• Five Points Jazz Festival returns for 15th anniversary
• Potent late-season storm brings rain, snow to Denver, Front Range
• Trump’s budget expected to massively slash research on renewable energy – and NREL’s budget
• State reps ask Hickenlooper to pardon Lima-Marin as legal response to ICE hold
• Lawsuit seeks to stop construction of trails, visitor center at Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge
• Flight attendants accuse Frontier Airlines of discrimination against mothers
• Mesa County school district briefly pulls ‘Thirteen Reasons Why’ after 7 students’ suicides
• Evidence From Sex Assaults Found In Landfill

• Senate keeps rule on methane
• Colorado lawmakers celebrate major accomplishments to end legislative session
• Feds grant Jeanette Vizguerra, Arturo Hernandez Garcia stays of deportation
• Colorado’s new plan to prevent child abuse: Get everyone involved
• Report: Colorado pot sales set record once again
• Rockies’ bats erupt early, Jeff Hoffman gets first big league win as Rockies beat Dodgers
• Trump says he reserves right to ignore medical marijuana protection provision in spending bill
• ‘Whack Job’ Vs. ‘Psychopath’: Sen. Gardner, Kim Jong-Un Hurl Insults
• Businesses Suffering As Mall Remains Shut Down Due To Hail Damage
• Denver has paid nearly $30,000 to remove political graffiti
• Teacher’s suicide linked to investigation into relationship with student
• Police To Search Landfill In Death Of Colorado Woman

• Colorado lawmakers reach sweeping deal to stave off $528 million cut to hospitals
• Hate crime legislation extended to protect LGBTQ people and people with disabilities
• Marchers for climate change unfazed by snowy weather in Denver on Saturday
• Jared Polis to N.J. politician: Boulder not filled with stoned zombies
• The opioid antidote: Naloxone has reversed hundreds of overdoses in Denver in the last year
• How Denver proclaimed ‘May the Fourth’ on Star Wars Day
• Tragedy to bring push for local control of oil
• Craigslist scammer to homeowner: ‘I’m just trying to make a few bucks, you know?’
• Staggering Losses Being Recorded For Farmers, Ranchers After Blizzard
• Case dismissed after southern Colorado officer allegedly stages body cam video
• Police increase patrols in north Boulder, detail monitoring of ‘sexually violent predator’
• Deputy resigns after he admitted to lying during murder investigation of Kirsten Lockett

• Actor Diane Guerrero meets immigrant taking refuge in church
• March For Science rally draws largest crowd downtown since Women’s March
• Garden of the Gods named one of country’s best attractions
• Update: After meeting with Sessions, Colorado gov thinks AG unlikely to crack down on marijuana
• Study: Colorado Drivers Really Aren’t That Bad
• Kiszla: Rockies’ hot start no fluke. Carlos Gonzalez declares: “We are more talent than noise.”
• Trump focus on public lands surprises Colorado lawmakers
• Report: More than 9 in 10 Colorado children with elevated lead levels go undiagnosed
• After fatal house explosion, Anadarko Petroleum to shut down 3,000 wells in northeastern Colorado
• 11 large animals euthanized at Elbert County wildlife sanctuary
• Ex-school board president confesses on tape to internet luring of 12-year-old
• State, victims clash over whereabouts of notorious criminals