Colorado Week in Review

• UN space mission features Colorado spacecraft
• GOCO grants help trout, Ring the Peak, Manitou, Black Forest
• GOCO doles out funds to improve trails
• Colorado still the “least obese” state, but scores poorly for “excessive drinking,” high school graduation
• Denver mayor orders police not to confiscate blankets and tents from homeless
• Bobby Kennedy III lands $300K to shoot Hunter S. Thompson movie in Colorado
• Controversial Plan To Euthanize Bears, Mountain Lions Approved
• Colorado politicians call on the Obama administration to prevent “wholesale slaughter” in Aleppo
• House GOP stays out of fray, has little to say on Jeffco rep’s jail time
• CU students petition to block Yiannopoulos visit
• School District To Allow Teachers, Staff To Carry Guns On Campus
• Family of slain Park County deputy files federal lawsuit over shootout
• JonBenet Ramsey grand juror claims to have seen secret evidence

• Aurora officer praised after paying for person’s gas who unwittingly had counterfeit money
• DeMarcus Ware hosts private holiday shopping event with children from Denver YMCA
• USS Colorado to lurk the seas; Navy christens submarine in honor of Colorado
• Musical ‘Hedwig’ Playing In Denver Challenges Gender Norms
• Cold temperatures from Arctic blast grip state
• Colorado lawmakers plan crackdown on home pot growers
• 2 Electoral College members are suing Colorado in plan to stop Trump
• Heisman Winner Rashaan Salaam Found Dead in Colorado Park
• CBS4 Investigation Finds Racial Disparity In Speeding Tickets Issued By Troopers
• Homeless Camp ‘Sweeps’ Flap Comes To A Head At City Council Meeting
• Northglenn Police: Driver stalled in traffic beats up cops
• Karval superintendent sexually assaulted two juveniles, at least one of whom was a babysitter, warrant says

Colorado Week in Review

• Colorado election chief disputes Trump’s claim
• U.S. House passes medical “Cures” bill championed by Diana DeGette
• U.S. Senate OKs bill to explore impact of outdoor industry
• Government still has many options to stop legal marijuana
• Pipeline protesters take demonstration to CEO’s Pagosa Springs home
• Churches Show Interest In Proposal To Allow Homeless To Camp On Property
• Colorado Drivers Rank Among The Worst
• Post-election hate speech, crime continue with second attack in Aurora
• Advocacy groups sue Denver over disability access at Red Rocks Amphitheatre
• Landlord caught having sex in tenants’ bed, cleans up with wife’s wedding dress
• Colorado state trooper’s family issues plea for driver safety
• Intoxicated Broncos fans suing Denver Police

Colorado Week in Review

• Denver Records Third Latest ‘First Snow’ On Record
• Thompson Divide leases formally canceled
• GREENE: Jury finds Clarence Moses-EL not guilty
• Colorado to test digital driver’s licenses
• Election 2016: Denver’s social-pot-use backers finally declare victory
• 36 Colorado Businesses on Outside Mag’s Best U.S. Places to Work in 2016
• Denver Mayor Michael Hancock on Donald Trump fears: “You can count on your city. We’ve got your back.”
• Signature gatherer pleads guilty to forgery
• Community groups file civil rights complaint to stop I-70 expansion
• Trans woman’s car spray-painted with hate speech
• It could be years before Planned Parenthood shooter, still incompetent, stands trial, DA says
• Homeless stand their ground during sweep of downtown camp

Colorado Week in Review

• Hillary Clinton wins Colorado, despite push from Donald Trump
• Medical aid-in-dying triumphs
• First Latina speaker of the house elected as Colorado legislature comes into focus
• Amendment 70: Colorado voters approve minimum wage increase to $12 an hour
• Denver marijuana companies look to expand after pot wins across the US
• Denver Social Pot Use Ordinance 300 Vote Count Could Take Until Next Week
• Donald Trump’s victory spills into the Colorado legislature
• Thousands march in anti-Trump protest in Denver
• EPA, state health department file stormwater lawsuit against Colorado Springs
• Report: Nearly all of Colorado is abnormally dry; Denver is well-past average first snow date
• Temperature violations at Bad Daddy’s, Pho 79 bring report card F’s
• Jurors deliberating in Clarence Moses-EL retrial
• Denver preparing for another homeless sweep

Colorado Week in Review

• I-70 may get smart in the next decade
• Political campaign visits scheduled all over Colorado
• Denver Water exploring water conservation plans by drilling into aquifers
• Free basic services offered to homeless in Denver
• Eye on the Oakland Raiders: Broncos face their opposites for control of AFC West
• RTD granted extension for A and B line operation
• Soda tax fight nearly twice as expensive as any other campaign in Boulder history
• Why an upside-down rainbow flag is dangerous for LGBT people
• Fort Carson will send 4,000 troops to Europe
• Progressive groups to DA Morrissey: Just let it go, man
• Jefferson County agrees to pay Jennifer Lobato’s family $2.5 million to settle jail death suit
• Nederland bombing suspect indicted on federal charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction

Colorado Week in Review

• 572,550 Coloradans have already voted, secretary of state says
• President Obama backs 3 Democrats in tight Colorado House races to help rally votes
• At CU Boulder, actor George Takei speaks of political activism, equality
• Uniqlo at center of retail coup about to happen on Denver’s 16th Street Mall
• The Ten Best Day of the Dead Events in Metro Denver
• Protect flowers, US court tells feds
• Truth Test: Is Carroll soft on sexual predators?
• Colorado voters received fortune cookies in the mail as part of a political attack ad
• Air Force launches $900K effort to treat tainted groundwater in Widefield
• Homeless camps pop up again in Denver months after sweeps
• Denver Comic Con bans toy weapons for 2017 over security concerns
• Ex-Rocky Ford officer gets 16 years in 2014 murder
• DNA in doubt: New analysis challenges DA’s exoneration of Ramseys in JonBenet case

Colorado Week in Review

• The Greenpeace Blimp: No on Amendment 71
• How Colorado’s election system makes large-scale result rigging nearly impossible
• Trump stops in Colorado, but he doesn’t meet with Darryl Glenn
• Record high 60 percent of Americans back legal pot, new Gallup poll says
• Attorney: Free the Nipple FoCo Court Win Dooms All Anti-Topless Laws in Colorado
• Arapahoe Basin kicks off 2016-17 ski and snowboard season
• Denver’s DA says don’t post that ballot selfie, but ACLU disagrees
• Virginia-based tobacco giant on track to be the biggest spender in Colorado history
• Martin, Acha debate meal spending; Dems seek special prosecutor
• Colorado ACLU settles bad policing lawsuit with city of Trinidad, 2 detectives
• Accidental shootings of children polarize Colorado gun advocates and prosecutors
• State health department says orange Suncor emissions are not a concern

Colorado Week in Review

• Denver joins national movement to save monarch butterfly population
• Tim Kaine rallies Democrats with Dave Matthews in Denver
• Clinton crowd feels ‘Stronger Together’ in Pueblo
• Aid in dying doesn’t increase death, it reduces suffering
• No on Proposition 106: Aid-in-dying measure lacks proper safeguards
• Colorado pot shops sold a record-breaking amount of marijuana in August 2016
• A Denver entrepreneur didn’t want you to drink alone, so he made a “wine” for your cats and dogs
• Bighorn sheep rebound
• Colorado GOP in turmoil following Donald Trump’s comments on women
• Donald Trump ‘may fit in’ Broncos’ locker room, says team’s cornerback Aqib Talib
• Siren malfunction wakes up Longmont residents
• Colorado schools ban clown costumes for Halloween
• Denver DA to retry case against Clarence Moses-EL, despite another man’s confession
• ACLU claims Colorado Springs Police engage in racial profiling

Colorado Week in Review

• Denver approves permanent recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Columbus Day
• How to check your voter registration, update your address before Colorado ballots mailed Oct. 17
• Huge Rush Creek Wind project gets PUC OK
• Broncos thump Buccaneers, 27-7, after long weather delay, improve to 4-0
• Libertarian Nominee Johnson: Marijuana ‘Has Something To Do With Denver Vibrancy’
• Hickenlooper: Colorado’s Ring the Peak trail ‘will be an international destination’
• Thousands in Colo. not using tax credits on health insurance
• Why Colorado’s longest-operating Jewish temple — one of the oldest in the West — has closed after 127 years
• FBI, HUD probing Lyons’ spending on 2013 flood recovery
• Professor claims women face discrimination in merit-pay system
• Group at Trump rally walks out after Colorado mother and disabled daughter harassed
• Colorado ACLU questions Denver Police Department’s social media surveillance