Colorado Week in Review

Colorado Week in Review

• $2.5 billion in downtown Denver construction underway or being planned
• Colorado student directors get congressional viewing for documentaries
• Colorado Company’s Solar-Electric Planes Will Lower Cost Of Flight Instruction
• Rain barrels finally legal in Colorado
• Colorado pot shops have already sold $270 million of marijuana in 2016
• Colorado lawmakers agree to limits on juvenile solitary
• Multiple voters confirm for Denver7 their signatures were forged on Keyser petitions for U.S. Senate
• Douglas County school board feels heat over student meeting
• City settles with ACLU after jailing people too poor to pay court fines
• Anonymous to Michael Hancock: Resign or We’ll Expose Your Tie to Prostitution Ring
• Fallen officers from Aurora, statewide, honored in ceremony Tuesday
• Admitted Planned Parenthood shooter found incompetent to stand trial

Colorado Week in Review

• Veterans cemetery to be named for Pikes Peak
• Firefighting supertanker unveiled in Colorado Springs demonstration
• City Council Approves Graywater Use For Denver
• Small chicken farmers win oversight reprieve in Colorado
• Nearly 100 rescue dogs flown to Colorado to find new homes
• Crews plow 22 ft. snow drifts on Trail Ridge Road
• Voter says her signature was forged on petition to place GOP Senate candidate Jon Keyser on ballot
• City, state pols at odds over red-light cameras
• Colorado Supreme Court strikes down Longmont’s voter-approved fracking ban
• Motorcycle deaths on Colorado roads hit all-time high in 2015
• Former Denver jail inmate sues city, Deputy Thomas Ford for punch
• Internal investigation in La Junta ongoing after grand jury’s decision not to indict officers

Colorado Week in Review

• US House passes email privacy bill co-authored by Jared Polis
• Planned Parenthood to fully reopen months after deadly shooting
• Colorado Supreme Court won’t hear Lakewood baker discrimination case
• Mountain Vista’s star soccer player ready for the Olympics
• Bill would forever preserve “Mile High” in Broncos’ stadium name
• Snow, rain expected in Denver as winter weather is forecast for a comeback
• Ginal’s rolling coal bill stalls in Senate
• 5,600 fish killed by chemical runoff from Colorado construction site
• Denver-based Chipotle lost more than $26 million in first quarter
• 5 kids rescued, 35 adults arrested in sex sting during World Cannabis Week in Colorado
• Boulder DA seeks 126-year sentence for Dynel Lane in attack on Michelle Wilkins
• Shooting task force still stumped one year later

Colorado Week in Review

• Lawmakers prepare plan for Presidential primaries
• How the Denver-to-DIA train, opening Friday, will change the metro area forever
• White House honor given to three Colorado students
• Marijuana money might have saved small Colorado town from ‘abyss of nothingness’
• Ghostly figure appears in photo at ‘The Shining’ hotel
• Golden firefighters save duck from chimney
• Bring Tim Tebow Back to Denver Broncos Petition Nearing 2,000 Signatures
• Commission on Native American mascots to schools: Eliminate offensive mascots
• Marijuana-infused gummy bears in the crosshairs of Colorado lawmakers
• Retired teacher sues Denver police officers for excessive force, false arrest
• Colorado School District to Arm Its Security Patrol With Semi-Automatic Rifles
• Denver DA declines to charge corrections officer who killed man during motorcycle rally brawl

Colorado Week in Review

• The future of space and Colorado
• Colorado wind power rising; 1,880 turbines and Xcel, Vestas plan more
• Darryl Glenn looking for second upset in Senate race
• Boulder wins $200K to train homeless to repurpose trees infested by ash borer
• Workers march in Denver in fight for $15 minimum wage
• Iron Maiden Has Landed — Its Own 747 — in Denver
• MiDian Holmes won’t take DPS school board seat
• Colorado GOP Chairman Steve House is getting threats from Donald Trump supporters
• 4 cited in protest of new Colorado Springs law
• Colorado ranks seventh in nation for suicide
• Aurora theater trial: The $4.8 million case (and counting)
• Aurora’s heavily white police force is firing at blacks

Colorado Week in Review

• More millennials moving to Denver, says report
• City of Aurora to spend $4.5 million to help its homeless population
• You Won’t Believe What Colorado Is About To Legalize
• 10 percent of the largest U.S. craft breweries are in Colorado
• Parachute voters reject recalls prompted by marijuana stances
• Rockies shortstop Trevor Story hits four home runs in three games
• Donald Trump a no-show for Colorado GOP convention Saturday
• Colorado’s harsh winter leaves some wild animals in a struggle to survive
• Clean Power Plan tussle develops in Colorado statehouse
• No charges filed against bouncer in chokehold death
• Heroin-Related Violence Mars a Colorado City’s Effort to Recover
• Denver ousts slain inmate’s niece from public meeting

Colorado Week in Review

• Richard Branson and Boom Technology may build the next-gen supersonic plane in Denver
• Study finds voters like reforms to elections
• Colorado unemployment hits 15-year low; 2,500 jobs added
• Hispanics are a big part of Denver’s changing demographics
• 21-year-old Army reservist from Colorado donates kidney to stranger
• Family asks for birthday cards for 7 year old who survived brain cancer and now has Moyamoya
• EPA projects Denver won’t meet new ozone standards by 2025
• Hickenlooper: ‘Time is now’ to move on West’s leaking mines
• Fracking site soon to go up next to Erie school
• What’s behind the pushback against Colorado’s teen sexting bill
• Multiple efforts to curb Colorado marijuana potency
• Colorado youth prison warden charged with misconduct, remains on job

Colorado Week in Review

• Colorado congressman in Cuba with Obama hopes for trade ties
• Colorado company to help big utility turn pig plop into power
• Denver will leave more water for fish in Colorado and Fraser rivers
• U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear marijuana case against Colorado
• Pink soon might become color of choice for some Colorado hunters
• Colorado’s fickle March weather buries Denver with fast-moving blizzard
• Colorado economists warn about recession, complicating spending fight
• Boulder magnets company loses court fight
• Colorado teen who met with Taylor Swift during cancer battle has died
• CU nutrition expert who took Coca-Cola money steps down
• KKK Cop Painting: Artist Who Inspired It Rips Critics Who “Bullied” Student
• Evans police face tough questions at Fallis murder trial

Colorado Week in Review

• Colorado’s role in a contested GOP convention
• CU-Boulder graduate programs earn high marks from U.S. News & World Report
• Store clerk saves baby as mother has seizure
• Could this become the first cannabis-derived prescription drug in the U.S.?
• Colorado’s slopes remain busy despite lack of snow
• March Madness begins in Denver!
• Bans on police chokeholds, profiling advance in state House
• New Mexico still irked, seeks water tests, $1.5 million after Gold King
• Stretch of Interstate 25 ranks as 50th worst traffic corridor in U.S.
• Denver police should not abuse criminal database access, watchdog says
• Jared Fogle Punched Out in Colorado Prison by Child Molester-Hating Inmate
• New details emerge three years after murder of Colorado prisons chief

Colorado Week in Review

• The 10 smartest cities in Colorado
• Colorado high school students would face new civics test under bipartisan proposal
• Denver’s new building code requires garages to support electric vehicles
• Study: Expansion of Medicaid a stimulus to Colorado’s economy
• Supreme Court may decide on Colorado marijuana legalization case
• Chaffee County approves 20,000-person music festival
• Lawmaker seeks to make oil and gas companies liable for mistakes
• Douglas County students walk out to protest teacher turnover
• Super Bowl champs find themselves scrambling for a QB
• Would Colorado GOP officials back Trump?
• Mayor Hancock: Homeless camps will not be rebuilt
• Woman’s Denver Jail Suicide One of at Least 13 Recent Deaths Behind Bars