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Grand Junction Pays Tribute to Three Firefighters Lost in Snyder Fire
2+ hour, 59+ min ago (86+ words) By Robert Garrison | Denver7 GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. " The three firefighters killed in the Snyder Fire west of Grand Junction last month were remembered and honored during a memorial service Sunday. Federal firefighters Emily Barker, 38, Nick Hutcherson, 27, and Sydney Watson, 27, were killed…...
Otero County's Wild & Scenic River fight offers a warning for Colorado
2+ hour, 24+ min ago (819+ words) By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project I had a reader share the first link below with me recently. It's an editorial appearing on the Colorado News Your Way site about a proposed federal land designation, specifically about a Wild…...
Colorado is cutting funding for its poorest students. The tool meant to replace it was suspended.
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1021+ words) By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice In Colorado's smallest school districts, the ones tucked into rural towns, two state programs direct extra money each year to districts based on how many students live in poverty. They are not…...
Denver Teacher Dismissed After Students Asked To Act Out Kissing Scenes
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (115+ words) By Nicole C. Brambila | The Denver Gazette An administrative law judge has recommended the dismissal of a teacher at Northeast Early College " a high school in the Denver Public Schools district " after finding classroom activities and personal disclosures to students amounted…...
Nonprofit Builds Real Time Network To Monitor ICE In Western Colorado
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (242+ words) By Jennifer Brown | The Colorado Sun The Facebook post in Spanish is a community alarm for Colorado mountain towns along Interstate 70, a warning to stay alert because ICE is in action. Confirmed, it translates, a person was taken by ICE…...
Colorado killed its only data center water bills. Cities are filling the gap themselves.
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (840+ words) By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice Colorado spent a year trying to answer a basic question: should companies building massive AI data centers be required to disclose how much water they use? The answer, as of May 11, was…...
Arizona California Nevada Unite On Colorado River Plan As Shortages Loom
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (149+ words) By Ian James | The Guardian Proposal includes cutbacks for three years as negotiations over future of shrinking reservoirs have been unsuccessful. The states of California, Arizona and Nevada have proposed voluntary water-saving measures for the next three years aimed at…...
Going the wrong way: Colorado's fentanyl deaths rise while the rest of the nation falls
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1186+ words) By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice While much of the country is finally beginning to turn the corner on fentanyl, Colorado is heading in the opposite direction. And the human cost is staggering. Colorado's numbers are still moving…...
Report Ties Colorado's Fentanyl Death Surge To Weaker Drug Laws
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (190+ words) By Jacob Mauk | Colorado Politics Overdose deaths from opioids rose in Colorado, diverging from the national trend, which has been decreasing, according to a new study from a think tank. In its new report, the Common Sense Institute said synthetic…...
New Questions About Off Site Third-Party Ballot Handling In Maricopa County
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (246+ words) By Steven Richards and John Solomon | Just the News The visit by the congressional staffers sparked concerns about how Maricopa County and an outsourced third-party elections facility were handling 2024 election ballots. Video footage captured by congressional observers shows a third-party…...