Author: By JOEY BUNCH [email protected]
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Colorado could get nearly $4 billion for infrastructure improvements from federal government
As is political tradition, Colorado’s U.S. senators, Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, are saluting federal money headed to their home state. Thanks to the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by Congress last month, Colorado’s roads and bridges are in line for $716 million, while airports are expected to land more than $86 million in the current…
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New report shows Colorado’s startling spike in crime
The numbers speak loudly enough: The average monthly crime rate in Colorado is 15% higher this year than in 2019, and a stunning 28% higher than it was a decade ago. The violent crime rate spiked 35% over the figure from 2011. Nationally, the increase was just 3%, according to a report released Thursday. The Common Sense…
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New report links Colorado’s rising crime to criminal-friendly public policy
The causes might be elusive, but the results are startling: Colorado’s crime rates are soaring, rates that are topping the nation in some categories, notably its rise in property crimes and auto thefts. The solutions might be just as nebulous, but two of the state’s best-known former prosecutors touted a study they co-authored reflecting the…
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History Colorado report finds $10.5 billion brought in from heritage tourism
There’s gold in Colorado’s past in more ways than one, as a new report adds up the windfall archaeology delivers to the state from heritage tourism at $10.5 billion a year. “Archaeology for a Changing Colorado” sheds light on why digging up the past supports social and environmental vitality, as well. The report was funded…
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RIVER TOWNS | Estes Park and the Big Thompson are bound by the flow of history
INSIGHTS | River towns tell the story of a mountain state Dennis Johnson squeezed the fob to lock the doors of his gray Ford Escape with Nebraska plates inside the four-story parking garage. A literal stone’s throw away, the Big Thompson River hissed and babbled as it has done for centuries in the spot that…
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INSIGHTS | River towns tell the story of a mountain state
There is a school of thought that a river lives its full life at once, no beginning and no end. The headwaters, the channel, the city and the farm, a river is governed by no borders and has no clock. River towns are way stations of time and place. Change can happen slow in rivers,…
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INSIGHTS | River towns tell the story of a mountain state
There is a school of thought that a river lives its full life at once, no beginning and no end. The headwaters, the channel, the city and the farm, a river is governed by no borders and has no clock. River towns are way stations of time and place. Change can happen slow in rivers,…
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INSIGHTS | Politics makes problem-solving a Capitol board game
Sometimes a great idea is so saturated in politics and bureaucracy, it’s hard to soak in the actual good it does. Insiders call it the poison pill, that bad thing that sours good people on otherwise good legislation. By now, if you’re fair-minded and plugged in at the Capitol, you probably think I’m teeing up…
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INSIGHTS | Politics makes problem-solving a Capitol board game
Sometimes a great idea is so saturated in politics and bureaucracy, it’s hard to soak in the actual good it does. Insiders call it the poison pill, that bad thing that sours good people on otherwise good legislation. By now, if you’re fair-minded and plugged in at the Capitol, you probably think I’m teeing up…