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Hancock’s final budget includes $254M in homelessness initiatives
In his final budget proposal as Denver’s mayor, Michael Hancock seeks to spend $3.75 billion next year and deploy “historic” resources to tackling the city’s homeless challenge. Hancock’s other priorities include recruiting nearly 200 more police officers, expanding behavioral health services and invigorating downtown. The mayor also wants to purchase commercial properties and rent them to small…
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Colorado public defenders launch union drive over workloads
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DENVER • Fed up with immense workloads, Colorado’s public defenders launched a unionization drive on Thursday hoping to organize attorneys, paralegals, investigators, social workers, and administrative staff even though Colorado law blocks them from collective bargaining. If successful, the Defenders Union of Colorado would join unions in Minnesota and Pennsylvania to become one of the few…
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What’s next for Paul Pazen? Colorado’s political community weighs in
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Some in Colorado’s political community, which has been watching how the race for Denver mayor is shaping up, appear completely shocked by Paul Pazen’s decision to retire as Denver’s police chief after 28 years in the department. Dick Wadhams, a former Colorado GOP state chairman who managed U.S. Sen. John Thune’s campaign in 2004, told The Denver Gazette Pazen’s retirement “came…
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Who’s behind Colorado’s magic mushrooms campaign?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado could become the second state in the country to legalize and regulate the market for psilocybin and psilocin, the psychedelic ingredient found in so-called “magic mushrooms” — thanks to a Washington, D.C.-based group that has…
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The struggle to save the Colorado River stalls, but potential solutions emerge
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One hundred years of the Colorado River Compact — the agreement that divides 15 million acre feet of water each year among the seven states of the Colorado River basin and Mexico — has wrecked on the shoals of climate change and 22 years of…
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Steamboat Springs, other vacation towns limit short-term rentals amid housing crises
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STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — In the Colorado ski town of Steamboat Springs, motels line the freeway, once filled with tourists eager to pitch down the slopes or bathe in the local hot springs. Now residents like Marc McDonald, who keep the town humming by working service-level jobs, live in the converted motels. They cram…
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Colorado Water Congress to query statewide candidates on water issues
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The summer conference of the Colorado Water Congress is set to kick off with a bevy of candidates for higher office showing off their knowledge of critical water issues facing the state, which could include…
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See the 6 proposed new names for Mount Evans
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Colorado panel is getting ready to take on the most controversial name change in its two-year history: Mount Evans. The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board, which is tasked with finding replacement names for geographic…
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Monsoon moisture takes a little out of the drought, water watchers say
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The early arrival of summer monsoons in late June has been a welcome sight for a parched state, but the rains have not been enough to put an end to the drought. Colorado water watchers…
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Feds to announce plans for Colorado River conservation
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Recognizing a seven-state plan to conserve up to 4 million acre-feet of water on the Colorado River is not forthcoming, the Department of the Interior on Monday indicated it’s set to announce water conservation plans…