Author: Christopher Osher chris.osher@gazette.com
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Longmont police leave disabled woman with nearly $1,600 toll bill after using her stolen license plate
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A 52-year-old Westminster woman with back problems faces $1,592.72 in E-470 toll charges because the president of the Colorado Fraternal Order of Police, who also headed the narcotics unit of the Longmont Police Department, used a stolen license plate that comes back as registered to…
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Dual controversies hit Polis, Colorado COVID test program
Colorado’s coronavirus testing program pushed what critics contend are flawed tests in nursing homes from a fledgling company run by a 25-year-old college dropout that had the backing of a major Democratic campaign donor with a financial stake in the firm and a tie to Gov. Jared Polis’ administration. Meanwhile, about 1.86 million at-home, self-administered…
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Dual controversies hit Polis, Colorado COVID test program
Colorado’s coronavirus testing program pushed what critics contend are flawed tests in nursing homes from a fledgling company run by a 25-year-old college dropout that had the backing of a major Democratic campaign donor with a financial stake in the firm and a tie to Gov. Jared Polis’ administration. Meanwhile, about 1.86 million at-home, self-administered…
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Court won’t require Colorado Judicial Department to turn over sex harassment allegations
The Colorado Judicial Department won’t have to provide documents about allegations contained in a memo outlining instances of judicial sexual harassment as part of the discovery for a racial and age discrimination hiring case, a federal magistrate judge ruled Wednesday. A Black lawyer had sought the documents in her federal lawsuit that alleges the Colorado…
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Colorado’s troubled partnership with California COVID-19 testing firm
Colorado paid more than $89.2 million to a coronavirus testing provider run by an ambitious 25-year-old entrepreneurial college dropout in California. But state officials abruptly severed ties with the company after federal regulators warned that those officials allowed improper use of the test in nursing homes with some of the highest death rates in the…
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Controversial granite quarry near Colorado Springs has rights transfer rejected
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The staff of the Colorado State Land Board on Tuesday dealt a blow to an effort to renew plans for a controversial granite quarry on a ranch just south of Colorado Springs. Cindi Allmendinger, the…
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CDOT supervisor: ‘We don’t do things here that comply with the rules’
On Dec. 14, 2018 at 3:51 p.m. John Olson, an appraisal supervisor for the Colorado Department of Transportation, sent an email to an employee he managed. At issue was the employee’s urgent complaint that proper appraisal procedures weren’t being used by “good ole boys” at the state agency, which spends billions of dollars in taxpayer…
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Cloud of suspicion: Allegations of ties between gangs and Denver Sheriff’s Department were never fully investigated
I. More than a decade ago, a confidential informant raised alarming allegations about law enforcement officers in Denver, contending that a top Denver sheriff’s commander tied to a notorious street gang through his brother allegedly did favors for gang members responsible for some of the city’s most heinous crimes. That sheriff’s commander was Elias…
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Anadarko whistleblower at the center of massive investor fraud lawsuit finding new life in Colorado
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Executives with Anadarko Petroleum, the largest oil and gas driller in Colorado over the last decade, cashed out millions of dollars in stock holdings while suppressing internal reports from company engineers who warned they were misleading investors about the value of a new oil field…
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Colorado board that writes rules for management of sex offenders rife with conflicts, state audit finds
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Members of a state board that writes the rules for how Colorado sex offenders are supervised voted on policy revisions that benefited their firms, which held state contracts worth millions of dollars annually, according to a scathing performance audit the state auditor released Tuesday. The…