Author: David Migoya
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Colorado’s $110M bingo industry is littered with loopholes — and hardly anyone is watching
Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series examing Colorado’s $110 million charitable gaming industry. Colorado’s charitable gaming industry – hundreds of bingo nights and raffle drawings across the state – is a $110-million-a-year enterprise that for decades has operated with thin oversight and little actual financial return to the charities the law…
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Proposed cuts to NOAA Boulder threaten U.S. scientific enterprise
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The breadth and scope of what they all do is stunning, awe-inspiring even. The words used to describe their work are at such a high level they’re daunting to understand, yet comforting to know that someone does, because they fit. The reach of the National…
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Bill to stop growing number of grocers from selling booze passes key House committee
Colorado’s independent liquor stores won a resounding victory Thursday as a state House committee unanimously approved a bill that would freeze any increase to the number of grocery stores selling hard booze. The House Business Affairs and Labor Committee passed Senate Bill 25-33 by a 13-0 bipartisan vote, virtually assuring a smooth path for legislation…
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Colorado pays $325K to settle judicial department employees’ discrimination claims
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Colorado’s judicial branch paid $325,000 to a pair of longtime female employees to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit they filed in 2023 that claimed they were fired two years earlier while less-experienced male colleagues were kept in their place. The branch agreed to pay Danielle Stecco and Tracy Blea back wages, compensatory damages and their…
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Senate bill aims to stop the expansion of grocery stores selling hard liquor
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The number of grocery stores selling hard booze under a quirky license initially designed for pharmacies would stop at about two dozen under a bill that advocates say is meant to save independent liquor stores. Senate Bill 25-33 would put an end to any new licenses for pharmacies to sell spirits such as whiskey — known…
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Colorado liquor stores sue state alleging lack of license enforcement
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Four independent Colorado liquor stores have sued the state, claiming that limits on the ownership of certain licenses aren’t being uniformly enforced and are unfairly — and illegally — benefitting those with hidden interests. The liquor stores — Heritage Wine & Liquor in Centennial, Applejack Wine & Spirits in Wheat Ridge, and Bevy’s Liquor World in Littleton…
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Disciplined judges, after stepping down, show up in municipal courts
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Not long after 18th Judicial District Judge Natalie Chase resigned over a series of inappropriate racial remarks, she was back on the bench — as a municipal judge in tiny Deer Trail and as a traffic referee in Fort Collins. Despite a public censure by the state’s judicial discipline commission and her resignation in April 2021,…
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Dozens of liquor shops shuttered after voters OK wine sales in grocery stores; hundreds more expected
When Colorado voters were asked in 2022 to allow grocery stores to sell wine — lifting a 107-year restriction the industry repeatedly and unsuccessfully tried to beat back legislatively for decades — proponents billed it as a win for consumers’ pocketbooks and the leveling of the playing field for alcohol sales statewide. With far less money in…
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Aurora Water Players Day 2
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Joe Harrington: Founder-owner of MineWater and its various off-shoots such as MineWater Finance, MineWater Holdings and MW Sorter, all of them related to his work at the London Mine, which he also owns. Marshall Brown:…
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H₂O or Au? Aurora’s water quest sparks new hunt for gold
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Denver Gazette Editor’s Note: Part two of a two-part investigation. Read part one here. V When Aurora Water, the city utility, inked its initial deal in January 2018 to pay $31.1 million for water that emanates from the historic London Mine, it was for…