Author: David Migoya
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Felons engaged in Colorado’s charitable gaming industry
Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series examining Colorado’s $110 million charitable gaming industry. Howard Geller told police that Big Dog wanted Geller to get some people and head to Akron, Colo., so he hopped into his Dodge Durango along with his buddy, Cricket, and a woman he knew and off they…
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Colorado bingo night: It’s all about the prizes, not so much the charity
It’s a Thursday night at Bingo Oasis in Northglenn. Located on the outer edge of a nondescript strip mall just west of I-25, it has a simple façade sign advertising what goes on behind the mirrored and postered windows: BINGO. About the only giveaway to the activity there is that the 50 or so cars…
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Colorado’s $110M bingo industry is littered with loopholes — and hardly anyone is watching
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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…