Author: David Migoya
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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…
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Aurora Water Players Day 1
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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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Aurora Water Day 1 Glossary
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Glossary of terms Tributary water: Water that flows along or into surface streams, creeks, ditches, lakes or reservoirs. Non-tributary water: Water that is underground, such as an aquifer, and is not connected to any surface…
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Colorado water rights: A complex system and pricey process
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado water rights are a complex subject. How it’s sold and what happens to it thereafter can be as dizzying a process to understand as it is to trace. All water in Colorado is public in that it must be used for a beneficial purpose.…
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Uncharted waters: Aurora’s unique bid for gold mine water hits head waves
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Editor’s Note: Part one of a two-part investigation. Read part two here. The historic London Mine, one of Colorado’s most prolific for gold and silver as well as for lead and zinc from its beginning in the 1880s to its closure in 1991, sits roughly…
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Insider deal creates “monopoly”: How Vail’s exclusive delivery service sparked a lawsuit and controversy
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s all about who you know. In just over three years, Matthew Dietz leapt from bankruptcy into a million-dollar, multi-year contract the Town of Vail laid at his feet in a lucrative deal that could ultimately transform ski towns across Colorado. As business partners, Dietz…
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Case against district judge in Adams County allegedly ‘slow-walked’ to discipline commission
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A second judicial discipline case, that of 17th Judicial District Judge Robert Kiesnowski Jr. who resigned last year, has key connections with Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Brian Boatright, according to documents and interviews. District Court Judge Robert W. Kiesnowski Jr. Despite promises by Boatright to state legislators in 2021 that he would monitor all…
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Colorado judicial discipline director put on leave; ouster met with widespread shock
Christopher Gregory, the executive director of Colorado’s Commission on Judicial Discipline, was removed Friday following a tumultuous tenure in which the commission and the Colorado Supreme Court squared off over issues of reform. In a statement provided Friday to The Denver Gazette, the commission would only say Gregory is “on leave and is unavailable to…
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73 Colorado judges under investigation for not filing financial disclosures
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Colorado’s judicial discipline commission on Friday told legislators it is actively investigating more than 70 cases, in which judges allegedly violated state law by not filing personal financial disclosure documents for public review. The commission told a joint hearing of the House and Senate judiciary committees those investigations — 73 of them — were a large part…