Author: ERNEST LUNING [email protected]
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Colorado Democrats urge Biden to create new national monument in Rockies
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Leading Colorado Democrats on Thursday asked President Joe Biden to use his executive powers to protect vast swaths of public lands in the state by using the Antiquities Act to designate Camp Hale and a…
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RIVER TOWNS: South Platte’s polluted past inspires work toward a more pristine future
Founded along the South Platte River by prospectors who first struck gold on its banks, Denver has grown up around the waterway, from a makeshift encampment established in 1858 to a city of nearly 750,000 people anchoring a metro area nearly four times that size. From Denver’s first European settlers, who joined an Arapaho camp…
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Parents of Colorado students evenly divided over mask mandates in schools, poll finds
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado parents and guardians with school-age children are evenly split over whether students should be required to wear a mask for in-person learning at K-12 schools, according to a new poll that found views about…
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Glenwood Springs’ rivers are the lifeblood and harbinger
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denizens of Glenwood Springs, the small Western Slope city that hugs the two rivers that meet about a mile west of its world-famous hot springs, are acutely attuned to the health of the Colorado and the Roaring Fork rivers. The city asked residents in late…
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RIVER TOWNS: GLENWOOD SPRINGS | The Colorado and Roaring Fork are its lifeblood and a harbinger
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save ABOUT THE SERIES In the arid West, water means life. Turn on your tap, and you’re part of the Colorado circulatory system. The towns born along Colorado’s most iconic waterways — the Colorado, the Big Thompson and the Arkansas lead a list of 158 named…
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Colorado’s political landscape has changed significantly in 10 short years | TRAIL MIX
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A decade in politics can be a lifetime. Especially in a state with term limits and the kind of rapid, uneven growth Colorado has experienced since Denver was still trying to shake its long-discarded reputation as a cow town, even a few years can turn…