Tag: Beth Carlton
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Elbert County a microcosm of rural Colorado’s battle with COVID-19
As COVID-19 raged in Elbert County, Deputy Clay Livingston responded to an emergency call last month. The call would be among his last. Several days later, Livingston died of COVID-19, the virus that has now claimed more lives of law enforcement officers during the pandemic, both in Colorado and nationwide, than gun violence. And in…
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Polis digs in as criticism grows over handling of latest COVID surge
In early April, Gov. Jared Polis’s public optimism neared its apex. After a winter spent fighting an unprecedented COVID-19 surge, cases were falling, mortality had plummeted, vaccines were flowing and a Colorado summer beckoned. Four months before, the governor had giddily greeted a FedEx truck delivering the first batch of doses to Colorado. He was…