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Colorado Sun
- “Not another kiddo”: How a Colorado family’s worst nightmare is helping address school bullying
The Montrose-based nonprofit PEER Kindness offers a curriculum that helps both students and their parents.
- Colorado professional jobs saw large decline in November, but signs of hope appear for tech workers
The professional and business services sector lost 1,200 jobs in November. But inside that sector, tech jobs see improvement.
- Can ICE officers use RTD transit for free?
Yes. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers can use RTD transit for free under a policy that waives fares for all law enforcement.
- Drew Litton: Does ICE have any guardrails at all?
Cartoonist Drew Litton reflects the public outrage that has followed a fatal shooting during ICE operations in Minneapolis.
- “What’d I Miss?”: A vision of technology used for good
In "What'd I Miss?" Ossie and Myra marvel how, in a world wrestling with tech advances, doctors treated blindness with a lab-made cornea transplant.
Denverite
- Get to know Andrés Carrera, candidate for Senate District 34
Also running in the Democratic primary are Graciela Irlando Garcia and Michael Guzman.
- Things to do in Denver this weekend, Jan. 9-11
The Stock Show is in town!
- Nuclear at the airport? DIA isn’t shutting the reactor door, but wants ideas for other ‘clean energy solutions’
Rather than exclusively studying nuclear, the airport is soliciting a range of ideas to meet its future energy needs.
- The Stock Show parade returns, and so do the longhorns
What we saw and who we met at the big parade.
- Denver Water will raise monthly water bills this year. Here’s how it works
Costs will increase by up to $3.30 for average customers.
Colorado Public Radio
- Chamber Orchestra of the Springs to perform local composer’s work honoring victims of Club Q shooting
This weekend’s concerts include three other pieces including a concerto for electric cello by another Colorado composer and a Schubert Symphony
- Bureau of Land Management oil and gas auction gets zero bids in Colorado
The Trump administration wants to expand drilling on public lands, but oil and gas developers expressed zero interest in Thursday’s sale.
- House passes ACA extension bill, hoping to support a bipartisan compromise in the Senate
The bill passed went around Republican leaders and garnered support from one Colorado Republican
- House refuses to override Trump veto of Colorado water project
Though the original bill passed unanimously, Republicans refused to challenge the president.
- State expands suit against Trump administration to account for new threats
President Donald Trump has not been shy about his anger at Colorado leaders
Aspen Journalism
- Real time snowpack in the Roaring Fork basin
Snowpack hasn’t been this low since December 1999 As of Dec. 29, snowpack in the Roaring Fork basin is at 3.4 inches of snow water equivalent (SWE) or 53% of normal. Last year, snowpack held 6.7 inches of snow water equivalent in the Roaring Fork basin. Snowpack has never been this low at this point The post Real time snowpack in the Roaring Fork basin appeared first on Aspen Journalism.
- On the loose
Driving south along the Oregon coast is a journey through natural wonders that adorn calendars and offer spectacular vistas of a rugged coastline where waves crash and send fountains of sea spray into the cool, moist air. The post On the loose appeared first on Aspen Journalism.
Colorado Newsline
- How ‘agitators’ for women’s suffrage shaped Colorado’s 1876 constitution
Though Colorado was on the verge of statehood in early 1876, it wouldn’t have a Capitol building for almost another 20 years. It fell to John Taffe, the territorial secretary, to rent two large rooms at a Lawrence Street building owned by the Odd Fellows fraternal order, a space praised by the Denver Times as
- Federal agents shoot two people in Portland, police say
Federal agents reportedly shot and injured two people near a medical clinic in east Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The Department of Homeland Security acknowledged the shooting on social media, though it referred to a U.S. Border Protection agent firing “a defensive shot.” Police had few immediate details to share
- US House backs extension of health insurance subsidies after Dems force vote
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House approved a bipartisan bill Thursday to resurrect the enhanced tax credits that expired at the end of last year for people who purchase their health insurance from the Affordable Care Act marketplace. The 230-196 vote sends the legislation to the Senate, where Republican leadership is unlikely to put it on
High Country News
- Meet the oldest rock in the West
Wyoming’s 3.5 billion-year-old geologic history reminds us that Earth is ever-changing. The post Meet the oldest rock in the West appeared first on High Country News.
- These Americans were prosecuted for voting
In a corner of Alaska, American Samoans are facing prosecution for participating in democracy in the only country they’ve ever known. The post These Americans were prosecuted for voting appeared first on High Country News.
- Americans generally like wolves − except when reminded of politics
Recent studies found that attitudes toward wolves became more polarized when people’s political identities were activated. The post Americans generally like wolves − except when reminded of politics appeared first on High Country News.