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Colorado Sun
- Opinion: Colorado’s continued billion-dollar struggle with state budget is reason we need to shift to graduated income tax
Voters deserve chance to rethink our state spending and change Colorado Constitution to change tax structure
- Xcel Energy asks for $356M rate increase that will boost Colorado residential customers’ bills by about $10
The company acknowledged affordability problems and proposed doubling the energy assistance fee 1.6 million customers pay monthly
- A hiker’s deadly fall highlights Colorado’s longtime struggle to account for its abandoned mines
Colorado has closed about 14,000 abandoned mine openings since 1980, but officials say thousands more — many unknown to the state — remain
- U.S. patent agency asks where to put new regional office after closing its Denver hub
A month after shutting down the regional office in Denver, the patent agency is seeking locations for a new one. The deadline is 3 p.m. Friday
- Denver metro hospitals made $1.3 billion in profits in 2024, but little of that came from treating patients
Hospitals outside the Denver area saw smaller profits compared to their metro-area counterparts, according to a new report
Denverite
- Strip club performers are strip club employees, Denver judge rules
The Denver City Auditor’s office ruled earlier this year that two strip clubs were mistreating their employees.
- A key ally of Denver’s mayor is betting big on 16th Street
Hundreds of Ibotta employees will work out of their new 85,000-square-foot office downtown.
- RTD will launch a special holiday loop in downtown Denver
The route will run from Nov. 28 to Jan. 3. After that, the D, H, and L lines will fully reopen.
- ‘They have treated immigrants as pawns:’ Catholic archbishop leads service outside Aurora detention facility
Archbishop Samuel Aquila led a large group of Catholics in a sermon outside an immigrant detention center.
- Chief says police killed break-in suspect in self-defense
Officers were responding to a report of a man breaking into a shed. He had a sharpening steel.
Colorado Public Radio
- Telluride ski patrol union nears strike as new contract remains elusive
The Telluride Professional Ski Patrol has been working without a new contract since September.
- Colorado Rockies promote Warren Schaeffer to full-time manager
The team announced his promotion from interim manager on Monday.
- Chauncey Billups, NBA coach and CU Buffs grad, pleads not guilty in rigged poker games case
The Hall of Famer will be arraigned in a federal court in Brooklyn on Monday.
- Is Colorado in a recession? Tell us if you’re feeling the pinch when it comes to groceries, housing and jobs
While we aren't officially in a recession, that doesn't mean Coloradans aren't feeling the pinch.
- CU Economist: Too early to ring recession bell, though not all signs are rosy
Brian Lewandowski heads the business research division at the CU School of Business.
Aspen Journalism
- State water board votes yes on Shoshone
The CWCB’s decision was a blow to Front Range water providers, who objected to the River District’s having a say over how to manage the water rights, even though they supported the overall goal of protecting flows for the environment. The post State water board votes yes on Shoshone appeared first on Aspen Journalism.
- Real-time local streamflow
Local rivers running below normal Local streams are flowing at 58-94% of normal in the Roaring Fork watershed as of Nov. 19, while the Colorado River is running at 84% of average at Dotsero and 69% near the Colorado-Utah stateline. Streamflows peaked on June 3 or June 4 with the Roaring Fork River flowing as The post Real-time local streamflow appeared first on Aspen Journalism.
Colorado Newsline
- Judge drops James Comey and Letitia James charges, saying prosecutor served ‘unlawfully’
A senior federal judge dismissed charges Monday against two public officials with long-running public disputes with President Donald Trump, saying the controversial appointment of the president’s former personal attorney as a prosecutor doomed the cases. Senior U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, whom former President Bill Clinton appointed to the bench in South Carolina, wrote
- Press access to Oval Office argued in case involving Trump and wire service
WASHINGTON — A three-judge federal appeals panel grilled lawyers for a former White House official and The Associated Press Monday in a case that could significantly overhaul press access to the Oval Office and Air Force One. The two sides sparred over whether the president, in this case President Donald Trump, has sole discretion over
- Investigation opened based on campaign finance complaint against Colorado lawmaker
A campaign finance complaint made against Colorado state Rep. Ron Weinberg moved into an investigation phase last week, according to documents from the secretary of state’s Elections Division. Weinberg, a Loveland Republican, faces a complaint related to how he spent campaign contributions at, among other places, a barber shop, a cigar shop and a high-end
High Country News
- The West’s vanishing porcupines
Scientists are racing to figure out why porcupines are disappearing from their former stomping grounds. The post The West’s vanishing porcupines appeared first on High Country News.
- Reno’s Gay Rodeo is back
Nearly 40 years after an armed sheriff, anti-LGBTQ activists and a judge’s order shut down the Gay Rodeo Finals, this year the riders came home. The post Reno’s Gay Rodeo is back appeared first on High Country News.
- Will this threatened frog stop drilling near Denver?
Northern leopard frogs were found near the site of what would be one of state’s largest fossil fuel operations. The post Will this threatened frog stop drilling near Denver? appeared first on High Country News.