You’ve gotta hand it to the Republican-led House of Representatives. They certainly know how to put on a good show. Such was the case this week when they voted Articles of Impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security. His “high crime” is failure to adequately protect the border, which the very same Republicans protected from protection by heeding Trump’s call to reject border protection legislation. It’s rather like completely defunding the police department then firing the Chief for failing to fight crime. The hilarious cherry on top of this farce was watching the solemnity with which House members, led

By John Ingold, The Colorado Sun. (Via AP Storyshare) Colorado lawmakers are considering a bill that would prevent hospitals from publicly concealing their involvement in lawsuits against patients, following a joint Colorado Sun/9News investigation into the practice. The bill, House Bill 1380, would apply to all debt collection lawsuits broadly, not just those over medical debt. It would require that the owner of a debt be listed among the plaintiffs in any lawsuit seeking to collect on the debt. The bill passed its first committee hearing late Wednesday. Supporters say they hope the bill will make it easier for people

Sparse communication between the oil company, Town of Erie, and residents has caused confusion and frustration, though remediation is entering final stages. On the morning of Thursday, April 11, 2024, Sara Amodio evacuated her home. Amodio has a chronic and rare lung condition that she receives regular treatment for, but nearby work to clean up an oil well that was discovered to be leaking in November 2023 has worsened her condition to the point that her doctors don’t want her anywhere in Erie when the site is actively being worked on. “Once they start digging up and doing more of

For the last six months, Americans have been complicit in an Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people. Despite empty rhetoric of two state solutions, Colorado congressmembers continue to defend the interests of Israel in contradiction of their own constituent’s calls for a ceasefire. You hear all kinds of responses from the Colorado Congressional delegation when you bring up genocide. Israel has the right to defend themselves. When does self-defense end and genocide begin when one nation has a well funded army and the other no army? How many deaths suffice? Is it an eye for an eye (have we evolved

By Nancy Lofholm. Special to The Colorado Sun (Via AP Storyshare) Nature calls. But what if there is no answer? Colorado’s public outdoor bathrooms are vanishing. Where once there might have been inviting brick-and-mortar restrooms, the public is often finding padlocked doors or a head-scratching void: “I could have sworn there used to be a bathroom here.” Lavatories are disappearing because bathrooms in parks and downtowns have morphed from a public convenience to a public nuisance. All manner of gross and sometimes dangerous items are being left in restrooms. The structures themselves have become targets for destruction. And what better