Community Corner

Sammie’s Humanity: A DiverCity Conversation with Sammie Leon Lawrence IV

June 25, 2019 Like 0 De La Vaca

A DiverCity conversation with Sammie Leon Lawrence, the Fourth of his Name, Holder of Custom-made Dragon-topped Walking Aids, Gardener of Souls, and Weilder of Badass Afros. Long may his humanity be known.

Women

Summer Books: SheFactor and the Politics of Empowerment

June 18, 2019 Like 0 Julia Wild

The concept of women's empowerment is the compelling centerpiece of Heidi Ganahl's 200-page book, SheFactor. You may also know Heidi Ganahl (nee Heidi Flemming) as the accomplished female founder of the $100 million canine daycare and boarding franchise, Camp Bow…

Magazine

Community Corner: Inspiring Incarceration Bills Signed in Colorado’s 2019 Legislative Session

June 16, 2019 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

This past legislative session saw some truly inspired bills regarding incarceration make it through the process to become law in Colorado, to the betterment of us all.

Community Corner

First COGCC Rulemaking to Implement SB-181 Fails to Listen to Citizen Stakeholders; Rule Proposals Evidence of Disregard for Citizens, Health and Safety

June 16, 2019 Like 0 Kate Merlin

Earlier this year the legislature passed, and Governor Polis signed into law, Senate Bill 181. The new law changes the mission of the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from a responsibility to “foster” the industry to having to enact reasonable…

Magazine

Community Corner: May 2019

May 20, 2019 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

Originally published for YellowScene Magazine’s May 2019 issue. SRO’s at School Year’s End This legal column began with a piece challenging school resource officers (police) in schools. I end the school year on this topic after a recent shooting at…

Community Corner

Hi, My name is Libby and I live in Crestone, Colorado (formerly known as Erie).

May 12, 2019 Like 0 Libby Mickley Weinstein

Hi, My name is Libby and I live in Crestone, Colorado (formerly known as Erie). Here in Crestone, you can go to work or run errands all day and return home to be surprised to see one of these towers…

Online News

Unnecessary Heroes, Martyrs to America’s Gun Fetish | #DeLaVacasDesk

May 8, 2019 Like 0 De La Vaca

These lost lives, Americans of all ages lost just this past few weeks, burnt up and crumpled and offered up like grotesque cannabalistic - emphasis on ballistic - incense to America's gods of domestic warfare: the NRA, Congress, 2Aers, and…

Community Corner

HB-1324, and What a SLAPP Means to Me

May 7, 2019 Like 0 Kate Merlin

SLAPP stands for “strategic lawsuit against public participation.” But what is it, really? A SLAPP action is a lawsuit, brought without valid…

Community Corner

Community Corner: What a difference a month makes

April 25, 2019 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

One month after eight officers surrounded a Black Naropa student for the non-crime of cleaning as part of his work study job on his own rental property, Boulder Police Department officers seem to feel the national spotlight had dimmed enough…

Women

You, too, can help stop Sexual Assault

April 25, 2019 Like 0 Holly Snyder

Every year in April, MESA - and sexual assault prevention organizations across the country - promotes Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), which is used to shine a spotlight on what D’Anniballe refers to as an “epidemic crime,” for which both…