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Dacono sets date for recall election and hires interim city attorney in contentious meeting

April 6, 2023 Like 0 Robert Davis

A special meeting of the Dacono city council on April 5 became contentious as officials set the date for an upcoming recall election and hired an interim city attorney.

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Dacono Mayor speaks out after city council backtracks in search for interim city manager and city attorney

April 4, 2023 1 0 Robert Davis

Dacono has yet to hire a new city manager and attorney despite having open job listing for more than a month, and it’s starting to get under Mayor Adam Morehead’s skin.

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As Colorado Reels From Another School Shooting, Study Finds 1 in 4 Teens Have Quick Access to Guns

April 4, 2023 Like 0 Guest Contributor

“That’s a lot of access and those are short periods of time,” said Virginia McCarthy, a doctoral candidate at the Colorado School of Public Health and the lead author of the research letter describing the findings in the medical journal…

Poetry

Why we speak… | The Soul in the Sun

April 4, 2023 Like 0 Muriel Vieux

The reason we speak up / It never occurred to you / That sending us to a school / Named after a confederate / Might make us uncomfortable

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Pepper and Joe Samba entertain fans at historic Boulder Theater

March 28, 2023 Like 0 Guest Contributor

Fans lined around the corner the 117-year-old Boulder Theater, huddled together tightly blanketed by a fast-moving snow squall, waiting in anticipation for the doors to open to the sold-out “20 Years of Kona Town.” Joe Samba and company. Inside, the…

Poetry

No one cared… | The Soul in the Sun

March 28, 2023 Like 0 Muriel Vieux

No one ever worried / That learning the horrors of our history / Might make us sad and uncomfortable / From the auctions to the lynchings / No one ever cared about that

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Spring | Whiskey and Words

March 27, 2023 2 0 Ian Dundas

A row of barstools / has decayed from loneliness / and the curb outside / crumbles from neglect.These days / swing from / apathy to anger / and back.

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Young Folks Will Save Us

March 25, 2023 Like 0 Steve Nelson

My first reaction to the growing conservative campaign to ban or remove books from libraries is that they – sigh – drastically overestimate the number of kids who even know where the library is. This is not to dismiss the…

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Report Charts a Course for Mitigating Wildfire Risk

March 24, 2023 Like 0 Guest Contributor

“Roadmap for Wildfire Resilience: Solutions for a Paradigm Shift,” a new report by the The Aspen Institute and The Nature Conservancy, offers detailed and strategic options for meeting the challenges brought by bigger and more destructive wildfires across the Western…

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The price of open records in Colorado shouldn’t keep them closed

March 24, 2023 1 0 Guest Contributor

The thorny question of what constitutes “real” journalism practiced by “real” journalists becomes dangerous, especially when the information gatekeepers get to judge their questioners.