The Denver Post editorial: Trump’s actions will increase emissions. Is that really what we want?
We’re amazed President Donald Trump can sleep at night.
His decision to roll back his predecessor’s Clean Power Plan is striking in both what it signals for the future of emissions in the United States, but also the likelihood it will erode efforts across the globe to clean up our atmosphere.
For even the biggest deniers of the scientific community’s findings that humans are causing the alarmingly rapid warming trend on Earth, that’s a weighty decision.
Trump’s executive order directed the Environmental Protection Agency to stop implementing the Clean Power Plan.
The Colorado Lottery’s mega-bad idea | Sondermann
Eric Sonderemann
eric-sonderemann@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 32 minutes ago
There are plenty of lousy, miserable, misguided whims out there. Then, every so often, you come across a notion so wrong-headed that it qualifies as phenomenally bad. Or, in words the marketing whizzes at the Colorado Lottery might understand, let’s...
Autism providers worry new Colorado licensing rule could limit therapy for kids on Medicaid
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 37 minutes ago
Autism care providers worry that up to a thousand families might lose services under a decision by Colorado’s health department to exclude an accreditation group for behavior technicians. The move by Department of Health Care Policy and Financing followed a...
A lost generation of news consumers? Survey shows how teenagers dislike the news media
David Bauder
david.bauder@associatedpress.com
Updated 1 hour ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Cat Murphy, a college student, has wanted to be a journalist since she was 11. Many of her friends don’t understand why. When they engage with the news — if they do — they hear a...
Air Force Academy tightens rules on conferences, public appearances for faculty
Mary Shinn
mary-shinn@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 hour ago
After the Department of Defense rolled out rules for employees to engage with the public in September, the Air Force Academy adopted a new layer of review for faculty and others who wish to attend conferences. The Air Force Academy...
Residents brace for change as Salvation Army transitions from operating Denver’s hotel shelters
Deborah Grigsby
deborah.smith@denvergazette.com
Updated 1 hour ago
It was a scorching day in Denver on Sept. 1, 2023, when Bernadette McMurrin’s aunt, Christina Martinez, passed away in a small apartment provided by the Denver Housing Authority. McMurrin, 41, who considered Martinez more of a godmother than an...
Salvation Army’s Harbor Light Center helps addicts get back on their feet
Deborah Grigsby
deborah.smith@denvergazette.com
Updated 1 hour ago
Dustin French walked through the doors of The Salvation Army’s Harbor Light Center in downtown Denver in July after 16 years as an addict. It had taken him more than half a year to muster the courage to do so,...
Colorado Springs D-11 board member running for state House seat
Eric Young
eric.young@gazette.com
Updated 3 days ago
A Colorado Springs District 11 board member has thrown their hat into the ring for a seat in the state House of Representatives. A candidate affidavit and committee registration form for Jill Haffley, vice president of D-11’s Board of Education,...
Heading into holidays, shoplifting on the rise in Colorado, study says
Mark Samuelson Special to The Denver Gazette
mark.samuelson@denvergazette.com
Updated 2 hours ago
Shoplifting and other forms of retail crime are seeing a sharp rise as Colorado heads into the holidays, according to a study released this week. After falling from a recent-record 24,975 thefts reported in 2015 to around 18,000 in 2021,...
Denver Council to consider $400 million in infrastructure contracts
Deborah Grigsby
deborah.smith@denvergazette.com
Updated 1 hour ago
The Denver City Council returns on Monday afternoon for its weekly meeting, approaching a full agenda that reflects several ongoing city priorities: homeless shelter operations, housing, infrastructure and police overtime. The agenda this week spans roughly 35 pages and includes...
Colorado fights federal campaign to stop SNAP from going to illegal aliens, certain noncitizens
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Colorado joined 21 other states in a lawsuit seeking to undo the Trump administration’s campaign to stop taxpayer-funded food aid from going to individuals illegally staying in the U.S., arguing the move also implicated a group of noncitizens who should...