The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: City must bridge canal-trail divide
The debate over whether Grand Valley irrigation canal banks and roads should be accessible to the commuting and recreating public isn’t as old as the canals themselves. It just seems that way.
Every few years, some entity – usually the city of Grand Junction – broaches the idea of placing trails on top of or next to the canals and ditches that provide irrigation water to the valley’s farms and lawns. And every few years, the private nonprofits and companies that own and operate those waterways offer the same response: No way, no how.
Merv Bennett, former member of Colorado Springs City Council and longtime YMCA leader, has died
O'Dell Isaac
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Updated 10 minutes ago
Merv Bennett, a former member of Colorado Springs City Council and a major force behind the growth of the local YMCA, died Saturday after a long illness, former Mayor John Suthers said. Bennett was 77. “Our city has lost one...
US rejects bid to buy tons of coal on public lands for less than a penny per ton | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
The Associated Press
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Updated 5 days ago
MONTANA Lowball coal bid rejected BILLINGS — Federal officials rejected a company’s bid to acquire 167 million tons of coal on public lands in Montana for less than a penny per ton, in what would have been the biggest U.S....
Calendar Oct. 27-Nov.2
Rachael Wright
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Updated 6 days ago
CoPo’s weekly political calendar will help you find political and public-policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances,...
Colorado Campaign finance commission convenes to address rising PACs, make other reforms | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright
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Updated 5 days ago
Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: Gov. Roy Romer convened the first meeting of the Colorado Campaign Finance Reform Commission, which was led by Dr. Gene Nichols, dean of the University of Colorado Law School. The Campaign Finance Commission was made...
Federal judge ‘dumbfounded’ at government’s rejection of enforceable order holding ICE to its own policy
Michael Karlik
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Updated 2 days ago
A federal judge on Friday grilled the government over its position that an internal policy defining the ability of immigration agents to make warrantless arrests should not be enforceable through a court order. “As a citizen of Colorado and of...
Downtown Denver sees tepid signs of absorption in empty office space
Mark Samuelson Special to The Denver Gazette
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Updated 17 minutes ago
Denver’s newly remodeled 16th Street is open at its full expanse, beckoning workers and employers back into a downtown that was partially vacated during the pandemic, when office vacancies climbed past 30%, then 35%. Now analysts are seeing a glimmer...
Colorado justices field questions about values, disagreement at East High School
Michael Karlik
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Updated 2 days ago
Members of the Colorado Supreme Court fielded probing — and in some instances, tough — questions from East High School students on Thursday, including how the court balances existing law with “evolving social values.” “Often what we’re looking at is...
Colorado hospitals are operating on ‘unsustainable’ margins, report finds
Marissa Ventrelli
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Updated 2 days ago
Nearly 70% of Colorado hospitals ended 2024 with “unsustainable” margins, according to a new financial report from the Colorado Hospital Association. Tom Rennell, the group’s senior vice president of financial policy and data analytics, said hospitals’ expenses are outpacing their...
Divided appeals court upholds convictions despite ‘troubling and unfair’ contradictory police testimony
Michael Karlik
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Updated 3 days ago
Colorado’s second-highest court upheld a man’s convictions for unlawful possession of a firearm on Thursday, even as the majority acknowledged it was potentially unfair that a Denver officer testified to a different sequence of events at trial than earlier in...
Appeals court overturns Denver strangulation conviction for improper expert testimony
Michael Karlik
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Updated 3 days ago
Colorado’s second-highest court reversed a Denver man’s assault conviction on Thursday, finding an expert’s testimony about the potential risks of strangulation had no bearing on the facts of the case. Phillip L. Bauereiss and the victim got into an argument....