Author: Evan Wyloge
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Colorado marijuana regulators consider major changes to how labs test for contaminants
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This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Gazette. Colorado marijuana manufacturers would no longer be allowed to choose which product samples they send for mandatory lab testing under a new regulatory proposal discussed at a policy forum on Friday. Instead, the state’s Marijuana Enforcement Division may require independent labs…
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Colorado marijuana regulators consider major changes to how labs test for contaminants
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This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Denver Gazette. Sign up for Dispatches to get our stories in your inbox every week. Colorado marijuana manufacturers would no longer be allowed to choose which product samples they send for mandatory lab testing under a new regulatory proposal discussed at a…
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We tested vapes in Colorado for signs of hemp. This is what we found.
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This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Denver Gazette. Sign up for Dispatches to get our stories in your inbox every week. Leaders in the Colorado marijuana industry have complained in recent years that intoxicating products derived from hemp are endangering consumers and creating unfair competition, threatening to upend…
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Denver Public Schools claims absences were tied to ICE raids. The data isn’t so clear.
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When Denver Public Schools filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in February, district leaders claimed one immediate fallout of the Trump administration’s intensified immigration enforcement — students missing school. In sworn affidavits submitted with the complaint, Superintendent Alex Marrero and other school officials blamed changes to the administration’s “sensitive locations”…
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‘Planet Boulder’ brought down to earth by worsening problems with homelessness
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There’s a classic saying that the City of Boulder is 25 square miles surrounded by reality. After years spent on the ever-intensifying frontlines of homelessness, Jen Livovich has a saying of her own. “Reality has come to Boulder.” Livovich slept on Boulder’s sidewalks for five years, sometimes behind the municipal building, where she watched the…
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‘Non-survivable’ evacuation routes exist in Colorado’s most wildfire-prone areas
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About a 45-minute drive west from downtown Denver, nestled in the shadow of Mount Evans, Evergreen flourishes as one of the gems of the Rocky Mountains. Its dense pine forests give way to craggy ridges that look down on creek beds winding through the dozens of Evergreen’s mountain neighborhoods, all centered on an alpine lake…
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Colorado Secretary of State to pursue redistricting lobbying complaint against GOP in court
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A Republican-led effort to influence the state’s new independent redistricting process will end up being scrutinized by an administrative law judge, after the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office announced it intends to pursue claims of lobbying disclosure violations. The Secretary of State explained in a referral to the state’s Office of Administrative Courts that they…
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Colorado Supreme Court contemplates fate of congressional redistricting commission’s adopted map
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Attorneys sparred Tuesday before the Colorado Supreme Court, debating how far the state’s new redistricting commission must go to empower minority voters and whether its congressional map should be used for the next decade. Debate centered on a key passage from the voter-approved amendments that created the new independent redistricting process in Colorado in 2018,…
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Colorado legislative redistricting commission adopts state House district plan
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Colorado’s legislative redistricting commission adopted a final state House district map plan late Monday night, by an 11-1 vote. The commission will next send the adopted plan to the Colorado Supreme Court for review and approval. The commissioners haven’t yet adopted a final state Senate district map. They have until the end of the day…
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Colorado legislative redistricting commission releases possibly final maps
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Colorado’s legislative redistricting commissions on Tuesday released what could be adopted as the group’s final state House and Senate maps, if the commission cannot support an alternative. The maps released Tuesday are the “third staff plan” draft maps, and they are the final set of maps in a series of possible map plans produced by…
