Author: RACHAEL WRIGHT Special to The Gazette
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Mediation canceled for trans woman alleging civil rights violation by Mesa University
Two days before a mediation was scheduled, Tammy Powers, a transgender woman who filed a Title IX complaint after allegedly being denied entry into a Colorado Mesa University Tech class, was told the mediation had been canceled. Powers found out about the cancellation in an email from her Greeley-based attorney, Richard Blundell. Powers had been admitted to…
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Colorado, some Coloradans make appearances in the Epstein Files
With the U.S. Department of Justice’s release of 3 million more files pertaining to convicted sex felon Jeffrey Epstein, multiple written mentions of alleged connections to Colorado towns and business owners have come to light. A word search of the documents for “Colorado” generates 1,485 hits, with inquiries for cities including Denver and Aspen generating several thousands more. Chad McWhinney, a Colorado real estate developer and chairman and co-founder of Realberry, a Denver-based real estate organization, was referenced in an…
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Ski patrollers end strike against Telluride
After 13 days, the longest ski patrol strike in U.S. history has come to an end. On Dec. 27, the 72-member Telluride Professional Ski Patrol Association voted to go on strike after approaching Telluride Ski Resort (Telski) owner Chuck Horning with a demand for pay increases. The union and the resort’s ownership spent many months…
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Trump administration announces $12 billion soybean aid package
President Donald Trump and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced Monday that the administration was planning to disburse a $12 billion dollar aid package as part of the Farmer Bridge Assistance (FBA) Program, to make targeted, one-time payments to crop farmers. The FBA is designed to be an “economic bridge” to the next planting season.…
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Federal funding suspended: Palisade sewage lagoon project in limbo
Overlooked by sloping vineyards and peach orchards, Palisade’s four sewer lagoons will soon stand empty without the $3 million in what is known as B2E (Bucket 2 Environmental Drought Mitigation) funding from the Bureau of Reclamation. In the 1960s, the town of Palisade built four sewer lagoons on a raised bank of the Colorado River…
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ICE arrest of student after traffic stop spotlights Colorado’s non-cooperation policy
On June 5, a University of Utah student was pulled over by a Mesa County police officer for following a semitrailer too closely. Caroline Dias Goncalves was asked where she was born and was released with a warning. But after exiting Interstate 70 at Loma, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stopped, arrested and took her to…
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Coal to nuclear? Western Slope advocates say it could be ‘a plug and play’
Family picnics in the 1940s and 1950s in western Colorado might have resulted in more than ants marching over a worn checkered tablecloth. On the arid sandstone outcrops, in fine grains and veinlets, in greenish-yellow or a sooty black, lay the United States’ hope for Cold War dominance: uranium. Seventy-five years on, some Coloradans still…
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Western Slope farmers fear impact of mass deportations and labor market changes
PALISADE • To be a farmer in any era is to live, unsteadily, with constant change. On rural Colorado’s small family farms one thing is certain: the landscape of agriculture is shifting. And the tenuous balance is in for a new test as promises of mass deportations threaten to wipe out the labor force that small…