Author: Tom Hellauer

Forest workers Mikayla Moors and Ian McDonald lost their jobs earlier this month, joining at least 90 U.S. Forest Service employees in Colorado laid off in recent government cutbacks. The firings are part of a campaign by the Trump administration to reduce what it described as “waste, bloat and insularity” in the federal bureaucracy. In particular, the…

Editor’s note: The Denver Gazette in recent months talked to several homeless people who tried the city’s programs. Some are in shelters, others expect to be back in the streets. Here’s a glimpse of their lives.    Craig Beck of Denver was swept from a homeless encampment sweep in 2024, and, entered the city’s temporary housing program. …

For the second year running, Gov. Jared Polis pardoned several turkeys raised in the state in a small ceremony at the historic Governor’s Residence at the Boettcher Mansion. The four birds pardoned, Lady Riketa Featherington, Dinger, Rockette and Fred, were named, “in a fair and free election,” among the Governor’s staff, Polis joked.  Polis, flanked…