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As traffic deaths rise, study finds young adults rank highest in risky driving behavior

Feb 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

An annual study released this week by the Washington, D.C.-based AAA Foundation found that an overwhelming majority of young-adult drivers engage in risky behavior behind the wheel, including texting, running red lights and speeding, making them the worst-behaved drivers on the road. Their older cohorts however, don’t do much better, the study found, with the…
CDOT director blames jump in traffic fatalities on ‘epidemic of distracted driving’

Feb 7, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Traffic deaths are on the rise in Colorado over the past two years – reversing what had been a decade-long trend of falling fatalities – and the state’s transportation chief says it’s because more drivers are paying less attention to the road. “What the data tells me is we have an epidemic of distracted driving,”…
YESTERYEAR: Abortion, smoking debates take center stage

Jan 26, 2017

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Rachael Wright

… Twenty Years Ago This Week in The Colorado Statesman … “Take that President Bill Clinton!” said Colorado legislative Republican leaders. With Chuck Berry presiding as Speaker of the Colorado House, the Republican majority House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee amended and then proceeded to methodically pass a contentious anti-abortion bill sponsored by state Rep.…
Egan: The high price of inaction on our transportation infrastructure

Jan 25, 2017

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Jared Wright

Five hundred and ninety-nine – that is the number of people who died on Colorado’s roadways in 2016. That same year, highway fatalities and their increasing numbers prompted a public service campaign by the Colorado Department of Transportation and the Colorado State Patrol to make the public better aware – through roadway signs, social media and other advertising…
Threats, harassment a grim part of public life, lawmakers say

Oct 7, 2016

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Ernest Luning

A side effect of taking public policy positions in 21st century politics – being threatened Capitol veterans and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle greeted news that a 21-year-old Arvada man had been arrested and charged with threatening to shoot state Sen. Laura Woods with sympathy for the Arvada Republican and a grim acknowledgement that…
UPDATED: Police arrest Arvada man who threatened Sen. Laura Woods with ‘Bullet straight to the head’

Sep 19, 2016

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Ernest Luning

Updated 09/19/16 at 04:56:05 p.m. Police arrested a 21-year-old Arvada man on Saturday afternoon on a charge of threatening the lives of state Sen. Laura Woods and her family in an electronic message. Dylan Seila Hopkins stands accused of sending an alarming Facebook message to Woods, an Arvada Republican, on Saturday morning warning that he…

colorado state patrol

As traffic deaths rise, study finds young adults rank highest in risky driving behavior

CDOT director blames jump in traffic fatalities on ‘epidemic of distracted driving’

YESTERYEAR: Abortion, smoking debates take center stage

Egan: The high price of inaction on our transportation infrastructure

Threats, harassment a grim part of public life, lawmakers say

UPDATED: Police arrest Arvada man who threatened Sen. Laura Woods with ‘Bullet straight to the head’