covid
-
Colorado justices weigh constitutional implications of livestreaming criminal trials
—
by
With the Sixth Amendment guaranteeing criminal defendants the right to a public trial, members of the Colorado Supreme Court grappled on Tuesday with a question that may have never arisen without a global pandemic: If a judge requires spectators to watch the trial remotely, is there a constitutional violation? In a pair of cases stemming…
-
Magistrates, lawyers discuss youth, guns and responses to school safety
—
by
Adams County Magistrate Michal Lord-Blegen was a school administrator in Aurora when two teenagers killed 13 people and themselves at Columbine High School in 1999. The massacre was a lens through which she viewed her subsequent work as a principal and as a lawyer. “We’ve got a lot of kids with guns,” said Lord-Blegen earlier this…
-
Gov. Jared Polis tests positive for COVID-19
—
by
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday morning, his office announced. Polis, who is fully vaccinated, is currently asymptomatic, according to the announcement. Polis had been testing for COVID-19 regularly after being exposed to someone who had the virus. “The governor … will be working from home with his full schedule until he is…
-
Federal judge dismisses charges in long-running case, faulting government, self for delay
—
by
A federal judge has admitted that he and the prosecution were at fault for violating the speedy trial rights of a defendant by failing to bring her to trial in time, and has consequently dismissed the charges against her. U.S. District Court Judge William J. Martínez did not dispute the calculations of Mykhael Kuciapinski, who determined her…
-
Colorado’s economic development chief: The pandemic has changed how the state does business
—
by
Pat Meyers just finished his first year as the head of Colorado’s Office of Economic Development and International Trade. He’s also the state’s chief economic recovery officer – a new position created by Gov. Jared Polis, who appointed Meyers to lead the state’s COVID Innovation Response Team in March 2020. Meyers served as John Hickenlooper’s chief…
-
Polis presses Biden for COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5, criticizes FDA’s ‘lack of action’
—
by
Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday urged the Biden administration to get a vaccine deployed to children under 5, criticizing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its “lack of action and urgency.” In his letter, Polis noted that Colorado is home to a quarter-million children under 5 who remain at risk of contracting the virus. The…
-
Federal judge tosses employment discrimination case, acknowledges COVID-19 may be disability
—
by
A federal judge has decided that while COVID-19 can qualify as a disability, a Colorado Springs woman terminated from her job at the outset of the pandemic failed to establish her employer violated the Americans with Disabilities Act through its reaction to a COVID-19 diagnosis. Tammy L. Baum, a former accounts receivable clerk for Dunmire Property…
-
El Paso County to use $10 million in federal coronavirus money for road improvements, maintenance
—
by
A recent rule change to the American Rescue Plan Act means El Paso County can use a portion of its almost $140 million in federal relief money to help improve and maintain roads, El Paso County officials said Tuesday. The unexpected $10 million windfall will help fill a financial pothole that remained after voters in…
-
Omicron infections now below delta wave, need for additional doses of vaccine ‘likely’
—
by
There are fewer Coloradans hospitalized with COVID-19 now than at any point since early October as the omicron wave continues to rapidly subside, a decline that state officials hope will shepherd in months of pandemic calm. COVID-19 infections, which just 30 days ago were more than twice as high as they’d ever been, are now below…
