covid
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Poll says support for teachers’ unions collapses, union official contests findings
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Public regard for teachers’ unions took a nosedive in a survey that shows Coloradans strongly supporting parents having more say in their children’s education. The poll, commissioned by Ready Colorado, a pro-school choice that supported a slew of contenders that ran opposite union-backed school board candidates in the last round of school board…
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Federal judge tosses contractors’ challenge to Denver vaccine mandate
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A federal judge has dismissed a legal challenge to Denver’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement for contractors providing services to the city, healthcare facilities and schools. Denver argued that the lawsuit should not proceed because the half-dozen construction trade associations who claimed the city’s order was unenforceable and unconstitutional had not demonstrated the city’s public health orders…
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Lawmakers give bill allowing hospital visits another chance after heartbreaking testimony from families affected by COVID
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Richard Gillham, a resident of Peetz in northern Logan County, was a farmer all his life. Rim Ranch, which his family owns, is one of Colorado’s Centennial farms, a designation awarded to farms that have been in the same family for at least 100 years. He loved his wife of 48 years, Nita, and adored…
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Judge tosses lawsuit over military vaccination mandate
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A federal judge in Colorado threw out a lawsuit from two service members seeking to halt the “forcible inoculation” of military employees and prevent the U.S. Department of Defense from requiring vaccinations for people who already contracted COVID-19. U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore found that the plaintiffs had reportedly received or were being…
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Polis outlines agenda before Colorado lawmakers
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11:56 a.m. Polis’ 49-minute address wraps up. “The state of our state, just like the people of Colorado, is strong, it is steadfast, and in spite of everything, we are boldly moving forward. God bless you all, God bless our Colorado, and God bless the United States of America,” he said in closing. 11:54 a.m. Approaching the…
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Jeffco judge wrongfully terminated father’s rights as he struggled to connect to hearing, appeals court rules
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A Jefferson County judge declined to postpone proceedings and instead terminated a father’s parental rights as he struggled to connect to the virtual hearing, a decision the state’s second-highest court has now reversed. District Court Judge Ann Gail Meinster should have granted the request to postpone the February 2021 hearing, a three-judge panel of the…
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Judge allows anti-vaxers to remain anonymous while challenging CU vaccination policy
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The public will not know the identities of the University of Colorado medical staff and students who are challenging the institution’s vaccination policy, after a federal judge acknowledged a hostile climate exists toward people who choose not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Eleven women and seven men have filed a lawsuit alleging the unconstitutionality of…
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Colorado courts call off jury trials as COVID-19 infections surge
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At least half a dozen of the state’s 22 judicial districts have temporarily halted jury trials, owing to the highly contagious omicron variant and the resulting explosion of COVID-19 infections in Colorado. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s latest data reported roughly 5,700 new cases of COVID-19, with over 10,000 deaths since the…
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Q&A with Chief Justice Brian Boatright | Pandemic motivated him to take top judicial job
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FAST FACTS: Brian D. Boatright has been the chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court since January 2021. He was a 2011 appointee of Gov. John Hickenlooper, and before that a 1999 trial court appointee of Gov. Bill Owens to the First Judicial District in Jefferson County. Boatright worked in private practice and as a…
