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Aurora lawmakers move forward with ordinance to limit ‘predatory’ businesses in underserved communities
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Aurora City Council moved forward with an ordinance that, if passed at a future regular meeting, would address the clustering of “high-risk” businesses in low-income communities. The socioeconomic sales and services impact permit ordinance, proposed by Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky, would create a permit for such businesses and grandfather in existing businesses to address what officials…
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US Fish and Wildlife Services tells Colorado: No more wolves from Canada, Alaska
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Efforts by Colorado Parks and Wildlife to bring in more wolves from Canada later this year may have hit a snag after the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service told the state it may not do so. In an Oct. 10 letter, Brian Nesvik, director of USFWS, told Gov. Jared Polis and Jeff Davis, director of…
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Colorado bingo night: It’s all about the prizes, not so much the charity
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It’s a Thursday night at Bingo Oasis in Northglenn. Located on the outer edge of a nondescript strip mall just west of I-25, it has a simple façade sign advertising what goes on behind the mirrored and postered windows: BINGO. About the only giveaway to the activity there is that the 50 or so cars…
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Colorado teachers promote education agenda at opening of legislative session
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Wearing red denoting education on their bodies, along with smiles on their faces, about 100 Colorado teachers gathered at the state Capitol on Friday to emphasize their priorities to lawmakers at the opening of the 2019 legislative session. The mood was upbeat and hopeful, yet concerned, said Simon Ellis, a first-grade teacher at Academy International…
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El Paso County teen suicide rate doubles, Colorado AG’s report shows
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While death by suicide among 19- to 24-year-olds in El Paso County has been declining since reaching a high in 2014, the number doubled among those 18 and under, according to a study Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman released Thursday. Suicide deaths in the 10-18 age group jumped from 24 in 2012-2014 to 48 in…
