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Colorado’s student enrollment plunged during the pandemic — especially among kindergarten and younger grades — stoking fears
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Fifteen hundred dollars a month was a small price for Candida Ring to pay to escape the virtual schooling the pandemic had her family stuck in, due to her daughter’s medical fragility. “It was not set up for children of that age,” Ring said of her school district’s online program for younger students. “They wanted them…
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More fire stations needed in NE Denver, audit finds
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A lack of fire stations in the Northeast Denver fire district that caused slow response times, a staffing shortage and a growing population that led to an increase in calls for service for the Denver Fire Department were issues cited in a city audit report. Fire officials were aware of the slow response time issue…
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In crucial state Senate race, Doty and Kagan pitch the middle
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On the front porches of Colorado Senate District 26, people want to talk about the presidential election pitting Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton, of course. Many of the residents don’t know that the race to fill the seat of outgoing Democratic state Sen. Linda Newell, D-Littleton, could well decide whether Democrats win a majority in the state’s…
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Lockwood: Hickenlooper’s torrid red-light camera love affair continues
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Coloradans are still left wishing Gov. John Hickenlooper knew how to quit red-light cameras. His torrid love affair with the red-light camera industry continues to be exposed with his latest move to veto, for the second year in a row, a bipartisan bill to restrict red-light cameras in Colorado. We have said it before, and…
