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As market cools, Colorado home prices finally level out
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Home prices in Colorado are finally behaving the way that market economics would predict they should, following two years of flat-to-declining real estate sales. They’ve leveled out. That’s according to the newest Market Trends report by the Colorado Association of Realtors. The report shows the median price of a single-family home in the state dropped…
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Colorado Supreme Court to address validity of plaintiff’s waiver for snowboarding injuries
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The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will decide whether a man injured while snowboarding may proceed with his lawsuit, despite a series of waivers — including one he signed years after his accident — releasing the resort from liability. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to hear a…
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Colorado Supreme Court censures abusive ex-judge from Summit County for second time
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The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday censured an ex-trial judge from Summit County who, days after returning from suspension – which the Supreme Court previously ordered for his judicial and criminal misconduct – threatened to put two attorneys in jail and promised to humiliate them in front of 80 jurors for missing a deadline. Former District…
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Selling alcohol to drunk driver not enough to hold liquor store liable for deaths, court says
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Businesses are not liable for injuries caused by a drunk driver if they sold alcohol to the already-intoxicated motorist, but the person did not consume it before causing an accident, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last month. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals answered a question never addressed before: Whether the state’s Dram Shop…
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Colorado’s most famous nature photographer donates life work to public domain
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For the past eight months at his home in the Summit County hills, John Fielder spent most every morning and afternoon sifting through photographs tucked away for decades. They were transparencies from his years of hauling heavy film equipment deep into Colorado’s backcountry. The transparencies needed paring down – duplicates in which the exposure and/or contrast…
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Supreme Court gives Summit County judge unpaid suspension for criminal violation
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Mark D. Thompson, a judge in the Fifth Judicial District who pleaded guilty this year to the misdemeanor offense of disorderly conduct, will receive a 30-day unpaid suspension for violating the judicial code of conduct with his actions. The Colorado Supreme Court issued its sanction on Monday in an unsigned opinion that imposed a rare…
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Colorado to receive state’s largest federal investment in green transit projects
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Colorado is set to receive $51 million in grants from the Federal Transit Administration to help fund low- and zero-emission transit programs throughout the state. These funds will be the largest federal investment the state has ever gotten for green transit projects, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. The money will go to six…
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Tourism outlook: Pent-up travel demand will boost visitor numbers in the Pikes Peak region
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Colorado Springs tourism leaders are optimistic that visitors will return to the Pikes Peak region in near-record numbers as the two-year-old COVID-19 pandemic fades from view. Officials believe Americans are ready to take vacations after two years of trying to avoid infection, and they are spending heavily to bring those visitors to the region. Visit…
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Q&A Rep. Julie McCluskie | At the helm of the Joint Budget Committee
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Now in her third year on the Joint Budget Committee, Rep. Julie McCluskie, D-Dillon, serves as chair of the legislature’s most powerful committee for 2022. She became the second representative from Summit County to sit on the JBC and as its chair, following Rep. Millie Hamner, whom McCluskie succeeded in the House District 61 seat…
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SPONSORED CONTENT: Your health care at risk: It’s time to make your voice heard
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Medical Care When it comes to health care, we can all applaud the efforts of our elected officials to improve access and affordability. Unfortunately, a recent proposal misses the mark and puts both the quality of our health care system and access to care at risk. On October 8, Gov. Jared Polis’s administration unveiled a…
