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The Home Front

The Home Front: Felonies spike in northern Colorado, homicides rise in Denver

Felonies have spiked in northern Colorado, reports The Coloradoan in Fort Collins. "The Eighth Judicial District Attorney's Office, which spans Larimer and Jackson counties,...

The Home Front: A Colorado law to require all cops be U.S. citizens, another...

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports on a proposed new law in Colorado that would require all law enforcement officers be U.S. citizens. "The...

The Home Front: Colorado’s own border war is a showdown over eminent domain

The Longmont Times-Call reports how a legal clash over 20 acres of land along the Erie-Lafayette border, "which threatens to derail plans for a multimillion-dollar development...

The Home Front: Asked about a 2020 prez run, Hickenlooper says ‘Never rule anything...

The Gazette today reports on a speech by Gov. John Hickenlooper in Colorado Springs where he praised the city's resurgence. Someone asked him if he might...

The Home Front: Colorado paper details prescription drug epidemic through texts by alleged dealer

A local arrest in Steamboat Springs sheds light on a prescription drug epidemic, The Steamboat Pilot & Today reports. The paper quotes generously from alleged...

The Home Front: Airport-style body scanners in a Colorado jail?

The Coloradoan in Fort Collins reports on how a local jail will spend $200,000 for airport-style body scanners to X-ray inmates. "A smuggled lighter, a baggie...

The Home Front: Gorsuch rulings, free speech zones, and fake news lectures in Colorado

The Denver Post reports on what 10 key opinions by President Donald Trump's Colorado nominee for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, say about the judge's judicial mindset....

The Home Front: Unemployment low in the Springs, scientists uneasy in Boulder, refugees OK...

"Unease in Boulder's scientific community over the implications of Donald Trump's presidency and what his policies mean for future federal funding is so great...

The Home Front: Colorado’s Doug Lamborn is ‘glad’ Trump fired Attorney General for ‘insubordination’

The Cañon City Daily Record reports Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn of Colorado Springs is pleased that Guantanamo Bay is still open, and had this...

The Home Front: Anti-Trump protests planned for Tuesday in Colorado

The Coloradoan reports how disaffection with President Donald Trump "is showing no signs of slowing in Fort Collins. A march to show solidarity with immigrants and...
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