Climate Report: Time is running out
Humanity may not be completely doomed just yet, but is well on the way to broiling itself to a crisp, according to the world's leading climate scientists, who this week rolled out part one of their latest global climate change assessment in a Summary for Policymakers.
How to ask for a billion dollars
DENVER -- Colorado Senator Mike Johnston, a former high school teacher and principal, spearheaded the effort. It took 2 years, 250 public meetings and it involved 2,000 individual stakeholders. The result is a bill that would rewrite the formula for funding state K-12 public education in a way that boosts the education budget and makes spending more accountable and more effective.
Files on Colorado’s two death row inmates ‘cloaked in secrecy’
DENVER -- Last spring in Colorado, a bill to abolish the death penalty died and Gov. John Hickenlooper granted a reprieve to death-row inmate Nathan Dunlap. "We must have a larger statewide conversation on capital punishment," Hickenlooper said then.
Appeals court to weigh how much is too much solitary confinement
By law, you get 15 minutes to argue in the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. The rules are the rules but this one comes across as painfully ironic in this case.
Climate-change analysts watching Colorado flood-insurance market
BOULDER, Colo. -- About a month before the floodwaters tore through town, NOAA released its climate-change report.
Eye on the Delegation: Defund Obamacare or shutdown the gov’t?
Friday morning, House Republicans voted again nearly unanimously to defund Obamacare, this time as part of a short-term spending bill necessary to keep government offices open and government services running.
The grate outdoors
The Colorado Department of Corrections is back in court again, this time defending concrete “shoeboxes” as appropriate spaces for outdoor exercise.
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Suicide at ADX: The quietest death
As weeks go, the first one of September was especially tough for Fremont County Coroner Carlette Brocious.
Greeley gasland in the wake of the great flood
GREELEY, Colo. -- “It’s a boom town,” Carl Erikson said. We’re sitting in a TigerXL -- what Erikson calls “MiniMo” -- on 18th Street....
Flood conditions overwhelm state oil-and-gas regulators
Intact oil and gas wells are alike. Damaged oil and gas wells are each damaged in their own way.
Weld County, Colorado, is host to...