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The Home Front: Trump’s travel ban hits Colorado

The Coloradoan in Fort Collins localized Donald Trump's executive order banning travel to the U.S. by refugees. "A federal change to immigration policy Friday sparked...

‪The Home Front: Despite new law, some Colorado hospitals reject aid-in-dying drugs‬

... ... Some hospitals in Colorado will not offer aid-in-dying drugs after voters approved a ballot measure in November that allows terminally ill Coloradans to obtain...

The Home Front: Uber in Steamboat, homelessness in Fort Collins, housing in Durango

The Coloradoan in Fort Collins reports on a proposed ordinance some worry would criminalize homelessness. "With the busy summer tourist season in mind, Fort Collins...

The Home Front: Rural Colorado teachers are arming themselves

"Teachers and staff members in at least a dozen of Colorado’s most remote school districts are arming themselves instead of waiting for local law...

The Home Front: Colorado lawmaker on GOP abortion bills: ‘Thank God we have a...

"Colorado House Democrats have bristled at the introduction of a group of bills targeting abortion, with Fort Collins Rep. Joann Ginal among those leading...

The Home Front: Colorado’s oil-and-gas rig count bounces back

"Colorado’s rig count is at its highest level in more than a year, suggesting the oil and gas downturn in the past couple of...

The Home Front: Energy company wants to drill 35 wells north of Paonia

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports on plans by the Gunnison energy firm to drill 35 wells over three years about 12 miles north of Paonia,...

The Home Front: From panhandling in Pueblo to graffiti in Glenwood Springs

The Pueblo Chieftain reports the city's hands are tied on panhandling. “The courts have determined that panhandling is a form of free speech,” City Attorney...

The Home Front: Enviro group fights a natural gas compressor, housing for artists, and...

The Glenwood Springs Post-Independent reports on an environmental group that's appealing a "recent Bureau of Land Management decision authorizing a new natural gas compressor...

The Home Front: Will a Colorado town legalize civil disobedience against fracking?

"An anti-fracking ordinance aimed at hobbling oil and gas development within Lafayette through sanctioning acts of civil disobedience and non-violent protest will go in...
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