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Greene: On longing What's moving you in this time of isolation...

Susan Greene, Colorado News Collaborative -
Dear reader, Tina and I have spent much of the last month knee-deep in documents for a difficult investigative project we’re still piecing together. So...
Ben Rosenthal, second from left, with his sister Ariella, mother Inka, father Robert and brother Adam.
Health

Greene: The hardest stories Colorado has one of the highest suicide...

Susan Greene, Colorado News Collaborative -
Dear readers,  The story of Ben Rosenthal’s death last year is not mine to tell. For starters, I never met the 26-year-old from Marin County, California....
Screen shot from former Rangely Police Lt. Roy Kinney's squad car dash cam of the stolen truck driven by Daniel Pierce during police chase in Rio Blanco County on Dec. 10, 2018. The chase would end with Kinney firing two shots at Pierce, killing him.
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Indy wins National Press Foundation’s Carolyn C. Mattingly Award 'The breadth...

Staff Report -
Dear readers, We’re thrilled to pass on word from the National Press Foundation this morning that The Colorado Independent has won the Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for...
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How Colorado is trying to address transportation needs for people in...

Forest Wilson -
One summer night, after his first year of college in 2012, Sandra Sharp’s son Drew grew increasingly anxious. He began having delusions of grandeur...
Still shot from the dashboard camera on former Rangely Police Lt. Roy Kinney's patrol car as he chased Daniel Pierce through the desert. The December 10, 2018 pursuit ended when Kinney fatally shot Pierce.
Criminal Justice

EVENT: A conversation about mental illness and law enforcement in rural...

Staff Report -
Next month will mark the year anniversary of Daniel Pierce’s death. The newcomer to the rural northwest Colorado community of Rangely was suffering from...
Colorado researchers for the first time have mapped the overlap between housing-insecurity and mental health needs, creating a tool that could better guide help to vulnerable areas. (Photo by Hunter McGinnis, via Flickr: Creative Commons)
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Research: Colorado has 71 census tracts where high rates of mental...

Forest Wilson -
Researchers seeking to better understand where the lack of affordable housing intersects with mental health needs in Colorado have for the first time mapped...
Still shot from the dashboard camera on former Rangely Police Lt. Roy Kinney's patrol car as he chased Daniel Pierce through the desert. The December 10, 2018 pursuit ended when Kinney fatally shot Pierce.
Criminal Justice

Through the Cracks: A stranger, a police shooting, and a rural...

Niki Turner and Susan Greene -
Editor's note: This is part one of a two-part collaboration between The Colorado Independent and The Rio Blanco Herald Times. We will post the...
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Colorado’s youth suicide rates are rising. A new effort seeks to...

Forest Wilson -
On Tuesday morning, in a fourth floor conference room of History Colorado in downtown Denver, 14-year-old Aimee Resnick stood behind a lectern looking out...
Idrissa Camara, an aide at a Pueblo home for disabled people, volunteered for solitary confinement at the Aurora detention center. The experience, he says, brought him close to ending his life. Photo by Bryan Kelsen
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GEO-run Aurora ICE Detention Center is isolating immigrants – some mentally...

Susan Greene -
The former ICE detainee agreed to talk under one condition: That he be called “Elvis.” The Salvadoran with a pompadour and an “I’d rather be...
Capitol Dispatch

Colorado’s criminal justice system has a mental health crisis. Will the...

Alex Burness -
Officials agree that growing numbers of people with mental health disorders in Colorado’s criminal justice system is a crisis.  But, in a hearing this week...
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