Tag: shooting
Triggered: How one of Colorado’s smallest protests became its most violent
ALAMOSA — The protesters, about a dozen in all, gathered on June 4 in the intersection of State Avenue and Main Street. Like protesters...
Wiretap: First came the 37-page indictment and then Trump’s Category 5...
It was, even by Trumpian standards, the tweet storm to end all tweet storms, a Category 5 Twitter tempest that began Saturday night at...
Quick on the draw: Cartoonist Mike Keefe and his thing about...
Some of us here at The Independent have, in one way or another, been working with Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Mike Keefe for a few decades....
A building used to taking on tough issues grapples with Tuesday’s...
There are few places I know where people make more of a difference than Denver’s Alliance Center.
In story after story of the 108-year-old building...
Organizers drop recall efforts against Windholz, demanding she step down
The group organizing a recall against state Rep. JoAnn Windholz told The Colorado Independent today they plan to drop their effort.
Instead they will focus on...
Rally to remove JoAnn Windholz hits the Capitol Tuesday
Rep. JoAnn Windholz referred to Planned Parenthood as the "real culprit" in the shooting at a Colorado Springs clinic. Tuesday, activists will rally at...
Why Westerners die at the hands of cops
This story originally appeared on High Country News.
Rancher Jack Yantis was eating dinner on a Sunday in early November when the Adams County sheriff’s...
Accused Planned Parenthood shooter faces mental competency exam
Robert Dear, the accused gunman in the Nov. 27 Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs, is headed to the state mental hospital in Pueblo...
Student’s ‘joke gone awry’ leads to felony charges, racist slurs
The day after the San Bernardino shooting, SWAT teams stormed Denver's East High School after rumors spread about a mass shooting. A senior, Elhadji...