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Greene: On longing What's moving you in this time of isolation and unrest?

COLab 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...

Griego: No local news is bad news

COLab Tina Griego -
“Tell me a bit about the broader consequences that we found happen to a community when they lose their sources of local news.” “Well, there’s...
Lobbyists gather in the room immediately outside the doors to the state House chamber at the Colorado Capitol early in the 2020 legislative session. (Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun)

Coronavirus bills push lobbying to record total in Colorado. Here’s a look at the...

COLab Sandra Fish, Special to The Colorado Sun -
The total spent on lobbying at the Colorado Capitol topped $40 million this session — a record driven in part because of contentious last-minute...
One of 8 journalists to receive the 2020-2021 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship, Susan Greene is the inaugural recipient of the Benjamin von Sternenfels Rosenthal Grant for Mental Health Investigative Journalism — a partnership between The Carter Center’s Mental Health Program and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR).

“Bright lights in dark times”

COLab Tina Griego, Colorado News Collaborative -
Dear reader, Our apologies for our recent radio silence. Our new project launch with COLab (the Colorado News Collaborative) has us gathering string and casting nets...
The pressroom at the Alamosa Valley Courier Friday night as it printed our collaboration on a protest-related shooting. (Photo by Stephen Jiron)

What news collaboration looks – and smells – like

COLab Susan Greene, Colorado News Collaborative -
Dear readers, It had been too long since I smelled a newspaper. By that, I don’t mean the thing tossed on our front stoops each morning....
James Marshall protesting in Alamosa, Colorado on June 4, 2020 minutes before he shot driver Danny Pruitt. (Photo by Megan Colwell/Valley Courier)

Triggered: How one of Colorado’s smallest protests became its most violent

COLab Susan Greene, Colorado News Collaborative | Keith Cerny, Alamosa Valley Courier -
ALAMOSA — The protesters, about a dozen in all, gathered on June 4 in the intersection of State Avenue and Main Street. Like protesters...
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.

Indy wins National Press Foundation’s Carolyn C. Mattingly Award 'The breadth and depth of...

COLab 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...
Roy Kinney speaks during the community meeting in Rangely. To his left is Debra Pierce. To his right is Sharon Raggio, CEO of Mind Springs Health.

How uncovering a small Colorado town’s hushed secret led to redemption and reconciliation in...

COLab Alan Gottlieb, Colorado Media Project -
Introduction One cold December evening, a year after a police officer killed a mentally-ill man in the northwest Colorado town of Rangely, the dead man’s...
Former Rangely police Lt. Roy Kinney and Debra Pierce, widow of Daniel Pierce, a mentally ill man whom Kinney shot and killed in a 2018 police chase, share an emotional moment during a community conversation in Rangely on Dec. 2, 2019. Pierce told Kinney she does not blame him for her estranged husband's death. (Photo by Caitlin Walker)

Rangely police shooting: The truth emerges and the healing begins

COLab Jeff Roberts, Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition -
RANGELY  ̶  Late in the evening, two hours into Monday’s meeting at the community college, Debra Pierce turned and faced the police lieutenant who...
Rio Blanco Herald Times Editor Niki Turner and Colorado Independent Editor Susan Greene

Editor’s column: The stories that must be told

COLab Niki Turner, Rio Blanco Herald Times -
Every story starts with a question. Sometimes those questions are easy to find the answers to, and sometimes, well, sometimes they’re not. In this week’s edition...
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