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GREENE: The hands that need holding

Susan Greene - March 28, 2020

Inside the small legal community defending Colorado death penalty clients, a wary hope for repeal

Susan Greene - February 21, 2020

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper kisses Roslyn Vaughan while making a presidential campaign stop at a house party in Des Moines, Iowa on Jan. 27, 2019 (Photo by Evan Semón)

In presidential run, Colorado’s Hickenlooper pushes compromise in an uncompromising time Will the former...

Editors' Picks Susan Greene - March 17, 2019

It is a late Friday afternoon in early February and passengers at Gate 12 of Washington’s Reagan National Airport are displeased. “Fucking United,” a lawyer-lobbyist...

Climate change. Silverton Mountain, March 2010. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

Four seasons: Colorado water in a changing climate Part 1: The life and death...

Editors' Picks Lars Gesing - January 24, 2019

Editor’s Note: Over the next year, The Colorado Independent will examine, season by season, the effects climate change is having on the state’s water...

Feds set urgent deadline on Colorado River drought plan Interior Dept. to Arizona and...

Editors' Picks Susan Greene - December 14, 2018

LAS VEGAS – Reforming western water policy has always been an exercise in political maneuvering, stop-and-start negotiations and bureaucratic delays. Progress comes slowly and...

How Jared Polis Gets What He Wants: A Portrait in Four Parts

Editors' Picks Alex Burness - November 6, 2018

This is The Colorado Independent's complete four-part series on Jared Polis, Colorado’s Democratic nominee for governor. You can click directly to Part 1 (Polis’s...

PARCHED: Climate change and growth pushing CO toward a water crisis Gov. John Hickenlooper's...

Editors' Picks Susan Greene - October 24, 2018

Editor's note: This story is the latest in The Colorado Independent's ongoing series, PARCHED, which tracks Colorado's water plan and water supplies in the...

GREENE: What, in all its secrecy, is Colorado’s justice system hiding? The Colorado Independent...

Editors' Picks Susan Greene - September 29, 2018

Colorado’s judicial branch has spent a year stonewalling The Independent’s quest for court records, and I’m proud that we have stepped up our fight. As...

After years of drought, Colorado water bosses face uncertainty

Editors' Picks John Herrick - August 28, 2018

On June 1, a spark near the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gage Railroad ignited a flame in the Animas River gorge north of Durango....

Sixty two buses, 60 drivers, 9,000 square miles: What happens when the demand for...

Editors' Picks Tina Griego - July 27, 2018

Fort Morgan, CO — Sherry Jean Burrell lives in a small, clapboard home amid the corn fields amid the plains amid the vastness of...

Littwin: The dangers cops face every day do not include a reporter wielding an...

Editors' Picks Mike Littwin - July 7, 2018

As you may have heard, Indy editor Susan Greene was handcuffed and detained by two Denver cops Thursday in front of the state Capitol...

Greene: That time a Denver cop made up excuses to handcuff a reporter

Editors' Picks Susan Greene - July 6, 2018

Tina Griego – my colleague who’d normally edit this column – suggested that I calm down and sleep on it before writing. Find your...

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