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The Home Front: The latest issue facing Boulder is … slacklining in parks

The latest issue to hit Boulder: Slacklining in parks. The city "is on the cusp of allowing slacklining in several city parks with a...

The Home Front: Ex-Colorado sheriff employee told to ‘keep quiet’ about jail death

"A former Fremont County Sheriff’s Office employee who was told to keep quiet about the death of an inmate at the jail in April...

Media roundup: Researcher says CO’s legislature is the most polarized in the nation

So this seems worth noting going into a new legislative session today: "Colorado's lawmakers are the most polarized they've ever been, and are also the most polarized...

The Home Front: Avalanches, wind storms, and the start of a legislative session

The Boulder Daily Camera reports the Broomfield City Council delayed a vote on a fracking moratorium until next month. "People began lining up at...

The Home Front: Well, that was one wild wind storm yesterday…

The Gazette in Colorado Springs fronts a package about a wild wind storm that ripped through the Pikes Peak region yesterday, toppling tractor trailers,...

The Home Front: Large swastikas found carved in snow on a frozen Colorado lake

The Greeley Tribune reports today how Residents of the Greeley neighborhood around Glenmere Park "were collectively puzzled, angry and heart broken when they discovered on...

The Home Front: Old folks asked to flash ID on Colorado busses to ride...

Show us your papers, granny. "The Roaring Fork Transportation Authority is cracking down on requiring seniors 65 and older to prove their age with photo...

Colorado cities rebel: Boulder declares itself a sanctuary city, Fort Collins sends climate-change letter...

  Defying Donald Trump, Boulder has declared itself a sanctuary city. "It was a largely symbolic gesture, as Boulder already acts as other self-proclaimed sanctuary cities...

The Home Front: A Colorado lawmaker found swastikas carved in his local playground

"City employees were dispatched today to quickly cover up a series of swastikas that someone carved into playground equipment at Longmont's Loomiller Park," reports...

The Home Front: 100 years ago this week Democrats and Independents urged scrapping the...

About one third of newspapers across Colorado carried stories about the first local babies born in 2017 on their front pages today. They include newborns in the...
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