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The Home Front

The Home Front: Meet the ‘Hartsel flats settlers’

The Gazette in Colorado springs has a fascinating enterprise feature about the "Hartsel flats settlers," the eccentric residents who live on that barren stretch of Highway...

The Home Front: Hate crimes are on the rise after the election

Reports of hate crimes have been on the rise since the Nov. 8 presidential election, reports The Gazette in Colorado Springs. "The number of...

The Home Front: Boulder abortion doctor calls federal probe a ‘witch hunt’

One of the country's few late-term abortion doctors, who lives in Boulder, blasted a congressional probe into his practice as a despicable witch hunt and...

The Home Front: Denver becomes first U.S. city to allow pot use in public,...

Denver will now allow people to use marijuana in restaurants and bars, yoga studios and other public places that allow it, becoming the first city in...

The Home Front: Local officials express support for minorities after Trump election

Officials in Longmont, Colorado are expressing support for minorities following the election of Donald Trump for president, reports The Longmont Times-Call. Overcoming racism will...

The Home Front: Trump says he’ll begin deportations, local communities gather to curb fears

The Coloradoan in Fort Collins reports on the local impact of the state's minimum wage hike. "Fort Collins' largest employer, Colorado State University, estimates...

The Home Front: Colorado ski resort will pay local landlords to house seasonal workers

Steamboat Today has the latest dispatch from the front lines of Colorado's affordable housing crisis: A ski resort offering cash incentives for local landlords...

The Home Front: How Colorado braces for the era of Trump

The Denver Post asks today in a headline: With Donald Trump in the White House, is Colorado in the doghouse? "Donald Trump ran against the...

The Home Front: The day after on Colorado’s front pages

"After the most expensive campaign this city has ever seen, Boulder voters made clear their support for the hotly contested ballot issue 2H, which...

The Home Front: Man to Aspen cops: ‘I own you,’ daddy will ‘take care...

Behind the front-page stories of election coverage in today's Vail Daily is a classic hapless-drunk tale of a man from St. Lois who is...
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