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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...

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...
Rio Blanco Herald Times Editor Niki Turner and Colorado Independent Editor Susan Greene

Editor’s column: The stories that must be told

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...
Rio Blanco Herald Times Editor Niki Turner and Colorado Independent Editor Susan Greene

A story that almost fell through the cracks The backstory The Indy's investigation with...

Dear readers,  In today’s newsletter we bring you Parts 1 and 2 of “Through the Cracks,” our two-part investigation into the rural northwestern Colorado police...

Parked: Fort Collins considers reforms to preserve 30 mobile home parks and improve conditions...

Fort Collins leaders are taking advantage of a reshuffled city council lineup to dust off proposed mobile home park reforms that have long failed...

Parked: “Priced out of our hometown,” rising lot rents squeezing out mobile-home park residents...

Durango resident Dave Bray has lived in the mobile-home park on Animas View Drive for more than 30 years, but in the next year...

Parked: Aurora considers how to preserve mobile-home parks after park’s closure State law on...

More than a year ago, Aurora was blazing trails in how to handle the battle between mobile home park owners and helpless renters. Now, Aurora...

Parked: One of the wealthiest counties in Colorado owns four mobile-home parks, an effort...

While the existence of five mobile-home parks in Colorado’s wealthiest county might come as a surprise to some, they are actually an integral part...

9/4, 9/20, 10/2 – Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins

RAISE HELL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MOLLY IVINS Tickets Available Here https://www.mollyivinsfilm.com/tickets/ WATCH THE TRAILER RAISE HELL is the story of Molly Ivins, the outspoken political columnist and...

Coming Sunday: Parked: Half the American Dream An unprecedented statewide reporting collaboration on Colorado's...

Late last week, I made the gorgeous late summer drive west along I-70 to the mountain town of Avon, specifically to the Aspens Mobile...

Inside Centennial South, the maximum security prison Colorado could soon reopen The Independent tagged...

If you've driven U.S. 50 between Colorado Springs and Cañon City, you may have seen this building. It's called Centennial South, but was formerly known...
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