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The hedge-fund ‘vultures’ are circling another newspaper chain with a paper in Colorado Your...

The vultures are circling again. But I'm sick of the metaphor. It's time for a new one. In coverage of The Denver Post's cost-cutting hedge-fund owners, the caricature has been a vulture, circling dead...
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...

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...

Gannett’s nationwide layoffs lash the Coloradoan newspaper in Fort Collins Your weekly roundup of...

Coast to coast, a wave of layoffs surged through newsrooms of America's largest newspaper chain — and I'm told three full-time staff positions at the Coloradoan in Fort Collins were...
Under the new MOU with Broomfield, Extraction would abandon the Lowell Pad, pictured here, and put in a new 19-well site named Livingston just southwest of Lowell, between Wildgrass and Anthem developments. (Ted Wood/The Story Group)

Broomfield homeowners sue to stop “forced pool” oil drilling under their land

A group of Broomfield homeowners on Wednesday filed a lawsuit that challenges the nearly century-old practice that allows oil and gas companies to drill...

Negotiations poised to resume as Denver teachers plead with district to raise pay

As Colorado’s governor weighs whether to intervene to head off a teacher strike in the state’s largest school district, Denver teachers packed a school...

How a once-promising merit pay system led Denver teachers to the brink of a...

Jeff Buck was the very first teacher to sign up for Denver’s revolutionary pay-for-performance system in 2005. More than 13 years later, he is...

Denver teachers set to strike over pay dispute after Gov. Polis declines to step...

Updated at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Teachers in Colorado’s largest school district are preparing to strike on Monday after Gov. Jared Polis announced he would not...

Ask the Indy: What’s going on with universal health care in Colorado? Single-payer is...

Steve Winters, a 55-year-old retired small business owner from Denver, has a straightforward question for The Colorado Independent: What are lawmakers and the governor doing...
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Guest Post: Why TABOR means we can have nice things

Taxpayer Bill of Rights. TABOR. A legislative victory for the libertarian state of Colorado. But perhaps one of the most hated bills by progressives...
Immigrants who have worked in Colorado for years under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program now live in limbo. (Photo by Katrine Kaarsemaker via Flickr: Creative Commons)

Guest Post: Why we must pass the Dream and Promise Act

For nearly two decades, working immigrant Coloradans who gained an opportunity to live and work in our communities under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS)...
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