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