Tag: Colorado Independent
A Colorado Independent event: The Ludlow Massacre 100 years later
On April 20, 1914, the National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company guards attacked a tent colony of striking miners and their families. What does it mean today?
Democracy Now! and Susan Greene on Oklahoma’s ‘Team Pentobarbital’
Colorado Independent Editor Susan Greene appeared on DemocracyNow to talk about the scramble in Oklahoma reported by the Independent this week to find drugs to conduct prisoner executions.
What we talk about when we talk about the death penalty
“There is evil out there, I’ve seen it,” said D.A. Dave Young. “There are people who kill for fun, and will do it again."
Be There: Morgan Carroll vs. Mike Littwin tonight, Denver Press Club
Fun begins at 6:30 pm, at 1330 Glenarm Place. I'm hosting, with your help. Please bring questions. Also: Cash bar and free appetizers. See you there.
Former Colorado Independent intern found dead in Mexico City
Armando Montaño, a former intern for the Colorado Independent, died this past weekend in Mexico City, where he was writing for the Associated Press. Mexican officials are investigating his death and, according to the AP, the U.S. embassy is monitoring that investigation.
Groups want to hasten COGCC director’s exit, call for improved oil...
Citing the pending departure of David Neslin, environmentalists are speaking out against the “ongoing parade of regulators” leaving state government to take jobs with the industries they formerly regulated.
Colorado Independent: Alive and well
The American Independent News Network, the parent organization of the Colorado Independent, announced today that it is shuttering some of the state sites in the network but that it will continue to deliver national reporting on the American Independent site. Editorial operations at the Colorado Independent remain unaffected by these larger network developments.
Pelosi says natural gas industry should cooperate on disclosure of fracking...
In a sit-down interview with the Colorado Independent in Denver this week, U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Colorado Congresswoman Diana DeGette said the natural gas industry should support full public disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing as a “protection” from potential litigation.
Uncoordinated (or how the Colorado Independent reported the Buck rape story)
No real reporter likes to be the subject of a story he or she has written, but that is where some part of the...
Upon his Twitter, Sen. Brophy would injure we of patient sufferance
On July Fourth, the gentleman senator from Wray, Greg Brophy, took to his Twitter to make a wager. He bet that we at "the...