Tag: News
Year in review: Here’s what happened in Colorado’s media world in...
For the first 2020 edition of this humble newsletter-and-column enterprise that began chronicling Colorado media issues in 2015, we review the year and all that...
From our editor: Hello sunshine!
Dear readers,
In a year when far too many dark clouds have loomed over Colorado's news landscape, there's some good news on the horizon with...
Indy Editor Susan Greene on surviving Colorado’s news apocalypse
Journalism in Colorado is under siege. And headlines keep coming about censorship, layoffs and protests in local newsrooms.
Join Colorado Independent Editor Susan Greene at the...
‘Orphaned’ oil and gas wells are on the rise
In March 2015, Joe MacLaren, a state oil and gas inspector in Colorado, drove out to the Taylor 3 oil well near the tiny...
The Home Front: I-25 expansion, wild turkeys a-roamin’ in Loveland and...
Violent crime is on the upswing in Grand Junction, the Daily Sentinel reports today. That’s in almost all categories, including robberies, weapons violations, trespassing...
Wiretap: 75 percent of women don’t like Donald Trump
Trumping women
Now that the Trump-Cruz battle has been reduced to wife-insulting, allowing Ted Cruz to respond to the latest infamous Trump tweet by calling...
Your weekly roundup of Colorado news and media, March 24
The Denver Post's longtime editor Greg Moore resigned + The End of the World
Last Tuesday, employees of The Denver Post were called for an impromptu staff...
Frank Rich: the internet as a ‘workaround’
Prominent New York Times columnist Frank Rich this Sunday wrote about Americans' fickle interest in international news. As political and social events unfold everywhere but here, we don't recognize the players and we know almost nothing beyond what we can see happening before our eyes. The protesters are on the bridge! The protesters are still on the bridge! Rich laments the near-blackout of cable news station Al Jazeera English due to U.S. Islamophobia. He's right about all that and right to be mad as hell about it, too. Then he starts talking about the internet.
Bachmann ‘government takeover’ talking points refuted by CBS
As the Minnesota Independent reports, Tea Party Congresswoman Michele Bachmann appeared on Face the Nation and railed against the "government takeover" of the economy...