The Colorado Sun: News, climate, politics, water, housing and more
WEBThe Colorado Sun: News, climate, politics, water, housing and more. Water. Poop, pee, cocaine! People bring more than just tubes to Colorado rivers over Labor Day weekend. A new study on the impact of Labor Day festivities on Colorado rivers and streams doesn’t say to stop tubing. Just be mindful about what you bring with you.
Hospital merger puts Colorado's SCL Health under Intermountain …
WEBSep 16, 2021 · SCL Health, the Colorado-based operator of eight not-for-profit hospitals with 16,000 employees, will merge into much larger and secular Intermountain Healthcare of Utah, officials announced Thursday, creating a chain of 33 hospitals with 58,000 employees across six Western states. SCL Health, a Catholic system begun by nuns in …
Marshall fire update: At least 600 homes lost, 6 people injured
WEBDec 30, 2021 · BOULDER COUNTY — A wildfire fanned by winds gusting up to 110 mph burned at least 600 homes and businesses in neighborhoods in Superior and Louisville east of Boulder on Thursday. Tens of thousands of people in the fire’s path were forced to make a chaotic evacuation in a matter of minutes. Some were rushed out of big-box stores …
Xcel's Colorado customers are getting smart meters to manage …
WEBJul 1, 2021 · Almost all 1.6 million Xcel Colorado customers will have smart meters by the end of 2023. (Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun) It took Xcel Energy project manager Wade Cruser a little less than three minutes to pop the old electric meter off the side of a Littleton home and slap on the future of electricity use and billing for utility’s Colorado ...
What Colorado's new gun-control laws mean for gun owners
WEBApr 19, 2021 · Senate Bill 78. The bill requires gun owners to report a lost or stolen firearm to law enforcement within five days of realizing the weapon is missing. Failing to report a lost or stolen firearm is a civil offense punishable by a $25 fine. A second or subsequent infraction is an unclassified misdemeanor punishable by a maximum fine of $500.
Colorado continues to shift blue: The 2020 election, explained in ...
WEBNov 10, 2020 · Colorado’s political map is looking more and more blue. The 2020 election continued the decades-long shift toward Democrats in Colorado, led by voters in suburban counties and punctuated by huge turnout in the party’s strongholds of Denver and Boulder. The Unaffiliated is our twice-weekly newsletter on Colorado politics and policy.
Laurent Boebert narrowly beats Adam Frisch in Colorado's 3rd …
WEBNov 18, 2022 · Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert won reelection Friday in Colorado’s GOP-leaning 3rd Congressional District, barely overcoming voters’ forceful rebuke of her highly controversial tenure in Washington over the past two years to help her party expand its slim majority in the U.S. House. Boebert was leading Democrat Adam Frisch, a former ...
What you need to know to get involved at the Colorado legislature
WEBJan 12, 2022 · Colorado’s legislature passes bills with the potential to affect every Coloradan, often in ways deeper and more immediate than changes approved by Congress. School funding, health insurance, transportation, criminal justice, tax policy and a range of other issues and programs come under the scope of the Colorado General Assembly, …
Coloradans waiting 10-12 weeks to get unemployment pay - The …
WEBJul 21, 2022 · Coloradans face 10-12 week wait for unemployment pay to start as state deals with pandemic backlog. Colorado’s labor department said investigating more than 20,000 issues with older pandemic claims has caused a delay for new applicants. Some say it’s taking longer. This article contains firsthand information gathered by reporters.
Here's how Colorado grew in the last decade, according to the …
WEBAug 13, 2021 · Photo by Andy Colwell, special to The Colorado Sun. Colorado’s population grew at nearly twice the rate of the rest of the nation between 2010 and 2020, putting it among the fastest-growing states, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday. While the nation’s population grew only 7.4% over that period, Colorado saw nearly 15% growth.
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