by Mr. Leadville | Mar 20, 2021 | Leadville News
Federal forest firefighter Ben McLane got a visceral feel for the West’s intensifying wildfire predicament when his 20-man Hotshot crew rolled into Colorado last summer and faced the lightning-sparked Pine Gulch blaze — flames racing across bone-dry land and, each...
by Mr. Leadville | Mar 19, 2021 | Leadville News
Colorado’s COVID-19 hospitalizations ticked up Monday, but anyone watching will have to wait a few days to see if it’s a blip or cause for greater concern. As of Monday afternoon, 369 people were hospitalized with confirmed or suspected COVID-19, up from 324 on...
by Mr. Leadville | Mar 19, 2021 | Leadville News
When an oil or gas well reaches the end of its lifespan, it must be plugged. If it isn’t, the well might leak toxic chemicals into groundwater and spew methane, carbon dioxide, and other pollutants into the atmosphere for years on end. But plugging a well is no simple...
by Mr. Leadville | Mar 19, 2021 | Leadville News
DENVER — The one time of year the spotlight found Tom Osborne — and he didn’t immediately race back into the shadows — was at the annual Colorado Springs Sports Hall of Fame banquet.As president of the Colorado Springs Sports Corporation, Osborne would hike up to the...
by Mr. Leadville | Mar 19, 2021 | Leadville News
CHIMNEY HOLLOW — Sometime in the middle of next year, if Northern Water gets its way, the bulldozers will start piling earth and rock 25 stories high to plug this dry basin southwest of Loveland forever. Four miles to the south, they’ll build another dam to keep...
by Mr. Leadville | Mar 19, 2021 | Leadville News
In what feels like a rare win of late, good news came out of Colorado Monday. A District Court judge struck down a prohibitive Boulder gun ban ordinance. The ordinance previously deemed the possession or transfer of any semi-auto, magazine-fed sporting rifle or...
