by Mr. Leadville | Oct 8, 2020 | Leadville News
The election is a month away. The “president” is in the hospital with COVID-19, Democrats need a net gain of four seats to take control of the Senate (fine, net gain of three plus a Biden/Harris win), and there’s a Supreme Court nomination hanging...
by Mr. Leadville | Oct 8, 2020 | Leadville News
LEADVILLE (AP) — When mining magnate Horace Tabor decided in 1879 that the rowdy silver boomtown of Leadville needed some cultural spiffing up, he built an opera house. In just 100 days, he brought in enough wagonloads of stone, brick and iron over hair-raising...
by Mr. Leadville | Oct 8, 2020 | Leadville News
5 hours ago Wyoming Energized by dry fuels and winds, the fire ran several miles in just under an hour and a half. Photo: Chip RedmondCHEYENNE, Wyo. — Despite aggressive actions by fire crews, the Mullen Fire raced across the Colorado state line into Jackson...
by Mr. Leadville | Oct 8, 2020 | Leadville News
High in the La Garita Wilderness sits a once-popular, but nearly forgotten, otherworldly landscape formed by one of the most massive volcanic explosions in the earth’s history. Around 25 million years ago, a volcano exploded in the southern Colorado Rockies. It...
by Mr. Leadville | Oct 8, 2020 | Leadville News
Colorado has a reputation as a healthy place to live, but that doesn’t seem to benefit the state’s Hispanic residents, who are more likely to die of causes that could have been treated or prevented. In all but six states, Hispanic Americans are less likely to die of...
by Mr. Leadville | Oct 8, 2020 | Leadville News
Colorado’s inaugural Frances Xavier Cabrini Day — the new state holiday to replace Columbus Day — is being celebrated virtually Monday. Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill in March making the first Monday in October Cabrini Day, the result of three decades of attempts to...
