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Colorado's Highest Mountain TownBig Tobacco stands down as Colorado and Oregon hike cigarette taxes
Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Big Tobacco did something unusual in Marlboro Country last fall: It stood aside while Colorado voters approved the state’s first tobacco...
As college students return to Colorado campuses, universities hope to avoid a repeat of the fall semester’s COVID-19 chaos
As winter break comes to a close and students travel back to their campuses, Colorado colleges are hoping to avoid a repeat of a chaotic fall semester mangled by COVID-19. “Going into the spring, there’s less focus on the universities as a sort of source [of COVID-19]...
Study: Pedestrian deaths nearly doubled in Colorado over the last decade
From 2008 to 2018, the number of pedestrians killed annually on Colorado’s streets increased by 89%, according to a new study from the American Automobile Association.Nationally, more pedestrians were killed in 2018 than any year since 1990 and Colorado’s increase in...
Increased recreation amid virus takes environmental toll | OutThere Colorado
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Scott Fitzwilliams was supposed to be off work. But as supervisor of America’s most trafficked national forest,“ you’re never off work,” he says.So there he was Fourth of July weekend, supposed to be enjoying the serenity he had always...
Colorado health care saved us; let’s save it, too
Miracles happen, right here in Colorado. I should know.Several months ago, amidst COVID quarantining, regent zoom calls, and running my recently launched start up, I got a nagging headache behind my ear. The dentist was convinced it would be solved with a root canal...
“You literally just did history”: Colorado’s teacher of the year wants students to understand the power of bearing witness
The syllabus for Gerardo Muñoz’s AP World History class doesn’t call for discussing coups until Unit 9, but after watching a mob of extremists storm the U.S. Capitol Wednesday in an effort to stop the certification of the presidential election, Muñoz decided to skip...
Colorado Supreme Court recognizes same-sex marriages existed prior to 2015 U.S. legalization
Common-law marriages for same-sex couples existed prior to the nationwide legalization of gay marriage in the last decade, the state Supreme Court ruled in a divorce case between two men Monday.In deciding the issue, the justices had to answer the question of whether...
Helen Collins, former Colorado Springs councilwoman, dies at 64
Helen Patrice Collins, a former Colorado Springs city councilwoman who drew attention — and public censure — for her political and personal alliance with anti-tax crusader Douglas Bruce, has died. She was 64.Collins died Wednesday of natural causes while under hospice...
Colorado lawmakers will get access to COVID-19 vaccine ahead of thousands of others in second phase
Colorado lawmakers will have access to a COVID-19 vaccine for the 2021 lawmaking term that begins Wednesday, likely moving them ahead of hundreds of thousands of others in the state’s second inoculation phase. House Speaker Alec Garnett, D-Denver, confirmed that...