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Colorado's Highest Mountain TownPOINT/COUNTERPOINT: Is pay transparency hurting or helping Colorado?
Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act creates no new legal protections for women in the workforce. Nonetheless, it has proven wildly successful in ensuring equal pay, regardless of sex, of $0.00 per hour for Colorado job seekers.Advocates tout the law, SB 19-085, as...
These twin buttes surprise on the prairie of northeastern Colorado
Sights and sounds from the Pawnee Buttes on Colorado’s northeast plains. (Video by Seth Boster) WELD COUNTY • A man is more than 100 miles and seemingly a whole world away from his home city of Denver. He drove north and far east to get here, the mountains like a hazy...
Colorado Passes Medical Aid in Dying Law – SevenPonds BlogSevenPonds Blog
Credit: coendoflifeoptions.orgOn Nov. 8, 2016, Colorado became the sixth state in the United States to allow medical aid in dying for terminally ill patients living in the state. The ballot initiative passed by an overwhelming majority, receiving two-thirds of the...
Captain Clean: Colorado Springs man finds success with carpet, air duct cleaning businesses
Brandon Kirk, as his Instagram page states, is a business owner, mentor, speaker, networker and nerd.He's also, as of last month, the Pikes Peak region's 2021 Small Business Person of the Year; the honor was presented at the ninth annual Small Business Week Awards,...
Colorado Springs considers changing land-use, planning appeals process to cut out city council
The Colorado Springs City Council may no longer have the last word on appeals of land-use or planning decisions, such as rezonings and concept plan changes, if a proposed change to the new zoning code is approved.If approved, lower boards of appointees, such as the...
The first local target for COVID, Colorado Springs Bridge Center reopens, with joy and tears
Ann Parker was already on the move, arms propelled by emotion and muscle memory, when she caught herself.“This is OK, right? she said, a question to the universe and also to Tom Goings, who’d just arrived at the Colorado Springs Bridge Center on Tuesday, July 6, the...
‘Extreme’ behavior of Colorado wildfire prompts forest closures | OutThere Colorado
A wildfire in northern Colorado has grown to nearly 2,000 acres on its third day of burning amid extreme fire behavior, fire officials said. Forest closures were implemented Sunday, July 11 within Routt National Forest due to the rapid growth of the Morgan Creek fire...
This push poll from Colorado Democrats is pure crap | Colorado Peak Politics
A recent post-session poll from the Democrats at ProgressNow found Colorado voters are actually borderline socialists and back liberal policy priorities virtually across the board. Sound too good to be true? Don’t worry Colorado, it is. Only the dark money hypocrites...
In small Colorado town, an unlikely circus prevails | Colorful Colorado
Welcome to the Salida Circus. Founder Jennifer Dempsey is giving kids in Colorado permission to succeed, fail, and try something new. (Video by Katie Klann) SALIDA • Beside a chicken coop in the backyard of a home on the countryside, a dozen kids are flipping,...








