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Can the Drug in Magic Mushrooms ‘Essentially Fix a Broken Brain’ in People With Depression? CO Clinical Trial Aims To Find Out
The first modern-era Colorado psilocybin clinical trial for depression is set to launch this fall at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.
Renewable Energy Plants Eyed for Construction in CO Near Electricity Lines Used by Coal-Fired Plants
HAYDEN – Around the nation and in Colorado, coal-fired power plants are headed for extinction – part of cutting back on carbon emissions and combating climate change.
Democrats Capitalize on Election Win With New Laws on Guns, Abortion, and Climate
Colorado Democrats are distributing a list of new laws as proof that their big majorities at the Capitol paid legislative dividends this year.
Colorado GOP Chair Blames ’22 Election Losses on Dems ‘Taking Advantage’ of Illegal Voting
Colorado GOP Chair Dave Williams is no stranger to blaming Republican election losses on voter fraud without any evidence. An unapologetic 2020 election denier, Williams now claims that his party’s historic losses in last year’s election are also due in part to Democrats intentionally changing rules in order to allow illegal votes.
Millions Have Long-COVID. Colorado Scientists Aim to Untangle the Causes.
Rarely has a clinical trial’s name better signaled its ultimate aims. But then, a billion-dollar study deserves a first-rate acronym, too.
‘There Is Evil in This Building:’ On National Day of Prayer, GOP Lawmaker & Allies Ask for God’s Help at CO Capitol
The National Day of Prayer has been a part of American politics since 1952, when U.S. Sen. Absalom Robertson (D-VA), father of televangelist Pat Robertson, introduced a bill, supported by famed evangelist Billy Graham, establishing the holiday for the purpose of fighting “the corrosive forces of communism which seek simultaneously to destroy our democratic way of life and the faith in an almighty God on which it is based.”
Scene Report: HIRS Collective at Seventh Circle
Since its inception in the 1970s, punk rock has always been an explicitly political genre of music. Seminal British punks The Clash wrote songs inspired by radical left-wing ideology — opposition to police repression, support for militant groups like the Sandinistas and the Red Brigades, and a rejection of capitalism, consumerism and Margaret Thatcher. In American in the 1980s, hardcore punk emerged in response to the new conservatism of Ronald Reagan. Bands like Black Flag, Minor Threat, Bad Brains, the Circle Jerks, and others mixed the political messages of traditional punk with a faster, harder, more aggressive musicality. Presaging the political polarization and violence of our modern era, punk shows in the 1980s became battlegrounds between punks and racist skinheads, establishing punk’s reputation as a safe space for minorities, women, and LGBTQ people.
Proponents Aren’t Giving Up on Bill They Say Is Essential To Make Housing Affordable in Colorado
Colorado’s housing crisis may yet get some legislative relief. Just days ago, Gov. Jared Polis’ (D-CO) top legislative priority, a land use bill that would clear a regulatory path for more affordable housing by granting statewide permission for higher density housing near public transit and allow homeowners to build accessory dwelling units, seemed destined for a common fate of bold policy ideas: reduced to a study. The teeth of SB23-213, requiring the upzoning of residential neighborhoods statewide, had been pulled via Senate committee amendments by legislators facing the sound and fury of suburban city officials invoking the sanctity of “local control” as they insisted they must be allowed to limit the rights of property owners.
Proud Boys’ Ties to Colorado: Boebert, Other Republicans, a Trump Rally in CO Springs, and More
In Colorado, the Proud Boys, a white nationalist group, have been visible and active since Trump ran for president. Four national leaders of the Proud Boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy yesterday, but a former Colorado Proud Boy calls the verdict “political theater.”