In mid-July I attended Colorado’s Water Quality Control Commission meeting to join concerned stakeholders, environmental leaders, and organizations in providing compelling testimonies about the use of poly- and per-flouroalkyl substances (PFAS). PFAS, a class of chemical that can be found in a range of uses including flame retardants, has been connected to significant health problems including cancer.
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Census Workers Begin Knocking Doors Today
If you didn’t fill out your 2020 U.S. Census survey, you could be getting a knock on your door today.
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Dave Kopel on Two-Week Probation From TV Show After Calling NBA Players “Puppets of the Slave Masters”
Dave Kopel, a staffer at the conservative Independence Institute, will not return to his role as a panelist on KBDI-TV’s Colorado Inside Out for two weeks following comments he made on the program about the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Colo. Legislator’s Cat Trees Bear
State Rep. Mark Baisley wasn’t surprised to see a bear wandering through his backyard; living next to Pike National Forest makes that a regular occurrence.
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How About Eating Denver’s Squirrels?
Last year, Denver killed 1,662 geese at Washington Park, Sloan’s Lake, and elsewhere, and fed them to families in need.
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At Fundraiser, CO Conservatives to “Joyfully Thumb Our Nose at the Nanny-State”
Against a backdrop of pandemic and economic crises and with the government stepping in to pay for medical and direct relief to individuals and businesses, the right-leaning Independence Institute is moving ahead with its annual Alcohol, Tabacco, and Firearms fundraiser where, as the invitation states, attendees will “joyfully thumb our nose at the nanny-state.”
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CO Springs GOP Candidate Posts Racist Meme Comparing Black Protesters to Monkeys
Colorado Springs Republican Raymond Garcia, who’s run for multiple state house seats and is listed as an active candidate on state campaign-finance records, posted a meme on Facebook last month comparing a picture of a group of Black men and children standing on a police car with a photo of a group of monkeys climbing over a car.
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Some Colo Conservatives Make Light of Jeep Driver Who Almost Hit Protesters
Last Saturday, two protests occurred in Colorado: a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Aurora, and a Defend the Police protest in Eaton.
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Colo County Republican Leader Feels Deep Connection QAnon Conspiracy Movement
“I feel this, with every ounce of my being,” wrote Otero County, Colorado, Republican leader Stephanie Garbo on Facebook last month, in response to a post, retweeted by an account associated with QAnon, an online conspiracy movement tied to violent acts and flagged by the FBI as a potential domestic terror threat.