Luis Rivas never made it home from his trip to Walmart last June. The 60-year-old father and businessman who had spent the last 18 years building a life, a family, and a company in the Roaring Fork Valley was approached in the parking lot by Garfield County Sheriff’s Office deputies while he ran errands. Soon, he was in handcuffs.
On a spring morning in 1914, miners in Ludlow, Colorado, were celebrating Greek Easter when the Colorado National Guard and a private security agency opened fire on their camp with a machine-gun-equipped armored car called the Death Special.
Colorado has a long, dark history of failed and still highly toxic nuclear energy and weapons projects around the state, but the demand for carbon-free energy to combat climate change and fuel the booming tech sector has launched a bipartisan push for a nuclear energy renaissance.
This story has been republished in light of its recognition by the Society of Professional Journalists.
Over 34,000 people came to Denver’s Civic Center Park for a rally featuring U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Queens) Friday afternoon.
In his new book, “Terrible Beauty,” Aspen’s outgoing senior vice president of sustainability, Auden Schendler, makes a compelling case for companies in the ski industry and far beyond breaking out of the collective malaise that’s coopting corporate climate activism and has been largely self-imposed – quite ingeniously — by the obfuscation efforts of the fossil fuel industry.
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Following through on his announcement, former President Donald Trump held a rally in Aurora today at the Gaylord Rockies Resort.
Last Friday, Samuel J. Aquila, the archbishop of Denver, issued a statement urging Catholics to vote against proposed Amendment 79 which would enshrine a right to abortion into Colorado’s state constitution.
Content note: this story contains references to domestic violence, abuse, and murder.
