This Earth Day, with much of Colorado under critical wildfire watch due to high winds and high heat, a coalition of 60 environmental groups marched just over a mile through Downtown Denver today to demand climate action from elected officials.
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Child Care Costs More Than Half the Income of Some Colorado Parents
In Colorado, infant child care costs almost 10% more than the average rent.
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In Aftermath of Marshall Fire, Climate Activists Join Forces To Rally for Change
In the wake of the most devastating wildfire in Colorado’s history, a coalition of climate groups is organizing a “State of the Climate” rally Thursday on the West Steps of the Capitol to call for immediate action on climate change from Governor Jared Polis (D-CO).
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GOP Senate Hopeful Bremer Denounces Oltmann for Saying He Wants To “Hang” Polis
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eli Bremer has denounced Joe Oltmann, a prominent Colorado election fraud conspiracy theorist, for saying he wanted to hang Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) and execute other politicians.
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Anonymous Letter Doxes CO County Prosecutor & State Election Officials
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office are investigating an anonymous letter that references the Columbine massacre, accuses top state officials and Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein of being in a hate group, and lists the home addresses of Rubinstein, numerous state elections employees as well as their family members in other states.
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Statewide mask mandate ‘not something we’re considering,’ Gov. Polis says
As three metro Denver counties enact some version of a mask requirement this week, Gov. Jared Polis reiterated during a Tuesday COVID-19 update that a statewide order is not in the cards.
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An Invitation to Jared Polis: Lead the Way to Tax Fairness Reform
Last week’s ProPublica report on how the ultra-wealthy avoid paying income taxes revealed Governor Jared Polis’ investment strategies mean he has paid minimal taxes compared to average working families. In response to the reporting, Polis stated his commitment to enacting tax reforms to make better, fairer tax rules for Colorado families. I applaud this response and urge him to take this excellent opportunity to assume a leadership role in improving Colorado’s tax system so that it’s both transparent and equitable.
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What Colorado Officials Are — And Aren’t — Doing About Climate Change
Every hour of every day, Colorado is adding huge amounts of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming greenhouse gases to the Earth’s atmosphere — 126 million tons of them in 2019 alone, according to state estimates.
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Jared Polis Can Lead the Way By Holding Oil and Gas Industry Accountable for Cleaning Up Their Messes
It’s a simple lesson we all learn as children: when you make a mess, you are responsible for cleaning it up.
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‘Is It Going To Take More Tragedy for Us To Grow Up?’ CO Environmentalists React to U.N. Climate Change Report
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report Monday revealing, once again, the dire state of the climate crisis.