Pioneering disability rights attorney Carrie Ann Lucas dies
Editor’s note: Carrie Ann Lucas, a nationally known disability rights attorney and mother of four, died today, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. She was 47. Lucas’s death was announced on her Facebook page by...
View ArticleIn presidential run, Colorado’s Hickenlooper pushes compromise in an...
It is a late Friday afternoon in early February and passengers at Gate 12 of Washington’s Reagan National Airport are displeased. “Fucking United,” a lawyer-lobbyist gripes when hearing that his flight...
View ArticleDecision Dissected: What regents say they knew – and didn’t – about CU...
It was early April and the University of Colorado’s Board of Regents hunkered down for a second day at Denver International Airport’s Westin Hotel interviewing prospects for the school’s next...
View Article“Beyond Reform”: What Michael Hancock has – and hasn’t – fixed in Denver’s...
Late last August, Mayor Michael Hancock and his top safety officials held a news conference to celebrate what they called “a major milestone” in Denver’s long troubled Sheriff Department. They were...
View ArticleGEO-run Aurora ICE Detention Center is isolating immigrants – some mentally...
The former ICE detainee agreed to talk under one condition: That he be called “Elvis.” The Salvadoran with a pompadour and an “I’d rather be in Memphis” T-shirt was pacing and singing to nobody in...
View ArticleThrough the Cracks: A stranger, a police shooting, and a rural town’s silence...
Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part collaboration between The Colorado Independent and The Rio Blanco Herald Times. We will post the second part tomorrow, Nov. 8. RANGELY – No one seems to...
View ArticleThrough the Cracks: A stranger, a police shooting, and a rural town’s silence...
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part collaboration between The Colorado Independent and The Rio Blanco Herald Times. We posted the first part, linked here, on Thursday, Nov. 7 and advise...
View ArticleThrough the Cracks: A stranger, a police shooting, and a small town’s silence...
RANGELY – No one seems to know why Daniel Pierce settled in this northwestern Colorado town last year after his wife in Missouri and mother in California kicked him out of their houses. But in the four...
View ArticleCU regents passed over more experienced and prominent applicants when picking...
The University of Colorado’s elected board of regents passed over applicants with more experience running universities and more distinguished careers when it hired conservative former Congressman Mark...
View ArticleTriggered: How one of Colorado’s smallest protests became its most violent
ALAMOSA — The protesters, about a dozen in all, gathered on June 4 in the intersection of State Avenue and Main Street. Like protesters across the country in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing by...
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