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FRACTURED: Showdown in Boulder County
Editor’s note: Daniel Glick and Ted Wood of The Story Group, along with Kelsey Ray of The Colorado Independent, have been reporting on oil and gas issues for our ongoing series: Fractured. Fractured...
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FRACTURED: Roughneck politics
Editor’s note: Daniel Glick and Ted Wood of The Story Group, along with Kelsey Ray of The Colorado Independent, have been reporting on oil and gas issues for our ongoing series: Fractured. Fractured...
View ArticleCause of Colorado home explosion: Uncapped, abandoned line, ‘fugitive gas’
An abandoned underground pipe running from a nearby Anadarko Petroleum well to the foundation of the Firestone home that exploded last month had not been capped, allowing the odorless gas to seep into...
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FRACTURED: Reckless abandonment
Editor’s note: Daniel Glick and Ted Wood of The Story Group, along with Kelsey Ray of The Colorado Independent, have been reporting on oil and gas issues for our ongoing series: Fractured. Fractured...
View ArticleGREENE: In opposing appeal of landmark oil-and-gas ruling, Hick is more talk...
A constitutional crisis. The phrase kept popping up Thursday when Attorney General Cynthia Coffman seemed to have bucked Gov. John Hickenlooper’s wishes by appealing a court ruling requiring the state...
View ArticleReport: Subprime lending giant’s add-on “loan protections” put borrowers at risk
Leon Martinez never expected to fall prey to a sucker loan. “You read about it. You hear about it happening to people. And you kinda think they deserve it, right?” he says. His cycle of debt started...
View ArticleSpotlight on the COGCC: Who are they, what’s their mission and where is their...
You’ve probably heard lately about the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, commonly called the COGCC. That’s Colorado’s governor-appointed panel tasked with regulating the state’s oil and gas...
View ArticleFor state regulators considering drilling permits, “no” is off the table
The state of Colorado has what’s believed to be an uninterrupted, 66-year-old history of not denying oil and gas companies permits to drill. It’s a little known policy that has been disclosed twice...
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Griego: The Denver boot
‘Who plans this?’ The tenant is living in a three-bedroom ranch-style house off a cul-de-sac in northeast Denver. Or at least that’s where she was when I last saw her. She was being evicted for not...
View ArticleWhy Colorado could use a big drought.
There’s nothing like a drought to turn everyone’s attention to water conservation. Colorado’s last major drought was from 2001 to 2002. It wasn’t the length of the drought that was striking, but the...
View ArticleGREENE: Slain preacher’s family alleges that Denver officers rigged Taser...
The family of the homeless street preacher killed in Denver’s jail in 2010 wants the new district attorney to investigate whether the officers responsible switched out the homicide weapon to conceal...
View ArticleThe U.S. Supreme Court will hear the Colorado same-sex wedding cake case....
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear a case set to pit Christian religious beliefs against gay rights over a never-baked wedding cake in Colorado. In 2012, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in...
View ArticleWhat will it take to reach the climate change goals set by Gov. Hickenlooper?
Words of praise flowed from environmental groups last week after Gov. John Hickenlooper signed an executive order calling for Colorado to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent. This reduction,...
View ArticleHere’s where Colorado’s GOP candidates for governor stand on health care
In the days leading up to a Republican vote in Congress to repeal and replace— or just repeal— Obamacare, 1,500 miles away in Colorado the Republican candidates for governor were seething. “I think...
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Four Dem governor hopefuls met voters for the first time in one place. Here’s...
BRECKENRIDGE — Against the backdrop of a ski slope as John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High” played through a sound system, four top-tier Democratic candidates for governor met for the first time to make...
View ArticleThe Gray Box: The inhumanity of solitary confinement
This story, written by Colorado Independent editor Susan Greene, was first published in 2012 by the Dart Society (now the Ochberg Society) an international group of journalists who cover trauma. The...
View ArticleBy the time it became clear the altitude was killing her, it was already too...
ASPEN, Colo. – In some ways, Susanna Deforest was typical of those who suffer from Colorado’s thinner air after arriving from a low elevation. A 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, she felt sluggish when...
View ArticleThree men still on Colorado’s death row after judge denies capital appeal
This story has been updated. A judge today denied a five-year appeal by Sir Mario Owens, a man convicted for the 2005 witness killing of a state lawmaker’s son and his fiancé. Today’s order leaves...
View ArticleA group says it wants to end partisan redistricting in Colorado. Would its...
A coalition that launched a revamped plan it says would take partisanship out of how state and federal political districts are drawn is facing suspicions about its motives in a state with a bitter...
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Quick on the draw: Cartoonist Mike Keefe and his thing about gun violence
Some of us here at The Independent have, in one way or another, been working with Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Mike Keefe for a few decades. We know him to be a quiet math nerd and news junky who has...
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