Initiative to redirect state funds to roads clears hurdle for Colorado ballot
This story was first published at Colorado Newsline. DENVER | Supporters gathered enough signatures to place a constitutional amendment on the November ballot in Colorado that would direct more state revenue to road construction, the secretary of state’s office announced Tuesday. Colorado voters will decide whether all motor vehicle and gas tax revenue and two-thirds […]
Arapahoe County, state election officials defend voting accuracy amid conspiracy theories
AURORA | It’s voting season again, and controversy about voting accuracy, so it’s time for a rundown of what goes into an election in Colorado. Some, like former Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky, have already cast some doubt and offered conspiracy theories on the accuracy of elections in Aurora. Jurinsky created controversy in a Facebook […]
Top Army general who was last US soldier to leave Afghanistan is suddenly leaving his post
WASHINGTON | The Army’s commander of its forces in Europe and Africa — who was famously the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan in 2021 — is unexpectedly stepping down from his post after just 18 months in the job, the Army confirmed late Tuesday. Gen. Christopher Donahue, commanding general of U.S. Army Europe and […]
Judge bars immigration arrests at US courthouses in a setback for Trump
A judge on Tuesday barred the federal government from making arrests at immigration courts, ordering an end to a practice that took hold shortly after President Donald Trump took office last year. The Trump administration’s reversal of long-standing policy against arrests at immigration court resulted “not from merely unreasoned decision-making but a complete lack of […]
UN nuclear boss says inspectors will visit Iran sites. Tehran says only after a final deal
TOKYO | The head of the U.N.’s nuclear agency signaled Wednesday that Iranian nuclear enrichment sites would be visited by his inspectors, a key component in the interim U.S.-Iran to reach an end to the war. But an Iranian diplomat promptly rejected this, saying such a visit can only come after a final deal — […]
Toon in Wednesday
Read more WEDNESDAY NEWS IN A RUSH: Top headlines in today’s NewsMinute video Read more EDITORIAL: If Aurora doesn’t like its residency rule, change it. But stop the pretending Read more FIRST PERSON: Mayor Coffman sleeps at Aurora homeless shelter to gain insight
WEDNESDAY NEWS IN A RUSH: Top headlines in today’s NewsMinute video
Read more EDITORIAL: If Aurora doesn’t like its residency rule, change it. But stop the pretending Read more FIRST PERSON: Mayor Coffman sleeps at Aurora homeless shelter to gain insight Read more Former state CBI analyst pleads guilty in DNA testing scandal, faces up to 16 years in prison
EDITORIAL: If Aurora doesn’t like its residency rule, change it. But stop the pretending
Aurora has a problem it needs to solve, rather than ignore, no matter how banal and awkward it’s become. The problem is that the city’s charter, which is akin to the nation’s constitution, says explicitly that the city manager has to live in Aurora, but he doesn’t. Making this all the more awkward, knowing that […]
FIRST PERSON: Mayor Coffman sleeps at Aurora homeless shelter to gain insight
AURORA | An elderly woman struggling with her mental health, a day laborer with inconsistent work and a man who lost his job and then his apartment are just a few of the people that Mayor Mike Coffman has gotten to know over the last few months during his overnight weekly stays at the Aurora […]
Former state CBI analyst pleads guilty in DNA testing scandal, faces up to 16 years in prison
GOLDEN | A former forensic analyst with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation pleaded guilty Tuesday to four felony counts stemming from accusations that she manipulated and omitted data to speed up the DNA testing process, calling into question the validity of hundreds of criminal cases. Yvonne “Missy” Woods entered guilty pleas to committing a cybercrime, […]