Robert White, or Dakota Duke, as he calls himself, runs a gift shop full of t-shirts and knick-knacks in Cuchara, Colorado. The Cuchara Valley, which parallels I-25 between Walsenburg and Trinidad, is Colorado's "best kept secret," White said. He wants whomever the next governor will be to champion tourist-reliant communities, like his, that have been hurt by wildfires.
"The fire took the heart right out of the season," he said, referring to the Spring Fire. "We don't want to be overcrowded like Vail or Breckenridge. But yes, we do need more tourist traffic."
It’s an important question, with different answers depending where you go from the mountains to the plains, the cities to small towns, the Western Slope to the Front Range.
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The term-limited Colorado governor was in Des Moines to lay the groundwork for a possible presidential bid in 2020.
Prosecutors say 48-year-old Scott Ostrem walked into the Thornton Walmart on Nov. 1, 2017 and fired seven shots in about 20 seconds.
Experts debate the pros and cons of Propositions 109 and 110 on this year's ballot, which voters will choose between for transportation funding. Next, a CU professor studies voles to learn about how humans grieve partners. Then, how Todd Bol, who died this week, created Little Free Libraries. Also, a nurse puts on an immersive dance performance at her hospital.
Women are an untapped resources for contractors and municipal governments across the country that are struggling to find enough blue-collar workers.
Propositions 109 and 110 offer dueling strategies to accomplish long-awaited road and transit improvements.
Professor Zoe Donaldson studies how humans grieve the loss of romantic, monogamous partners by researching the tiny rodents.
Tara Rynders stages the immersive dance and theater experience at Rose Medical Center, where she works.
In two sentences, the measure asks voters for more protections for private property rights and seeks payment for property owners.
The community has struggled with a rash of recent student suicides, five in total over the last two years — four of whom went to Arapahoe.
The ins and outs of Proposition 111, which could wipe out payday loan businesses in Colorado by capping interest rates. Then, the politics of Jefferson County. Next, how climate change will lead to more floods and more droughts. Also, a poet gives a voice to an enslaved woman. Finally, the Boulder comedian who was the first woman to win this comedy fest.
Many of the 30-year comedy veteran's jokes focus on aging, gender fluidity and sexual orientation.
Unlike in other states, convicted felons in Colorado who have completed parole are allowed to vote. New laws require people leaving the criminal justice system to learn about their voting rights and give parolees the chance to pre-register. A bipartisan coalition is behind those changes, but how far is it willing to go toward re-enfranchising people within the criminal justice system?
Proposition 111 would cap interest rates at 36 percent on top of Colorado's already strict (by national standards) payday loan regulations.
Dominique Christina wrote poems from both the perspective of Anarcha and from the white doctor who experimented on her, Dr. J. Marion Sims.
A new study from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder predicts more rainfall on fewer, concentrated days leading to more intense flooding.