- Adams County Commissioner Charles “Chaz” Tedesco said he wants to represent working people in Congress.
- The 39-year-old was recorded inside the building wearing a distinctive U.S. Olympic team jacket over body armor.
- The janitors, who are organized under the Service Employees International Union, currently make $17 an hour.
- Denver Mayor Michael Hancock had ordered city employees and certain “high-risk” workers in the private sector to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in August.
- Boulder City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday to approve the proposed annexation, but a group has gotten enough signatures to get proposal on the November ballot.
- Lt. Col. John Mosley, born in Denver in 1921, was also the first Black football player at Colorado State University.
- Colorado is opening four community vaccination sites across the Front Range as employers prepare to meet new COVID-19 vaccination requirements announced last week by President Joe Biden. The clinics can each give out up to 1,000 doses per day.
- The origin of Fort Lewis College in Durango is a dark stain on American education and the state of Colorado. The school’s own leaders have said as much.
- Updated September 8, 2021 at 12:48 p.m. The city of Loveland has announced a $3 million settlement with Karen Garner, the 73-year-old woman with dementia who was injured during a violent arrest in June 2020. Sarah Schielke, the attorney representing Garner, will discuss the deal during a press conference scheduled for 11 a.m.
- Does Pepsi or Winkie have what it takes to be the new Blaster the Burro?
- A new grant program announced Thursday by Governor Jared Polis will distribute money that primary care providers can use to expand vaccination access within their offices. Each recipient will receive $60,000 to $120,000, depending on their size. They’ll also get additional compensation for every vaccine administered.
- Students and staff at participating schools can get tested for free, regardless of vaccination status or whether symptoms are present.
- The Tri-County Health Department Board of Health has reversed its decision to allow individual counties to opt-out of mask mandates, and instead issued a universal face covering requirement for all schools in Adams, Arapahoe, and Douglas counties, regardless of vaccination status, starting Wednesday.
- Firefighters from Colorado are helping rescue efforts from the other major hurricane, Ida, which made landfall in Louisiana on Sunday.
- The greenback cutthroat trout is Colorado’s official state fish, but it’s been listed as “Threatened” under the Endangered Species Act since 1978.
- Nearly a decade ago, army intelligence officer Captain John Garvin served in Afghanistan and worked with many interpreters who guided U.S. soldiers through the region. Now, as the Afghan government collapses and the Taliban takes control, he’s tried to help two men he served alongside find a way out.
