THE MIX
Statetap: Colorado’s GMO ballot-box war heating up
The "No on Proposition 105 Coalition" has raised around $11 million so far — $7.4 million of which came from Monsanto, Kraft and PepsiCo — and has plenty to spend in the final stretch. > read more
Wiretap: Midterm-election nation, a Republican-heavy America
The voting population swings dramatically to the right in the midterms. That's obviously a big problem for Democrats in 2014. But it might be even a bigger problem for Republicans in 2016. > read more
EPA to Senator Inhofe: Sorry, yes, we will be looking into fracking and water safety
One of the oil-and-gas industry's top champions on Capitol Hill and one of the country's most high-profile climate science deniers has been handed a defeat by the Environmental Protection Agency. It is going forward with its fracking study. > read more
Statetap: Colorado’s edible complex
At a long and heated public policy hearing in Denver, the proposed all-out ban on pot-edibles in the state was met with outcry bordering on panic, before it was swiftly retracted. > read more
Wiretap: Snowden wants an open trial, Ellsberg style
"I've told the government again and again that if they’re prepared to offer an open trial, a fair trial, and I’m allowed to make my case to the jury, I would love to do so. But they’ve declined." > read more
Again: A Denver sheriff’s deputy, a homeless man and a Taser
A Denver sheriff's deputy attempted to use a Taser on an apparent vagrant the same morning a jury slapped the city with an historic penalty in the death of a homeless man Tasered by deputies at the city jail. > read more
Statetap: Plugging a mine; plugging for Udall
State workers stopped up an abandoned mine that spews toxic heavy metals into the Peru Creek — a tributary of Snake River which ends up in Dillon Reservoir — in Summit County last week. Will the work finally stop the spewing? > read more
Wiretap: A ‘dark day for democracy’ in Texas
"If voters can't be protected after findings of intentional racial discrimination and a permanent injunction in a case where there was a year of discovery, nine days of trial and a comprehensive District Court opinion, when will they be?" > read more
IN-DEPTH
Jury hands down historic ruling in Denver deadly excessive-force trial
A federal jury has delivered what may be the costliest verdict yet in a Denver excessive force case. The $4.6 million jury award to Marvin […]... > read more
CHASING LIGHT
Chasing Light: Textures
Combing through hundreds of autumnal photos today, I was struck by a few that evoked a sense of forest textures and layers. In each case, […] > read more
Desert drought dust ups avalanche danger in Colorado backcountry
We all know what a blanket of fresh snow is supposed to look like, but for the last 10 years, the snows falling in parts of the Colorado Rockies have been far from virgin white and fluffy.
Read MoreTHE BLOGS
Keefe: Cory Gardner as Colorado’s surrealist candidate
You see, he’s not lying. He is “challenging our preconditioned perceptions of reality.”
Read MoreEVENTS
Democracy Now! Denver Double Whammy
On Democracy Now! tomorrow, The Independent’s Susan Greene on the historic $4.65 million jury verdict against the city of Denver for the 2010 city-jail excessive force killing of Marvin Booker, and columnist Mike Littwin on Colorado’s dead-heat races for governor and U.S. Senate.
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