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Dana Coffield

@danacoffield.bsky.social
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Journalism multi tool and cofounder of coloradosun.com 🌞 @coloradosun.bsky.social Still committed to making the world safe for backyard bees. 🐝

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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
For those watching to see if U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette might soon be out of a job ... here's an update. Oof.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
What a gift the poet Andrea Gibson was to us all. #RIP. coloradosun.com/2025/07/14/a...
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Andrea Gibson, Colorado’s poet laureate and a national voice on LGBTQ issues, has died
“Come See Me in the Good Light,” a documentary film made by the poet and their wife dealing with Gibson’s cancer diagnosis in 2021, won festival favorite at Sundance this year. Gibson was 49.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
It's 288 miles/5 hours from home, but reading this story makes me want to do a big grocery shop out in tiny Walsh, Colorado. #fooddeserts #foodsecurity @coloradosun.com coloradosun.com/2025/06/17/w...
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Beloved grocery store serving secluded Colorado town of 500 people looks for ways to buy local
The Walsh Community Grocery Store was resurrected in 2007. Seventeen years later, its manager is looking for creative ways to stock the shelves.
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Susan (NeonNurse) Crites @neonnurse.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This was Lamar. People were there in shifts, so our count was 40ish total for the afternoon. Lots of cheerful honks, no problems!
No Kings protest in front of the Prowers County courthouse in Lamar on 6/14
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
PHOTOS -->> What did No Kings look like in your town? We had people all over Colorado -- and only one photo of a shirtless guy wearing a crown fashioned from a Cheetos bag. #grandjunctionFTW coloradosun.com/2025/06/14/n...
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Thousands gather across Colorado for ‘No Kings’ protest against Trump administration
More than a dozen rallies called people to speak out against a host of issues from immigration enforcement to attacks on free speech, LGBTQ rights
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
It’s a great day to be on the deck at the Sie Center at the University of Denver. Get here by 6 and you can join in the Sun’s legislative review!
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Two words: Hughes Stadium 👇
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Now 3 of the 15 wolves from BC released in Colorado in January are dead. This one is esp painful as she died in a place considered pretty ideal habitat (many elk) for wolves. @coloradosun.com coloradosun.com/2025/04/24/c...
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Gray wolf released in Colorado earlier this year dies in Rocky Mountain National Park
A gray wolf from British Columbia released in January was reported dead April 20 in Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Can Colorado mountain communities go it alone without federal firefighting money? A couple of counties are trying to make sure the fire "season" doesn't get a chance to take out their towns. #logging #treatment #mitigation coloradosun.com/2025/04/11/c...
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Colorado counties take control of wildfire protection as DOGE slices federal funding
With Chaffee County leading the charge and Gunnison and Lake following suit, officials are stretching every dollar to protect their communities.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Michael Bennet’s campaign for Colorado governor has officially begun. And so has the maneuvering to replace him in the Senate. @jesseapaul.bsky.social coloradosun.com/2025/04/11/m... Sun App
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Michael Bennet’s campaign for Colorado governor has officially begun. So has the power struggle to fill his Senate seat.
The three-term senator’s entrance into the governor’s race, where he faces a Democratic primary race against Attorney General Phil Weiser, has ignited a shadow campaign for his Senate seat
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
NEW --> Why is Kathleen Sgamma out as potential BLM boss? It seems to have something to do with failure to kiss the ring. coloradosun.com/2025/04/10/k...
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Colorado oil and gas industry advocate Kathleen Sgamma withdraws from consideration to lead the Bureau of Land Management
The U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources was set to discuss Sgamma’s nomination early Thursday when she withdrew
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Who wants to rent my house for the month of January 2027? (JK) It's only 10 miles from where Sundance Film Festival will be posting up in Boulder. coloradosun.com/2025/03/27/s...
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Sundance Film Festival is officially relocating to Boulder from Utah
Boulder beat out proposals from Atlanta, Cincinnati, Louisville, Kentucky and Santa Fe
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Honestly, someone should have warned the wolves moved to Colorado from British Columbia DO NOT WANDER INTO WYOMING. It's literally open season up there in most of the state. coloradosun.com/2025/03/20/c...
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Wolf from Canada released in Colorado two months ago shot in Wyoming after it killed multiple sheep
Wolves are managed differently in Wyoming, and state officials said the wolf was legally shot after finding evidence of depredation
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston unloads about immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra being picked up by ICE in the parking lot of a Target store: "This is not about safety. This is about political theater and political retribution. This doesn’t make this country safer." coloradosun.com/2025/03/18/j...
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ICE detains Jeanette Vizguerra, immigration activist who resisted deportation in Colorado church
Vizguerra — who made headlines by claiming sanctuary in a Denver church for years during the first Trump administration — was taken to the ICE detention facility in Aurora. The detention center told h...
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
A Friday night purge targeted USAGM & Voice of America, the U.S. state media outlet that broadcast stories about democracy into Nazi Germany & occupied Europe in World War II: apnews.com/article/voic... Trump & Musk firing journalists is a frontal attack on press freedom, & must be reported as such.
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Voice of America is required by law to report the news accurately. Could Donald Trump change that?
It’s called the Voice of America. The storied news outlet has promised “the truth” since it first broadcast stories about democracy into Nazi Germany during World War II.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Fwiw, I love Denver.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Tell everyone you know. And tell them to tell everyone they know. #nationalparks coloradosun.com/2025/03/14/n...
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The Trump administration doesn’t want you to know a record number of people visited national parks last year
The highest-ever 331.9 million visitors in 2024 is not being promoted by the agency after more than 1,000 Park Service workers have been fired.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Unpopular opinion: sprinting forward isn’t all bad. #cowx
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover. Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment." WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.
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Social Security Workers Aren’t Allowed to Read This Story
New internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
On the subject: Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition hosts Sunshine Week Slam March 14 at the Denver Press Club. Come on down and tell us a quick story of how you were denied access to records or meetings. Bonus points if it's in the form of a rhyme. #CANTHEYDOTHAT? mailchi.mp/f09776e1385f...
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Sign up for CFOIC's Sunshine Week Transparency Slam
Bring your open government gripes, cheers or solutions.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Yup. Now more than ever I want to see, document and understand how the levers of power are being moved in my state. (Well everywhere, but this is about Colorado) #sunshine #openrecords #goodgovernment coloradosun.com/2025/03/06/c...
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Transparency advocates frustrated over limited access to Colorado government records consider ballot measure
The details of the transparency ballot question are still being worked out. But Jeff Roberts of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition said there are lots of ideas.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Meanwhile back in Colorado, in a much less spicy public hearing, the wildlife commission authorizes $350K in payments to two ranchers who lost animals to gray wolves last year. coloradosun.com/2025/03/05/g...
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Grand County ranchers will receive almost $350,000 in compensation for animals lost to wolves last year
“This should have been paid to these producers last fall,” Colorado Wildlife Commission chair Dallas May says
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
In an especially spicy committee meeting, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston says it was his Christian duty to serve thousands of migrants delivered to the city in winter. U.S. Rep Boebert accuses him of "covering your ass." @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social coloradosun.com/2025/03/05/m...
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Mayor says Denver had “moral obligation” to shelter migrants under questioning by GOP-led House committee
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert sits on the committee and three other Colorado Republicans asked to join the panel for the day
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Thank god my mom gave me my baby book so I can see whether I received one vaccine or two for #measles @coloradosun.com coloradosun.com/2025/03/04/m...
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With measles outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico, is it time for Colorado to worry?
A measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico is creeping closer to Colorado's border. Here's what you need to know.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Is curling a real sport, with real physical demands? Yes it very much is -- impressing even our writer Dan England, an ultra runner, who checked out training for the US Olympic trials going on in Lafayette. coloradosun.com/2025/02/21/c...
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Curling teams are battling in Colorado this week for a spot at the 2026 Olympics
The Rock Creek Curling center in Lafayette will host 10 mixed doubles teams hoping to represent the U.S. in Italy next year. The sport looks a lot different than it did in decades past.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Oh hi, Boulder County voters. Looks like we won't have representation for a while in the #Colorado Senate as Sonya Jaquez Lewis has resigned. And this @jesseapaul.bsky.social story about it is kind of spicy. shttps://coloradosun.com/2025/02/18/sonya-jaquez-lewis-resignation/
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Democratic senator resigns from Colorado legislature amid ethics investigation, new allegation of fabricated support letter
The announcement came just before the Senate Ethics Committee, which was reviewing the complaint lodged against Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, revealed Tuesday that the senator had submitted at least one fa...
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This is the video content I very much needed. I just wish they guy's name was Jonah. apnews.com/video/humpba...
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Humpback whale swallows kayaker off Chile before releasing him
A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
A sweet little story about Girl Scouts hitting their cookie sales goals even though a grocery worker strike has shut down their prime booth locations. coloradosun.com/2025/02/12/k...
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The King Soopers strike could cost Colorado Girl Scouts hundreds of thousands of dollars in cookie sales
Girl Scouts of Colorado CEO Leanna Clark said the girls in green and tan sold 3.7 million packages of cookies in 2024, many outside King Soopers stores
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
NEW --> Kathleen Sgamma, as head of Bureau of Land Management, will have a lot more on her docket than setting oil and gas leasing policy on federal lands. Wild horse management, for example. coloradosun.com/2025/02/12/k...
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Oil and gas advocate from Colorado named to lead Bureau of Land Management
Kathleen Sgamma now leads the Denver-based oil and gas trade group Western Energy Alliance.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Anne Castle didn't hold back when she resigned, as requested, from the Upper Colorado River Commission. #skobuffs coloradosun.com/2025/02/11/c...
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Feds ask Colorado River official to resign, leaving another leadership gap during “existential time” for the river
Federal officials asked the Upper Colorado River Commission's federal chair to resign as the Trump administrations replaces key leaders.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
People with work authorization and asylum applications got taken away. White people who were awakened by people with guns got an apology. #ICE @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social coloradosun.com/2025/02/05/i...
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Armed federal agents conduct immigration raids at Denver, Aurora apartment complexes
The DEA posted a video of agents raiding an apartment with a smoke grenade and an unknown number of residents were boarded onto a bus
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
People apparently care about women’s pro soccer in Denver. Name tbd, I guess.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A lot of people are quite worried about the White House order freezing federal funding and loans. We talked to a lot of them -- and hear from GOP Rep. Gabe Evans who, basically says, just be cool until Feb. 10. #education #healthcare #highered #research coloradosun.com/2025/01/28/c...
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Trump’s plan to freeze federal spending causes widespread chaos, confusion in Colorado
A federal judge temporarily halted the order. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser called the order “reckless and unprecedented.” The federal Medicaid payment portal is now back online, state officia...
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
We're not allowed to know how many people are held in the GEO-run ICE detention facility in Aurora. "Know your rights" meetings are one of the ways legal advocates get a read. #executiveorders coloradosun.com/2025/01/28/i...
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Colorado nonprofit offering immigrant legal aid ordered to stop work by feds
The Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network’s funder was among those that received a stop work order from the U.S. Department of Justice
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Here. Read this. It will make you feel a little better. #lunchread #entrepreneurs #smartkids #skiing #shopclass coloradosun.com/2025/01/28/s...
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Colorado’s version of shop class: Summit County students are designing, building and marketing skis
Students in Summit High's Ski Business and Manufacturing class design, build and market their own skis and snowboards.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
FWIW, this is not the part of Adams County where #Aurora is. coloradosun.com/2025/01/26/v...
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Federal agents arrest Venezuelan gang members, seize drugs and weapons in overnight party bust in Adams County
DEA and ICE agents took nearly 50 people into custody after seeing social media posts about an invite-only party in Adams County
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Our story about one of the most iconic #photographs in modern history arrives just in time. Trump has ordered the rest of the #JFK assassination files released. coloradosun.com/2025/01/26/b...
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Bob Jackson’s photo of Jack Ruby’s shot captured a historic moment — and was an early peak in the Coloradan's career
The Manitou Springs resident's 1963 photo captured Ruby shooting alleged presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and won him a Pulitzer.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I will be raising a dirty martini in tribute to Dana Crawford, who sparked a nationwide movement to adapt and reuse historic buildings, rather than tear them down. #RIP you nice nag. coloradosun.com/2025/01/24/d...
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Dana Crawford, credited with saving Larimer Square from destruction, has died
She slowed urban renewal that rolled through Denver in the 1960s then helped preserve historic buildings from Trinidad to Idaho Springs
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I am a bit obsessed with #graywolf reintroduction, pro and con. Today's story talks about how #Colorado wildlife officials plan to keep tabs on the pack born and captured in Grand County last year and released somewhere south of I-70. coloradosun.com/2025/01/21/t...
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Top Colorado wildlife official urges public to “lean in” to more wolves, offer support for ranchers
CPW director Jeff Davis addressed security threats to the agency, better support for ranchers and how biologists will better manage wolves this go round
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
As communities try to reckon what the executive orders regarding repelling a foreign invasion mean to them, #lawyers in #Colorado are lining up for training as advocates for actual humans in the crosshairs. #immigration @coloradosun.com coloradosun.com/2025/01/21/i...
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Colorado lawyers line up to fight Trump’s deportation plans
About 100 attorneys who don’t practice immigration law were trained in the last week to represent immigrants pro bono
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
There's a lot of #gun talk going on at the #Colorado statehouse. This story and short #video will help you understand what guns are being argued about. coloradosun.com/2025/01/21/c...
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Which guns would be affected by Colorado’s proposed ban on semiautomatic weapons with detachable magazines
The Colorado Sun analyzed Senate Bill 3 to parse out the semiautomatic rifles, shotguns and pistols that couldn’t be manufactured, sold or purchased if the measure becomes law. The legislation would n...
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ACLU of New Hampshire @aclu-nh.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
BREAKING: We just filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s attempt to end birthright citizenship. The Fourteenth Amendment makes sure that no one— not even the President—can take away this right. #nhpolitics www.aclu-nh.org/en/press-rel...
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Immigrants’ Rights Advocates Sue Trump Administration Over Birthright Citizenship Executive Order
Immigrants’ rights advocates today sued the Trump administration over its executive order that seeks to strip certain babies born in the United States of their U.S. citizenship.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Meet the 111 #Colorado #school districts that could take a hit if the governor's plan to cut the budgets where enrollment is declining. Shockingly, they're not all #rural. @coloradosun.com coloradosun.com/2025/01/15/c...
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More than 100 Colorado school districts have declining enrollment. State funding cuts could come next.
Total statewide enrollment also continues to fall, continuing a downward spiral from recent years
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Listen closely to Gov. Polis' state of the state speech and hear a bit of #news breaking around #Sundance Film Festival and management of #PikesPeak. Check out these annotations and many others by @jesseapaul.bsky.social and @brianeason.bsky.social coloradosun.com/2025/01/09/2...
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ seventh State of the State address, explained
In a 55-minute speech at the state Capitol, the governor delved into Donald Trump, housing policy, public safety and Lord of the Rings. We added context.
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Over in the #Colorado Senate, we've got a bill pitched as a large-capacity magazine ban enforcement mechanism. It applies to most #handguns and #rifles and is backed by Sen. Tom Sullivan, who was against similar past measures. @jesseapaul.bsky.social #copolitics coloradosun.com/2025/01/08/c...
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Colorado lawmakers are wasting no time, starting out the legislative session with a group of House Rs refusing to certify election results — which included the election of one of them, Rep. Larry Don Suckla @brianeason.bsky.social #copolitics coloradosun.com/2025/01/08/c...
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On opening day of Colorado’s legislative session, some Republicans refuse to approve 2024 election results
Reps. Ken DeGraaf and Scott Bottoms, both of Colorado Springs, led the push to question election results, echoing the Republican election denial movement that began in 2020
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Dana Coffield @danacoffield.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Woah. Not what the pundits predicted #copolitics
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Malcontent News @malcontentnews.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The Palisades Fire from a a flight landing at LAX, approaching Santa Monica, California.
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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Backcountry skier caught, killed in avalanche near Red Mountain Pass in southwestern Colorado coloradosun.com/2025/01/07/c...
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Backcountry skier caught, killed in avalanche near Red Mountain Pass in southwestern Colorado
The death is the first avalanche fatality this winter in the Colorado high country
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