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Cofounder/reporter at The Colorado Sun, formerly Denver Post, AP, Hungry Horse News. coloradosun.com

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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 18h
Meet the woman behind the Colorado ballot measures this year on transgender youth coloradosun.com/2026/10/06/t...
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Meet the woman behind the Colorado ballot measures this year on transgender youth
A mom in Wellington is behind three ballot measures she says are a fight against the “sexualization of children”
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 18h
Colorado Medicaid spending on a single in-home care company jumped $21M in one year coloradosun.com/2026/10/07/m...
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Colorado Medicaid spending on a single in-home care company jumped $21M in one year
The state has moved to terminate its agreement with Freedom Care, a nationwide for-profit company that state officials say targeted Medicaid clients with TV ads
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Colorado targets cuts to addiction recovery coaches as Medicaid spending jumps 286% coloradosun.com/2026/09/28/m...
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Colorado targets cuts to addiction recovery coaches as Medicaid spending jumps 286%
Lawmakers passed bipartisan legislation to pay for peer counseling addiction services in 2021. The cost of the program rapidly exploded.
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Jared Polis, Joe Neguse ask feds to stop wild horse helicopter roundups in Colorado coloradosun.com/2026/09/03/w...
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Jared Polis, Joe Neguse ask feds to stop wild horse helicopter roundups in Colorado
The request comes after the roundup of nearly 900 horses, including 9 deaths, in northwestern Colorado
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Jared Polis appoints Ken Salazar to resolve San Luis Valley battle over billionaire’s ranch coloradosun.com/2026/09/03/s...
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Jared Polis appoints Ken Salazar to resolve San Luis Valley battle over billionaire’s ranch
The governor appointed the former US senator as a special envoy and ordered a proposed solution by Oct. 7
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Wild horse helicopter roundups in Colorado this summer are costing the federal government $900k coloradosun.com/2026/08/24/w...
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Wild horse helicopter roundups in Colorado this summer are costing the federal government $900k
So far, more than 800 horses have been captured from herd management areas near Meeker and Rangely
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Children’s Hospital doctors refuse to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth, fearing criminal charges coloradosun.com/2026/06/16/t...
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Children’s Hospital doctors refuse to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth, fearing criminal charges
Children’s Hospital Colorado was forced to resume gender-affirming care through a court order, but the doctors who work there won’t do it
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Who’s ready to picnic in downtown Denver’s Civic Center park?  coloradosun.com/2026/06/16/t...
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Who’s ready to picnic in downtown Denver’s Civic Center park?
A massive transformation of the downtown Denver park known in recent history for drug deals and crime is underway, but can the city change longtime perceptions?
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Lost with no documents, immigrants released from ICE’s Aurora detention center rely on nonprofit for help coloradosun.com/2026/05/22/c...
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Lost with no documents, immigrants released from ICE’s Aurora detention center rely on nonprofit for help
Casa de Paz gives people a warm meal, a suitcase, a phone charger and a way home, no matter how far that may be
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Polis signs executive order banning sugary drinks at state functions coloradosun.com/2026/05/21/p...
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Polis signs executive order banning sugary drinks at state functions
The move comes as the Colorado governor is pushing changes to the food-assistance program, including banning purchases of soda and allowing hot grocery food
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
A 3-person team tracks ICE activity on the I-70 mountain corridor, alerting the Latino community in real time coloradosun.com/2026/05/21/i...
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A 3-person team tracks ICE activity on the I-70 mountain corridor, alerting the Latino community in real time
Voces Unidas de las Montañas began as a political organization for Latinos. It pivoted when the federal immigration crackdown came to Colorado.
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
At bus stops across Durango, these volunteers try to shield families from ICE coloradosun.com/2026/05/20/s...
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At bus stops across Durango, these volunteers try to shield families from ICE
Since the start of Trump’s second term, the network of volunteers alerting their community to ICE activity in southwestern Colorado has grown
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Tennyson Center is closing its youth residential center — again — after staff injuries, alleged sex assault of teen coloradosun.com/2026/05/15/t...
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Tennyson Center is closing its youth residential center — again — after staff injuries, alleged sex assault of teen
The closure comes after staff injuries and an investigation into a former worker accused of having sex with a 15-year-old boy
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Sheep win in San Luis Valley livestock vs. billionaire ranch owner battle coloradosun.com/2026/05/14/s...
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Sheep win in San Luis Valley livestock vs. billionaire ranch owner battle
A ruling in the dispute strikes a compromise, allowing livestock grazing but prohibiting firewood collection around the ranch owner’s new home
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Mesa County claims the state stiffed it $1.3 million for mental health services coloradosun.com/2026/05/06/m...
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Mesa County claims the state stiffed it $1.3 million for mental health services
The county is suing the state Behavioral Health Administration, which is looking into how the grant money was spent
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Colorado parents can turn over newborn babies up to 30 days old without facing abandonment charges under updated law coloradosun.com/2026/04/29/s...
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Colorado parents can turn over newborn babies up to 30 days old without facing abandonment charges under updated law
Gov. Jared Polis signed the revised Safe Haven law this week, upping the timeframe to safely relinquish babies from 72 hours to 30 days after birth
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
State agency plagued with leadership turnover hired deputy commissioner accused of taking $99K from Colorado nonprofit coloradosun.com/2026/04/24/b...
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State agency plagued with leadership turnover hired deputy commissioner accused of taking $99K from Colorado nonprofit
The former regional executive director of CASA of Adams and Broomfield counties was hired by the state Behavioral Health Administration in November
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Who is watching the babies in Leadville? 10 counties in Colorado have no licensed child care for infants. coloradosun.com/2026/03/08/1...
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Who is watching the babies in Leadville? 10 counties in Colorado have no licensed child care for infants.
In Lake County, there are just 10 licensed child care spots for toddlers and none for infants, so unlicensed homes are the only options
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Colorado Democrats in Congress demand investigation into ICE after ace of spades cards left in Eagle County coloradosun.com/2026/02/03/e...
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Colorado Democrats in Congress demand investigation into ICE after ace of spades cards left in Eagle County
Six Democrats called for an independent investigation and full briefing about ICE activity in Eagle County in a letter to Kristi Noem
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Colorado child care centers, counties scramble as feds say they are freezing funds for poorest families coloradosun.com/2026/01/07/c...
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Colorado child care centers, counties scramble as feds say they are freezing funds for poorest families
State officials received notice Tuesday night that the feds were freezing funding for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and other programs
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Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This story was a journey.
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Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 22/12/2025
ICE tried to keep reporters out of this hearing. I'm so grateful to @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social of @coloradosun.com and will continue to support the excellent reporting they do. coloradosun.bluelena.io/index.php?ac...
Officials from GEO Group, the private contractor that runs the detention center for the government, told us they had verbal orders from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement limiting who could enter the courtroom for “safety and security” concerns.


Courtrooms are public under the First Amendment. Journalists have the right to enter them, concerned citizens have the right to enter them, you have the right to enter them. Judges — not government agencies — can close them, but only in rare cases such as protecting minors. 


That did not stop detention center employees from trying to close the door. Unfortunately for them, we weren’t about to go quietly.


The judge presiding over the hearing, along with the local U.S. Attorney’s Office, were eventually informed by an immigration lawyer of the standoff in the lobby, which is likely why we were finally allowed to enter, two hours later. The experience felt surreal, as if we were trying to cover the news in another country. 


I, along with my fellow journalists, could have left when our rights were violated. We could have shrugged and gone home. But we didn’t. We fought for our rights — and for yours, too.
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Colorado could have to pay back $60 million to feds in #autism therapy for children coloradosun.com/2025/12/24/a...
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Colorado could have to pay back $60 million to feds in autism therapy for children
Therapy centers countered that an abrupt rule change could result in long-term harm for children with autism
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
On the rural Colorado plains, cancer patients with no local options rely on this traveling oncologist coloradosun.com/2025/12/21/r...
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On the rural Colorado plains, cancer patients with no local options rely on this traveling oncologist
Most of the 90 oncologists in the state are based in Front Range cities, minus a handful in western Colorado
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Judge orders release of Afghan immigrant detained by ICE after helping U.S. military fight the Taliban coloradosun.com/2025/12/01/i...
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Judge orders release of Afghan immigrant detained by ICE after helping U.S. military fight the Taliban
A judge in Missouri ordered the release of Mohammad Ali Dadfar who lived in Boulder County with his wife and four children after fleeing Afghanistan
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Could the horse herpes outbreak affect the National Western Stock Show? About 40 horses in Colorado are in quarantine. coloradosun.com/2025/11/25/c...
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Could the horse herpes outbreak affect the National Western Stock Show? About 40 horses in Colorado are in quarantine.
The outbreak of equine herpes is linked to rodeos and barrel racing events in Texas and Oklahoma and has spread to at least one Colorado horse
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Colorado congressmen call on ICE to release Afghan immigrant who helped fight the Taliban coloradosun.com/2025/11/11/a...
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Colorado congressmen call on ICE to release Afghan immigrant who helped fight the Taliban
When America breaks promises, “it makes us less safe,” U.S. Rep. Jason Crow says about arrest of Afghan soldier who helped U.S. troops fight the Taliban before settling in Boulder County.
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Afghan immigrant who helped U.S. military fight Taliban arrested by ICE coloradosun.com/2025/11/07/i...
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Afghan immigrant who helped U.S. military fight Taliban arrested by ICE
The father of four, who had settled in Colorado and gotten his commercial driver’s license, was driving a truck through Indiana when he was taken by masked ICE agents in October
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
More Colorado foster kids live with strangers, not relatives or friends. But a shift is coming. coloradosun.com/2025/10/27/f...
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More Colorado foster kids live with strangers, not relatives or friends. But a shift is coming.
A new state law contributed to a 40% rise in foster care placements with neighbors, family friends and teachers
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Wild horses held at Colorado prison complex cost the federal government $23 million over five years #wildhorses coloradosun.com/2025/10/22/w...
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Wild horses held at Colorado prison complex cost the federal government $23 million over five years
The BLM is not renewing its contract for the wild horse program at the prison in Cañon City, citing the high cost
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
In Denver’s Five Points, jazz is the recipe for sparking a comeback on historic Welton Street coloradosun.com/2025/10/05/f...
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In Denver’s Five Points, jazz is the recipe for sparking a comeback on historic Welton Street
The neighborhood is battling its reputation as a non-destination by reviving efforts to preserve the past while creating its own future
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Fort Garland to reinstate water sales to rural San Luis Valley residents after abruptly cutting them off weeks ago coloradosun.com/2025/09/18/f...
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Fort Garland to reinstate water sales to rural San Luis Valley residents after abruptly cutting them off weeks ago
Water sales to unincorporated Costilla County could resume as early as next week after the Fort Garland water board reversed course
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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 08/09/2025
Cañon City is using the Arkansas River to wash off its “prison town” reputation. Steep obstacles remain.
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Cañon City is using the Arkansas River to wash off its “prison town” reputation. Steep obstacles remain.
After 15 years of river and trail improvements, the southern Colorado city is confronting the legacy of its industrial past
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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 07/09/2025
How to treat a river: Reshaping the Arkansas River into a Colorado success after a century of abuse
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How to treat a river: Reshaping the Arkansas River into a Colorado success after a century of abuse
From the high headwaters all the way to the state line, people who care are trying to redeem a hard-working stream. First in our series: "What is a river?"
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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 17/07/2025
Planned Parenthood resumes seeing Medicaid patients after funding blocked by federal budget bill
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Planned Parenthood resumes seeing Medicaid patients after funding blocked by federal budget bill
Hundreds of appointments were canceled during the past two weeks, leading to a flood of "desperate voices.”
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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 18/07/2025
Most people arrested by ICE in Colorado and Wyoming this year did not have criminal history
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Most people arrested by ICE in Colorado and Wyoming this year did not have criminal history
Trump said ICE is going after the “worst of the worst.” The agency’s Rocky Mountain data shows otherwise.
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Trump administration reviewing Colorado spending on health care for undocumented immigrants  coloradosun.com/2025/06/25/i...
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Trump administration reviewing Colorado spending on health care for undocumented immigrants
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid requested detailed information from the state Medicaid program as it investigates “fiscal integrity”
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Colorado foster kids more likely to pass classes, less likely to get suspended with new state program coloradosun.com/2025/06/23/f...
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Colorado foster kids more likely to pass classes, less likely to get suspended with new state program
The state-funded program for foster youth helps with tutoring, extracurricular activities
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
RFK Jr. remarks on autism lead to resignations at Colorado disability nonprofit coloradosun.com/2025/06/11/a...
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RFK Jr. remarks on autism lead to resignations at Colorado disability nonprofit
Best Buddies lost multiple board members after they say the organization, founded by RFK Jr.’s cousin, would not speak up
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Polis ordered state labor department to turn over personal information after ICE subpoena, lawsuit alleges coloradosun.com/2025/06/05/i...
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Polis ordered state labor department to turn over personal information after ICE subpoena, lawsuit alleges
A whistleblower lawsuit filed in Denver this week revealed the subpoena and the clash between the governor and a state labor director who says releasing the personal info is illegal
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David Krause @davidkrause.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The next in @coloradosun.com series "Aging in Colorado" looks at a remote area where it can be hard to leave because of costs or the desire to age in place. @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social made the drive to southern #Colorado find out why. (Link in story to Sun-Up podcast and other stories in series.)
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Rural Colorado seniors try to grow old in “God’s waiting place.” But funding for services isn’t keeping up.
Residents of Custer County — the oldest county in Colorado — face challenges with transportation and services to age in place
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
A fence around a billionaire’s San Luis Valley ranch leads to new state law coloradosun.com/2025/05/27/s...
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A fence around a billionaire’s San Luis Valley ranch leads to new state law
Gov. Jared Polis visited Costilla County on Tuesday to sign a law that gives local governments the authority to prohibit disruptive fences
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Denver judge blocks Trump deportations of accused Venezuelan gang members to prison in El Salvador coloradosun.com/2025/04/22/t...
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Denver judge blocks Trump deportations of accused Venezuelan gang members to prison in El Salvador
Government attorneys argued that blocking deportations of accused Tren de Aragua members would usurp Trump’s authority on foreign policy
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Denver judge to decide fate of accused Venezuelan gang members facing deportation to prison in El Salvador  coloradosun.com/2025/04/21/v...
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Denver judge to decide fate of accused Venezuelan gang members facing deportation to prison in El Salvador
ACLU Colorado wants a federal judge to order class-action status, which would protect hundreds of detainees from deportation
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Immigrant rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra was “retaliated against” in violation of free speech, her attorney says coloradosun.com/2025/03/28/j...
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Immigrant rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra was “retaliated against” in violation of free speech, her attorney says
Vizguerra’s case received its first hearing Friday in Denver federal court, where her attorneys are attempting to spare her from deportation
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
“I love you. I see you.” Immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra reaches supporters from inside ICE detention coloradosun.com/2025/03/25/j...
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
ICE calls detained Denver activist Jeanette Vizguerra a “convicted criminal alien,” says she faces deportation coloradosun.com/2025/03/19/j...
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ICE calls detained Denver activist Jeanette Vizguerra a “convicted criminal alien,” says she faces deportation
Vizguerra, who has been fighting to stay in Colorado for 16 years, was once recognized by Time magazine and has been outspoken against Trump immigration policies
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
ICE detains Jeanette Vizguerra, immigration activist who resisted deportation in Colorado church 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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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Nearly 500 behavioral health workers in Colorado have been laid off in the past 3 months coloradosun.com/2025/03/13/b...
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Nearly 500 behavioral health workers in Colorado have been laid off in the past 3 months
The closure of three behavioral health hospitals in northern Colorado and on the Western Slope so far in 2025 is stoking concerns about access to care.
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jenbrowncolo.bsky.social @jenbrowncolo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Colorado kids could be missing out on $8 million in summer food money. State officials are trying to reach out to them. coloradosun.com/2025/03/11/c...
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Colorado kids could be missing out on $8 million in summer food money. State officials are trying to reach out to them.
Most kids who are eligible for the program are automatically enrolled, but there are an estimated 67,000 who are not and missed meals last summer
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