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Sam Tabachnik

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Investigative reporter with the Denver Post | formerly NBC News, Washington Post and New Orleans Times-Picayune | Long live TB12 | Send me your nicest comments: stabachnik(at)denverpost.com

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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 12/09/2026
Mesa Verde National Park to return 4,304 sacred Native American objects and remains of 85 Indigenous people, @samtabachnik.bsky.social reports. Other Colorado institutions are returning artifacts, too: “There’s no reason for Native American ancestral remains to be in museums, cabinets or campuses"
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Mesa Verde National Park to return thousands of Native American artifacts and Indigenous remains to tribes
Park officials told The Denver Post last week that they have been conducting a thorough inventory of human remains and culturally significant objects in Mesa Verde’s collection over the past two years...
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Trump admin has launched probes targeting DEI at CO colleges, all-gender bathrooms at K-12 schools, and the conditions inside the state’s prisons. I took a look at 4 federal investigations to see what actually happened after the public announcement. www.denverpost.com/2026/08/25/t...
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The Trump administration says it’s investigating these Colorado institutions. Here’s what’s really happening.
The Denver Post took a closer look at four federal investigations in Colorado to see what, if anything, the Trump administration has done to follow up on its public pronouncements.
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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 30/07/2026
A Colorado town is no more.
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State declares tiny southeast Colorado town abandoned after infighting, resignations and a water crisis
With no government, the town cannot hold elections. “Abandonment is the only legal mechanism … that creates an avenue for residents of the area to receive clean water,” the new order says.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Abandoned properties are all over Denver. But the city rarely moves to change their ownership. In that vacuum, a private investor has begun convincing neighbors to let him take their problem off their hands. www.denverpost.com/2026/07/21/d...
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How an investor capitalized on Denver’s neglected property problem
John Crays has tackled Denver’s neglected and derelict property list through civil court actions designed to pry these troubled properties from their absentee owners.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
What happens to a factory town if the factory goes away? I went up to Fort Morgan to see how a two-month labor dispute is affecting workers, business owners and a small town heavily reliant on the Cargill meatpacking plant. www.denverpost.com/2026/07/19/c...
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A labor lockout in rural Colorado has a town asking: How do we survive?
“This is the type of thing that could be a generational event,” Fort Morgan City Manager Brent Nation said of the Cargill lockout.
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Seth Klamann @sethklamann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Maddening @samtabachnik.bsky.social story about how Colorado officials have been ignoring federal law and refusing to allow people to appeal adverse unemployment overpayment decisions: www.denverpost.com/2026/05/31/c...
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Colorado has known for years that it must allow appeals of unemployment overpayments. So why doesn’t it?
Colorado overpaid people nearly $100 million in unemployment benefits last year alone, and federal data shows the state has been largely unsuccessful in recouping that money.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
5 former Costilla County sheriff employees told me that they received scant training for the job. Many deputies never completed reports after crimes, they said. Evidence in a murder case went missing. www.denverpost.com/2026/05/22/c...
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Missing evidence, mishandled cases and financial malfeasance: ‘The law just doesn’t exist’ in this rural Colorado county
The mishandling of criminal cases has been a common occurrence in Costilla County for years, prosecutors and former employees say. So they weren’t entirely surprised when the San Luis Valley DA announ...
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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 22/05/2026
The indictment of half of Costilla County's sheriff department "represented the culmination of years of negligence, incompetence, unethical behavior and, at times, illegal activity perpetrated by the people sworn to serve and protect the community," @samtabachnik.bsky.social writes
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Missing evidence, mishandled cases and financial malfeasance: ‘The law just doesn’t exist’ in this rural Colorado county
The mishandling of criminal cases has been a common occurrence in Costilla County for years, prosecutors and former employees say. So they weren’t entirely surprised when the San Luis Valley DA announced the indictment of half the…
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Scott Carney @thatscottcarney.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Cool to see @denverpost.com cited in @merriam-webster.com’s Word of the Day! @samtabachnik.bsky.social @sethklamann.bsky.social
Merriam-Websters Word of the Day for May 14
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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 29/04/2026
Now there's a 3rd felony case in Wyoming against April Morganroth, the reporter (and convicted forger) once fired by a Colorado newspaper for making up quotes @samtabachnik.bsky.social with the backstory: denverpost.com/2026/04/08/april-morganroth-arrest-wyoming-forgery/?share=oiottlfwpotyewgnmrho
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
More fallout from the Colorado Department of Human Services: State leadership forced out the longtime head of its department for the deaf and hard of hearing because he was “too close” to his own community, the ex-leader alleges in a federal lawsuit. www.denverpost.com/2026/04/24/c...
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Colorado forced out longtime head of deaf services because he was ‘too close’ to his own community, lawsuit alleges
Cliff Moers, who is deaf, spent nearly two decades with the Colorado Division for the Deaf, Hard of Hearing and DeafBlind.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
An outside firm is investigating workplace conditions within the Colorado Department of Human Services amid high turnover in its leadership team, a cascade of formal complaints and millions of dollars in settlements with departing staff. www.denverpost.com/2026/04/20/c...
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Colorado Department of Human Services under investigation amid turnover, complaints and nearly $3 million in payouts
The Denver Post’s review of internal complaints and interviews with seven current and former agency leaders and workers paint a picture of a toxic work environment.
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Seth Klamann @sethklamann.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Fresh dispatch from @samtabachnik.bsky.social and I on the troubled town of Hartman:
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Buckle up for a wild one. April Morganroth was fired from a Colorado newspaper for making up quotes. Then she changed her name, moved states, and got back in the journalism game. Now she's facing decades in prison. www.denverpost.com/2026/04/08/a...
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A Colorado newspaper fired a journalist for making up quotes. She changed her name, got back in the game — and now she’s facing prison.
At various points in her career, journalist April Morganroth reinvented herself to start fresh in a new state, leaving behind a wake of professional and personal misconduct.
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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 08/04/2026
Journalism ethics experts tell @samtabachnik.bsky.social they'd never heard of a reporter getting caught fabricating quotes or inventing sources, then just changing their name in order to keep practicing the trade elsewhere. “It’s safe to say this is historically unprecedented in the modern era.”
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A Colorado newspaper fired a journalist for making up quotes. She changed her name, got back in the game — and now she’s facing prison.
At various points in her career, journalist April Morganroth reinvented herself to start fresh in a new state, leaving behind a wake of professional and personal misconduct.
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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 08/03/2026
Wild story from @sethklamann.bsky.social and @samtabachnik.bsky.social about a tiny town in remote southwest Colorado where the local government collapsed in acrimony and the state is scrambling to fix its water supply. “Yelling has been a factor in Hartman since God was a boy,” an ex-trustee says
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In a tiny Colorado town, infighting dissolved the government. Now the water’s running out.
A tangled web of interpersonal feuds has left the town of Hartman with no clear path out of a situation that’s not covered by any state law.
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Seth Klamann @sethklamann.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
In mid-January, a fight at a trustees meeting collapsed town of Hartman’s government. It was the culmination of years of infighting, but now the town’s water supply is near collapse, with no government empowered to fix it. From @samtabachnik.bsky.social and me: www.denverpost.com/2026/03/08/h...
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In a tiny Colorado town, infighting dissolved the government. Now the water’s running out.
A tangled web of interpersonal feuds has left the town of Hartman with no clear path out of a situation that’s not covered by any state law.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Zynex served as a Colorado startup success story — a one-man operation turned public company with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. This is the story about how it all fell apart. www.denverpost.com/2026/03/05/z...
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How a successful Colorado startup turned into a nearly $1 billion health care fraud scheme
Zynex served as a Colorado startup success story — a one-man operation turned public company with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. This is the story about how it all fell apart.
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Seth Klamann @sethklamann.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
ICYMI: For the second straight year, Colorado lawmakers are debating whether to support a struggling industry by examining the wage protections of its workers. Last year it was restaurant servers. This year, it’s farmworkers. From @samtabachnik.bsky.social and me: www.denverpost.com/2026/02/14/c...
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When should Colorado farmworkers be entitled to overtime? Even Democrats don’t agree
“Our ag producers are in a tenuous situation,” Amanda Laban, the markets division director for the Colorado Department of Agriculture, told state lawmakers.
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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 16/02/2026
The municipal court in Montrose, Colorado, is not a "court of record" — meaning the public can't watch court hearings virtually, or access video after the fact, and cannot request any transcripts or audio of the day’s docket. A state law would change that. // Story by @samtabachnik.bsky.social
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A Colorado court sends poor people to jail without access to lawyers, advocates say. It doesn’t record the proceedings.
House Bill 26-1134, titled “Fairness and Transparency in Municipal Court,” clarifies that municipal court defendants have a right to counsel.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Colorado’s Behavioral Health Administration suffered from high turnover, low worker morale, and an environment in which staff felt undervalued and unable to freely express their ideas and opinions, even before the agency’s outgoing leader took the job. www.denverpost.com/2026/02/11/c...
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Colorado’s Behavioral Health Administration saw high turnover, low morale even before departing leader took over
Current and former BHA employees alleged in a report published by The Denver Post last week that Dannette Smith fostered an unsafe and chaotic work environment, leading many employees to leave for …
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Workers at the JBS meatpacking plant voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to authorize an unfair labor practice strike against the company, alleging illegal conduct at the bargaining table and inside the plant. www.denverpost.com/2026/02/05/j...
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JBS workers in Greeley vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike
The timing of a potential walkout, which would be the first in the Greeley plant’s history, will be determined at a later date.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
9 current and former BHA staffers told me that Dannette Smith fostered a chaotic and stressful work culture, which forced many people to seek other employment opportunities. The commissioner exhibited paranoid tendencies and managed through fear. www.denverpost.com/2026/02/02/b...
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Fear, tears and stress: Workers allege toxic culture inside Colorado’s Behavioral Health Administration
Nine current and former Colorado Behavioral Health Administration staffers told The Denver Post that Commissioner Dannette Smith fostered a chaotic and stressful work culture.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Yesterday, I spoke with Molly Long, whose brother, Dennis Coyle, was kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan a year ago. He remains in detention w/no bed & no light in his room. "He had all his rights and freedoms taken away," Molly said. www.denverpost.com/2026/01/29/d...
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Family of Coloradan detained in Afghanistan: ‘He had all his rights and freedoms taken away’
The family’s first contact, Molly Long told The Denver Post in an interview Wednesday, was not until July 3.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The world of city courts was upended in late December, when the Colorado Supreme Court unanimously ruled that municipalities cannot impose harsher punishments on lawbreakers than state statute would allow for the same offense. www.denverpost.com/2026/01/16/c...
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How a Colorado Supreme Court ruling is reshaping the state’s municipal courts
Now, weeks after the court’s decision, cities are reexamining their local ordinances, judges are altering their courtroom advisements of defendants, and defense attorneys and prosecutors are negoti…
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Colorado has barred the long-troubled Star Farms in Brighton from bringing migrant workers under the H-2A program after an investigation found the employer, Angelo Palombo, did not pay his laborers for months and obstructed state investigators. www.denverpost.com/2026/01/15/s...
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Colorado bars Brighton farm from H-2A foreign-worker program for failing to pay laborers
Star Farms in Brighton must also pay more than $1.7 million in back wages and penalties, according to the state labor department.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
J-1 students say the opportunity to come to the U.S. on a work visa represents a life-changing experience. At other times, though, the program makes participants feel like exploitable low-wage workers with few protections. www.denverpost.com/2026/01/06/j...
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The J-1 visa is supposed to be a cultural exchange program. Is it working as intended?
More than 9,000 people came to Colorado last year on the J-1 visa, working as physicians, professors, researchers, ski workers, restaurant servers and au pairs.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Colorado’s youth detention centers are facing a staffing crisis, leading to serious safety concerns for employees and youth and low worker morale. The Division of Youth Services employs more than 1k employees. Nearly 500 additional jobs remain vacant. www.denverpost.com/2025/12/22/c...
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Violence, 16-hour days and no support: Why staff say they’re fleeing Colorado’s juvenile detention centers
The Division of Youth Services, which oversees the state’s 12 detention and commitment facilities, employs more than 1,000 employees. Nearly 500 additional jobs remain vacant.
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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 22/12/2025
NEW: The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday ruled that cities cannot punish lawbreakers beyond what state courts would allow for the same offense in a ruling that could set precedent for hundreds of municipal courts around the state // Story by @samtabachnik.bsky.social
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Municipal courts can’t issue harsher punishment than state court for same offenses, Colorado Supreme Court rules
The justices ruled that when a municipal ordinance and a state statute prohibit identical conduct, the municipal penalties for such conduct “may not exceed the corresponding state penalties f…
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
3 Haitian refugees say their experience at JBS in Greeley has been marked by injuries, discrimination and inhospitable living conditions. www.denverpost.com/2025/12/17/j...
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How JBS used TikTok to lure Haitian refugees to work at its Colorado meat-processing plant
Nesly Pierre, Louine Jean-Louis and Carlos Saint Aubin — all Haitian refugees — were living in states across the country when they learned about the JBS opportunity through TikTok.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This story shows the lengths to which a private-equity landlord will go to quash its tenants’ union efforts, organizers allege, using aggressive tactics honed by employers in the days before the National Labor Relations Act. www.denverpost.com/2025/12/11/c...
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A Denver building for elderly and disabled residents wanted to unionize. The private-equity landlord had other ideas.
Residents involved in the tenants union say they want a voice to help them improve living conditions.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Breaking: The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the conditions inside Colorado’s prisons and juvenile detention facilities www.denverpost.com/2025/12/08/d...
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U.S. Department of Justice launches investigation into Colorado prisons, youth detention centers
The Department of Justice, in a letter to Gov. Jared Polis, says it will determine whether the constitutional rights of prisoners and detainees are being violated.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The Cambodian government has formally requested records from the family of the late Emma C. Bunker, a former Denver Art Museum consultant who helped museums around the world acquire looted Southeast Asian antiquities. www.denverpost.com/2025/12/04/e...
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Cambodia seeks records from family of late Denver Art Museum consultant Emma Bunker
Bradley Gordon, an American attorney who serves as a legal adviser to the Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, called the documents a “missing roadmap.”
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The National Labor Relations Board has found Starbucks illegally fired workers in response to organizing, closed stores because of union votes and engaged in widespread unfair labor practices designed to quash workers’ efforts. www.denverpost.com/2025/11/23/s...
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How Starbucks tried to quash union activity in Colorado
The coffee giant shuttered a store in Colorado Springs in 2022 shortly after its workers voted to unionize. A federal agency later ordered Starbucks to reopen that store, along with 22 others.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Update: DOC officials are now allowing all inmates at YOS to purchase food from the canteen. Previous policy only allowed those who hit certain levels based on good behavior. Families say their sons have lost 20-30 lbs in recent weeks www.denverpost.com/2025/11/21/c...
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Pueblo detention facility changes food policies following outcry from concerned families
“Everybody in the justice system — and especially juveniles — deserves adequate nutrition,” Sen. Nick Hinrichsen wrote in a statement. “What’s reported is unacceptable…
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
10 mothers told The Post that they have watched their boys lose concerning amounts of weight over the past few months, as they complain about the lack of sufficient food at the Pueblo detention facility. www.denverpost.com/2025/11/15/c...
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Young people held at Pueblo detention facility aren’t getting enough food, parents allege
Ten mothers told The Denver Post they have watched their boys at the Youthful Offender System detention facility in Pueblo lose concerning amounts of weight over the past few months.
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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 15/11/2025
Ten mothers told @denverpost.com they've watched their sons in Colorado’s youth detention facility lose extreme weight over the past few months as they complain about the lack of sufficient food. “They don’t even treat prisoners of war like this,” one mother told @samtabachnik.bsky.social
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Young people held at Pueblo detention facility aren’t getting enough food, parents allege
Ten mothers told The Denver Post they have watched their boys at the Youthful Offender System detention facility in Pueblo lose concerning amounts of weight over the past few months.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The city of Craig has paid $300k to a man who suffered injuries after law enforcement intentionally plowed into him with an SUV. Tanner Sholes sued the city and members of law enforcement last year, alleging they violated his constitutional rights. www.denverpost.com/2025/11/07/c...
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Colorado city pays $300,000 to settle claims from man intentionally run down by law enforcement
The lawsuit’s claims against five members of the Moffat County Sheriff’s Office remain ongoing.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
NEW - The Trump admin has disbanded its federal cultural property investigations team and reassigned the agents to immigration enforcement, delivering a blow to one of the world’s leaders in heritage protection, according to multiple ppl familiar with the changes. www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
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The U.S. was a leader in cultural heritage investigations. Now those agents are working immigration enforcement.
Homeland Security Investigations, the department’s investigative arm, once had as many as eight agents in its New York office investigating cultural property cases.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
For the past few months, I've been digging into the tenuous relationship between Telluride and the enigmatic owner of the town's famed ski resort. Everybody in town has a Chuck Horning story. Here's why locals say it's time for him to go. www.denverpost.com/2025/10/30/t...
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Is Telluride ready to ‘chuck Chuck?’ Why the opulent ski town turned on the resort’s longtime owner
Critics in Telluride point to Chuck Horning’s unpredictable nature, his my-way-or-the-highway leadership style and his refusal to let executives help him run the business.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Billups, investigators allege, was known as a “face card.” He and other former professional athletes were used to attract victims to the poker games. In exchange, they received portions of the criminal proceeds, authorities said. www.denverpost.com/2025/10/23/c...
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Feds allege Chauncey Billups was ‘face card’ in high-stakes, Mafia-backed poker scam
Chauncey Billups, investigators allege, was known as a “face card.” He and other former professional athletes were used to attract victims to the poker games.
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Seth Klamann @sethklamann.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
ICYMI: Our look at how the “deportation machine,” as one lawyer called it, is working as designed in Colorado: www.denverpost.com/2025/10/22/i...
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Stuck in Aurora ICE facility, more detainees are agreeing to leave the U.S. voluntarily
The government’s goal, lawyers argue, is to create conditions inside ICE facilities that push immigrants to voluntarily leave or to accept a deportation order.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Non-lawyers offering fraudulent legal advice has been going on for a long time. But advocates and attorneys say we're seeing sophisticated scams targeting immigrants now more than ever as arrests, detentions reach record levels Story w/@sethklamann.bsky.social www.denverpost.com/2025/09/22/c...
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Colorado immigrants are desperately seeking legal help. They often run into fake lawyers and other scams.
Kathia Blanco unwittingly joined a growing number of Colorado immigrants who have been scammed by people impersonating lawyers.
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John Wenzel @johnwenzel.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Lotta people know the Beatles story in Colorado. Not a lotta people have actually reported it out, as @denverpost.com's @samtabachnik.bsky.social did. Plus lots more weird Colorado music lore!
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Riots, threats, The Beatles and other stories from Colorado music lore
There are hidden tales behind the lore about Colorado’s seediest, funniest and scariest concerts.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Colorado’s Division of Youth Services last month removed all youth from its Lookout Mountain detention center amid what advocates say were deteriorating safety conditions. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/08/l...
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Youth detention center in Golden emptied amid what advocates called deteriorating safety conditions
Many of the staff members at Lookout Mountain have also been temporarily relocated to support youth at their new centers.
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 09/09/2025
Discipline authorities seek removal of Colorado judge over frivolous hearing, lies, ticket-fixing attempt trib.al/RkP39rH
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Discipline authorities seek removal of Colorado judge over frivolous hearing, lies, ticket-fixing attempt
Jeffrey Walsh, special counsel for the Colorado Commission on Judicial Discipline, is seeking both a public censure and Judge Ian MacLaren’s removal from the bench.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Every 15 days, Ruth Rivas and her fellow housekeepers received two checks. This arrangement allows Telluride Ski & Golf to avoid paying all the overtime that Rivas and her colleagues were owed under Colorado wage and hour laws, she alleged in the legal filing. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/04/t...
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She worked 15 hours a day, 7 days a week. Telluride-owned hotel wouldn’t pay overtime, lawsuit alleges
Despite being paid by two separate entities, housekeepers at Peaks Resort & Spa were effectively controlled by Telluride Ski & Golf, the lawsuit alleges.
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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 01/09/2025
The Denver Post's @elliottwenzler.bsky.social interviewed 5 former city employees laid off by Denver last month about what the loss of their jobs means for them and their families. “It felt horrible,” one said through tears. “I honestly thought I was a person who was going to retire from the city.”
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From feeling betrayed to volunteering to leave, five former Denver city employees tell their layoff stories
On the other side of Denver’s city budget savings are laid-off workers who now face their own budget crises. “I can’t afford to be without a job,” Mikhail Vafeades told The Denver Post.
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
JBS USA, the meatpacking giant headquartered in Greeley, pressures instructors to falsify safety trainings so its employees can get to work on production lines with a history of causing injuries, a whistleblower alleges in a recent lawsuit. www.denverpost.com/2025/08/28/j...
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Meat processor JBS pushed Greeley instructors to falsify safety trainings, whistleblower says
Salima Jandali alleges JBS engages in “systematic workplace discrimination” and retaliated against her after she refused to engage in “illegal, dangerous and exploitative practice…
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Sam Tabachnik @samtabachnik.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Experts say they have never seen this many deaths from a single hydrogen sulfide exposure incident www.denverpost.com/2025/08/27/d...
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What is hydrogen sulfide? Toxic gas eyed in Colorado dairy deaths is infrequent but dangerous feature of agricultural work.
Two agricultural safety experts told The Denver Post that in their decades of work, they had never seen six people die from hydrogen sulfide in the same exposure incident.
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