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CO Lawmaker Seeks an End to Indefinite Solitary Confinement for Mentally Ill
News Image: Colorado State Senator Jessie Ulibarri sponsored a bill to search for alternatives to solitary confinement, especially when used with mentally ill inmates. Solitary, or administrative...
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Front Range CO Towns Push Back Against Neighborhood Frack Attacks
News Image: Residents in towns sited in a line that stretches just north of Denver to just south of Wyoming, through a 250-square-mile gas field covered with wells like a picnic blanket overrun by...
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CO Lawmakers Urged to Curb Dangerous Beef-Industry Antibiotics Use
News Image: They aren’t happy, and they don’t make for good eating because they’re more susceptible to illness. Yet a lot of cows are stressed in America. They’re shuttled around and crowded onto the...
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The Return of Debtor's Prisons: ACLU Tracks Prisoners Being Held for Minor Fines
News Image: The ACLU is tracking the rise of debtor's prisons across the US. This, even though the Supreme Court abolished using punitive means for those too poor to pay fines and legal debts over...
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New Mexico Affirms Equality of Marriage, Colorado Holds It's Breath
News Image: Gay rights supporters in Colorado are applauding the New Mexico Supreme Court ruling that affirmed the right of same-sex couples to marry in the state, celebrating the unanimous decision as...
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Fracking Nightmare in Colorado: More Than a Spill a Day Statewide
News Image: Spilltracker in Colorado monitors spills from hydraulic fracturing statewide. Using public data, the group logged more than an spill a day in 2013, many near residential areas, and many...
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No More Abortion Clinic Safe Zones? Supreme Court to Decide Fate of 'Bubble...
News Image: In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled that buffer, bubble, zones around abortion clinics were perfectly constitutional. Since then, the court has become more conservative, and states have pushed...
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CO Residents Battle Power Company Xcel Over Expansion of Rooftop Solar
News Image: Environmentalists and solar power energy supporters gathered at Colorado's Public Utilities Commission to voice their support for net metering, a way for independent, home-based solar power...
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Ludlow: A History of CO's Coal Wars, A Century Since
News Image: In an era of inequality some say rivals – or indeed exceeds – the Industrial Revolution at the turn of the century, it behooves us to look back at the labor and equality battles of that...
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Climate Change Hits CO Hard with Record Wildfires and Huge Jump in Temps
News Image: Wildfires are blanketing Colorado and only growing worse. There is no better analogue for climate change's deleterious and immediate effects – the world is burning around us, and only those...
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