Federal judge green-lights First Amendment claim of fired Douglas County school employee
A jury will decide whether a Douglas County charter school fired an employee because of her protected online speech about vaccinations, a federal judge ruled ...
A Wild West newspaper rivalry: guns, threats and plenty of trash talking
A newspaper feud at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo mountains has veered toward violence with editors armed, lawsuits flying, and threats from riled-up residents forcing the closure of a 140-year-old Main Street newsroom for safety ...
Denver considers expanding city auditor’s subpoena powers to compel contractors’ records
A few Denver councilmembers clashed with the city auditor over a proposal to give the latter powers to subpoena the city's contractors and compel them to produce records. ...
Aurora lawmakers flee council chamber as police-shooting protesters return to city hall
After a raucous meeting last month where protesters heckled and shouted down Aurora City Council members, council conservatives tried and failed to stop the same group from speaking publicly about the fatal shooting of Kilyn Lewis by Aurora police ...
Group abandons ballot initiative to restore Colorado legislature transparency rules
Colorado voters will no longer have the chance to restore some transparency rules on state lawmakers—at least not this year ...
Loveland City Council rejects appropriation for legal expenses
The four Loveland City Council members at the center of an open meetings investigation will not have their legal bills in the case covered by the city ...
In Colorado, when and how police bodycam footage is released depends on the department
The nine shootings involving officers throughout Denver metro stretching from Lakewood to Arapahoe County since April 29 underscored police departments' differences in their levels of responses to media inquiries and in their policies governing the release of body camera footages. ...
A century ago, Denver newsmen helped unearth nation’s biggest political scandal
A hundred years ago today, in the nation’s biggest political scandal up to that time, a U.S. cabinet secretary was indicted — thanks to the scheming of a Denver publisher, the doggedness of his immigrant reporter, and the courage of a muckraking editor ...
Caldara: Why we’re not spending money to bring ballot initiatives this year
The one initiative that polled well forces the state legislators back into the open-meetings law, which they recently exempted themselves. If passed, it would only get us back to where we were before, stopping legislators from having smoke-filled, closed-door meetings ...
Small town newspapers making a comeback
It hasn’t been easy. Publishers are hard pressed to survive but have used many creative ways to keep going ...
