Author: Nicole C. Brambila The Denver Gazette
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U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank asks DOJ to investigate violent student ICE walkout
U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank is asking the Justice Department to investigate violence at last week’s anti-ICE student walkout in Denver, including whether outside organizations helped organize, fund, or influence the demonstration. Crank sent a letter Tuesday requesting the investigation to Harmeet K. Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice.…
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Colorado student protest over ICE turns violent in Denver
Three taken to hospital, police say A student walkout that drew hundreds to La Alma-Lincoln Park on Friday to protest federal immigration enforcement turned violent, with police reporting five assaults and three people taken to the hospital. As the crowd swelled, confrontations broke out between students and counterprotesters. In one, students threw water on a…
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More Denver voters identify as socialists as support reaches 3-year high
More Denver voters identify as socialists than Republicans, continuing a three-year rise that comes on the heels of Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros’ upset primary victory over longtime U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette. Seventeen percent of Denver voters now identify as socialists, up from 12% last year and 11% two years ago, according to a new Colorado…
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Colorado schools are losing students as births, migration slow
Colorado public schools went from adding roughly 3,500 students a year before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 to losing nearly 4,000 students a year afterward. As more than 870,000 Colorado students return to the classroom for another school year, they are part of a shrinking population since enrollment peaked in 2019. Colorado has 40,000 fewer…
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Colorado schools reopen with measles vaccination rates below protective threshold
Colorado is entering the new school year without active measles transmission, but health officials remain concerned as kindergarten MMR coverage sits at just 87.8% and most counties fall below the 95% threshold considered protective against outbreaks. “These declining vaccination rates, both nationally and here in Colorado, directly increase the risk of outbreaks of measles and…
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‘Explosive’ diarrhea-causing parasite cyclosporiasis cases nearly triple in Colorado
Cases of the “explosive” diarrhea-causing parasite cyclosporiasis nearly tripled in Colorado over the past month, prompting renewed attention after related deaths were reported in Michigan. Twenty-nine counties in Colorado have reported cases, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Colorado has had 241 cases of cyclosporiasis since January, state data shows. Of…
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‘Explosive’ diarrhea-causing parasite cyclosporiasis cases nearly triple in Colorado
Cases of the “explosive” diarrhea-causing parasite cyclosporiasis nearly tripled in Colorado over the past month, prompting renewed attention after related deaths were reported in Michigan. Twenty-nine counties in Colorado have reported cases, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Colorado has had 241 cases of cyclosporiasis since January, state data shows. Of…
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‘Explosive’ diarrhea-causing parasite cyclosporiasis cases nearly triple in Colorado
Cases of the “explosive” diarrhea-causing parasite cyclosporiasis nearly tripled in Colorado over the past month, prompting renewed attention after related deaths were reported in Michigan. Twenty-nine counties in Colorado have reported cases, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Colorado has had 241 cases of cyclosporiasis since January, state data shows. Of…
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Small Colorado town grapples with ICE detention center opening
Thirty miles northeast of downtown Denver — where the Front Range loosens its grip, subdivisions give way to open fields and pickups outnumber Teslas — is the town of Hudson. Population 1,652. Hudson still feels like the kind of place where everybody knows the restaurant they’ll meet at for dinner. But it’s not at the…
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GEO impeding TB investigation at Aurora ICE detention center, Colorado officials say
Colorado officials said Tuesday that the GEO Group has failed to provide access required under state law for a tuberculosis investigation at the Aurora ICE Processing Center, hindering efforts to identify people who may have been exposed. The Adams County Health Department confirmed a detainee with active tuberculosis at the Aurora detention facility last month.…