Author: Nicole C. Brambila The Denver Gazette
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Protesters descend on Hudson Town Council days after prison funded to reopen as ICE facility
HUDSON — Nearly 200 protesters, including current and former members of the Democratic Party’s progressive wing, descended on Hudson on Wednesday, gathering outside Town Hall about an hour before the regularly scheduled town council meeting to protest the reopening of the town’s shuttered prison as an immigration detention center. Although the detention center was not…
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From ‘Pikes Peak or Bust’ to Crocs: How Colorado has reinvented itself for 150 years
After three and a half years in Colorado, I knew the state had mountains and sunshine. What I didn’t know was how often Colorado has reinvented itself. Or why Colorado is the way it is. After a 90-minute tour with Katherine Mercier — a historian who developed the “38th Star” exhibition at the History Colorado…
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From ‘Pikes Peak or Bust’ to Crocs: How Colorado has reinvented itself for 150 years
After three and a half years in Colorado, I knew the state had mountains and sunshine. What I didn’t know was how often Colorado has reinvented itself. Or why Colorado is the way it is. After a 90-minute tour with Katherine Mercier — a historian who developed the “38th Star” exhibition at the History Colorado…
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From ‘Pikes Peak or Bust’ to Crocs: How Colorado has reinvented itself for 150 years
After 3 1/2 in Colorado, I knew the state had mountains and sunshine. What I didn’t know was how often Colorado has reinvented itself. Or why Colorado is the way it is. After a 90-minute tour with Katherine Mercier — a historian who developed the “38th Star” exhibition at the History Colorado Center — I…
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$529M ICE contract will nearly double Colorado’s immigrant detention capacity
The federal government has signed a five-year contract with private prison company GEO Group that will effectively double Colorado’s immigration detention capacity to about 2,700 beds. Signed July 9, the contract comes a year after the Trump administration told Colorado’s congressional delegation it planned to reopen the shuttered Hudson Correctional Facility as an immigration detention…
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Colorado hospitals poised to receive $455 million Medicaid funding boost
After years of losing out on the federal dollars, Colorado has been approved to tap a well-known Medicaid financing tool that is expected to bring more than $450 million to hospitals. Colorado did not pursue the financing tool until more recently, with hospital system executives earlier saying that decision had “set Colorado back.” The Centers…
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‘Explosive’ diarrhea among symptoms as parasitic illness hits Colorado
A fecal parasite that can contaminate food and water is causing “explosive” diarrhea across more than a dozen states, including Colorado, health officials said Tuesday. Preliminary data show Colorado has recorded 90 cases of cyclosporiasis since January, Hope Shuler, a spokesperson for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, said in an email. That’s…
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‘Explosive’ diarrhea among symptoms as parasitic illness hits Colorado
A fecal parasite that can contaminate food and water is causing “explosive” diarrhea across more than a dozen states, including Colorado, health officials said Tuesday. Preliminary data show Colorado has recorded 90 cases of cyclosporiasis since January, Hope Shuler, a spokesperson for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, said in an email. That’s…
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U.S. Supreme Court upholds state laws banning transgender girls and women from school athletic teams
WASHINGTON • The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams. The court’s conservative majority ruled that state bans in Idaho and West Virginia don’t violate the U.S. Constitution or the federal law known as Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in education. What…
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Colorado repeals attorney immigration attestation law after one year
One year and 12 days. That’s how long a Colorado law requiring attorneys to certify they would not use court data for federal immigration enforcement remained on the books before lawmakers repealed it. Gov. Jared Polis signed the initial legislation, Senate Bill 25-276, on May 23, 2025. That legislation extended to the courts a law…