Tag: colorado
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Windows to the soul: Colorado portrait artist is a master at capturing subjects
Over the past three decades, I’ve been an adoptive pet mom to four similarly packaged, drastically different black cats. Clancy liked to lean, belly up, propping his paws on his paunch to regard the world like a drowsy Buddha. Doofus had the personality of a televangelist and a “feed me” glare that could melt steel.…
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‘Our history matters’: Downtown walking tours open window to past
Tejon Street looks ordinary now. People walk past buildings with their phones in hand. Cars pass through the intersection. Someone stops for coffee, while someone else is already late for work. But 150 years ago, this wasn’t just another stretch of downtown Colorado Springs. It was the beginning. Across the city, places that seem ordinary…
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Jim Crow once had a presence in Colorado | Bob Loevy
Was there ever a Colorado city that required racial segregation by law? The answer is “Yes.” The Black Racial Equity Study Commission, led by Colorado Senate President James Coleman, has learned the small city of Fruita had laws forbidding Black people from being on the city streets at night and from being buried in the all-white…
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Annual aspen display will likely be dampened by drought
Drought-stressed trees are experiencing a multitude of problems across the state The hits just keep on coming. Following one of, if not the worst, snowpack years for the state, Colorado also just officially recorded its hottest summer on record, according to NOAA. This spells bad news for the annual brilliant displays of color dotting landscapes…
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Annual aspen display will likely be dampened by drought
Drought-stressed trees are experiencing a multitude of problems across the state The hits just keep on coming. Following one of, if not the worst, snowpack years for the state, Colorado also just officially recorded its hottest summer on record, according to NOAA. This spells bad news for the annual brilliant displays of color dotting landscapes…
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Annual aspen display will likely be dampened by drought
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Drought-stressed trees are experiencing a multitude of problems across the state The hits just keep on coming. Following one of, if not the worst, snowpack years for the state, Colorado also just officially recorded its hottest summer on record, according to NOAA. This spells bad news for the annual brilliant displays of color dotting landscapes…
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Labor on parade: Remembering what the Labor Day holiday is all about
By Devin FloresHistory Colorado The first Labor Day was a grassroots event organized by workers in New York City on Sept. 5, 1882. Over 10,000 workers — one in every 200 people in the city at that time — turned out to march in a parade from City Hall to an uptown park where they…
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State seeks $50K penalty against GOP candidate Victor Marx over alleged campaign finance violations
Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx is looking at more than $50,000 in fines in what the Elections Division of the Office of the Secretary of State calls “unprecedented” campaign finance violations. The state has not imposed that fine yet, and official scheduling documents indicate that a hearing on the matter is set for Sept. 10,…
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PHOTOS: GRiZ makes triumphant Red Rocks return
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The Denver-based edm artist last played the venue in 2021.