Tag: state
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Tipping Point: Colorado River strain casts shadow over recreation
Blue Mesa Reservoir, Colorado’s largest body of water, is at its lowest level ever. Plagued by drought and meager snowpack, the reservoir is not even 50% full. In an attempt to shore up Lake Powell and keep power-generating turbines turning, regulators pulled about 36,000 acre-feet from Blue Mesa last year, causing the closure of the…
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Tipping Point: Fire on the Colorado River watershed
Historic drought and low-runoff conditions have impacted the Colorado River Basin for several decades, robbing the area of moisture and priming the land for wildfires. In October of 2020, the East Troublesome spread through Grand County, devastating the drought-stricken terrain with a speed and ferocity no one in Colorado had seen before. As the fire grew,…
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Fentanyl Family: Inside Colorado’s deadly overdose siege
Starting in late 2016, Bruce Holder and his wife began smuggling thousands of fentanyl-laced pills over the border, through a quiet border station in Lukeville, Arizona. In the coming years, the family-turned-drug network would dominate the early fentanyl trade in western Colorado. Fentanyl has killed more than 1,600 Coloradans and tens of thousands of Americans…
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COLORADO POLITICS | Advocates discuss Colorado’s soaring crime, notably rise in fentanyl deaths
In a March 1 forum organized by Colorado Politics and the Denver Gazette, panelists offer diagnoses and potential solutions to the soaring crime rate in Colorado, including rise in fentanyl deaths.
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Colorado Politicking | Friday, March 18, 2022
This week on Colorado Politicking, legislative reporters Marianne Goodland and Hannah Metzger join host Pat Poblete to discuss the Colorado General Assembly reaching the halfway mark in the 2022 legislative session.
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Colorado Politicking | Friday, January 21, 2022
Colorado Politicking host Pat Poblete sits down with chief legislative reporter Marianne Goodland and political correspondent Ernest Luning to discuss the week in politics.
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LIFE | Leadville National Fish Hatchery
The Leadville Fish National Hatchery is the second oldest federally operated fish hatchery in existence today. For 130 years, the hatchery has been increasing the supply of fish for inland waters. (Video by Skyler Ballard
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Colorado Politicking | Friday, January 14, 2022
Colorado Politicking host Pat Poblete sits down with chief legislative reporter Marianne Goodland and managing editor Luige del Puerto to discuss the week in politics.
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NEWS | Some Coloradans’ drinking water still has highest radium levels in the nation
In rural areas along the Arkansas River, turning on the tap can mean a dose of radioactive water, with some of the nation’s highest recorded drinking water radium levels. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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Colorado Politicking | Friday, November 19, 2021
Colorado Politicking host Pat Poblete sits down with political correspondent Ernest Luning and managing editor Luige del Puerto to discuss the week in politics.