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Horticultural Arts Society Annual Gigantic Plant Sale

The Horticultural Art Society will hold its annual GIGANTIC plant sale on Friday, May 9th, 9-5, May 10, 9-4, May 16th, 9-5 and May 17th, 9-4. We are a ...
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Early studies suggest psilocybin can help people with PTSD. But the VA doesn’t allow it. Will veterans be left behind?

The first day aboard his Navy hospital ship during the Vietnam War, then 19-year-old David Lyons was told to take items from a trough wrapped in butcher paper and throw them into the incinerator. “I ...
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Revise, delay or implement? The standoff over Colorado’s AI discrimination law

Nine months: that’s all the time left before companies have to start complying with Colorado’s first-in-the-nation anti-discrimination law for AI systems, unless policymakers act. Business and ...
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Colorado Congressional District 4 Republican candidate Lauren Boebert on immigration, water, and energy development

After four years in office, Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is nationally known for her vehement calls to seal the southern border and crack down on government spending. On the campaign trail ...
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Denver Public Schools’ controversial reform strategy led to higher test scores and graduation rates, but not without costs

Denver’s controversial decade-long embrace of school choice and accountability led to some of the largest academic improvements in education research history, according to a University of Colorado ...
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The mysteries of Southern Colorado’s Indigenous rock art: Why it’s there, who made it and what threatens it

Images carved or painted on rock walls in southeastern Colorado by ancient Indigenous peoples often evoke wonder about who made them and why. These petroglyphs and pictographs carved and painted on ...
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‘50501’ protests draw thousands across several Colorado cities and one national park

Thousands of protesters gathered at the Colorado State Capitol in Denver Monday, and hundreds more joined at places from Colorado Springs to Grand Junction — and even at an entrance to Rocky Mountain ...
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Blucifer, The Demon Horse Of DIA

It’s hard to ignore the big blue horse that rears in a display of power and rebellion at Denver International Airport. The 32-foot-tall fiberglass sculpture towers over Peña Boulevard, its eyes ...
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Small Colorado newspapers serving immigrant and diasporic communities form collective to share resources

Shortly after Vera Azuka Idam arrived in the US, she wasn’t feeling well and went to the doctor to see what was wrong. They poked and prodded, asked lots of questions. They sent her home without a ...
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Why your Colorado property tax bill still increased this year

Homeowners across Colorado may have expected their property tax bills to go down this year — after all, their homes may be worth less. Instead, many property owners will see their bills rise again — a ...
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Colorado gun stores warn that semiautomatic weapons ban would make large share of their merchandise illegal

This story was produced by the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. Colorado gun stores say they may be forced to shutter should Democrats in the legislature this year pass a ban on the manufacture, sale ...
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Judges probe arguments over Tina Peters’ appeal

A panel of Colorado appellate judges scrutinized arguments as to what claims former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters should have been able to make at trial in 2024, and whether or not a judge’s strong ...