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How Freaked Out Commuters Should Be About Start of Central 70 Project

Although "Ditch the Ditch" protesters haven't given up on stopping the sprawling and controversial Central 70 project, the Colorado Department of Transportation is moving full steam ahead, with a goal of getting underway in earnest this summer. To help prepare metro-area drivers in general, and especially commuters who travel along Interstate 70 east of I-25 on a daily basis, for what CDOT insists will be coming soon, we reached out to Rebecca White, Central 70's communications director, who offers a preview of a process that's expected to take well into the next decade to complete.
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Three Billboards Movie Inspires Attack on Mike Coffman and the NRA

Inspired by the acclaimed movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, the parents of Jessica Ghawi, who was among twelve people killed in the July 2012 Aurora theater shooting, are behind a campaign to use outdoor advertising to shame Representative Mike Coffman and other opponents of gun-control legislation.
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Colorado Municipalities File Climate-Change Lawsuit Against O&G Companies

Local Colorado governments have had enough of fracking and have filed a lawsuit against two of the world's largest corporations: Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy, the latter of which has a refinery in Commerce City. The lawsuit alleges that the corporations should pay up for the impacts of climate change on their local communities, and they're demanding to have their case heard in front of a jury.
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The Worst, Most Hypocritical Gubernatorial Campaign Ads So Far

Campaign ads for the hottest political race of the season are taking over television screens and are even popping up over your favorite YouTube videos. From Vic Mitchell's paranoid ramblings of Colorado becoming California and Polis' #epicfail on his anti-gun ad, we've cherry-picked the worst and the funniest ads in the run up to the primary election for Colorado governor.
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Denver TV Stations Won’t Join Donald Trump in the “Shithole”

Yesterday, President Donald Trump inadvertently presented a dilemma for U.S. media outlets, whose executives had to decide how they should report about him calling certain African nations "shithole countries" during a January 11 meeting with senators over immigration policy. In the end, many national outlets went into the shithole with Trump, while plenty of local TV stations, including numerous ones in Denver, did not.
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Denver Dabbles in Affordable Housing-Focused Zoning, Thanks to…?

The changes would require that developers that want to build above a certain height in the area pay five times the city's affordable housing fee per square footage, build a certain number of affordable housing units if it's a residential building, or implement in any commercial development services that go toward the community, like daycare or space for artists.
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Kratom Salmonella Outbreak Warning, One Coloradan Sickened

Shortly after we published a post about Lakewood entrepreneur Faith Day facing down the Food and Drug Administration over a kratom investigation, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in conjunction with the FDA, released a health warning about a "multi-state outbreak of Salmonella infections" related to the popular but controversial herbal pain reliever, with one person from Colorado said to among those affected. And even though Day and the feds have very different views about kratom, some of the concerns voiced by the CDC echo ones she shared with us.