Thank you to the loyal readers and supporters of The Colorado Independent (2013-2020). The Indy has merged with the new nonprofit Colorado News Collaborative (COLab) on a new mission to strengthen local news in Colorado. We hope you will join us!

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Our next chapter

This message was originally published on May 15, 2020.  Dear readers, We told you last month that big changes are underway as the Indy joins forces with the Colorado Press Association, Colorado Media...
The Colorado Independent's Managing Editor Tina Griego and Editor Susan Greene. The Independent is embarking on a new collaborative journalism mission in partnership with the Colorado Press Association and the Colorado Media Project. (Photo by Marie-Dominique Verdier at mdvphoto.com)

An important announcement from the editors

This message was originally published on April 10, 2020.  Dear reader, It’s time for The Indy to do things differently.  If the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us...

Working through uncertainty

Dear readers, Yesterday, Susan Greene was hard at work — helping a trio of our partner newspaper editors prep for a project with the Colorado News...
COLab and its partners are disarming disinformation this election, including setting up a text hotline for people to share their election experiences (303-871-1491).

An antidote to polarization and partisanship

Dear fellow Coloradan, On this morning of the 2020 election, I’m moved to write you a letter about a conversation I had last night with...

The pits in our stomachs

Dear reader, Words generally come easily for me. But I have been struggling for seven months to name how it feels to live through this...

Finding Connection

Dear reader,  We at COLab think a lot — one could say “obsessively” — about readers, listeners and viewers of local news. We think about...
Looking through a broken window to the lobby of the old Denver Post building the morning after the May 29, 2020 racial justice protest in downtown Denver.

Your thoughts on truth-telling and bias

Dear reader, Wow. We asked for your thoughts last week on the test the Trump administration has posed to journalists seeking to be “objective” while...

The case for not holding our tongues

Dear reader, From our angst department, I’m writing to fill you in about an ethical question I and journalists across the country are wrestling with...
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GREENE: The hands that need holding

Rachel Hughes answered a phone call Wednesday from her husband’s intensive care doctors. The Rev. Terrance Hughes – co-pastor at New Covenant Christian Church/Alpha Omega...

Inside the small legal community defending Colorado death penalty clients, a...

It was late December 2019 and defense lawyer Mary Claire Mulligan spent the last week of the decade accompanying a client to his murder...

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