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Guest Post: The path to COVID-19 economic recovery lies in large-scale testing 

COVID-19 Ankita Arora -
Both South Korea and the United States (US) confirmed the first case of COVID-19 on the same day. Yet, as of April 14, the...

Littwin: Trump vows to go all dictator on us, but he can’t even do...

COVID-19 Mike Littwin -
I have a confession. Very recently — like maybe two days ago — I had mostly stopped watching Donald Trump’s daily coronavirus briefings, even...

Attorneys sue ICE to release medically vulnerable detainees from Aurora detention center Detention is...

Civil Rights John Herrick -
Update on April 15: After immigration attorneys filed the federal lawsuit against ICE seeking the release of 14 medically at-risk detainees, the agency released...
Valerie Love, a respiratory therapist at the VA Hospital in Aurora, outside the room she and team of critical care specialists are trying to keep the Rev. Terrance "Big T" Hughes alive. (Photo by VA spokeswoman Brandy Morrison)

Greene: ‘Small wins,’ then a setback in the fight to keep Denver pastor alive...

COVID-19 Susan Greene -
Last Thursday, respiratory therapist Valerie Love stood next to the bed of the Aurora VA Hospital's first and longest COVID-19 patient, the Rev. Terrance...
Brett Wenger (left) and Terry Walsh (right) pose for a photo at Rolling Smoke Barbecue in Centennial on April 10, 2020. (Photo by Forest Wilson)

Checking in on restaurant owners and workers three weeks after shutdown As the stay-at-home...

Health Forest Wilson -
It's been three weeks since Terry Walsh called the employees of his Centennial barbecue restaurant into his office and, one by one, laid them...
Gov. Jaren Polis answers questions from reporters at the Colorado Convention Center as it is converted into a care site for COVID-19 patients on April 10, 2020. He is aiming to gradually reopen Colorado by April 26. (Photo by Forest Wilson)

Littwin: You make the forecast — could Colorado really be ready to reopen by...

COVID-19 Mike Littwin -
This forecast just in: April 26 will come and April 26 will go, and Colorado will not, sadly, be reopened. It’s actually more of a...

Colorado news orgs urge Polis to increase transparency around COVID-19 spread The Indy among...

COVID-19 Jeffrey Roberts, CFOIC Executive Director -
The following letter was sent to Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday, Apr. 10, 2020: Dear Gov. Polis, We, the undersigned journalism organizations, want to thank...
Broomfield

Concerns over oil and gas emissions during pandemic not enough to stop drilling in...

COVID-19 John Herrick -
From her home in Broomfield, Susan Speece, 74, says she can tell when oil and gas workers are drilling.  “Burning eyes. Stuffy nose. Burning in...

‘A world of unknown’: Coloradans adapt to pregnancy during the pandemic 'During pregnancy, people...

COVID-19 Abigail Seaberg -
Late last August, Cassie and Jason Krajewski received the news that they were going to have a baby, their first. They'd been trying for...
Even for the most faithful, hope is harder to muster this year, Rev. Reginald C. Holmes writes. (Flickr photo by Omran Jamal)

For one Denver pastor, “Next year in Jerusalem” is too long to wait 'Could...

Civil Rights Reginald C. Holmes -
The Rev. Reginald C. Holmes is co-pastor at New Covenant Christian Church / Alpha Omega Ministries in Denver. His partner there, the Rev. Terrance...
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