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John Denver’s music studio, guest house for sale if you have $8.5 million
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John Denver’s music studio, guest house for sale if you have $8.5 million

By Maddie Rhodes | Fox 31 Denver John Denver’s guest house and music studio that inspired the singer’s famous hit “Starwood in Aspen” is now for sale. The house, which is listed with Christie’s International Real Estate, lies along the Starwood subdivision in Aspen. The realtor said that as Denver was a longtime resident of Starwood, his song was “in tribute to the community’s beauty,” according to the listing. The Starwood community is a private home development that’s 15 minutes outside of Aspen and as Denver describes it in his lyrics, it’s “a sweet Rocky Mountain paradise.” READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 DENVER
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Firefighters who responded on 9/11 escort piece of twin towers to new Fort Collins memorial
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Firefighters who responded on 9/11 escort piece of twin towers to new Fort Collins memorial

By Dillon Thomas | CBS Colorado A piece of American history has been permanently installed in Fort Collins, as Poudre Fire Station #3 cemented a piece of the twin towers into the park behind their fire station. The piece of the twin towers was officially unveiled at a ceremony in Fort Collins on Monday afternoon. The piece of steel, which stands several feet tall, serves as a reminder to the Northern Colorado community of what the U.S. has been through, and the sacrifices many paid for freedom. "We just don't want people to forget," said Jim Durkin, a former firefighter who responded to ground zero. Durkin, Jim Salisbury and Lin Lindholm are just three of the many now-retired Poudre Fire employees who helped dig for survivors in 2001. The same group of men were those who helped...
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Colorado now has the worst outbreak of bird flu among dairy cattle in the country
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Colorado now has the worst outbreak of bird flu among dairy cattle in the country

By John Ingold | The Colorado Sun Colorado’s outbreak of bird flu among dairy cattle is now the worst in the country, with more cases in the past month than any other state, according to the latest state and federal data. As of Monday evening, Colorado had identified 26 herds with cases of avian influenza. Of those, 22 were identified within the past month and the herds are still in quarantine. Four other cases were identified earlier and quarantines have since been lifted. All affected herds are in the northeastern part of the state. The rapid and still largely mysterious spread in Colorado — hardly a leading dairy state — contributes to growing concerns that U.S. health authorities are not doing enough to contain the virus. While the threat currently to humans is ge...
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Study: Fentanyl-related deaths cost Colorado estimated $16 billion last year
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Study: Fentanyl-related deaths cost Colorado estimated $16 billion last year

By Noah Festenstein | Colorado Politics It only takes 2 milligrams of fentanyl to be fatal. A record 425.6 kilograms of fentanyl — enough to kill the state’s population between 16* and 26 times over, depending on the purity of the drugs — was seized in Colorado in 2023 by the Drug Enforcement Administration Rocky Mountain Field Division. That year, Colorado saw a staggering $16 billion in costs associated with fentanyl-related overdose deaths, according to a recent study by the Common Sense Institute. “Colorado’s fentanyl problem is growing, and it is increasingly costly,” the group said. READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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Window washing at intersections is illegal in Denver, police say
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Window washing at intersections is illegal in Denver, police say

By Rachel Saurer | FOX 31 DENVER It has been months since Denver drivers first started noticing window washers at many busy intersections across the metro area. Now, it is almost a usual sight to see a few men in groups, squeegees and water bottles in hand approaching cars waiting for the stoplight. The Denver Police Department told FOX31 that this practice is illegal, and a couple of months ago, the department began posting flyers across the city to educate the individuals engaging in window washing. They are written in Spanish, with the headlines reading: “The Risks of Cleaning Windshields: It is dangerous, it is illegal.” READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 DENVER
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Denver Airport preparing for busiest Independence Day travel week on record
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Denver Airport preparing for busiest Independence Day travel week on record

By Brian Sherrod | CBS Colorado The Transportation Security Administration tells CBS Colorado they are expecting the 4th of July  holiday week to be the busiest on record for them. The TSA tells CBS Colorado on June 30 security workers screened more than 86,000 people at the Denver International Airport.  That was their fourth busiest day. CBS Colorado First Alert Traffic Tracker Reporter Brian Sherrod took a tour with the TSA to show how the agency hopes to get travelers to the lines faster. The TSA is using face recognition machines. The machines scan your government ID for basic information including your name and age and it reveals your boarding information in 10 seconds. The TSA tells CBS Colorado the airport is one of the first across the country that utilizes this te...
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White House photographer claims aides knew for months Biden was not fit for office
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White House photographer claims aides knew for months Biden was not fit for office

By The Washington Times After President Joe Biden’s recent dismal debate performance, concerns have emerged from both current and former aides about his health and leadership capabilities. The White House attributed Mr. Biden’s low and sometimes difficult-to-understand speaking voice to a cold. However, some insiders suggest this reflects the president’s day-to-day condition. Former White House deputy director of photography, Chandler West, shared on Instagram, “It’s time for Joe to go.” “I know many of these people and how the White House operates,” Mr. West said. “They will say he has a ’cold’ or just experienced a ’bad night,’ but for weeks and months, in private, they have all said what we saw last night — Joe is not as strong as he was just a couple of ...
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Who could replace Biden? Possibilities range from governors to Oprah and ‘The Rock’
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Who could replace Biden? Possibilities range from governors to Oprah and ‘The Rock’

By CALDER MCHUGH | POLITICO OUT OF THE WOODWORK — After a debate performance that had prominent Democrats calling him “toast” and advocating for an open convention, President Joe Biden showed no signs of wavering at a North Carolina rally today. “I don’t debate as well as I used to,” he admitted to a crowd of cheering supporters. “[But] I know like millions of Americans know, when you get knocked down you get back up.” Any discussion of replacing Biden with another Democrat begins and ends with the president’s own inclinations — the only plausible way to remove him from the ticket is if he steps aside and releases the delegates pledged to him at August’s Democratic National Convention (or has a health issue that leaves him physically unable to continu...
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Estes: When Washington spends, you’re on the hook. You deserve to know for how much.
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Estes: When Washington spends, you’re on the hook. You deserve to know for how much.

By Rep. Ron Estes | The Daily Signal Maybe you’ve heard that our national debt has topped $34.7 trillion. But what does that really mean for you and your family? The number is somewhat incomprehensible. To spell it out, that’s thirty-four trillion, seven hundred and twenty-five billion, eight hundred and fifty million, three hundred and twenty-three thousand, six hundred and eight dollars. That number is 14 digits long, and it grows by about $100,000 every second. If our national debt were printed in one-dollar bills, you could make 10 stacks of bills from the earth to the moon. If our national debt were in seconds, it would equate to 1,095,641 years. According to the National Geophysical Data Center, there are just over 321 million cubic miles of water in all of the Earth’s oc...
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Colorado utility bills may increase 10% over four years to pay for wildfire mitigation
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Colorado utility bills may increase 10% over four years to pay for wildfire mitigation

By By Joe Mueller | The Center Square Monthly Xcel Energy bills will increase approximately 10% or more by 2028 to pay for a wildfire mitigation plan submitted to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. The utility emphasized its primary focus is safety for both the communities it serves and its customers in a media release announcing the submission. If the agency approves the plan, residential bills will increase through incremental bi-annual amounts until reaching approximately $8.88 a month by Jan. 1, 2028. “Our goal is to ensure that no catastrophic wildfire is started by Xcel Energy assets,” Bob Frenzel, president and chief executive officer of Xcel Energy, said in a statement. “And, while we’ve made significant wildfire safety progress in Colorado and achieved key goals, t...
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