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$2M federal grant awarded to help prevent youth violence in Aurora
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$2M federal grant awarded to help prevent youth violence in Aurora

By Tori Mason | CBS Colorado A $2 million grant will help the city of Aurora's efforts to reduce youth violence. The money was awarded by the Department of Justice's Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative, a federal investment in local programs. Standing Against Violence Every Day, or SAVE, is Aurora's violence-reduction strategy that focuses on teens and young adults who are at high risk for violent victimization and offending.  The program uses proactive measures to address the root causes of youth violence.  READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS COLORADO
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Nonprofit helping veterans, first responders cope with PTSD with time in Colorado outdoors
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Nonprofit helping veterans, first responders cope with PTSD with time in Colorado outdoors

By Jeremy Hubbard | Fox 31 News A group of veterans and first responders from all over the country are in Colorado, hoping to heal their wounds with the help of nature, and a new non-profit dedicated to helping those suffering from PTSD. Mountain Valor Foundation launched its new initiative at a kick-off event last Thursday at the VFW in Sheridan. The founder got the idea when a good friend needed a helping hand. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 NEWS
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Denver Water’s 10-year, $700M project to replace lead pipes gains momentum
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Denver Water’s 10-year, $700M project to replace lead pipes gains momentum

By Austen Erblat | CBS Colorado Updating Denver Water's pipes to meet new lead standards is a massive, multi-year project. Denver Water says it's making progress on efforts to replace service lines that use lead in the pipes. The city is working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to remove about 60,000 service lines. READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS COLORADO
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Business owners ask City Council for help with homeless activity, get no action in Grand Junction
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Business owners ask City Council for help with homeless activity, get no action in Grand Junction

By Lindy Browning | Contributor, Rocky Mountain Voice Grand Junction businesses and residents in the downtown area have become fed up with the nefarious and criminal activity stemming from the Homeward Bound Day Center for the homeless, and they are directing their ire at elected officials on City Council. Ben Van Dyke, who owns the car wash next door to the center, says that although he understands, and has compassion for, the people who are homeless, the criminal and nuisance activities that are not being managed are unsafe and are driving away his business. “My revenue is down 30 percent because my customers tell me they feel unsafe," he said. "I used to go down and do maintenance on my building at night so I didn’t have to shut down operations during the day. I can’t do that a...
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Denver considers $1M contract with Denver Health for homeless response
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Denver considers $1M contract with Denver Health for homeless response

By Noah Festenstein | Colorado Politics, via Denver Gazette The Denver City Council on Monday will consider a $1 million contract to better utilize the city’s hospital system for homeless response efforts. If approved on second reading Monday, Denver Health will receive $990,900 from the city to become more involved with homeless response efforts and Roads to Recovery until at least Sept. 30, 2026. The money is planned to “support and strengthen existing internal infrastructure focused on partnerships with Denver homelessness resolution partners and the Roads to Recovery project to better align housing and health supports for some of the most at-risk persons experiencing homelessness,” city officials said in the council’s resolution request. READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLI...
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Huerfano County discovers ballot scanning error stemming from vendor
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Huerfano County discovers ballot scanning error stemming from vendor

By Norishka Pachot | Fox 21 News The Huerfano County Government announced on Monday, Oct. 28 it discovered an error in some ballots that resulted in a scanning issue. Huerfano County said via Facebook the error came from the vendor, Fort Orange Press. They further explained some of the ballots received in the mail had damaged timing marks, causing a scanning issue. According to the County, the issue was detected recently and there is a process in place to ensure every ballot is scanned and every vote is counted, reiterating every ballot returned is being processed. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 21 NEWS
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Why Western Colorado stands opposed to the Dolores River National Monument
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Why Western Colorado stands opposed to the Dolores River National Monument

By Jen Schumann | Contributor, Rocky Mountain Voice On Saturday in Nucla, Colo., hunters emerged from the wilderness. They paused from their morning hunt and headed to the town park in camouflage, joining with neighbors and locals to meet candidates for election. At the heart of this gathering was a shared concern: the proposal to designate the nearby Dolores River as a national monument. Environmentalists praise its potential for conservation. But, it has sparked a fierce debate in Nucla.  Sean Pond, a Navy veteran and former nuclear engineer, leads the opposition through Halt the Dolores. Pond has criticized news media for ignoring those who would be most impacted by the Dolores Monument designation. He expressed gratitude to Rocky Mountain Voice for responding to the chall...
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Denver’s mayor ‘factually incorrect’ as he argued for sales tax hike, state senator says
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Denver’s mayor ‘factually incorrect’ as he argued for sales tax hike, state senator says

By Andrew Kenney | Denverite Mayor Mike Johnston recently faced a tough question about his proposal to pay for affordable housing by raising taxes, and he appeared to get a significant fact wrong when he gave the answer. The question was about Ballot Measure 2R, which would collect about $100 million a year by raising local sales taxes. Paul Karolyi, a host of the City Cast Denver podcast, asked Johnston in an interview why he wanted to increase sales taxes. Sales taxes are regressive, meaning they have a greater proportional impact on lower-income people. Karolyi asked why the measure didn’t tax property owners instead. READ THE FULL STORY AT DENVERITE
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How three fraudulent ballots got through the mail-in voting process in Mesa County
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How three fraudulent ballots got through the mail-in voting process in Mesa County

By Craig Hall and Brandon Leuallen, The Business Times Even with several tiers of signature auditing in place, the sheer volume of votes in process leaves Colorado’s system open to fraud and mistakes while putting the onus on individuals. According to Mesa County Clerk Bobbie Gross, the 12 fraudulent ballots under current investigation were all set aside for the envelope signatures not matching by the automated equipment used by the county. “And while that’s all part of the process, the factis our equipment sets aside about 50% of early ballot envelopes due to signatures not matching. Unless it’s an exact, or almost exact, match, the equipment kicks the envelope out,” said Gross, “And not all counties in Colorado even have the automated equipmentneeded for the first step in the autho...
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Aurora police e-mails reveal internal conflicts, political concerns with Tren De Aragua
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Aurora police e-mails reveal internal conflicts, political concerns with Tren De Aragua

By Nicole C. Brambila | Colorado Politics Aurora officials knew, or strongly suspected, for much longer than previously disclosed that the Venezuelan gang operating in their city was much larger than a handful of members at a single apartment complex, according to emails obtained by The Denver Gazette. Authenticated by city officials, the cache represented more than two dozen internal Aurora Police Department emails dating back to Sept. 11, 2023. This is nearly a year before it was publicly known that the Venezuelan prison gang known as Tren de Aragua (TdA) was operating in the Denver metro area and before city officials shuttered an apartment complex. READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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