The Colorado Sun

A mysterious monolith appeared in rural Colorado. Do we really want to know where it came from?

On top of a hill prickly with dry grass and cacti is a four-sided structure that looks like the sky, the hills and the small crowd of people standing next to it, but it’s none of those things. It’s not a riddle, it’s a monolith. Perhaps the 247th spotted worldwide since 2020. 

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Kansas forced Colorado to stop irrigating 25,000 acres of farmland. Was it too soon to put them in the same room?

Agricultural producers, scientists and policymakers from Colorado and Kansas gathered near the Ogallala Aquifer in Burlington on Wednesday to air their concerns and share ideas for how to survive continued drought. But it was hard to escape the Republican River Basin-shaped elephant in the room. 

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Elisabeth Epps, Tim Hernández unseated as Democratic legislative primary results are a mixed bag for progressives 

Moderate Democrats allied with Gov. Jared Polis won a number of Colorado state legislative primaries Tuesday night, the culmination of a hotly contested election season that pitted progressives against moderates as the future of state policy hung in the balance.

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Group tied to Kent Thiry drops $1.1 million into Colorado legislative primaries in final days before election

A group tied to Kent Thiry, the wealthy former CEO of the Denver-based dialysis giant DaVita, is spending nearly $1.1 million on TV and digital ads in 13 state legislative races in the days leading up to Colorado’s primaries on Tuesday. 

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