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Flagler, for free Sofia Jeremias © Marc Piscotty, for the Deseret News A billboards promoting “Free Land” off of I-70 greet passing motorists in Flagler, Colorado, on Friday Dec. 4, 2020. Flagler is a rarity in the West — it’s offering land without a price tag to someone willing to stake a future in the town and open a business that will provide a much needed infusion of jobs in the small Colorado Plains town of 620 people. Flagler is near Exit 395 on I-70 and about 120 miles east of Denver. For the past 15 years, two billboards have stood on the city limits of Flag...

For the past 15 years, two billboards have stood on the city limits of Flagler, Colorado, waiting to greet those who may be looking for a place to land. From 10 feet in the air overlooking I-70 and Flagler, the two signs deliver their proclamatory message: “Got Land! Got Water! All we need is you.” Flagler is a rarity in the West — it’s offering land without a price tag to someone willing to stake a future in the town. Situated in eastern Colorado, this small town is an agricultural community — akin more to the tilled-and-planted Midwest than the Rocky Mountain reveries most envisi...

Colorado has a new leader in the contest for the state's most ignominious honor: the national chain with the most outbreaks of COVID-19. Kroger, the grocery giant whose affiliates here operate under the King Soopers and City Market nameplates, has been surpassed by Walmart, with a stunning eleven new Colorado outbreaks in a little over a month. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment considers an entity an outbreak after two or more COVID-19 cases among residents, staffers or other people connected to a specific location are confirmed within a fourteen-day period, or two or m...

So, 2020 is going to end just like it began, with Colorado’s Michael Bennet asking for money for his campaign. At the start of the year, the U.S. senator was engaged in a longshot bid to win the Democratic nomination for president and his campaign regularly sent fundraising appeals. “Hey — can you spare $5 for Senator Michael Bennet? We’re sorry to be so direct, but we extended our ad buy and now we’re racing the clock to raise enough money to keep our new TV ad on air,” one January missive read. “If we fall short, we won’t be able to stay on the airwaves in New Hampshire.”

For the third consecutive week, the overwhelming majority of counties in the state are at Level Red (Severe) on the COVID-19 dial dashboard maintained by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. And while some data is improving, if only marginally, in many counties, others are on the cusp of moving to Level Purple (Extreme), a designation that would trigger a return to stay-at-home orders, because they're in a region — in this case, Colorado's extreme southeast corner — that has no intensive-care unit beds available as of December 16. Counties land at Level Red if their t...