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State senator Paul Lundeen isn't just mailing it in this legislative session. Even though state Republican leaders agree that the November 2020 elections in Colorado — home base of Dominion Voting Systems, the focus of voter-fraud rumors around the country over the past few months — came off without a hitch, five pieces of legislation have already been introduced to change the state's voting procedures, including Lundeen's controversial proposal regarding Colorado's vote-by-mail system. Last week the Republican from Monument introduced Senate Bill 21-007, which would restrict voting by m...

For nineteen years running, the Fly Fishing Show has lured more than 12,000 fly-fishing fanatics to the Denver Mart, bringing business to hundreds of exhibitors and generating upwards of $1 million for the local economy, estimates Ben Furimsky, the show's president. But after the Denver Mart announced that it will close at the end of March, Furimsky and other event organizers were left without a venue for their 2021 shows. Under current COVID-19 restrictions, those shows would have been able to host no more than 100 visitors at a time, anyway — but Furimsky worries the closure may affect n...

“I don’t think it’s coincidence that you have Jeffco, Dougco, Cherry Creek and Denver all looking for superintendents at the same time,” Tom Boasberg muses from his office in Singapore, where he moved after resigning as superintendent of Denver Public Schools in 2018. “It points to the challenges inherent in the role and structure,” he says. “You get beat up a lot in the role. You’re not going to do the role and not be punched in the face. It’s a role that people have very strong feelings about and very diverse perspectives on, and it’s not for the faint of heart.”

The Byers Branch Library, now a Denver landmark, opened in 1918 at 675 Santa Fe Drive; it was named for William Byers, who'd founded the Rocky Mountain News sixty years earlier. Also coming under scrutiny was the Ross-Barnum Branch Library, at 3550 West First Avenue, which gets half of its name from the so-called “Greatest Showman,” P.T. Barnum, who in 1878 bought the land where the library now sits for a subdivision. The Ross-Barnum Library opened in 1954. But today, DPL sees a need for change. In his newspaper, Byers openly advocated for "a few months of active extermination" against ...

On the second weekend in January, in the dead of winter, Zach Snavely and Corinne Hancock fought their first wildfire. The Littleton couple watched flames rising about twenty feet into the air, eating up snow-covered piles of fuel and radiating heat, as they and their teammates dug a preventative fireline into the dirt on the grounds near Salida’s Colorado Firecamp. Just days before, Snavely, who served in the U.S. Coast Guard and has been working as an international military consultant, and Hancock, a leadership coach who has devoted much of her career to foreign aid projects, had no profe...