Dear readers, Yesterday, Susan Greene was hard at work — helping a trio of our partner newspaper editors prep for a project with the Colorado News Collaborative. She helped lead a Zoom call wi...
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/11/13/working-through-uncertainty/
If you pay attention to the news in Colorado, then you already know: There isn’t as much of it as there used to be. Like the rest of the United States, Colorado has experienced widespread newsr...
Dear reader, Tina and I have spent much of the last month knee-deep in documents for a difficult investigative project we’re still piecing together. So instead of a newsy newsletter, I offer a ...
Dear readers, The story of Ben Rosenthal’s death last year is not mine to tell. For starters, I never met the 26-year-old from Marin County, California. I never watched him excel on a lacross...
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/07/24/suicide-mental-health-carter-rosenthal/
I have a question for the school boards and administrators who have decided that we should go back to 100% in-person learning this fall: How many teacher deaths are you OK with? In my 10 years as...
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/07/20/colorado-teacher-schools-covid-reopening/
Denver Public Schools plans to hold classes in person this fall, joining a number of other metro area districts in a more complete return to the classroom. The announcement represents a change fr...
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/26/denver-public-schools-in-person-classes-fall/
Add COVID-19 to the long list of things affected by the racist government practice of “redlining” minority neighborhoods starting back in the 1930s. Banks restricted lending in those places...
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/24/redlining-denver-impact-covid/
BROOMFIELD, Colo. — Sara Wittner had seemingly gotten her life back under control. After a December relapse in her battle with drug addiction, the 32-year-old completed a 30-day detox program a...
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/23/excess-hidden-deaths-covid-pandemic-tally/
Mireya Marquez turned to a tenants’ rights lawyer after she became convinced her landlord wanted her out because she couldn’t pay her rent. Marquez’s landlord denied he was trying to use me...
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/23/colorado-covid-eviction-court-filings-moratorium/
The coronavirus pandemic overshadowed a long list of other problems that suddenly seemed less urgent in the wake of a deadly virus and its economic destruction. Included at the top of that list: ...