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An amusing story for a Friday. Amazon and its rivals, keen to invest in drones as the delivery vehicle of the future, have been spared what could have been a rather annoying expense. This week Deer Trail, a town in Colorado, voted not to issue …
The Colorado River supplies water to seven states, including New Mexico, before crossing the border into Mexico. Then—theoretically, nowadays—it reaches the Sea of Cortez. Demands from cities and farms, along with climate change, strain the river and affect its flows. Now, a new study shows …
From drive-in to drive-through, and from ski gondolas to car parades, high schools across Colorado are finding unique and creative ways to honor this year’s graduating seniors. Graduation comes at a tenuous time in the public battle to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Many …
The economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak could lead to 180,000 jobs lost in Colorado, according to a scenario in a recent report. The Common Sense Policy Roundtable, a free enterprise think tank, released a report that uses “dynamic economic forecasting and simulation model” to project two …
Colorado College this week shut down its campus after an outbreak of COVID-19 within half a month of students’ return to school. Now it faces the challenge of preventing its students from acting as coronavirus vectors as they return home or rent elsewhere. Leading U.S. health …
LEADVILLE — When Ben Cairns took over as principal at Lake County High School in 2016, he made a deal with his students. Those who showed more growth on the state’s English and math tests than 90 percent of their peers across the state would …
Following a set of state laws promoting publication of school and district data, Colorado’s Department of Education has just launched a website that shares that data in a searchable, comparable format. Following a set of state laws promoting publication of school and district data, Colorado’s …
It’s likely you’ve already seen the big headlines of the week: fires, floods and the resignation of Scott Pruitt from the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Here are some of the less flashy stories you may have missed recently: -Writing for Water Deeply, Brent Gardner-Smith reports that the Upper …
This week, Congress passed a bill directing the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior to implement an agreement worked out by states that rely on water from the Colorado River. The Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan Authorization Act easily passed both chambers and now awaits a signature …
Sept. 1 Change in federal regulations means more students can get free school meals All Colorado children can get free meals at participating school sites this fall, after the federal government changed course on food service rules. When Colorado school districts closed in the spring, …