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Andrea Gibson, Colorado’s poet laureate and a national voice on LGBTQ issues, has died “Come See Me in the Good Light,” a documentary film made by the poet and their wife dealing with Gibson’s cancer diagnosis in 2021, won festival favorite at Sundance this year. Gibson was 49.

What a gift the poet Andrea Gibson was to us all. #RIP. coloradosun.com/2025/07/14/a...

Is it a fun VW from our misspent youth?

Beloved grocery store serving secluded Colorado town of 500 people looks for ways to buy local The Walsh Community Grocery Store was resurrected in 2007. Seventeen years later, its manager is looking for creative ways to stock the shelves.

It's 288 miles/5 hours from home, but reading this story makes me want to do a big grocery shop out in tiny Walsh, Colorado. #fooddeserts #foodsecurity @coloradosun.com coloradosun.com/2025/06/17/w...

how about now? Is it still available?

No Kings protest in front of the Prowers County courthouse in Lamar on 6/14

This was Lamar. People were there in shifts, so our count was 40ish total for the afternoon. Lots of cheerful honks, no problems!

Thousands gather across Colorado for ‘No Kings’ protest against Trump administration More than a dozen rallies called people to speak out against a host of issues from immigration enforcement to attacks on free speech, LGBTQ rights

PHOTOS -->> What did No Kings look like in your town? We had people all over Colorado -- and only one photo of a shirtless guy wearing a crown fashioned from a Cheetos bag. #grandjunctionFTW coloradosun.com/2025/06/14/n...

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It’s a great day to be on the deck at the Sie Center at the University of Denver. Get here by 6 and you can join in the Sun’s legislative review!

Two words: Hughes Stadium 👇

Gray wolf released in Colorado earlier this year dies in Rocky Mountain National Park A gray wolf from British Columbia released in January was reported dead April 20 in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Now 3 of the 15 wolves from BC released in Colorado in January are dead. This one is esp painful as she died in a place considered pretty ideal habitat (many elk) for wolves. @coloradosun.com coloradosun.com/2025/04/24/c...

Colorado counties take control of wildfire protection as DOGE slices federal funding With Chaffee County leading the charge and Gunnison and Lake following suit, officials are stretching every dollar to protect their communities.

Can Colorado mountain communities go it alone without federal firefighting money? A couple of counties are trying to make sure the fire "season" doesn't get a chance to take out their towns. #logging #treatment #mitigation coloradosun.com/2025/04/11/c...

Michael Bennet’s campaign for Colorado governor has officially begun. So has the power struggle to fill his Senate seat. The three-term senator’s entrance into the governor’s race, where he faces a Democratic primary race against Attorney General Phil Weiser, has ignited a shadow campaign for his Senate seat

Michael Bennet’s campaign for Colorado governor has officially begun. And so has the maneuvering to replace him in the Senate. @jesseapaul.bsky.social
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Colorado oil and gas industry advocate Kathleen Sgamma withdraws from consideration to lead the Bureau of Land Management The U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources was set to discuss Sgamma’s nomination early Thursday when she withdrew

NEW --> Why is Kathleen Sgamma out as potential BLM boss? It seems to have something to do with failure to kiss the ring. coloradosun.com/2025/04/10/k...

Sundance Film Festival is officially relocating to Boulder from Utah Boulder beat out proposals from Atlanta, Cincinnati, Louisville, Kentucky and Santa Fe

Who wants to rent my house for the month of January 2027? (JK) It's only 10 miles from where Sundance Film Festival will be posting up in Boulder. coloradosun.com/2025/03/27/s...

It's not too late for us to go back and get that roadsign. I know how to use a chainsaw now.

I feel like, minus the snow, this is a chapter out of OUR young adulthood.

Wolf from Canada released in Colorado two months ago shot in Wyoming after it killed multiple sheep Wolves are managed differently in Wyoming, and state officials said the wolf was legally shot after finding evidence of depredation

Honestly, someone should have warned the wolves moved to Colorado from British Columbia DO NOT WANDER INTO WYOMING. It's literally open season up there in most of the state. coloradosun.com/2025/03/20/c...

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Undocumented and unbreakable: Jeanette Vizguerra’s fight for immigrant rights and family unity - Commerce City Sentinel Express Jeanette Vizguerra is a tireless activist and a symbol of resilience in the Latino community. She discusses the impact of today’s political climate on immigrant families, particularly the youth, and u...

And in Spanish: coloradocommunitymedia.com/2024/11/14/e...

Undocumented and unbreakable: Jeanette Vizguerra’s fight for immigrant rights and family unity - Commerce City Sentinel Express Jeanette Vizguerra is a tireless activist and a symbol of resilience in the Latino community. She discusses the impact of today’s political climate on immigrant families, particularly the youth, and u...

Her family fears that because she spoke out about her fears about immigration policy changes under the Trump administration, she was targeted. You can read that interview from November here: coloradocommunitymedia.com/2024/11/14/e...

Vizguerra has been fighting deportation since 2009 and sought sanctuary in a church basement for 3 years, until deportation proceedings were halted by the Biden Administration.

ICE detains Jeanette Vizguerra, immigration activist who resisted deportation in Colorado church Vizguerra — who made headlines by claiming sanctuary in a Denver church for years during the first Trump administration — was taken to the ICE detention facility in Aurora. The detention center told h...

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston unloads about immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra being picked up by ICE in the parking lot of a Target store: "This is not about safety. This is about political theater and political retribution. This doesn’t make this country safer." coloradosun.com/2025/03/18/j...

ooh. I have not read that one yet! Thank you.

Voice of America is required by law to report the news accurately. Could Donald Trump change that? It’s called the Voice of America. The storied news outlet has promised “the truth” since it first broadcast stories about democracy into Nazi Germany during World War II.

A Friday night purge targeted USAGM & Voice of America, the U.S. state media outlet that broadcast stories about democracy into Nazi Germany & occupied Europe in World War II:
apnews.com/article/voic... Trump & Musk firing journalists is a frontal attack on press freedom, & must be reported as such.

which book? Lincoln Highway?

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Fwiw, I love Denver.

The Trump administration doesn’t want you to know a record number of people visited national parks last year The highest-ever 331.9 million visitors in 2024 is not being promoted by the agency after more than 1,000 Park Service workers have been fired.

Tell everyone you know. And tell them to tell everyone they know. #nationalparks coloradosun.com/2025/03/14/n...

Unpopular opinion: sprinting forward isn’t all bad. #cowx

Social Security Workers Aren’t Allowed to Read This Story New internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times.

NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover.

Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment."

WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.