Denver police swarmed Montbello woman’s 70th birthday party with guns drawn after nearby ShotSpotter alert, lawsuit alleges The city’s ShotSpotter system is a network of sound-detection sensors that pinpoints the location of gunshots and sends alerts to police.

An alert from Denver’s ShotSpotter gunshot-detection system prompted police to swarm a Montbello woman’s 70th birthday party with guns drawn and detain Black partygoers for close to an hour — even though the alert was 20 minutes old, for a neighboring address and was likely triggered by fireworks

Obligatory note that John Eastman was during this time the visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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Commerce City investigating mystery pipe leaking arsenic into South Platte River City officials have not developed a plan to stop the discharge as they investigate the source of water polluting one of the Front Range’s most important rivers.

Seems fine!

A pipe along the South Platte River is leaking toxic levels of arsenic & other heavy metals into the riverbank, but no one knows where the pipe originates, how long it has been doing so or who is responsible for it
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Commerce City investigating mystery pipe leaking arsenic into South Platte River City officials have not developed a plan to stop the discharge as they investigate the source of water polluting one of the Front Range’s most important rivers.

A pipe along the banks of the South Platte River in Commerce City is leaking arsenic and other heavy metals into the riverbank and waterway, @thenoellephillips.bsky.social reports — but no one knows where the pipe originates, how long it's been pouring chemicals into the river or who's responsible

Thanks, John!

How a geriatric Colorado beaver with a tree allergy inspired Pixar’s ‘Hoppers’ movie Ginger retired to the big dam in the sky in 2022 when she was nearly 14, but her legacy endures.

Disclosure: I had fun writing this

How a geriatric Colorado beaver with a tree allergy inspired Pixar’s new movie, “Hoppers”

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Who’s Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter? A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi reached out to a Canadian official and a Latvian businessman working with Ukraine. So, the real Robert did some reporting o...

The impostor reporter had a Miami phone number and seemed to have an interest in foreign militaries.

Here’s what happened when a real reporter tried to track them down — and how you can verify ProPublica journalists if they reach out to you.

How Trump Purged Immigration Judges to Speed Up Deportations

For the first time in ~seven months, the Aurora immigration detention court has its own dedicated immigration judges. Among the new hires is Robyn Ross, who previously worked for RFK Jr.’s campaign and, before that, for his anti-vaxxer group. Per NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

Banner parent company to buy Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, staving off its closure The Venetoulis Institute will acquire the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, converting it to a nonprofit to prevent the historic paper’s closure.

The Baltimore Banner’s parent organization will buy the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a deal that will keep one of the country’s oldest newspapers open

In the ~five days since we wrote this story, there have been ~30 more habeas petitions filed in federal court by immigrant detainees. That’s more than double the total filed in the *entirety of 2024.*

You’re the best, Jenny!

This Colorado community college is investing in older students — and it’s paying off Colleges across the country are girding for the demographic cliff of fewer young people enrolling due to a decades-long, nationwide decline in birth rates.

I love this story. Yay older students!

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#AcademicSky #HigherEd

This Colorado community college is investing in older students — and it’s paying off Colleges across the country are girding for the demographic cliff of fewer young people enrolling due to a decades-long, nationwide decline in birth rates.

Red Rocks Community College invests in its adult learner population, degree-seekers over the age of 25 often overlooked in traditional higher education settings — and who earn better grades and have higher retention rates than younger peers

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Immigrants detained in Colorado by ICE’s ‘deportation machine’ reach for once-rare legal lever In his first 19 years as a lawyer, Denver immigration attorney Hans Meyer said he’d filed six habeas cases. In the past six months, his firm filed 60.

Immigrants detained in CO by ICE’s ‘deportation machine’ reach for once-rare legal lever

"It was very sad seeing the things that went on there because a lot of guys came here for a dream that ended up becoming a nightmare"

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It was also striking how many people are held even after immigration judges grant them relief: LGBTQ people, religious & political minorities who can’t go home, so they stay detained while ICE looks for someone to take them — or waits for them to give up and accept a flight back to a perilous home.

Immigrants detained in Colorado by ICE’s ‘deportation machine’ reach for once-rare legal lever In his first 19 years as a lawyer, Denver immigration attorney Hans Meyer said he’d filed six habeas cases. In the past six months, his firm filed 60.

While reporting this w/ @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social, I was struck by how much of the Trump immigration tactics — arrests at work and ICE check-ins, denial of bail, rapid detentions and transfers — were described, over and over, in habeas filings: www.denverpost.com/2026/04/12/c...

This Colorado community college is investing in older students — and it’s paying off Colleges across the country are girding for the demographic cliff of fewer young people enrolling due to a decades-long, nationwide decline in birth rates.

Red Rocks Community College is investing in its adult learner population, degree-seekers over the age of 25 who are often overlooked in traditional higher education settings — and who earn better grades and have higher retention rates than younger peers // Story by @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social

This Colorado community college is investing in older students — and it’s paying off

This Colorado community college is investing in older students — and it’s paying off

Immigrants detained in Colorado by ICE’s ‘deportation machine’ reach for once-rare legal lever In his first 19 years as a lawyer, Denver immigration attorney Hans Meyer said he’d filed six habeas cases. In the past six months, his firm filed 60.

Colorado has seen an explosion of habeas cases: In the first 100 days of 2026, more than 370 detained immigrants have asked judges to grant bail hearings or release them — up from 104 in 2025 and just 12 in 2024 // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social and @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social

Colorado students left in lurch as state plans to eliminate teacher recruitment program Abby Christian was set to attend the University of Northern Colorado in the fall as a TREP student. Last week, her high school counselor informed her that funding for the program was being cut.

Colorado legislators are planning to cut a teacher recruitment program that promised to pay 2 years of a student’s college tuition on their path to becoming educators, leaving soon-to-be-graduating high school seniors in a lurch. "Everything is blown up," a parent tells @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social

Colorado appeals court throws out Tina Peters’ 9-year prison term, orders resentencing The panel of three judges found that the original sentencing judge wrongly based part of the sentence on Peters’ exercise of her right to free speech, according to a 78-page opinion released Thursday.

NEW: The Colorado Court of Appeals threw out the nine-year sentence for discredited elections clerk Tina Peters on Thursday and ordered that she be re-sentenced by a district court judge. The court upheld her conviction.

Denver arts magazine takes strong anti-AI stance | Opinion The local arts publication is packed with original writing, art and love for the Mile High City — along with an AI-free guarantee.”

ICYMI #Denverse Magazine is one of the city's newest and already-best publications. Here's my ode to its literate, long form, earnest and funny and heartening and perspective-shifting original work.

Notably (and to my heart) they're resolutely anti-AI and pro-print. More for @denverpost.com

Denver’s Petals & Pages bookstore to close next month The store, located at 956 Santa Fe Drive, was founded in 2022.

New: Denver's Petals & Pages bookstore to close next month
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Adams County admonishes ICE detention center over poor access, communication during public health investigation The Adams County Health Department did not identify anyone meeting the case definition of an outbreak during the on-site investigation.

New: Adams County admonishes ICE detention center over poor access, communication during public health investigation
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‘There’s a snake in my bag!’ CU Boulder student returns from Costa Rica, finds venomous stowaway Samara Kahan, a University of Colorado Boulder sophomore, was unpacking her suitcase on Tuesday afternoon at the Pi Beta Phi sorority house when she discovered a slender hognose pit viper that had hit...

A CU Boulder sorority student returned from a Costa Rica spring break trip with a surprise souvenir in her suitcase -- a venomous snake.

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Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends

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Some other details from today’s hearing about whether ICE is violating a court order related to warrantless arrests:
• ICE has more than doubled its deportation officer ranks here in the past year or so, to roughly 200.
• 4 agents have been pulled from street duty, in part over warrantless arrests.

ICE investigates after Colorado group says agents left ‘death cards’ in arrested immigrants’ abandoned cars Immigration agents operating near Vail left branded ace of spades playing cards in cars left behind after immigrants’ arrests this week, an advocacy group alleged. ICE is investigating.

New: Senior Denver ICE official says in court that officers involved in leaving “death cards” in arrested immigrants’ cars have been removed from field work and placed on office duty. ICE’s office of personal responsibility is still investigating. Background: www.denverpost.com/2026/01/23/c...

Check MMR vaccination rates for Colorado schools, preschools and child care facilities Check measles, mumps and rubella vaccination rates for public schools, private schools and child care facilities.

A useful tool here for Colorado families:

Check MMR vaccination rates for CO schools, preschools and child care facilities

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