Good morning! You have less than 48 hours left of the 2010s, depending on when you read this. It’s a pretty arbitrary marker of time, honestly, but if you think of it as an excuse for self-reflection rather than a deadline, you might be able to make something out of it. Sun Editor Larry Ryckman […]
Eric Lubbers
Eric Lubbers is one of the co-founders of The Colorado Sun, focused on making technology work hand-in-hand with journalism. He was born and raised in Yuma, Colorado, and since starting his career with the Rocky Mountain News/YourHub in 2005 has been in the daily Colorado news ever since.
Topic expertise: Photography, technology, data visualization, user experience, cooking
Location: Austin, TX
Education: Bachelor of Arts from Chadron State College, most of a master's degree in history from the University of Colorado Denver
Honors & Awards: Online Journalism Awards — Excellence in Social Media Engagement, Small Newsroom
Professional membership: Online News Association
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Sunriser: Busting Colorado’s even split myth / Beer of the Year 2019 / Kindergarten enrollment dropping / Mine shacks turned ski huts / So much more
Good morning and welcome to the mid-holiday slump. We’re just far enough away from both Christmas and New Year’s for real life to creep back into our routine and fittingly, we’ve got a whole bunch of news fresh this morning (and a few stories you may have missed during Christmas and the first few days […]
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13 Colorado stories worth a second (or first) look
Time, especially for readers like you, is a precious resource. One of the core mantras here at The Colorado Sun is to make sure that every story we report is important enough, impactful enough and interesting enough to make it worth you taking the time out of your day to read it. In 2019, our […]
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Sunriser: GPS-tracking caregivers (by law) / The future of video from the cable capitol / Colorado’s 2020 budget + tax proposals / And much more
The Bartlett grain elevator in Yuma at sunrise on Dec. 23, 2019. (Eric Lubbers, The Colorado Sun) Happy Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa /winter solstice and good morning from a pink-hued, frosty slice of the Great Plains. I’m home in Yuma for a few days, and I hope wherever you are this week is where you want to be […]
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Sunriser: Olympic skier’s jump to UK team / Polar Express + Colorado tourist trains / A $165 million state budget question / Don’t bet on revenue / Much more
Hello! There’s a pretty good chance you are already focused on your weekend shopping/skiing/traveling/decorating/wrapping/baking, so I’m already grateful that you opened this newsletter at all. I’m so grateful, in fact, that I’m going to jump right into the news so you can breeze through it and move on with your day! So let’s hoard this […]
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Colorado’s impeachment star / Long-lost apple found / “Rotten” snow / Training to resist “white fragility” / For-profit mental health / So much more
Good morning! I’m going to turn this intro over briefly to our senior editor Dana Coffield who has some context for one of the challenging stories in today’s newsletter: — When we published Jenn Fields’ story about efforts to train people to see and confront systemic racism (even if they don’t feel racist themselves) we […]
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Romanoff’s climate apocalypse ad / A gift guide by readers like you / Explaining school funding tweaks / Reheating Del Norte / Much more
Good morning, dear readers! I know you’re in the pre-holiday home stretch, but we have a whole bunch of interesting stuff we want to show you before you get too busy. We’ve got an apocalyptic political ad, the future of school funding and — finally — the long-awaited Sunriser Reader Last-Minute Holiday Gift Guide and […]
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Colorado Sun readers’ last-minute holiday gift guide
The clock is ticking, your bank account is starting to dip (or your credit card balance is rising) and your list of gifts to buy seems to be getting longer with every passing minute. Welcome to the holiday season! No matter how you celebrate your winter holidays, giving gifts that won’t break the bank and […]
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Comcast local TV fees rising / Procrastinator’s guide to buying health insurance / Backcountry skiers ill-prepared / Asylum in Aurora / much more
Good morning and happy Friday the 13th! If I wasn’t starting to get a cold, this may have been the day I finally took advantage of the many tattoo shops doing cheap ink marathons in honor of the unlucky day (or at least, I’m telling myself it’s the cold stopping me). We have a newsletter […]
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Colorado’s anti-abortion pregnancy centers / Gardner’s 2020 conundrum / Recall fever’s latest stop / Wolf reintroduction / And much more
Greetings and happy Wednesday, everyone! I had an absolute blast meeting up with Colorado Sun readers and members last night at The Denver Press Club. And while we’ve really enjoyed these meetups here in the city, we’re hoping to branch out around the state in 2020. If you’re in a non-Denver city and would like […]