Poaching numbers by nature are elusive, but last fall brought a discernible spike in wildlife infractions across the state
Kevin Simpson
Kevin Simpson is a co-founder of The Colorado Sun and a general assignment writer and editor. He also oversees the Sun’s literary feature, SunLit, and the site’s cartoonists.
A St. Louis native and graduate of the University of Missouri’s journalism school, Kevin began his career in sports at the St. Cloud (MN) Daily Times in 1978 before moving to the Rocky Mountain News a year later. In 1984, he joined The Denver Post and spent 33 years there as a sports writer, city desk reporter, city columnist and long-form writer.
He was part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at the Post and his individual work has been recognized with a wide variety of awards.
Email: kevin@coloradosun.com Twitter: @KevinJourno
Posted inCulture
“Tell the truth”: Shedding new light on the Sand Creek Massacre with an exhibit 10 years in the making
After missteps that shut down an earlier exhibit, the museum painstakingly rebuilt trust. The new display rests on native voices.
Posted inColoradans
Echoes of a buried past carry from the pauper’s section of a Leadville cemetery all the way to Ireland’s shores
Denver history professor Jim Walsh sees his “life’s work,” with help from both sides of the Atlantic, lead to both memorial and reconnection .
Posted inBusiness
As places like Cañon City court redevelopment, they find an unlikely ally in the EPA
The agency’s brownfields program just came into lots of new money. And they want rural and small-town Colorado to help spend it.
Posted inEnvironment
Colorado’s official state fish makes second comeback after previously thought extinct
A complex state effort announces first success restoring the breeding population of greenback cutthroat trout in a historic spot.
Posted inHousing
Flurry of sales, lot-rent increases hit Colorado mobile home parks as new laws reform the industry
Park owners decry a “hostile legislative climate” while residents struggle — with only occasional success — to purchase their communities
Posted inBusiness
One person’s trash, another’s treasure: Donors, buyers flock to Colorado thrift stores amid post-pandemic resurgence
COVID pulled down sales, but customers are back. And drop-offs at donation sites are stressing a diminished workforce.
Posted inNews
CSU professor Jared Orsi aims to amplify undertold stories as Colorado’s new state historian
Jared Orsi, a history professor at Colorado State University, has begun his one-year term as Colorado State Historian, following Regis University professor Nicki Gonzales. Orsi, one of the five original members of the State Historian’s Council, has taught at CSU for more than 20 years, specializing in borderlands and environmental history and serving as director […]
Posted inClimate
Golf courses on Colorado’s Eastern Plains face existential challenge as drought tees off
A water-dependent pastime battles for sustainability on the small-town courses woven into the region’s cultural heritage.
Posted inEnvironment, News
Inside the boots-in-the-water effort to preserve and restore Colorado’s iconic greenback cutthroat trout
On a sunny morning just west of Colorado Springs, Cory Noble slowly makes his way upstream in Bear Creek, sloshing through the shallow flow beneath towering pines and bending back tangles of low brush heavy with the drenching residue of the previous night’s rain. He’s looking for greenback cutthroat trout — a species more than […]