As the hours tick down before Tuesday’s general election, the news headlines about the state of our democracy could not be more dispiriting: As of Oct. 29, just 16% of Colorado voters had cast ballots Yes, Colorado’s school board races are becoming more politicized. Election disinformation has Colorado clerks trying new tactics to reassure voters […]
Melissa Milios Davis
Special to The Colorado Sun
Posted inCOVID, Opinion
Opinion: Local news collaboration in the time of coronavirus
The image is familiar, even mundane, to most of us now: a dozen or more faces peer out against various backgrounds – some real, some green-screened – talking and planning across many miles. Together, apart. But it was an unprecedented group that first gathered on April 1 – in more ways than one. First, the […]
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Opinion: The crisis facing local news in these coronavirus times is a crisis of democracy
As over 5 million Coloradans weather the COVID-19 crisis at home through mid-April, the state’s dedicated local journalists are among the short list acknowledged as essential workers in Gov. Jared Polis’ stay-in-place executive order. Each day we open our emails, scroll our social feeds, and receive potentially life-saving stories from the front lines of the […]