Elected in 2019, Elizabeth Hanson says case where 8th grader was pulled from school after racist attacks on social media is not isolated.
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Posted inBusiness, Economy, Housing, News
Thousands of Coloradans struggling to pay rent asked the state for help. $6.5 million later, phones are still ringing.
As the pandemic began affecting livelihoods last year, Stephanie Maney would sometimes catch a glimpse of her phone number on TV news broadcasts, news stories or communication from the state’s housing division or Gov. Jared Polis’ office. Sometimes it was 303-864-7852. Other times 303-864-7810. Sometimes both. She was the only person answering calls from Coloradans […]
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Opinion: Colorado’s open-records law needs improving. Here’s a layman’s plan.
Albert Einstein spent his last years in New Jersey quietly working at the Institute for Advanced Study researching what we now realize was a futile attempt at a unified field theory. I have heard that when he was asked why he continued to pursue this line of inquiry, he remarked that it was because it […]
Posted inEducation, Election 2020, News, Politics and Government
Here’s what the new Democratic majority on the University of Colorado Board of Regents is planning
For the first time in four decades, the governing board for Colorado’s flagship university will be under Democratic control. Democrat Ilana Spiegel beat Republican Richard Murray, roughly 53% to 44%, to flip the 6th Congressional District seat. Previously the district was represented by Republican John Carson, who was elected in 2014 and opted against running […]
Posted inCrime and Courts, News
Victims want more from Colorado’s Catholic church investigation — like who covered up their sex abuse
The long-awaited report on child sexual abuse by Colorado priests was a bombshell, exposing 40 priests by name — alive or dead — and details of their alleged misdeeds. But to abuse survivors and legal experts, it also had glaring holes and head-scratching limitations that gave the Catholic church unusual say over what had been […]
Posted inSun Investigation
A Colorado town removed its police chief and paid $50,000 to settle allegations against an officer. Then it hired a cop with past complaints.
A small town in southeastern Colorado removed its police chief after he was accused of unprofessional behavior and paid $50,000 to settle claims that one of its officers acted inappropriately toward a 15-year-old girl, The Colorado Sun learned through open records requests. Then this summer, about a month after the settlement was reached, the Springfield […]
Posted inSun Investigation
STEM School guard who accidentally shot student while trying to stop May attack wasn’t supposed to be armed
STEM School Highlands Ranch asked the private security company hired last year to patrol the K-12 campus to make sure its security guards were unarmed. But when two students began a deadly attack at their school in May, the on-duty guard not only had a gun, but court records indicate he shot and wounded an […]
Posted inSun Investigation
No Colorado school districts meet federal safety standards for behavioral health staffing, investigation shows
Tamara Durbin is responsible for making sure more than 4,300 students across some 5,000 square miles of Colorado’s Eastern Plains get mental health care when they need it. She does so with a patchwork of staffers that comes nowhere close to what the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends for student safety. The […]