DELTA — Sex. Couple that with education. Link it to anything other than heterosexual unions. Bring the Bible into it. And, in Delta County, expect a volatile civic tempest. The latest controversy over sex in this conservative Western Slope county has been sparked by a progressive push to add state-recommended comprehensive sex education in the […]
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Tyrannosaurs may have lived in packs similar to wolves, Colorado researchers digging in mass quarry site say
By Sophia Eppolito, The Associated Press/Report for America SALT LAKE CITY — Ferocious tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have been solitary predators as long envisioned, but more like social carnivores such as wolves, new research unveiled Monday found. Paleontologists developed the theory while studying a mass tyrannosaur death site found seven years ago in the Grand […]
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Reimagining Denver’s Livestock Exchange Building means respecting its distinctive past
Back when Denver was a true cowtown and well over half a million cattle, sheep, hogs and horses moved through the city’s bustling livestock center each year, the Livestock Exchange Building was the grand red-brick heart of the city’s agricultural industry. With an $8.5 million sale that was finalized Monday, that ornate, turn-of-the-20th-century building is […]
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Eager to experience Colorado in a different way, a Boulder woman set life aside to forge a new trail across the state
There was a terrifying, wind-whipped storm on Colorado’s Eastern Plains. There was a run-in with a bear near Minturn. There have been blisters, and many reroutes. But none of it has stopped India Wood from pressing on toward her goal of traversing Colorado from corner to corner, a more than 750-mile journey that has tested […]
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It turns out the keys to the origins of modern life on Earth were buried under Colorado Springs
Scientists know how dinosaurs and nearly 75% of all species on Earth were wiped out 66 million years ago: A meteorite larger than Mount Everest slammed into what is now Mexico. But what has been less clear was how life recovered — and how long it took — in the critical wake of the devastating […]