During the pandemic, the Brighton Housing Authority started new programs to tutor school children and find emergency housing for victims of domestic violence
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Opinion: Violence against women is a key to understanding a wider array of problems
We need to talk about violence against women. Of course, this might not seem like the right time. After all, newsfeeds are overwhelmed with headlines about mass shootings and war, abortion and mounting economic uncertainty. Amid warnings that #MeToo is dead, there’s seemingly no oxygen left for violence against women. Yet, making progress on the […]
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Zornio: Gabby Petito’s tragic death should inspire changes to domestic violence policy
By now, most people have heard the story. A young woman and her fiance were on a cross-country van-life trip. Weeks later, only one of them returned. Following a painstaking search to find Gabrielle (Gabby) Petito, the 22-year-old was confirmed dead by homicide on Tuesday. Her fiancé and “person of interest,” Brian Laundrie, has not […]
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Hundreds mourn Colorado Springs shooting victims at candlelight vigil
COLORADO SPRINGS — About 200 people attended a candlelight vigil outside a Colorado Springs mobile home park where six people celebrating family birthdays were shot and killed before the gunman took his own life. The Gazette reports that family and friends of those slain and members of the larger community paid their respects late Thursday to the […]
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Police still looking for motive in Colorado Springs birthday party that left 7 dead
By Thomas Peipert, James Anderson and Colleen Slevin, The Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS — A shooting at a birthday party inside a trailer park home in Colorado Springs that killed six people before the gunman took his own life stunned a state weary of gun violence just weeks after another Colorado mass shooting killed 10 […]
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Opinion: The shadow pandemic requires new thinking to help those who need a safe home
As the world has sought safety and protection from the coronavirus pandemic inside our homes, these safe havens are also at the center of domestic violence. Worldwide, the data is alarming with dramatic increases of calls to domestic abuse hotlines surging by 30-55% in places like the United Kingdom, France and Latin America, and across […]
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Opinion: Inaction on unemployment benefits is very bad news for women facing abuse
COVID-19 lockdowns spotlighted the danger facing women around the world who were quarantined with their abusers. Lockdowns have lifted, but now women in the U.S. face the risk of partner abuse born of economic insecurity. With more than one in 10 Americans out of work and CARES unemployment benefits set to expire soon, whether and […]
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Colorado Democrats unveil plan for $70 million in federal coronavirus aid, including small business loans and renter help
Democrats in the Colorado legislature announced a slate of initiatives Thursday to spend $70 million in federal coronavirus aid, including a grant program to help small businesses recover from the pandemic and funds for mental health, domestic violence and renter assistance. The money is a portion of the $1.67 billion Colorado received through the federal […]
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Opinion: Amid an epidemic within a pandemic, choose you. Leave victimhood behind.
Stay-at home orders due to COVID-19 have created some unexpected social impacts, one of which is a 15% to 30% uptick in domestic violence worldwide. In my own home town, the picturesque Vail Valley, it’s up 20%. Domestic abuse is almost reaching epidemic proportions. An epidemic within a pandemic. A survivor myself, exiting an abusive […]
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Robberies dropped, fights between roommates spiked: How quarantine affected crime in Colorado
Nobody knew how the coronavirus, with its historic stay-at-home order from the governor, would influence and inspire crime across Colorado. No previous period, no critical incident, offered much in the way of clues to how law breaking would evolve — how conditions would reshape the ways people interacted in close quarters; how violence might erupt […]