The gloves have been off for a long while. And now it looks as if the masks are finally coming off, too. We haven’t reached the end of our tragic COVID-19 story — in fact, cases are starting to tick up again with the arrival of a new sub-variant — but, minus the emergence of […]
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Denver airport, RTD drops masks as judge voids federal COVID mandate
By Curt Anderson, The Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A federal judge in Florida on Monday voided the national mask mandate covering airlines and other public transportation as exceeding the authority of U.S. health officials in their response to the coronavirus pandemic. The mandate, recently extended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and […]
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Political swings on Colorado school boards spark level of antagonism not seen since desegregation
Julie Hensley believes her SUV was targeted because of the cheery blue-and-yellow “Come Together” message spray-painted on her back window. The special education teacher at Legend High School in Parker was already at her desk at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday when the hallways began to buzz with word that teachers’ cars were slapped with flyers: […]
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Drew Litton: With a new majority on the Douglas County school board, things got Goofy
More cartoons from The Colorado Sun.
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What if your mask could tell you have COVID? Aurora school kids are helping scientists figure out how.
AURORA – The middle schoolers belting out tunes in the school cafeteria and spooning in mouthfuls of chicken teriyaki and broccoli actually get that they are part of a potentially life-saving science experiment. As the eighth grade class at Aurora Science & Tech Middle School joins in a chorus of “So, before you go,” gloved […]
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Littwin: More and more people are apparently done with COVID, but is COVID actually done with us?
It requires no special insight to realize that the national mood on the pandemic is in the process of making a dramatic shift, even as the “mild” omicron variant continues to kill Americans at a disturbingly high rate. There is hope, even among some medical scientists, that after omicron finally leaves us, the pandemic will […]
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Denver is “likely” to let the city’s mask rule expire this week
Officials in Denver say that it is “likely” they will let the citywide indoor mask rule expire this week. The public health order, which requires everyone who is older than 2 to wear face covering in all public indoor spaces, is set to expire on Thursday, 9NEWS reports. Under the current order, if a business or […]
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Anti-mask anger forces Children’s Museum of Denver to temporarily close
By James Anderson, The Associated Press A Colorado children’s museum is the latest casualty of harassment by people angry over mask mandates designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The Children’s Museum of Denver at Marsico Campus, for decades a popular downtown attraction primarily devoted to those age 8 and under, temporarily closed on Wednesday because of […]
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Nicolais: Masks and muscles must coexist at the gym
Walking into the Lakewood 24 Hour Fitness for a pre-Thanksgiving workout Wednesday night, I noticed staff at the front desk dutifully informing patrons they needed to wear a mask upon entering. They even passed out masks to those who did not have one readily available. Unfortunately, that is where it stopped. I spent the next […]
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Drew Litton: Santa Claus can’t opt out of the Denver area’s new mask order
More cartoons from The Colorado Sun.