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Denver lands CARNE y ARENA, a powerful immersive, virtual reality experience about refugees

An immersive virtual reality experience in the time of COVID? You are right to be skeptical. First, know that this groundbreaking virtual reality experience is safer than a trip to the grocery store, in terms of germs, and healthier than breathing Colorado’s ash-filled air, in terms of raging wildfires. No crowds. Appropriate preventive measures. Clean […]

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$8 million military construction project at Colorado Springs base shifted to pay for border wall

Construction at a military base in Colorado Springs is being deferred as part of budget shifts to pay for President Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. That comes after assurances from the White House to Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner that no Colorado bases would be affected for the 2019 fiscal year.  U.S. Sen. […]

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Cory Gardner votes against blocking Trump’s emergency declaration to build border wall

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner on Thursday voted against a Democratic resolution seeking to halt President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration to secure funds for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. His vote ended weeks of speculation and signaled another step closer to Trump ahead of the Republican senator’s 2020 re-election bid. The resolution, already approved […]