by Mr. Leadville | Aug 15, 2020 | Leadville News
The Capitol building in Denver, the seat of Colorado state government, has stood for months now as a monument to the Black Lives Matter protests that broke out in May, with anti-police messages tagged all over the building and the grounds, windows broken or boarded...
by Mr. Leadville | Aug 15, 2020 | Leadville News
UPDATE 7 p.m. Tuesday — The Grizzly Creek Fire burning east of Glenwood Springs has burned nearly 3,200 acres since starting Monday afternoon, and it is zero percent contained, fire officials said in an update Tuesday evening. The incident command team said in its...
by Mr. Leadville | Aug 15, 2020 | Leadville News
DENVER (AP) — The parents of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after officers in suburban Denver stopped him on the street last year and put him in a chokehold, sued police and medical officials Tuesday. With the federal civil rights lawsuit, the...
by Mr. Leadville | Aug 15, 2020 | Leadville News
The 490-mile Colorado Trail (CT) traverses Colorado from Denver to Durango (though it can be run in both directions), and passes through six National Forests, six Wilderness areas, traverses five major river systems and eight of Colorado’s mountain ranges. Starting...
by Mr. Leadville | Aug 14, 2020 | Leadville News
People who live on Colorado’s rural Eastern Plains are socially distant as a matter of course, but the pandemic has brought them close as a community. When state-mandated shutdowns of restaurants and other businesses deemed non-essential began, residents of Phillips...