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Horticultural Arts Society Annual Gigantic Plant Sale

The Horticultural Art Society will hold its annual GIGANTIC plant sale on Friday, May 9th, 9-5, May 10, 9-4, May 16th, 9-5 and May 17th, 9-4. We are a ...
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Revise, delay or implement? The standoff over Colorado’s AI discrimination law

Nine months: that’s all the time left before companies have to start complying with Colorado’s first-in-the-nation anti-discrimination law for AI systems, unless policymakers act. Business and ...
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Colorado Congressional District 4 Republican candidate Lauren Boebert on immigration, water, and energy development

After four years in office, Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is nationally known for her vehement calls to seal the southern border and crack down on government spending. On the campaign trail ...
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Denver Public Schools’ controversial reform strategy led to higher test scores and graduation rates, but not without costs

Denver’s controversial decade-long embrace of school choice and accountability led to some of the largest academic improvements in education research history, according to a University of Colorado ...
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Colorado River states remain divided on sharing water, and some tribes say their needs are still being ignored

The states that use the Colorado River have put out their latest proposals on how to manage the river’s shrinking amount of water, and the two plans reveal that there are still big differences in how ...
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Stressed out, busy moms say microdosing mushrooms makes life easier and brighter. Researchers caution that they are ‘experimenting on themselves’

Heather Jackson calls it the mother’s wall and it usually comes on very suddenly. She can’t make regular decisions, like what to cook for dinner. She realizes the kitchen trash is full and starts to ...
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The mysteries of Southern Colorado’s Indigenous rock art: Why it’s there, who made it and what threatens it

Images carved or painted on rock walls in southeastern Colorado by ancient Indigenous peoples often evoke wonder about who made them and why. These petroglyphs and pictographs carved and painted on ...
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‘50501’ protests draw thousands across several Colorado cities and one national park

Thousands of protesters gathered at the Colorado State Capitol in Denver Monday, and hundreds more joined at places from Colorado Springs to Grand Junction — and even at an entrance to Rocky Mountain ...
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Blucifer, The Demon Horse Of DIA

It’s hard to ignore the big blue horse that rears in a display of power and rebellion at Denver International Airport. The 32-foot-tall fiberglass sculpture towers over Peña Boulevard, its eyes ...
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Why your Colorado property tax bill still increased this year

Homeowners across Colorado may have expected their property tax bills to go down this year — after all, their homes may be worth less. Instead, many property owners will see their bills rise again — a ...
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‘Greywater’ Could Help Solve Colorado’s Water Problems. Why Aren’t We All Using It?

Your shower, sink and laundry machine account for more than half of indoor water use. Since the wastewater that circles the drain doesn’t come from the toilet, it’s safe to reuse on things like your ...
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Colorado gun stores warn that semiautomatic weapons ban would make large share of their merchandise illegal

This story was produced by the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. Colorado gun stores say they may be forced to shutter should Democrats in the legislature this year pass a ban on the manufacture, sale ...