awesome + uniting
- 400 butterflies released in refuge, Polis to sign law aimed at Colorado pollinator protections
- U.S. Senate confirms Charlotte Sweeney as Colorado’s first openly gay federal judge
- Avalanche advance to Western Conference Finals for 1st time in 20 years
awesome + controversy
- Colorado leaders celebrate “transformational” education funding
- Douglas Co. commissioners decide not to use ARPA money on San Luis Valley water proposal
- 3 Colorado Congressional Leaders Permanently Banned From Russia
awful + uniting
- After back-to-back shootings, members of Congress from Colorado clash on policy response
- Elijah McClain’s mother attends signing of executive order on police reform, but says Biden’s plan wouldn’t have helped her son
- Colorado Health Officials Report Second Presumptive Monkeypox Case
awful + controversy
Great reporting by CTR's Logan Davis on blatant corruption by two incumbent Republican state Senators.
Jerry Sonnenberg received a $21,000 loan for a business called "Jerry Sonnenberg" that does nothing and has no business filings.
He owns 5,000 acres of land in Logan County and two other states that he has never acknowledged (or paid taxes on?)
Senator Sonnenberg has been lying about his personal finances for the last ten years. He has always been elected by comfortable margins in his SD65 races (when he even had an opponent); and he'll probably get elected now that he's termed out of the legislature and running for Logan County Commissioner (dist 3). He just continues to pose as this jocular, community-minded good old country boy.
I have to wonder what would happen if the local press exposed Sonnenberg's corruption.
The same applies to the other corrupt GOP Senator exposed by CTR's reporting, Paul Lundeen of Monument. Lundeen has multiple businesses that he did not report income from over the years. He was transparent about it – but nobody apparently cares.