Colorado may increase age restrict to purchase bullets

Good morning, Colorado.

I just lately jumped into the world of watercolor portray, signing up for a coloration idea and watercolor method class at a neighborhood artwork heart. It seems to be the proper treatment to quiet my racing ideas after an extended work day and deal with how the water pulls the pigment throughout the paper. It’s additionally good apply in accepting that my “artwork” on the finish of sophistication will consist of some brown blobs. They are saying apply makes good, proper?

Considered one of my favourite Colorado Solar tales in at present’s lineup, by Nancy Lofholm, can also be centered on a bunch of individuals taking a pause from on a regular basis life and doing one thing as a result of it’s “simply enjoyable.” Even when these Colorado ice anglers — who’re competing for $10,000 in prize cash — don’t catch a single fish, generally the reward exists in merely being out on the lake doing one thing they love.

Let’s get studying.

Olivia Prentzel

Reporter

THE NEWS

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

Colorado is on monitor to lift the minimal age to purchase firearm ammunition to 21

Home Invoice 1133, launched final week by Colorado Democrats, would increase the age to purchase ammunition and require that retailers maintain bullets in an enclosed show or behind a counter. Jesse Paul digs into the invoice and the way it intersects with the state’s different gun rules.

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• Colorado public media retailers specific concern at Trump’s FCC investigation menace. Trump-appointed FCC chair Brendan Carr despatched a letter to the heads of NPR and PBS notifying them that the company’s Enforcement Bureau is investigating the programming of their roughly 1,500 member stations for allegedly operating business commercials. Reporter Robert Davis talked to First Modification legal professionals and public media officers to get a way of what this might imply.

OUTDOORS

Colorado ice anglers vie for money — and assist management fish inhabitants — at Blue Mesa Lake Trout Match

Let’s say that you just’ve bought a giant, stunning lake, with some tiny, stunning kokanee salmon fry you’d like to guard from being eaten by a giant, not-so-beautiful inhabitants of lake trout. Should you thought, “We must always get native ice fishing fans to compete for a money prize by catching the trout,” congratulations, you’re already on the identical web page as Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Learn Nancy Lofholm’s fish story for extra on the science behind the match (and the money prizes at stake).

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TRANSPORTATION

Does Colorado love the Winter Park ski prepare sufficient to help a rail line to Steamboat?

These are only a few of the stats that our personal Jennifer Brown compiled throughout her first journey on the Winter Park Ski Prepare. Should you’ve been ski train-curious, dig into this report — particularly as momentum is selecting as much as create a route that might whisk snow hounds from Denver to Steamboat.

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CLIMATE

Self-service emissions kiosks coming to the Entrance Vary in 2026

Subsequent yr, checking your individual emissions can be simpler than ever. Parker Yamasaki studies on the revisions to guidelines by the Colorado Air Air pollution Management Division, together with stricter heavy-duty and diesel testing necessities that the division hopes offsets among the shortcomings of the extra handy kiosks.

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BUSINESS

King Soopers staff to begin 14-day strike beginning Thursday

Staff at 77 Entrance Vary King Soopers shops are set to stroll out Thursday to start a two-week strike after the union rejected administration’s “final, finest and ultimate” supply, which included some pay raises, however not the across-the-board modifications about staffing shortages and safety staff are demanding. Tamara Chuang has extra, together with which different areas may see strike actions quickly.

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Part by Eric Lubbers | CTO & E-newsletter Wrangler

THE COLORADO REPORT

• Rep. Crow: Buckley Base gained’t be used to accommodate immigrants for deportation. “I’ve been informed that it’s going to not be used to accommodate immigrants and detainees,” Crow stated Monday. “It should solely be used as a staging location for legislation enforcement and a coordination heart for ongoing operations.”
  — Sentinel Colorado
• What occurs if ICE involves Pueblo? Legal professional presents steering on constitutional rights. “We’ve had an election, the individuals have spoken,” Pueblo native and legal professional Fred Galves informed The Chieftain. “I actually respect that as a lawyer, however as a lawyer and as somebody who cares about justice, I wish to make it possible for the legal guidelines are literally upheld.”
  — The Pueblo Chieftain
• Hidetora Hanada, sumo wrestler turned CSU Rams lineman, receives NIL supply from WWE. Hanada posted on Instagram that he acquired a proposal from the professional wrestling firm’s NIL program, launched in 2021 with the intention “to recruit and develop potential future Superstars,” in response to the WWE.
  — The Denver Put up
• Denver NWSL group studies record-breaking season ticket demand. Denver’s NWSL group doesn’t have a reputation, colours or identification but, nevertheless it’s already promoting out sooner than another franchise.
  — Denver Enterprise Journal
• Denver Curler Derby retains sport thriving 20 years on. Seeing this glorious profile of the Denver Curler Derby group can also be serving as an uncomfortable reminder of the passing of time as I notice one in all my first journalism assignments within the metropolis was overlaying the DRD’s second season again in 2006.
  — Washington Park Profile

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Part by Eric Lubbers | CTO & E-newsletter Wrangler

THE OPINION PAGE

COMMUNITY

• As Colorado legislators eye funds cuts, behavioral well being reforms should stay a precedence. We can’t hand over hope and may proceed to implement options that require little assets.
  — Summer season Gathercole, former deputy commissioner of the Colorado Behavioral Well being Administration

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REVIEW

Hassle tracks twin sisters in opening to “The Killer And not using a Face”

When a cop reveals up at Dani Calderwood’s door, she shortly understands that her twin sister is in hassle once more. In Helen Starbuck’s thriller “The Killer And not using a Face,” Dani inevitably will get sucked into the vortex of her sister’s homicide and finds herself pursued by each the police and the killer who thinks she will determine him. That sends her into hiding in a small mountain city, the place she finds hazard — and perhaps a tinge of romance.

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• Interview with the creator. The excerpt presents some backstory to the tough relationship between Dani and her sister, Hannah. As Starbuck explains, that relationship, and the way the characters reply to the challenges it presents, kind the bedrock of her novel.

Part by Kevin Simpson | Author

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