Good morning, Colorado.
I’ve been a journalist for greater than a decade now, and whereas the work of every newsroom I’ve been a part of has at all times felt crucial, our tales on this second really feel extra consequential than ever. As insurance policies in flux come down from the brand new Trump administration, native reporters are those making sense of precisely how these insurance policies will trickle right down to particular person states and communities.
We’re on the frontlines capturing in actual time how a few of these new insurance policies are already quickly remodeling the lives of our neighbors. Yesterday was a vital instance, when a crew of our reporters fanned out throughout the Entrance Vary to observe federal raids of immigrants and, in a while, an enormous protest that was a part of a nationwide backlash towards President Donald Trump’s preliminary actions focusing on immigrants and members of the LGBTQ neighborhood.
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Now, let’s get into the main points of these raids and protesters together with the opposite headlines of the day.
IMMIGRATION
Residents at Cedar Run Residences in Denver stated greater than 100 armed federal brokers surrounded their complicated with tanks and heavy autos at 4 a.m. and started to make arrests as a part of President Trump’s “Operation Aurora.” Jennifer Brown and Olivia Prentzel have extra from a chaotic day.
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
Protesters — together with college students from native excessive colleges who walked out of sophistication — descended on the Colorado Capitol yesterday draped in Mexican flags and hoisting pro-LGBTQ indicators in protest of the Trump administration’s makes an attempt to reshape the American authorities. Olivia Prentzel, Alyte Katilius and Blake Simony have extra from the scene.
HOUSING
The acronym for the “Sure In God’s Yard” motion, a church-based counterweight to NIMBYism
As church attendance shrinks — usually in areas the place the housing provide is shrinking even quicker — a push for congregations to make use of land owned by their church buildings to construct reasonably priced housing has discovered supporters within the Colorado legislature. Brian Eason digs into Home Invoice 1169, which might be one of many first legal guidelines within the nation to permit spiritual establishments to construct housing on their land, no matter native zoning.
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
Votes it takes to go a invoice out of the state Senate
Democratic lawmakers dedicated to voting for Senate Invoice 3
Sen. Marc Snyder, D-Manitou Springs, was one of many cosponsors of the invoice that might ban the manufacture and sale of semiautomatic rifles, shotguns and handguns that may settle for removable ammunition magazines. However as Jesse Paul and KUNC’s Lucas Brady Woods report, Snyder’s withdrawal highlights the shifting floor beneath the help for the invoice — with out really stopping its present momentum.
ECONOMY
Jeri Fry, one of many founders of Colorado Residents In opposition to Poisonous Waste, has a private historical past with nuclear waste. Her father, Lynn Boughton, was the whistleblower on the Cotter Uranium Mill who died of most cancers after a lawsuit linked his lymphoma to radiation publicity. And now the group is piping up in response to efforts to convey the nation’s nuclear waste to northwestern Colorado, KUNC’s Scott Franz stories.
COLORADO REPORT
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Feb. 6-12
TANK and B2 Listening Session. When an occasion is listed as “considered one of a sort” I have a tendency to contemplate it hyperbole — however the collaboration between Tank Heart for Sonic Arts in Rangely and the Atlas B2 Heart at CU Boulder may really ship the “one-of-a-kind sonic expertise” that it guarantees.
The Tank Heart, a beforehand deserted, seven-story metal water tank that’s been transformed into an unlikely music venue, has joined up with CU Boulder to host five-day artist retreats twice per 12 months. Residents use the time to conduct recording periods within the distinctive sonic setting and have interaction with the Rangely neighborhood by way of workshops or performances.
This weekend, the Tank expertise is coming to the Entrance Vary, for a one-night efficiency of Alan Mackwell’s “Rail Dynamics,” impressed by a defunct rail line in New Mexico, and premiered on the Tank throughout a residency final fall.
The work will probably be broadcast over B2’s “immersive 44-multichannel spatialized speaker array,” and if you realize what which means you then’re one step forward of me. However it sounds cool.
Free; 6:30-7:30, Feb. 8; ATLAS Black Field Experimental Studio, 1125 18th St. Boulder
It’s been a newsy few days — and a newsy 12 months, for that matter — and we’ll see you proper again right here tomorrow to dissect no matter information the top of the week holds.
— Erica & the entire employees of The Solar
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