Author: By Carol McKinley Special to The Denver Gazette
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Jose Barco loses deportation fight
Jose Barco has lost his nine-month-long fight to avoid deportation. Immigration judge Tyler Wood denied each of Barco’s five motions for relief, including an application for asylum, and ordered the U.S. veteran to be removed in a 10-page ruling released on Thursday. Wood did not stipulate an exact date for Barco’s deportation, but his attorney,…
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Immigration judge sets surprise hearing for José Barco
The decorated U.S. Army veteran, and convicted criminal, has been in ICE custody since January
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Alamosa man faces fifth first-degree murder charge in missing persons cases
An Alamosa man already charged with first-degree murder in connection with the disappearances of four people — two whose remains have been identified on a remote property in the San Luis Valley — is now facing a fifth in the disappearance of Korina Arroyo, 31, of Monte Vista. The 12th Judicial District Attorney’s Office on…
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Long-term care facilities express concern over ‘vaccine hesitancy’ among staff
Colorado’s long-term care facility administrators are concerned about the alarming number of their staff who are refusing the coronavirus vaccine, reigniting a debate over whether workers can be required to get the shot. There are no official statistics kept by federal or state agencies, but anecdotal numbers from the state’s largest health care trade organization,…
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Colorado Interstate 70 project keeps driving forward despite opposition from neighborhood
The Central 70 Project, a $1.2 billion undertaking that has left the north Denver neighborhoods of Globeville/Elyria-Swansea in a state of constant noise and construction for four years, has been contentious from its beginning. In 2008, the Interstate 70 viaduct was declared structurally deficient and functionally obsolete; but it was nearly three decades earlier when…
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The promise of an interstate highway through Denver in the 1960s tore apart community
On Sept. 12, 1964, hundreds crowded across freshly-painted highway stripes to watch the dedication of a new $12.5 million, 2.6-mile stretch of Interstate 70 designed to ease traffic congestion on what had been a four-lane street. City and state officials joined highway engineers as an enormous ribbon was cut and onlookers applauded the first ever…