Author: Nicole C. Brambila The Denver Gazette
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Colorado diary employee tests positive for avian flu; health officials say risk to the public is low
A dairy farm employee in northeast Colorado has tested positive for a human case of the avian flu associated with a multi-state virus outbreak among dairy cattle. State health officials characterized the case as “mild,” posing a low risk for the public. “Our partnership with the Colorado Department of Agriculture has been crucial in disseminating…
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Colorado allocated $9.7M in FEMA funding for illegal immigration crisis, less than last year’s allocation
The Biden administration has allocated less money to Colorado in the latest round of federal funding for the illegal immigration crisis that Denver officials have struggled to respond to and which has cost the city tens of millions of dollars. And just like year, other cities are poised to get more funding than Denver. The Federal…
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Colorado Republicans call Biden’s asylum order ‘too little, too late,’ Democrats say it’s ‘people over politics’
President Joe Biden’s sweeping executive action Tuesday to ban asylum seekers when illegal border crossings reach a certain threshold expectedly divided Colorado leaders along partisan lines, with Republicans calling the action “too little, too late” and Democrats describing the move as putting “people over politics.” Meanwhile, in Denver, a spokesperson for the city’s human services…
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Auraria campus officials receive notice of possible litigation from Jewish students
A Jewish Metropolitan State University of Denver student has filed a notice with the Auraria Higher Education Center, alleging she and others faced harassment and defamation on campus in the days after the Hamas attack on Israel, The Denver Gazette has learned. Sara Rones, a 19-year-old MSU student, filed the notice on April 5 —…
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Residue found on medical equipment VA Hospital in Aurora still unidentified, cause remains unknown
Officials still do not know the cause for the residue found on reusable medical equipment at the Rocky Mountain VA Medical Center in Aurora that prompted cancellations in surgeries, The Denver Gazette has learned. The VA system views the discovery not as a failure of its protocols but as an example of the process working…
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Pro-Palestinian protesters occupy Auraria campus in Denver
About 100 hundred protesters — many of them students — occupied the Auraria campus on Thursday night, chanting anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian slogans. Rep. Elisabeth Epps, D-Denver, joined the protest in front of the Tivoli Student Union, the latest in what has been a wave of pro-Palestinian rallies on campuses across the United States in the…
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25 years after Columbine: Gun violence, school security and lessons learned
What happened at Columbine High School 25 years ago wasn’t the first or the last mass shooting at a school in America, but it was the first covered in a 24-hour news cycle and it remains deeply ingrained in the American psyche. The tragedy prompted a national debate on guns and mental health and unprecedented…
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Illegal immigration top issue for Colorado voters, poll finds
A new statewide poll shows illegal immigration emerging as the paramount issue for Colorado voters, with roughly two-in-three viewing the unprecedented influx as a major problem. Conducted by the Colorado Polling Institute, the survey posed an open-ended question to 632 likely voters, asking — among other things — what they believed were the most important…
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Poll finds illegal immigration top issue for Colorado voters
A new statewide poll shows illegal immigration emerging as the paramount issue for Colorado voters, with roughly two-in-three viewing the unprecedented influx as a major problem. Conducted by the Colorado Polling Institute, the survey posed an open-ended question to 632 likely voters, asking — among other things — what they believed were the most important…
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FEMA funding disparity: Texas and New York receive lion’s share of funds for immigration crisis
Colorado struggles to secure federal funding, getting only about 3% of FEMA dollars for communities responding to the crisis