The Colorado Sun

The Colorado Sun

The Colorado Sun is a news organization owned by journalists that operates without advertisements. Although it is based in Denver, its mission is to report on stories from all across Colorado, helping our state and its communities gain a clearer understanding of themselves. By doing so, we aim to foster a more informed, engaged, and connected Colorado.

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  • 2 days ago | coloradosun.com | Mike Littwin

    Donald Trump was steamed. He was miffed. The Orange One’s face had gone deep red, twice as red as a MAGA baseball cap. He was so peeved that he felt the need to drop the F-bomb — nearly as powerful, he must have guessed, as the series of 30,000-pound bunker busters he had dropped on Fordo, Iran’s deep-mountain nuclear enrichment site — when scolding Israel and Iran, but mostly Israel, for violating the big, beautiful ceasefire he had negotiated. How dare they?

  • 2 days ago | coloradosun.com | Sarah Morris

    I buckle my toddler into her car seat and drive her to our local Jewish Community Center in Denver. We wave to the security guard. I put away her backpack, hug her, and leave her in a building filled with the laughter of preschoolers, warmth of Jewish ritual, and constant awareness that Jewish spaces need armed guards. That awareness got louder on June 1.

  • 4 days ago | coloradosun.com | Jennifer Brown

    Wilberson Jolly did not expect to graduate from high school. As a teenager in foster care, Jolly went to high school in Park County, then in Lakewood, then in Wheat Ridge. He always felt behind, like he needed to re-learn almost everything going back to first grade. It didn’t help that each time he changed foster homes, Jolly started a new high school. At 18, when his classmates were graduating, Jolly was not even close. The odds were against him.

  • 4 days ago | coloradosun.com | Mark Jaffe

    KIOWA — Colorado 86 runs across Elbert County’s rolling prairies and pastures, verdant after the spring rains and dotted with grazing cattle and horses, but as bucolic as the scene is this is a battleground pitting ranchers and landowners against Xcel Energy. The point of contention is Xcel Energy’s plan to build a segment of its $1.7 billion Colorado Power Pathway transmission line along the highway and through the heart of the county.

  • 5 days ago | coloradosun.com | Mike Littwin

    If you still need evidence that America is moving ever closer to authoritarianism — that is, if we haven’t gotten there already — I give you the latest decree from the Department of the Interior asking visitors at national parks to rat out any park ranger who feel the need to comment on anything resembling the complicated truths about U.S. history.