Monte Whaley

A Denver Public Schools emblem in Denver on March 16, 2016.

Colorado school districts join legal fight against TABOR

October 4, 2016 at 8:07 a.m.

Colorado school boards who claim Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights has decimated student funding have joined a five-year legal fight to have the law dismantled.

Pain overwhelmed Jeremy Barnhart when he returned to his bed after standing for the first time since amputation surgery at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora. He was there for three weeks as doctors tried to save as much of his extremities as possible before surgery.

How Colorado’s self-imposed limitations keep its oil & gas industry lagging behind in safety standards

January 9, 2017 at 1:10 p.m.

While many states have created laws and agencies to improve safety in the oil and gas fields, Colorado lags behind because of self-imposed restrictions. The Denver Post spent a year...

Dustin Turner uses a cannon made of leftover oil-field pipes to shoot his father鈥檚 ashes across a lake in Mead. Randy Hall was 53 when he died in April 2015 鈥� 14 months after being engulfed in a cloud of sulfuric acid on a drilling site. The old-school roughneck loved the industry even with its risks.

Technology that could have saved some oil workers resisted by industry

January 9, 2017 at 1:08 p.m.

Oil and gas companies are slow to invest in relatively simple life-saving technology and industry representatives have called requests an unnecessary cost and an undue burden.

鈥淭he (oil) patch was my playground.鈥� Jimmy Richardson鈥檚 left leg was amputated after a spreader beam rolled off a forklift, hitting him on the head and then crushing his leg.

Safety is compromised when a site turns into a web of subcontractors

January 9, 2017 at 1:20 p.m.

Oil and gas companies typically leave management of their sites to subcontractors, a practice that dilutes safety standards and protects companies from liability, making an already dangerous job even more...

Sharon Hill holds her late husband鈥檚 muddy boots outside her home in Grand Junction. Shane Hill was one of at least 51 oil and gas workers who were killed in Colorado since 2003.

Special Report: At least 51 workers have died in Colorado’s oil and gas fields since 2003

January 9, 2017 at 12:56 p.m.

In a 12-year span, an oil and gas worker died once every three months on average in Colorado, victims of a system focused more on protecting the industry than its...

Members of the group Westwood Unidos hold signs before a State Board of Education hearing last Wednesday regarding whether to end Colorado's seven-year ban on diet sodas in high schools. Despite public comment against lifting the ban, the board voted 4-3 to end it.

State allows diet sodas back in Colorado high schools over parent objections

September 14, 2016 at 7:30 p.m.

The Colorado Board of Education voted Wednesday to end a ban on diet sodas in high schools. After hearing public comment, the board voted 4-3 to end the seven-year ban.

There's no evidence to suggest a link between regularly drinking diet soda and an increase in blood pressure. (Fotolia)

Colorado education board considers lifting ban on diet soda in schools

September 14, 2016 at 9:14 a.m.

Health advocates are lobbying the State Board of Education to overturn its decision last month lifting a seven-year ban on diet sodas in Colorado high schools.

Stephen M. Jordan, president of Metropolitan State University

Stephen Jordan plans to retire as Metro State president, will stay on until June

September 9, 2016 at 12:32 a.m.

Metropolitan State University of Denver President Stephen Jordan gave his one-year retirement notice Thursday, saying he reached the goals he set for the college and it's time to move on....

Adams 12 hopes to overcome history to get $350 million bond issue passed

September 5, 2016 at 12:01 a.m.

Backers of a $350 million bond issue in Adams 12 Five Star School District say they've learned from two previous ballot defeats and vow this time to convince voters that...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks at Macky Auditorium at the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, Colo., on Friday, Sept. 2, 2016.

Supreme Court’s Sonia Sotomayor charms CU crowd

September 9, 2016 at 1:21 p.m.

For a revered jurist, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor sure can work a crowd.

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