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Last year, Donald Trump’s Supreme Court rolled back 50 years of clean water protections. Many of Colorado’s rivers, streams and wetlands now have no clean water protection. What is the state legislature doing about it? Colorado legislators can restore reasonable protections to our state’s wetlands and streams by supporting HB24-1379 and opposing SB24-127. All across Colorado — from Silverton and Wolf Creek to Fairplay and Aurora — unheralded and often small wetlands and streams are punching above their weight. These waterways filter out pollutants in our drinking water, providing our communities across Colorado with water that is clean and affordable.…

Utilities that provide drinking water to nearly 268,000 Coloradans will need tens of millions of dollars over the next five years to comply with new federal limits on harmful “forever chemicals,” but finding the money will be a challenge — especially for small, rural systems. The 27 water systems identified by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment as exceeding the new standards range in size from Thornton, which serves about 155,000 customers, to Dawn of Hope Ranch, a religious retreat in Teller County that serves 55 people. Some of the larger utilities on the state’s list already are planning…

Dwayne Wells believes, baby. He believes his Lakers are up Cherry Creek. Sans paddle. “Even though I am a Lakers fan, it’s probably going to be Nuggets in six, low-key,” Wells, an Air Force man and L.A. fanatic from Clovis, N.M., told me as we shivered outside Ball Arena an hour before Nuggets 114, Lakers 103. “I hate it, man. (Nikola) Jokic last year was freaking crazy and (expletive) me off. And (Jamal) Murray was crazy, too. Oh my gosh. But them two — and Michael Porter Jr. might go off. “I mean, we might get two (wins) off. But…

April 18: Offensive lineman Jordan Seaton during CU football Spring practice on April 18, 2024. (Cliff Grassmick/Staff Photographer) How much better the offensive line of the Colorado Buffaloes is this year won’t be known until the games begin in the fall. Compare the comments of head coach Deion Sanders from a year ago to now, however, and there’s an indication the line will be dramatically better. On April 8, 2023, Sanders was asked how the offensive line was coming together. After a long pause, he said. “The team that we’re playing with now is not the team that we’re gonna…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country music star Morgan Wallen, who faces charges stemming in part from accusations that he threw a chair off the rooftop of a six-story bar, says he’s “not proud” of his behavior and accepts responsibility. The “One Thing at a Time” singer responded publicly Friday night on social media to his arrest in Nashville two weeks ago. He faces a May 3 court date after being charged with three felony counts of reckless endangerment and one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct, court records show. An arrest affidavit said the chair at Chief’s bar landed about 3…

Some wise-apple in the Grading The Week offices, the one with the autographed photo of the late Norm Macdonald in his cubicle, suggested we lead off this week’s edition with a joke about the Rockies being on autopilot for about two-and-a-half years now. But come on. We’re above such things. Aren’t we? (Spoiler alert: We’re not.) This will come as a shock to exactly none of you, but the franchise on 20th & Bleak is weird. Like, really weird. Analysts think they’re weird. Insiders think they’re weird. Sabermatricians think they’re weird. Other teams think they’re weird. Other executives and coaches…

FORT COLLINS — Colorado State football ended its spring slate of 15 workouts with its annual Green & Gold spring game Saturday on a cold and snowy afternoon at Canvas Stadium. With the focus of ending spring practices on a high note, the results and reactions were mixed from the coaches and players. The format of the game, as it has been in each of head coach Jay Norvell’s seasons at CSU, was 1s (Green) vs. The World (White), with the World team beginning with a 21-0 lead. After four quarters of a game-like atmosphere, the World ended up on…

A bill in the Colorado legislature, filed in response to reports that patients were confused when a company they’d never heard of sued them over medical debts, would limit how collection agencies can pursue payment. HB-1380, which passed the state House on Wednesday, would require debt collectors operating in the state to disclose who initially held the debt, and would only allow the collector to sue if they had complete freedom to settle the debt. Rep. Javier Mabrey, a Denver Democrat and one of the bill’s sponsors, said he is pushing it in response to a 9News and Colorado Sun…

In hindsight, one ejection stands out to Michael Malone more than all the others. It was Dec. 7, 2016, in Brooklyn. Malone was in the second month of the second season of his second head coaching job in the NBA. Most Nuggets fans probably remember that period in franchise history for what happened eight days later, when Malone inserted a young center named Nikola Jokic into the starting lineup for good. Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone walks off the court past Brooklyn Nets forward Trevor Booker (35) after being ejected from the game in the second half of an…

Entering the playoffs with a goalie problem is like taking a road trip in the family truckster. Think you hate it now, wait ’til you drive it. The Avs head to Winnipeg on Sunday. Buckle your seat belts. The Avs are in for a bumpy ride. No one quite knows how Colorado went from Stanley Cup contender to staring down a second straight first-round exit. The Avs looked up on the morning of April 14, and there it was in their inbox: “Urgent. Factory Recall. Brake hoses could rupture, increasing the risk of crash and the inability to stop anything,…