Tag: Colorado
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Travel chaos in Colorado amid heavy snowstorm: Travellers stranded as highway shutdown, flights cancelled
[ad_1] A major storm dumped heavy snow in Colorado on Thursday – forcing flight cancellations and shutting down a highway that connects Denver to Colorado ski resorts for much of the day, stranding some people in their cars for hours. People walk during a snowstorm in Boulder, Colorado. The National Weather Service predicts as much…
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Skijoring: Extreme winter sport combines rodeo and ski culture
[ad_1] Nick Burri clicks into his ski bindings, squats to stretch his knees and scans the snowy race course. Moments later, he’s zipping past a series of gates at high speed and hurtling off jumps. But it’s not gravity pulling him toward the finish line: It’s the brute force of a quarter horse named Sirius.…
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How Denver International Airport became one of the fastest-growing airports in the world
[ad_1] Last year was Denver International Airport’s busiest on record. While airline stocks have yet to fully recover to pre-pandemic levels, passengers have returned in droves — and millions of them are flying through the Colorado hub. “We will end 2023 much higher than our forecast at about 78 million passengers annually,” said Phil Washington,…
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Opinion | The Donald Trump Ballot Problem
[ad_1] Editor’s note: In this Future View, students discuss the efforts to keep Donald Trump off the ballot. Next week we’ll ask, “A recent study suggests that worry about AI chatbots has been overblown, with American colleges not seeing an increase in overall cheating rates. But another study suggests that AI cheating is rampant, with…
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Opinion | The Supreme Court to the Ballot Rescue
[ad_1] The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to ban him from the state’s presidential primary ballot, and just in time too. The political malpractice of using Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to ban opposition candidates is spreading. In Pennsylvania, progressive activist Gene Stilp is…
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Could a Trump Win Put His Running Mate in Office?
[ad_1] How have we allowed one man to wreak so much havoc on our democracy? Years after Donald Trump was voted out of office, his destructiveness to our electoral system has become so infectious that those who loathe him are doing the work for him. In the past several months, dozens of legal challenges have…
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Lonely night: Interactive map reveals how many Americans will spend Christmas alone in YOUR state
[ad_1] Millions of Americans will be celebrating on their own this Christmas amid a nationwide loneliness epidemic, a survey has revealed. A new poll showed that around 19 million Americans are due to spend Christmas alone this year, which is one in 14 adults. Oregon has the highest rate of people celebrating alone on Christmas day at…