Good morning, Colorado.
I am the daughter of a woman who can cook with the best of the Midwest moms. Dinner most every night of my childhood was plated with some kind of homemade entrée. My fave was a dish called pizza casserole. Because, in the Midwest, you can turn anything into a casserole.
I, unfortunately, did not inherit the cooking gene from my chef of a mom. At least that’s what I tell myself. The truth is, cooking doesn’t much appeal to me because I live alone. Why put in so much work to make a feast for a table of one?
And now, on the rare occasion I do cook, I end up traumatizing my dog. Even last night after simply turning on the oven (let’s be real — to cook a frozen pizza), my dog froze, gave me a wary look and then trotted off to hide in the bathroom where she served up an unmistakable side-eye. Her grave concern: the scream of the smoke detector, which in my defense goes off only about four out of every 10 times I attempt to whip up a meal. Still, the second I step near the oven or stove, my dog immediately anticipates danger, cocking her head as if to say, “Please. Just. Don’t.”
Hazel the news hound on high alert for the smoke detector. (Erica Breunlin/The Colorado Sun)If anyone has any tips on how to train the fear of the kitchen out of my dog, I’m all ears. Or perhaps I’m the one who needs to be trained — with a crash course in cooking for millennials who microwave.
Over here at The Sun, we’ve certainly prepared a fresh batch of stories for you this morning, all made from scratch. So let’s dig in.
Erica Breunlin
Education Reporter
THE NEWS
ENVIRONMENT
Chevron, Occidental and Civitas cited for falsified lab reports downplaying pollutants in Colorado groundwater
A oil pumpjack is silhouetted against a threatening sky May 21, 2024, near Fort Lupton. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)3,275
instances of falsified data points on 683 lab reports spanning 404 locations scattered among 15 communities in Weld County
In some cases, the false lab reports led to sites being deemed remediated and allowed to close. In one case, the level of benzene in well water was 1,010 micrograms, but reported as 4.55 micrograms. The allowable limit is 5 micrograms. Mark Jaffe has the latest developments.
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Colorado’s monsoon season is gearing up. Will it be enough to beat drought on the Western Slope? This year’s monsoon season seems to be sputtering into gear in eastern Colorado, but western Colorado remains parched, Shannon Mullane reports. Colorado lichenologists name discoveries after Indigo Girls and bring science closer to fine. CU Boulder lichenologists name new discoveries after the Indigo Girls in honor of their symbiotic musical relationship and commitment to the environment. Michael Booth has more.OUTDOORS
First responders in Colorado’s mountain towns are receiving wave of unfounded texts for help from satellite-enabled iPhones
A 911 dispatcher, Eric Betts, fields an emergency call at the Summit County 911 Center in Frisco in December 2022. (Hugh Carey, The Colorado Sun)“They are looking into it. They are not calling it a glitch but they are definitely saying it was not malicious. It’s not swatting or a hoax.”
— Grand County Sheriff Brett Schroetlin after talking with Apple
In the past week or so, 911 dispatch centers in some rural Colorado counties have received awkwardly worded texts seeking help. “Multiple people on fire.” “Single person on fire.” “Stranded and lost.” “Trapped by fire.” All of them were unfounded. And, as Jason Blevins reports, all of them are coming from iPhones using Apple’s new satellite texting feature.
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Legal foothold trap in northwestern Colorado killed wolf released in January. Wildlife officials are suspending the 30-day trap program; now 5 of the 15 wolves translocated in Colorado earlier this year have died.ENERGY
Building new coal and gas power plants would mean higher energy bills. Here’s how the math works.
Xcel Energy’s $1.3 billion 750-megawatt Comanche 3 coal-fired unit, the state’s largest coal-burning power plant. (Mike Sweeney, Special to The Colorado Sun)It might be a little early for some of us to “do the math,” so Mark Jaffe has done it for us. And one way into it is this thing called levelized cost of energy, which divides the cost of building and operating a plant over its life by the amount of electricity it generates for a cost per megawatt-hour. I promise, Mark makes it easy to follow along.
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From Wednesday: Trump v. Colorado: How the president’s energy agenda is clashing with the state’s lofty green ambitions. The Trump administration has cut off federal subsidies and prioritized fossil fuels, threatening to further delay the state’s clean energy goals.Section by David Krause | Editor
COLORADO REPORT
CPW plans to release wolves near Gunnison. Area ranchers are bracing for releases to start in and near Gunnison County next year, and are working with county commissioners to urge wildlife officials to hold off on the move until more funding, protections and mitigations are in place.— Crested Butte News ICE announces arrests of 243 immigrants in metro Denver operation, alleging all had criminal histories. Federal immigration authorities arrested at least 243 undocumented immigrants with varying criminal backgrounds in the Denver area in mid-July, ICE said Wednesday. — The Denver Post ? The new leader of Denver’s biggest LBGTQ+ organization takes on a changing world. The Center on Colfax’s new executive director, Kim Salvaggio, shared her takes on Pride fundraising, policing, advocacy and resiliency.— Denverite Historic 1947 caboose arrives at Moffat Road Railroad Museum. The museum in Granby now houses two of the only three known Denver & Salt Lake Railway cabooses in existence. (And some cool photos too.)— Sky-Hi News? = source has article meter or paywall
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THE OPINION PAGE
COMMUNITY
Colorado must restore life-or-death funding to support firefighters’ mental health. Governor, state legislators are abandoning a critical support system in the Behavioral Health Program.— Linda CraneThe Colorado Sun is a nonpartisan news organization, and the opinions of columnists and editorial writers do not reflect the opinions of the newsroom. Read our ethics policy for more on The Sun’s opinion policy and submit columns, suggest writers or provide feedback at [email protected].
What’s Happening
July 24-30
Entries in the annual pie contest during Bronc Days in Green Mountain Falls. For $5 attendees can grab a “pie flight,” three slices of their choice, after the winners are announced. (Photo provided by Heidi Bailey)Bronc Day. Green Mountain Falls, the 600-person town just west of Colorado Springs, is hard to describe. One way to think about it is as a classic small town, with a sole paved road that winds through a single block of businesses, steep dirt driveways that require 4-wheel drive to ascend, and a population that swells during the warm summer season and withers in the winter. But that barely scratches the surface.
It’s also HQ for the arts organization Green Box, whose year-round residencies and two-week summer festival have scattered large-scale public art pieces all over the place, like the temporary wonder “Off the Beaten Path,” a kinetic aerial sculpture in town until Oct. 19, and “EARTH.SPEAKS” an installation by Osage artist brooke smiley.
One way to get to know this unassuming arts haven is on the annual Bronc Day, an 86-year-old tradition that features a pancake breakfast, main street parade and a pie contest, along with family friendly games like the stick horse race and live music by Tenderfoot Bluegrass.
While you’re there, check out James Turrell’s “Skyspace” on the hillside above town, a stone structure with four daily shows — two open roof, and two closed roof — that will shake up your sense of light and color. Tickets to “Skyspace” shows can be reserved here.
Free; 9 a.m., July 26; Green Mountain Falls
Mountain Fair. A hallmark of Carbondale Arts, the locally focused, volunteer-run Mountain Fair features 25 musicians and a handful of competitions including, but not limited to, adult limbo, women’s woodsplitting, and pie and cake baking contests. This year’s theme is ¡Let’s Dance, Bailemos! Find the full schedule here. Free; July 25-27; Sopris Park, Carbondale Viva La Isla Del Encanto Festival. A daylong festival highlighting Puerto Rican culture in Colorado, with a variety of art and food vendors, live music and cultural activities. Free; noon-6 p.m.; Bicentennial Park, 13600 E. Bayaud Ave., Aurora Underground Music Showcase. After 25 years holding it down on South Broadway (with a few years spent on Colfax and in Englewood), the curtain is closing on the multivenue, grassroots Underground Music Showcase. But not before one final festival: four stages and 12 venues packed with more than 200 musical acts, July 25-27. $75 day pass, $130 weekend pass; July 25-27; S. Broadway between 6th and Alameda, DenverSection by Parker Yamasaki | Reporter
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