November 18, 2018
On October 26, 2018, the Denver Elections Division notified the Denver City Council that the Denver Right to Survive Initiative had met the requirements to be placed on the May 7, 2019 municipal ballot. The proponents got 9,979 signatures over a six month period. 7,046 of these signatures were valid.… Read the rest
From producer Michelle Swenson and the project Community Matters and Denver Open Media, this is the first video to cover how Denver mayor Michael Hancock has removed more open space in Denver’s parks than any previous mayor — and is indeed the first mayor to do so! Watch:
[from counterpunch.org:]
Commercial Landfills in Colorado have been advised that disposal of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production (E&P) waste is not exempt from Colorado Solid Waste Regulations (1), for example, 6 CCR 1007-2. Disposal of fracking waste is a nation-wide problem. READ MORE here….
This article, titled Protecting Your Community From Crude Oil ‘Bomb Trains’, has practical advice on what do to if you find out if there are unit trains of fracked oil traveling through your community. 
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