Gov. Jared Polis will reduce Tina Peters’ sentence by half, he confirmed Friday, appearing to bend to demands from President Donald Trump — while ignoring the pleas of many other Colorado elected officials and the prosecutor who won the former county clerk’s conviction in an election data-breach scheme.
The commutation will reduce Peters’ original sentence of nearly nine years, which was thrown out last month, to about 4.5 years, Polis said in an interview Friday. In a letter to Peters, Polis wrote she would “be released on parole effective June 1, 2026.”
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Farmers market season is here, running from the first spears of asparagus all the way to the pumpkin harvest.
Now that produce hauls are coming in more steadily, it’s time to grab your favorite canvas tote or woven basket and shop local.
Along the Front Range, farmers market enthusiasts have plenty of options, from pioneers like the Saturday Boulder Farmers Market to smaller micro markets and brand-new ones, like the market in the Harvey Park neighborhood that debuts May 2.
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📝: Brittany Anas, The Denver Post
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Scott Bottoms, a state representative from Colorado Springs, and Barbara Kirkmeyer, a state senator from Brighton, are competing for the GOP nomination in the June 30 primary.
The third Republican candidate, Colorado Springs pastor Victor Marx, declined the debate invitation.
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The Denver City Council approved a $225,000 settlement for two people after Denver police officers wrongfully held them at gunpoint and accidentally shot at them in 2024.
The officers had mixed up the people’s car with that of a suspect’s, which was a similar color. While the two people were in the same area as the suspect’s car, they were headed in a different direction and had a different type of car and license plate than what the officers were told to track, according to the complaint.
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📝: Elliott Wenzler, The Denver Post
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The Denver metro area is home to dozens of disc golf courses. However, surprisingly few reside within Mile High City limits.
But there are plenty of places to snap plastic nearby if you’re up for a quick drive.
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📝: Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post // @tineywristwatch
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The East Colfax rapid bus line project will creep over the Denver city line into Aurora for the first time this week, promising an expansion of road work — along with the inevitable headaches — for businesses and motorists along the busy thoroughfare over the next 18 months.
Several businesses in the Denver section of the project have closed or moved because of the construction, including Misfit Snack Bar and Colfax and Cream, a coffee and ice cream joint.
Those who haven’t turned out the lights are on the edge, said Sean Buchan, a co-owner of @cerebral.auroraarts .
“Everyone who didn’t close was waving the white flag and asking for help,” he said.
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📝: John Aguilar, The Denver Post
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📈: Kevin Hamm, The Denver Post
Emerging science suggests mothers who feel like they’ve become different people after having children might be on to something.
Researchers are still learning the exact changes that take place in a typical mother’s brain and determining what their function might be, but clearly something big is happening, since computers can learn to distinguish the brains of women who recently became mothers from those without children, said Darby Saxbe, a professor of psychology at University of Southern California and the author of “DAD BRAIN: The New Science of Fatherhood and How it Shapes Men’s Lives.
Much remains unknown about what exactly is happening in the brain, but changes are visible in areas devoted to attention, empathy and the “default mode network” that runs when people aren’t focused on any particular task, said Dr. Aviva Olsavsky, an associate professor at University of Colorado School of Medicine. The default mode change might suggest differences in identity, though science can’t prove or disprove the subjective experience of feeling like a new person after becoming a parent, she said.
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📝: Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post
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A Frontier Airlines flight accelerating for takeoff struck and killed a person who had jumped a perimeter fence and walked onto the runway at Denver International Airport late Friday, causing an engine fire and evacuation that injured 12 people.
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📝: Katie Langford, The Denver Post
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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and Attorney General Phil Weiser will face off Thursday night in a Colorado governor’s race Democratic debate sponsored by The Denver Post, Denver7 and Colorado Public Radio.
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For anyone who hasn’t heard of Mukja yet, May will be a good time to get acquainted.
The Korean-inspired food truck, known for its culture-bending cheese dogs, is opening a new spot.
@mukjafoodtruck will join @maizdenver in the cafeteria area of one of the Auraria Campus’ most notable off-site dormitories.
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📝: Colin Wrenn, The Denver Post
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An overnight snowstorm dumped several inches of snow across the Denver area on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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📷: RJ Sangosti and Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post // @rjsangosti@hyoung_ccc
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“Our history has been that when massive development comes into a community, the memories evaporate,” said Tony Garcia, who grew up near Lincoln Park. “And everybody who came in here after that, it just doesn’t matter anymore.”
The CBA coalition for the Broncos stadium, which is called Burnham Yard Community Action, will announce which organizations will be involved in the negotiations and what values the group will prioritize in the talks. In an interview with The Denver Post ahead of that announcement, coalition members described their hopes and fears for the process and gave an early look at their starting point for discussions.
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📝: Elliott Wenzler, The Denver Post
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