Rocky Mountain Voice

Gonzalez: Needle exchange site in Colorado Springs lacks transparency

Needle exchange programs and drug injection sites, described by proponents as “safe injection sites” or “overdose prevention centers,” are ideas that radicals throughout the state continue to push upon our communities, even where they are largely opposed by the public and previously rejected by local institutions.  

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‘We have reached the end of our rope’: Business owners call on city leaders to solve vagrancy in rural town

Vagrants are trespassing in residential and business property, doing drugs in public, urinating and defecating in the library and other public places, and in general becoming an out-of-control public nuisance.

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Denver’s Initiative 309 slaughterhouse ban impacts national lamb supply chain

As J. Paul Brown of Ignacio, Colo., gets ready to bring his sheep back to the lowlands for the fall roundup, he contemplates the impact of Denver’s Initiative 309, which singles out the largest lamb processing plant in Colorado for closure.  He worries that, if passed, the state has yet again, compromised the domestic food chain.

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