Comment on Today in History for August 29th

Routes across Colorado’s Eastern Plains remained closed Saturday morning after a formidable winter storm dropped multiple feet of snow on the state. While Denver freeways and all of Interstate 25 had reopened as of 10:45 a.m., Interstate 70 remains closed east of E-470, along with numerous state and federal highways east of I-25. Related Articles Weather | Colorado weather: Waning winter storm leaves more than 3 feet of snow as rescue ops continue Weather | Colorado snow totals for Nov.

A storm system that dumped multiple feet of wet, heavy snow on Colorado this week is moving on, as counties south and east of Denver continue to dig themselves out of the slush. Flakes are continuing to fall between Denver International Airport and the southeast side of the metropolitan area, but as of Saturday morning, Zach Hiris, a meteorologist at the Boulder office of the National Weather Service, said the snow is expected to let up by the end of the day across most of the state. “We’re pretty much in the last gasp of the storm this morning,” he said. The Palmer Divide area south of Denver and Lincoln County saw the worst of the storm, with up to 40 inches of snow accumulating along the Palmer Divide and about 38 inches of snow reported in rural Genoa, according to Hiris.

The following Colorado snow totals have been reported by the National Weather Service for Nov. 9, 2024 as of 9:20 a.m. Saturday: Air Force Academy, CO — 23 inches at 9:12 a.m. Aspen Springs, CO — 20.8 inches at 4:32 a.m. Aurora, CO — 19 inches at 12 a.m. Bear Lake, CO — 11 inches at 12 a.m. Berthoud Pass, CO — 6 inches at 12 a.m. Black Forest, CO — 27 inches at 6:22 a.m. Boone, CO — 6.5 inches at 6 p.m.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and backers of Ballot Issue 2R, a sales tax increase aimed at fueling affordable housing investments and programs, conceded the measure’s narrow defeat early Saturday morning. While it made up ground in later returns after Tuesday’s election, the measure was rejected on 51% of city ballots counted so far, according to the latest results released by the Denver Elections Division on Friday evening. That’s a slight improvement over preliminary results released Tuesday, when the measure had a rejection rate of 52.2%.

Donald Trump may only be president for another four years, but the impacts of his administration on public health could be catastrophic for a long time to come. While we don’t know exactly what will happen, there’s no doubt the next four years could see attempts to curtail the authority and autonomy of federal health agencies like the U.

Although the President of the United States is the most scrutinized person on the planet, myopia invariably sets in as we assess them in real time. Often our impressions are dominated by the caricatures we’re served up in the media—a bumbling Gerald Ford, hapless Jimmy Carter, intellectually feeble Ronald Reagan, inept George W.