Landowners Are Pressuring Iowa Lawmakers To Limit Eminent Domain. Do They Have A Chance?

I grew up in the Midwest, and if there’s one thing I really miss, it’s the long, drawn-out falls of years past. Here in Colorado, autumn is a blip, a frantic shoulder season that usually includes one nightmarish day stuck in I-70 traffic with my kids, all of us racing to Kenosha Pass, hoping to arrive before the last aspen leaves drop. Back home, the harvest period is expansive.

Kyle Freeland says he’s seen the light. “I know that last year I did have that quote where I said that it seemed like the light was very far away,” the veteran lefty said. “And I know we had another 100-loss season, but I’m very optimistic.” Wait, what? “I like the moves (general manager) Bill Schmidt has made,” Freeland continued.

The call came in April but the impact, like a thunder clap from miles over the horizon, didn’t hit Chauncey Billups until much, much later. Like July later. Like July in Cleveland later. Like July in Cleveland while signing autographs later. “I had to do this sports memorabilia show,” Billups, the Denver native and Mile High City basketball icon told The Denver Post recently when asked about his scheduled induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame next weekend.

Before he was “Mount Mutombo” to Denver, Dikembe was one Denver-area family’s dear friend who could eat a mountain of macaroni and drink a lake of orange juice. They met over dinner in 1991, through a mutual acquaintance. Dikembe Mutombo was a 7-foot-2 Congolese basketball player who’d arrived in the United States seeking a medical degree and left Georgetown as the No.

Floors coated in blood. Cries of pain. A stench of death that lingers long after your shift. Several decades later, I’m still haunted by my job at Superior Farms’ lamb slaughterhouse in Denver. This November, voters will decide whether to shut it down thanks to Initiated Ordinance 309, which would ban slaughterhouses in city limits.

The Lauren Boebert factor: Facing some facts Re: “Why was Lauren Boebert such a jerk to CPR’s Ryan Warner?” Sept. 29 commentary In condemning Rep. Lauren Boebert’s poor behavior, Megan Schrader minimizes some important facts and data. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a lot of encounters with people attempting to enter the country illegally.