GORSUCH APPEARS AT TRUMP HOTEL
WASHINGTON» Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Denver native, discussed the importance of civility and civics education in a speech Thursday at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, an address criticized by liberal groups who said his decision to speak there raised questions about his independence from the president who nominated him.
Gorsuch’s speech, one of his first since joining the court in April, came just a few days before the Supreme Court begins its new term Monday. Liberal groups including Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America briefly protested outside.
Gorsuch didn’t address the criticism during a 20minute speech, focusing instead on civics and civility.
“We have to learn not only to tolerate different points of view but to cherish the din of democracy. It’s a hard lesson, and no one’s perfect. We all make mistakes. But encouraging habits of civility in our next generation has to go hand in hand with the teaching of civics,” Gorsuch said.
Assailant sentenced to 30 years in prison for High Line Canal Trail attacks.
A man who attacked two women on the High Line Canal Trail was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison.
Demaricus Bookhart, 26, pleaded guilty in July to aggravated robbery, attempt to commit sexual assault and menacing, according to the Denver district
Gattorney’s office.
Bookhart assaulted two victims in separate 2016 attacks, one on Aug. 18 and the other on Aug. 26.
Officials find 2,700 pot plants in illegal grow in Crystal Valley.
For the third time in five years, federal agencies have raided an illegal marijuana-growing operation in the Aspen-Sopris Ranger District of the White River National Forest.
Law enforcement officials from multiple agencies began efforts Thursday to eradicate a pot patch in the Crystal Valley, approximately 16 miles south of Carbondale, in the Redstone area.
The 5-acre site had 2,700 plants as well as chemicals to deter deer, fertilizer, irrigation pipe, camping gear, trash and tarps, the forest supervisor’s office said in a statement.
RTD gets five-year waiver extension from feds on pair of troubled lines.
A request by RTD for an extended waiver to operate two light rail lines has been approved by the Federal Railroad Administration.
The waiver, which covers a five-year period, is on the University of Colorado A-Line and the B-Line, according to an RTD news release.
The FRA’s railroad safety board “determined that, subject to certain conditions, granting further relief to RTD on the Aand B-Lines is in the public interest and consistent with railroad safety,” federal regulators said in a written response to RTD.
The waiver is prompted by RTD’s struggle to gain regulatory approval of automated crossing gates on the two lines.