Last weekend’s La Plata County Humane Society Adopt-a-thon setting a new record, with 58 animals finding a new home.  
 
Hunger Free Colorado making sure school kids don’t go hungry over summer break by offering free lunches and breakfasts  
 
Rep. Tipton throwing his weight behind the Hermosa Creek Watershed Act, increasing the odds that protections may finally be put in place for the beloved landscape  
The summer fire season in full swing, with several small fires popping up locally and near Denver and in northern New Mexico
 
 
 

Ongoing drought once again leading to no hope of a river season on the Lower Dolores, with the river at a piddly 15cfs below McPhee Dam
 

  
 
   
The IRS being embroiled in yet another scandal, with revelations that employees went on lavish trips on the taxpayers’ dime