This week in the high country: a truck ban, a vaccine gap, and the worst snowpack on record.
Forced Sale, Measles, and Truck Bans
A Salida liquor store owner has one year to sell or lose his license. Saguache County is managing a confirmed measles case — and one local school sits at 25 percent vaccinated. Chaffee County sent Amazon a warning letter over a 20-year-old truck ban. Cañon City is staring down the worst snowpack on record. This week’s mountain corridor roundup covers all of it, plus housing cuts, parking fights, and wildfire maps.
Taxes and bad law makers
A Salida server keeps $5,200 in tips, while Jeany Rush fires back at Colorado lawmakers on elections, energy, and a justice system she says punishes the innocent.
Bad Bill Count
Week 13 sent two Bad bills to the Governor — a commercial truck subsidy and an expanded government mortgage program. Ten Good bills advanced, including a bipartisan mail ballot security measure requiring two-judge signature verification teams, a ban on legislators holding dual elected offices, and a coroner transparency requirement. HB 1411, the Cover All Coloradans enrollment cap, is the week’s featured Bad bill. Session totals: 108 Good, 162 Bad. Five weeks left.
Party Fractures
Republicans hit Pueblo Saturday with 21 candidates, a chair on her way out, and a 15-9 vote the night before over whether to slam the primary door on unaffiliated voters. Griswold squeezed a second press cycle from a letter DHS already answered. Mountain builders are finding surprise fire fees at the permit counter. A Saguache infant survived a measles scare the system handled right. And Barry Morphew’s civil case is done — trial starts in October.
Hezbollah Gutted, China Squeezed
In ten minutes, Israel destroyed 100 Hezbollah command centers and killed 350 commanders. Across the Atlantic, 14 months of quiet pressure handed both ends of the Panama Canal from China to Europe. Two operations. Two results. Neither left Washington’s fingerprints.
Rigged by Design
Colorado insiders pick your lawmakers. Washington funds both the problem and the fix. Two new reports expose the pattern.
Moon and Drones
NASA’s Artemis II crew splashed down Friday, breaking a 53-year barrier. Four astronauts returned from the moon’s vicinity — the farthest humans have traveled from Earth since Apollo 17. Meanwhile, the Pentagon’s drone problem deepened: a $4 million interceptor versus a $20,000 threat. The math is unforgiving.
Apache Tracker and Grumpy Men
An Apache tracker saves a platoon no textbook could protect. Iran blinks before Trump’s deadline expires. Old Man argues for burning the tax code down to one honest levy. Cur catches the doomsday crowd without a prophecy to their name. And Salida loses its music to a 1971 Colorado law.
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