Today's news roundup includes apartment development, supersonic flight, the growth of renewables in Eastern Colorado and the planned sweeps of homeless people today in Denver.
We could get snow tomorrow night and Thursday:
Maybe a little in Denver, and more in the mountains. And somehow it's 79 degrees here in Denver today. (Denverite)
Denargo Market's going to be huge.
AMLI is the latest national developer to plan apartments at the site near the South Platte River on the southwest side of RiNo. (BusinessDen)
Democrats could take the Colorado Board of Education.
Democrat Rebecca McClellan has a thin lead over incumbent Republican Debora Scheffel. (KUNC)
Wind in the east:
Wind and solar have had an estimated $2.7 billion economic impact in Eastern Colorado. Cathy Proctor takes a deeper look. (DBJ; paywall)
Hundreds rallied for young immigrants at CSU.
Donald Trump has promised to rescind DACA, (Denverite) the executive order that protects hundreds of thousands of people who arrived in the U.S. as undocumented immigrants at a young age. A rally at CSU is the first I've seen here since the election that was exclusively about DACA. (Collegian)
Bike a 14er:
To me, the only thing worse than climbing on a bike is descending on a bike. This looks less than fun. (BikeMag)
An artist's vision of a Colorado-born supersonic passenger jet:
This is what Boom's 45-person flyer could look like. (DBJ) Meanwhile, Alaska Airlines just flew a commercial flight with "wood-sourced" fuel from a Douglas County company. (DP)
Homeless sweeps today:
We're on the scene as Denver prepares to clear a group of homeless people from Park Avenue West and Broadway. (Denverite)
What will open primaries do to Colorado?
We just approved a whole new way of selecting candidates. At worst, it could make the elections less accessible to grassroots candidates and allow unaffiliated voters to mess with the partisan system. Best case, it gets more people involved in the political process. Matt Johnson has more. (5280)
