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A tale of two very different swing districts

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Good morning, Colorado.

Whether or not you are looking forward to cooler temps, it’s hard to argue how majestic Pikes Peak looks with a fresh dusting of snow. Even after five years in Colorado Springs, I still find myself whispering “wow” as I catch a glimpse of the snow-capped mountain on my drive to the grocery store on the city’s west side. We sure do live in a beautiful state.

But without any more dilly-dallying, or distracted driving, let’s get to the news.

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The Colorado State Capitol in Denver is pictured during the first day of the General Assembly’s 73rd regular legislative session on Jan. 13, 2021. (Andy Colwell, Special to The Colorado Sun)

One is a Senate district on the Western Slope, where Republican Marc Catlin and Democrat Cole Buerger are racing to the middle to court unaffiliated voters. The other is a House district in Colorado Springs where outspoken progressive Rep. Stephanie Vigil is taking on Rebecca Keltie, a far-right defense contractor who went door-to-door with an election denial conspiracy group in 2020. Brian Eason breaks down how the results of these districts will swing the future of the legislature.

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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Aurora. The facility is operated by a private prison company, the GEO Group. (Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun via Report for America)

Inside a concrete-walled courtroom at the ICE detention center in Aurora, Judge Matthew Kaufman decided the fates of people from Venezuela, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Belize, Mexico and Pakistan in a single morning. Jennifer Brown reports from inside the courtroom in part 2 of The Long Road to Asylum series.

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Tri-State Generation is now using power from the Escalante solar farm built around its now-retired coal-fired plant near Grants, New Mexico. (Source: OrigisEnergy/Gridworks)

The embattled electric co-op won the financing to support its aggressive plan to build clean and renewable energy sources while retiring the existing coal plants that currently provide the lion’s share of its power, Tracy Ross reports.

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Jane Fonda was in north Denver on Monday to urge the community to keep fighting air pollution. (Michael Booth, The Colorado Sun)

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In her work of historical fiction that might be more of a cautionary tale than we’d like to admit, Buzzy Jackson pulls from the real-life story of Hannie Schaft, one of the rare women who took up arms in the Dutch resistance to the Nazis in World War II. In this excerpt, narrator Schaft describes in chilling detail how the persecution of Jews was carried out in small steps.

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