It’s been almost three months since Coronavirus upended our lives. Shuttered businesses. Widespread illness. Masks in public. Stay-at-Home orders. Arrests, violence, and worse. In this short time, we’ve come to inhabit a surreal reality that feels like Outbreak meets the Great Depression. We’re all experiencing some forceful emotions, too. Shock. Powerlessness. Anger. Fear. Uncertainty has [...]
Good News for Colorado On the evening of April 6, 2020, Governor Polis, while wearing a cloth facemask printed with a Colorado logo, extended Colorado’s Stay-at-Home order until April 26. He also shared some welcome news: social distancing measures are working. The rate of new COVID-19 infections in Colorado has decreased markedly, from doubling every [...]
Happy New Year! Time to eat some veggies, exercise, and tone up your insurance policies. For Auto Make sure your auto insurance deductibles, limits, and primary driver designations are up to date. Most importantly, make sure you have Underinsured Motorist Coverage for bodily injury (UM/UIM) and med pay. Sometimes auto insurers encourage people to opt [...]
Heading to the mountains for the holidays? There is a new traction law that may affect you. Here’s what you need to know to avoid a ticket. New Rules All drivers traveling the I-70 stretch between Morrison and Dotsero from September 1 through May 31 must now be ready for the possibility of snow, whether [...]
Between decorating, shopping, school performances and parties, things can get pretty crazy in December. Here are some tips to help you avoid the most common holiday injuries. 1: Decorate safely. The most common holiday injuries involve falls from roofs and ladders. Make sure someone is available to help you if you fall. Keep children on [...]
Well, maybe not an entire generation. But if you were blessed with one or more teenagers at your Thanksgiving table, you probably heard about the (apocalyptic!) changes YouTube is about to make due to the FTC’s recent $170,000,000 fine. Comments likely included: Does anyone at the FTC even Internet? Do they use cell phones? Paper [...]
In America, we have a certain dissonance when it comes to the idea of nice. While schools teach our children that they must be nice (or be punished) even kindergarteners can see that being nice can get you tripped on the playground. Our government doesn’t exactly run on niceness, and our laws aren’t always enforced [...]
Vision Zero. It’s a cool name for a radical goal: to reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries for all drivers, bicyclists, and pedestrians to zero. The concept began in Sweden in the 1990s, has proven successful across Europe, and was adopted by Denver Mayor Michael Hancock in 2016. Vision Zero goes beyond the traditional, piecemeal [...]
Hate red light cameras? You’re not alone. In February of this year, Colorado’s legislature considered the fourth bill in a decade that would have repealed the rights of local jurisdictions to use automated vehicle identification systems, including red-light cameras. The bill’s sponsors argued the cameras erode civil liberties, do nothing to promote public safety, and [...]
Maybe it’s the elderly gentleman going 50 on the highway. Maybe it’s the sweet old lady who slows…way…down…to…turn. Maybe your mother has trouble distinguishing red lights from brake lights at night, or maybe you do. The point is, driving requires certain physical abilities that tend to diminish with age. Most of us will eventually ask [...]