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Coffman ends immigrant push
IT’S DRIER IN
COLORADO THIS
YEAR THAN LAST
January through August
marked the third-warmest
eight-month period on re-
cord in the contiguous U.S.
— and Colorado was no
exception.
The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administra-
tion says the average tem-
perature in the U.S. during
that period was 56.7 degrees,
2.8 degrees warmer than the
20th century average.
Nearly all of Colorado
experienced “much above
average” temperatures dur-
ing the period, NOAA re-
ported. Areas of the state
that did not fall into that
category had above-average
temperatures.
Total precipitation levels
from June through August
varied across the U.S., in-
cluding Colorado.
The state’s northwest,
northeast and southwest
corners were either below
average or much below av-
erage. The southeast and
central parts of the state
were near average, above
average or much above aver-
age.
Conditions are drier in
Colorado this year than last.
As of Thursday, 32.51 per-
cent of Colorado was abnor-
mally dry, mostly in the
northeast and northwest,
and 3.72 percent was in
moderate drought.
— Jesse Paul, The Denver Post
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nearly 3,400 patient families
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an unauthorized party” on
July 11. After a forensic inves-
tigation, it was determined
some potentially compro-
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names, addresses, birth dates
and patient phone numbers,
along with “limited clinical
information, such as diagno-
sis and treatment received.”
Neither patient charts nor
electronic medical records
systems were compromised.
No Social Security numbers
or financial information was
included. Children’s said it
has no evidence data in the
emails has been misused or
even accessed.
The hospital is establishing
a call center to answer ques-
tions that will open Monday
and can be reached at 888-
398-6989 between 9 a.m. and
9 p.m. on weekdays.
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Mike Getty, chief preparator at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, exposes the post
orbital horn of the triceratops fossil that was found in Thornton. Joe Amon, The Denver Post
T. rextraction: Tooth
found in fossil trove
By Danika Worthington
The Denver Post
Workers at the Denver Muse-
um of Nature & Science this
week found a Tyrannosaurus
rex tooth while excavating at the
construction site in Thornton
where they earlier discovered
triceratops fossils.
The T. rex probably was scav-
enging when it came across the
triceratops’ body. But the exca-
vators don’t expect to find any
more of the large dinosaur — T.
rex teeth sometimes fell out as
they chowed down.
The museum announced
Thursday’s discovery Friday at
a news conference where work-
ers opened a plaster cast used to
transport the fossils, showing
off the horn that Aug. 25 alerted
construction workers to the
presence of the triceratops.
At that time, Saunders Con-
struction workers noticed an
inch and a half of the bone and
immediately shut down their
earth-moving machines. Muse-
um dinosaur curator Joe Sertich
said he visited the site the fol-
lowing Monday, expecting to
find a couple of small chunks of
bone. But within 30 minutes, he
found three or four other fossils.
“I think I had a heart attack on
the site,” he said, jokingly add-
ing, “We had to pull in some
medical help.”
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A paint brush placed next to the T. rex tooth provides scale for
the size of the find. Courtesy of Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Workers have found about
three-quarters of the triceratops
skull along with its horns, jaw,
jaw beak, frill, shoulder-blade,
vertebrae, ribs and humerus.
They don’t expect to find all of
the bones since most animal
skeletons are scattered by scav-
engers — such as a hungry T.
rex — or by water before they’re
fossilized.
Although this is the most
complete triceratops found on
the Front Range, it’s not enough
to tell if the creature was male
or female. It is clear, though, the
dinosaur was not fully grown.
The first triceratops ever found
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Triceratopses found along the
Front Range are smaller than
those found in the Midwest,
which could be 20 to 30 feet
long and up to 8 feet tall.
“This is really the story of the
Front Range, and I want you all to
go out and start digging in your
backyard so we can find more of
those things,” Sertich joked.
Crews are still at the construc-
tion site, but the museum thinks
they’ll be wrapping up soon. The
city of Thornton and Saunders
Construction aren’t overly con-
cerned that the timeline for the
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U.S. representative
won’t press Congress
to vote on bill to help
youths stay in country
By Mark K. Matthews
The Denver Post
WASHINGTON » U.S. Rep. Mike
Coffman no longer will press
Congress to vote on a bill to help
young immigrants who are at risk
for deportation — an about-face
that critics said confirms their
suspicions that the Aurora Re-
publican launched the short-lived
effort simply for political gain.
Three days ago, Coffman filed
what’s called a “discharge peti-
tion” to try to force the House to
vote on a measure that would sus-
pend the deportation of immi-
grants registered with the 2012
program called Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA,
which President Donald Trump is
canceling.
It was an unusual move, as dis-
charge petitions typically aren’t
used by the members of the party
in power, but the fifth-term Re-
publican said it was necessary to
compel his GOP colleagues to
take steps to protect DACA recip-
ients.
“DACA participants grew up
here, went to school here, and
should be allowed to stay here.
The time has come to take ac-
tion,” he announced on Twitter.
He also told The Denver Post
that he had alerted House leaders
about the discharge petition but
insisted he didn’t need their ap-
proval.
“I wasn’t looking for their sup-
port,” Coffman said.
Now, however, Coffman said he
has stopped trying to gather the
218 signatures needed to com-
plete a discharge petition and
force a floor vote.
“I had a conversation with
House Speaker (Paul) Ryan (on)
Wednesday morning and he said
that he’s committed to get DACA
passed, albeit he wants to do it
with some type of border securi-
ty; I’m fine with that,” Coffman
said Friday. “What I told him is I’d
hold it back, but if I saw that he
wasn’t making progress in terms
of putting something forward,
that I would push the discharge
petition.”
Democrats jumped on the ma-
neuver as proof that Coffman isn’t
serious about helping the 17,000
DACA recipients in Colorado and
is interested only in aiding his
own re-election prospects.
Coffman, once an immigration
hard-liner, dramatically changed
his positions after the state legis-
lature turned his House seat into a
swing district that’s about 20 per-
cent Latino. Immigration contin-
ues to be a challenging issue for
him.
“Now that Rep. Coffman scored
the political points, he’s fallen back
in line with Republican leadership
hell-bent on blocking immigration
reform,” Javier Gamboa, a spokes-
man for the Democratic Congres-
sional Campaign Committee, said
in a statement. “This heartless
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