The piece begins with a reference to the racially insensitive incident involving Adonis Hoffman and CEO Dave Lougee, and the Board’s failure to conduct a thorough and independent investigation into that matter.
Specifics about this episode were reported by Deadline.com in March during what the site characterized as a proxy battle for TEGNA. The company has rebuffed acquisition overtures despite the preferences of some of its privately held investors. One stakeholder hedge fund Standard General is calling for a shakeup of the board and had initially nominated Hoffman for a seat. Lougee, a white University of Colorado Boulder graduate who was a 9News executive before being named to lead TEGNA in 2017, is said to have wound up on the hot seat after word surfaced about a 2014 industry event during which he mistook Hoffman, a longtime fixture in Washington media and regulatory circles who is Black, for a valet, handing him the ticket for his car. Lougee apologized afterward,
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Aurora family clinic frustrated COVID-19 vaccine signs cited for zoning violations
A day after hanging a COVID-19 vaccine advertisement, a family doctor in Aurora attracted lots of attention, just not the kind he expected. Author: Lori Lizarraga Updated: 8:15 PM MST March 2, 2021
AURORA, Colo. It took only a day for a family doctor in Aurora and his new COVID-19 vaccine advertisements to attract new patients and a zoning violation from the City of Aurora.
P.J. Parmar is the family doctor at Ardas Family Medicine in Aurora. The clinic serves roughly 10,000 asylum seekers and refugees in Colorado, more than any other provider for that population in the state.
Students asking for help bringing $75,000 Black history curriculum to their school
After advocating for Black history curriculum in Denver Public Schools, four students are nearing their goal. One local donor is the first to join their final push. Author: Lori Lizarraga Updated: 7:08 PM MST February 17, 2021
DENVER After a year and a half advocating for Black history curriculum in Denver Public Schools, four Denver students are the closest they have ever been to accomplishing that goal.
Now, they are calling on community partners to help fund this progress.
Kaliah Yizar (15), Dahni Austin (16), Alana Mitchell (17) and Janelle Nangah (18) are all students at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Early College (DMLK) in Denver. Since 2019, the four young ladies have been hard at work to bring a more inclusive account of American History to their school through the Black History 365 curriculum.
People of color have been vaccinated at a lower rate than white Coloradans, according to statewide data. Author: Lori Lizarraga Updated: 5:48 PM MST January 31, 2021
DENVER So far in Colorado, more white Coloradans have gotten their COVID-19 vaccine than those who are Black or Hispanic, according to statewide data. It s a disparity that Colorado Governor Jared Polis has called unacceptable.
The state is making more aggressive efforts to reach communities of color by bringing the vaccine directly to them where they live. Governor Polis visited several of those popup vaccine clinics Saturday, including Dahlia Square Senior Apartments, a senior center in a historically African American Denver neighborhood.