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Just over two years after Jason “Jay” Taylor died during a skiing accident at Keystone, his mother, Lynda Weston Taylor, continues to raise awareness about ski area safety. But she’s also speaking out about an issue that compounded the grief she felt after Jay’s passing. Neither his organs nor his tissues were harvested after he died even though he’d formally designated himself an organ donor on his driver’s license.

On Friday, February 9, United States Olympic Committee Chairman Larry Probst ruled out the possibility of bringing the Winter Olympics to Denver, or any other American city, in 2026.

Last week, state lawmakers withdrew a bill in the General Assembly that would have created a pilot project for a “supervised injection site” in Denver for intravenous drug users. The project would have mirrored a safe-injection site in Vancouver, one of the few in North America.

Just before a Denver City Council committee approved a moratorium on slot-home construction last week, Councilman Rafael Espinoza told us about efforts the city has made to curb construction of the controversial homes or two multi-unit buildings on a single lot that have drawn the ire of residents.

Late last year, as we’ve reported, Loveland Ski Area employee Adam Lee was killed while working on the Magic Carpet, a conveyor belt-type lift for beginning skiers. A report about the accident issued by the Colorado Passenger Tramway Safety Board revealed that there was nothing mechanically wrong with the lift, which didn’t stop until its mechanism crushed Lee to death, but leaves unanswered questions about why he was working beneath it for more than an hour. Now, Erika Lee, Adam’s widow, has created a website that castigates the resort even as it reveals the pain she’s feeling after losing her husband in such a tragic way.