Mike Sweeney
@msweeney01.bsky.social
Photojournalist based in southern Colorado
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Contributor: @coloradosun.com @coloradotrust.org @coloradonewsline.com cpr.org
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Immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra can leave ICE custody on bond, judge rules coloradosun.com/2025/12/21/j...
Immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra can leave ICE custody on bond, judge rules
Vizguerra, who was held for nine months, must post a $5,000 bond and is expected to be out within the next couple of days
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December 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra can leave ICE custody on bond, judge rules coloradosun.com/2025/12/21/j...
On the rural Colorado plains, cancer patients with no local options rely on this traveling oncologist coloradosun.com/2025/12/21/r...
On the rural Colorado plains, cancer patients with no local options rely on this traveling oncologist
Most of the 90 oncologists in the state are based in Front Range cities, minus a handful in western Colorado
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December 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
On the rural Colorado plains, cancer patients with no local options rely on this traveling oncologist coloradosun.com/2025/12/21/r...
Immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra gets bond hearing after 9 months in ICE detention coloradosun.com/2025/12/19/j...
Immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra gets bond hearing after 9 months in ICE detention
The immigration judge overseeing the hearing said she needed more time to decide whether Vizguerra should be released
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December 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra gets bond hearing after 9 months in ICE detention coloradosun.com/2025/12/19/j...
Critical Arkansas Valley water pipeline gets federal bipartisan boost, awaits Trump’s OK coloradosun.com/2025/12/18/c...
Critical Arkansas Valley water pipeline gets federal bipartisan boost, awaits Trump’s OK
The measure would lower borrowing costs and make it easier for low-income communities to pay their share of costs.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Critical Arkansas Valley water pipeline gets federal bipartisan boost, awaits Trump’s OK coloradosun.com/2025/12/18/c...
After 360 miles of whitewater and irrigation, the Arkansas River leaves Colorado as a trickle coloradosun.com/2025/12/07/w...
After 360 miles of whitewater and irrigation, the Arkansas River leaves Colorado as a trickle
By the time it reaches Holly, nearly to Kansas, the river is left with salts and pollutants picked up along the way
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December 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
After 360 miles of whitewater and irrigation, the Arkansas River leaves Colorado as a trickle coloradosun.com/2025/12/07/w...
Swisspod proved the largest hyperloop test facility in the world — in Pueblo — works coloradosun.com/2025/12/01/s...
Swisspod proved the largest hyperloop test facility in the world — in Pueblo — works
It will be a long time before tests of the tech being developed in Colorado Springs confirm humans can be shot through the tube at 300 mph
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December 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Swisspod proved the largest hyperloop test facility in the world — in Pueblo — works coloradosun.com/2025/12/01/s...
Families sue Pueblo funeral home after relatives identified among 24 found in hidden room coloradosun.com/2025/11/21/f...
Families sue Pueblo funeral home after relatives identified among 24 found in hidden room
Colorado Bureau of Investigation continues work to identify the remains, some of which were concealed in boxes and discarded in a basement for up to 15 years
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November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Families sue Pueblo funeral home after relatives identified among 24 found in hidden room coloradosun.com/2025/11/21/f...
Colorado clean air officials poised for another retreat in coal fight, environmental groups charge coloradosun.com/2025/11/20/c...
Colorado clean air officials poised for another retreat in coal fight, environmental groups charge
Colorado health officials want to withdraw the looming closure of Xcel’s Comanche 2 coal power unit in Pueblo from federal review in order to extend its operations, but environmental groups charge the...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Colorado clean air officials poised for another retreat in coal fight, environmental groups charge coloradosun.com/2025/11/20/c...
With one coal-fired plant out for months, Xcel appeals to keep Comanche 2 open beyond December shutdown deadline coloradosun.com/2025/11/11/x...
With one coal-fired plant out for months, Xcel appeals to keep Comanche 2 open beyond December shutdown deadline
Keeping Comanche 2 open will help protect consumers from huge price spikes during time that another troubled Pueblo unit closed for repairs
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November 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
With one coal-fired plant out for months, Xcel appeals to keep Comanche 2 open beyond December shutdown deadline coloradosun.com/2025/11/11/x...
Officer who used Flock cameras to falsely accuse Denver woman of theft will face unspecified disciplinary action coloradosun.com/2025/11/11/c...
Officer who used Flock cameras to falsely accuse Denver woman of theft will face unspecified disciplinary action
“You know we have cameras in that town,” Sgt. Jamie Milliman said, according to a doorbell camera footage. “You can’t get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing.”
coloradosun.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Officer who used Flock cameras to falsely accuse Denver woman of theft will face unspecified disciplinary action coloradosun.com/2025/11/11/c...
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New companies sprouting up in smaller rural Colorado areas to benefit local economies
New companies sprouting up in smaller rural Colorado areas to benefit local economies
Nearly 75 small Colorado businesses in 20 economically challenged counties have benefited from a state tax incentive created in 2015 via legislation.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
New companies sprouting up in smaller rural Colorado areas to benefit local economies
Afghan immigrant who helped U.S. military fight Taliban arrested by ICE coloradosun.com/2025/11/07/i...
Afghan immigrant who helped U.S. military fight Taliban arrested by ICE
The father of four, who had settled in Colorado and gotten his commercial driver’s license, was driving a truck through Indiana when he was taken by masked ICE agents in October
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November 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Afghan immigrant who helped U.S. military fight Taliban arrested by ICE coloradosun.com/2025/11/07/i...
The Arkansas River’s Big Timbers region reflects a complex history of Western expansion, Indigenous displacement coloradosun.com/2025/11/02/a...
The Arkansas River’s Big Timbers region reflects a complex history of Western expansion, Indigenous displacement
The waterway cuts through a tangled and tragic past in southeastern Colorado that still echoes Western expansion, Indigenous displacement.
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November 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The Arkansas River’s Big Timbers region reflects a complex history of Western expansion, Indigenous displacement coloradosun.com/2025/11/02/a...
Xcel Energy’s on-again, off-again Pueblo power plant is offline again, this time for up to 8 months coloradosun.com/2025/10/29/c...
Xcel Energy’s on-again, off-again Pueblo power plant is offline again, this time for up to 8 months
The $1.3 billion Comanche 3 coal-fired plant has been offline this year during some of the summer’s hottest days when demand soared.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Xcel Energy’s on-again, off-again Pueblo power plant is offline again, this time for up to 8 months coloradosun.com/2025/10/29/c...
After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence coloradosun.com/2025/10/28/f...
After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence
Chrisanna Elser spent days collecting evidence, from apps on her phone to dashcam footage in her vehicle, to prove her whereabouts
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October 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence coloradosun.com/2025/10/28/f...
In Rocky Ford, watermelons, ditches and the Arkansas River tie a community to its past and inform its future coloradosun.com/2025/10/21/r...
In Rocky Ford, watermelons, ditches and the Arkansas River tie a community to its past and inform its future
The longest-running fair in Colorado has provided tax dollars and identity to a region that has struggled economically.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
In Rocky Ford, watermelons, ditches and the Arkansas River tie a community to its past and inform its future coloradosun.com/2025/10/21/r...
Climbing engineers identify possible new 14er in Colorado — and one that might need to be demoted coloradosun.com/2025/10/17/m...
Climbing engineers identify possible new 14er in Colorado — and one that might need to be demoted
Climbers with satellite-connected tools find East Crestone should replace Crestone Peak on the state’s list of 14ers
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October 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Climbing engineers identify possible new 14er in Colorado — and one that might need to be demoted coloradosun.com/2025/10/17/m...
Airlines that get federal subsidies to fly to small Colorado communities will continue flights during shutdown — for now coloradosun.com/2025/10/15/e...
Airlines that get federal subsidies to fly to small Colorado communities will continue flights during shutdown — for now
Denver International Airport has the most federally subsidized essential air service routes of anywhere in the nation. That includes flights to Cortez, Alamosa and Pueblo.
coloradosun.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Airlines that get federal subsidies to fly to small Colorado communities will continue flights during shutdown — for now coloradosun.com/2025/10/15/e...
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Geddy and Alex Send a Message to Rush Fans
YouTube video by Rush
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October 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
WOW! Rush going back on tour www.youtube.com/watch?v=koiX...
In Lower Arkansas River Valley, a $1.39B pipeline is the Holy Grail of clean water coloradosun.com/2025/10/03/l...
In Lower Arkansas River Valley, a $1.39B pipeline is the Holy Grail of clean water
Years of buying radium-free water from vending machines is coming to an end, but the cost to build the Arkansas Valley Conduit continues to rise.
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October 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
In Lower Arkansas River Valley, a $1.39B pipeline is the Holy Grail of clean water coloradosun.com/2025/10/03/l...
Investigators ID 6 of 24 bodies found at Pueblo funeral home coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/a...
Investigators ID 6 of 24 bodies found at Pueblo funeral home
Authorities said they plan to identify all of the bodies that were found inside Davis Mortuary before filing charges
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October 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Investigators ID 6 of 24 bodies found at Pueblo funeral home coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/a...
“I do have hope”: Immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra has been locked in Aurora ICE facility for more than six months coloradosun.com/2025/09/30/j...
“I do have hope”: Immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra has been locked in Aurora ICE facility for more than six months
Vizguerra’s attorneys are trying fresh legal maneuver now that she has been detained for more than 180 days
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September 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“I do have hope”: Immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra has been locked in Aurora ICE facility for more than six months coloradosun.com/2025/09/30/j...
Pueblo has a fraught history with the Arkansas River, but a new $11 million park could change that coloradosun.com/2025/09/21/p...
Pueblo has a fraught history with the Arkansas River, but a new $11 million park could change that
A dangerous dam is turned into a riverside haven, in Pueblo’s latest bid to change its relationship to the Arkansas River
coloradosun.com
September 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Pueblo has a fraught history with the Arkansas River, but a new $11 million park could change that coloradosun.com/2025/09/21/p...
Fort Garland to reinstate water sales to rural San Luis Valley residents after abruptly cutting them off weeks ago coloradosun.com/2025/09/18/f...
Fort Garland to reinstate water sales to rural San Luis Valley residents after abruptly cutting them off weeks ago
Water sales to unincorporated Costilla County could resume as early as next week after the Fort Garland water board reversed course
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September 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Fort Garland to reinstate water sales to rural San Luis Valley residents after abruptly cutting them off weeks ago coloradosun.com/2025/09/18/f...