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Danceportation: Just the Ticket to a Joyful Trip

July 18, 2022 Like 0 Michelle Mead

Memorial Day Weekend is traditionally when masses of Americans come out of their winter shells and start stretching toward the sun and other activities to get their blood pumping. This year, we are “especially hungry,” in the words of Erin…

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EPA Sued for OK’ing Colorado Smog-Reduction Plan with Fracking Loophole

July 16, 2022 Like 0 Guest Contributor

The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a lawsuit aimed at forcing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reject Colorado's plan to bring down air pollution to safe levels because of a loophole allowing oil and gas operators to pollute…

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Asylum: A Book By Nina Shope That Gives the Hysteric a Voice

July 15, 2022 2 0 Melayna Alicea

Asylum is Shope’s first full-length novel, but it is far from her first published piece of literature. Shope has short pieces published in several journals in addition to her first larger work, Hangings, which is a collection of three novellas.

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Chasing Progress: Poverty Gap for Black and Latino Senior Citizens Grew Over Last Decade

July 12, 2022 Like 0 Robert Davis

Denver VOICE examined Denver’s poverty rate for Black and Latino seniors as part of Chasing Progress, a Colorado News Collaborative project on social, economic, and health equity among Black and Latino Coloradans. The project analyzed the Census Bureau's 5-year American…

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$State says 20,559 ‘invalid’ COVID-19 vaccines account for fraction of total administered$

State says 20,559 ‘invalid’ COVID-19 vaccines account for fraction of total administered

July 11, 2022 Like 0 Guest Contributor

Nearly 11 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Colorado since late 2020. Of those, the state health department says 20,559 have been determined to be “invalid.”

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End of an Era Aiding Homeless in Colorado

July 10, 2022 1 0 Guest Contributor

Denver estimates it has a shortage of 27,000 housing units considered affordable for families earning less than 30% of the area median income, about $33,000 a year for a family of four.

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Cost to Mesa County for scandal surrounding Tina Peters is at $1.3M and rising

July 6, 2022 Like 0 Guest Contributor

One million, two hundred sixty-thousand, five hundred fifteen dollars, and 92 cents — and counting. That’s the cost in taxpayer money to Mesa County, to date at least, for the issues surrounding Clerk Tina Peters in her so-far failed attempts…

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Too Clever For Itself – Be Careful What You Ask For: How the Supreme Court’s Eviscerations Of Roe V. Wade May Backfire

July 6, 2022 Like 0 Aaron Harber

“Leaving well enough alone” parallels the legal concept of “settled law” or “stare decisis,” but a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, having very strongly- held political views regarding abortion and believing they were responsible for saving millions of lives,…

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Loveland Ski Area pioneer to be inducted into Colorado Snowsports Hall of Fame

July 4, 2022 Like 0 Guest Contributor

Every year the Colorado Snowsports Museum and Hall of Fame in Vail inaugurates a new class of snowsport legends to its hall of fame. The 2022 hall of fame class features five members and among them is Loveland Ski Area…

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AANHPI communities advocate for more inclusive social studies curriculum in Colorado

July 1, 2022 Like 0 Guest Contributor

Every six years, Colorado updates its social studies standards. This year, the Board of Education is grappling with mixed feedback from the public on how many times various minority groups should be referenced in curriculum guidelines.