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Marijuana plants are shown at a California Street Cannabis Company location in San Francisco on March 20, 2023. Along the West Coast, which has dominated U.S. marijuana production from long before legalization, producers are struggling with what many call the failed economics of legal pot...a challenge inherent in regulating a product that remains illegal under federal law. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Cannabis plants grow inside a cultivation facility near Lafayette on Dec. 13, 2018. The greenhouse used automated fans and lights to maintain efficient growing cycles while also reducing energy-consumption costs. (Andy Colwell, Special to The Colorado Sun)

“Unexpectedly high customer interest,” mainly driven by marijuana grow houses, led Xcel to pull the plug on a program helping businesses green their operations — for now. And of course, the announcement that the bonus program would close led to a wave of applications to beat the deadline, which compounded the problem, Mark Jaffe reports.

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Understaffing, lower quality of care and general disinvestment are common under private equity ownership in all kinds of service industries. Now the investors are moving into child care, and industry watchdogs and education advocates are ringing alarm bells, Andrea Steffes-Tuttle writes.

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Attendees share comments with sticky notes during the Cultivando event discussing the potential expansion of the Magellan gas storage facility on Sept. 7 at the Adams City High School campus in Commerce City. Magellan stated that notice of the proposed expansion would be distributed to the community in bilingual materials, but as of Sept. 7 none of the attendees had received any communications from the company. (Claudia A. Garcia, Special to The Colorado Sun)

Commerce City residents want the Colorado health department to deny a permit that would allow a pipeline company to expand its gasoline storage facility across the street from Dupont Elementary. But as The Commerce City Express’ Por Jaijongkit and The Sun’s Michael Booth report, they face an uphill battle.

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