About one in every two tests conducted statewide show radon levels exceed EPA health limits. Radon kills more than 500 annually in Colorado.
Jennifer Oldham
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Posted inEquity
Programs offering universal basic income — or direct cash with no strings attached — are increasing across Colorado
Dozens of Colorado nonprofits are funding direct cash programs they say have led to economic stability for individuals and families.
Posted inMarshall Fire
This Colorado scientist fled the Marshall fire, then returned to study how it happened
In 2021, the devastating Marshall fire showed wildfire can strike Colorado in almost any place or season. Scientists now hope to glean lessons from it for communities across the West.
Posted inEnvironment
Citizen scientists want clarity on hidden emissions from Pueblo’s coal-fired power plant
People in Pueblo are at the forefront of an emerging partnership between activists, conservationists and a newly created state unit to quantify environmental justice hotspots in Colorado communities and the toxic pollutants that bedevil them.
Posted inBusiness, Coloradans, COVID, Culture, Food and Restaurants, Health, News
Record unemployment is leading to unprecedented food insecurity in Colorado
Mothers in Parachute cannot find formula to feed their babies. Isolated residents near Fairplay lack access to food. Unhoused people quarantined in a Denver motel need all meals brought to them. Migrant workers in Pueblo are without rice and beans. With unemployment about 30 times higher than the Great Recession’s peak— 231,610 initial claims were filed with […]
Posted inArts, Business, Coloradans, COVID, Culture
Colorado nonprofit coffers run dry during surge of demand sparked by coronavirus shutdown
Operators fielded seven times more calls than normal to a Colorado 2-1-1 hotline seeking food, rent, utility and child care assistance in the days after Colorado Gov. Jared Polis ordered nonessential businesses to close and residents to stay home to slow the spread of the coronavirus. With 127,393 Coloradans filing initial unemployment claims over a three-week period […]