Some Colorado towns are preparing to sue to make the post office prioritize mail over last-mile deliveries for Amazon.
Nancy Lofholm
Special to The Colorado Sun
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Posted inBusiness
Soaring utility bills send huge waves of people scrambling for help keeping heat and lights on in Colorado
More than 100,000 people have called for aid paying gas and electric bills, but the help is available only once per customer
Posted inEnvironment
There’s a crappy situation in Colorado’s backcountry: too many pooping hikers
Outdoor recreation groups hope handing out poop-disposal kits will cut down on the problem piling up on Colorado’s public lands
Posted inHealth
How Meeker, a small hunter’s haven, became a medical destination
Pioneers Medical Center is offering top-notch orthopedic care, and becoming a life blood of a historically oil and gas community in the process.
Posted inHealth
“Golden Girls” find community and safety in Western Slope shelter
Women account for about 35% of people who are homeless in Mesa County, where the wait for subsidized housing is 3 years.
Posted inElection 2022
Lauren Boebert’s reelection prospects unclear as Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District race remains too close to call
Boebert regained the lead over Democratic challenger Adam Frisch on Thursday. The former Aspen city councilman has defied expectations and remains in the race.
Posted inSocial Services
Even with Congress on its side, Crested Butte still can’t stamp out its Amazon-induced postal problems
Ongoing U.S. Postal Service issues in the mountain community have Crested Butte residents, town officials at wits’ end
Posted inColoradans
An old Grand Junction ball court came back to life with a game that hadn’t been played there for nearly 50 years
Pro-level athletes competed in a Basque handball exhibition last weekend, bringing lamb, red wine and community spirit
Posted inHousing
Flurry of sales, lot-rent increases hit Colorado mobile home parks as new laws reform the industry
Park owners decry a “hostile legislative climate” while residents struggle — with only occasional success — to purchase their communities
Posted inArts, Culture, News
Young Jamin Wright could make anything from wood. It was harps that hit just the right note.
GRAND JUNCTION — Harps have a reputation that has a whole lot to do with chubby cupids and highbrow-hotel lobbies. Harp music is the Pearly Gates’ soundtrack. But inside a metal building tucked between a supply business and a laboratory in an industrial section of Grand Junction, it is quickly obvious that harps are also […]