This article first published on Rocky Mountain PBS. By Alison Berg, Rocky Mountain PBS SUPERIOR — After a vote on Friday, the Starbucks on Rock Creek Circle in Superior became the first location in Colorado to unionize its workers. Of the 29 employees in the store, 15 cast a ballot, with 12 in support, two […]
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These Coloradans faced foreclosure not from their mortgage lender, but from their HOA
By Brittany Freeman, Rocky Mountain PBS. Data analysis by Sophie Chou and research by Mariam Elba, ProPublica This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Rocky Mountain PBS. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. AURORA — In a year when it felt […]
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Old ambulance finds new purpose as mobile mental health clinic for LGBTQ+ youth in the Denver area
By Amanda Horvath and Alexis Kikoen, Rocky Mountain PBS A new ambulance is now driving around the Denver metro area, but it has no intention of picking up emergency patients. Instead, this repurposed, retired ambulance will be taking care of people in a different way. The ambulance has been transformed into a mobile mental health […]
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What happens to luggage abandoned at Denver International Airport?
By Amanda Horvath, Rocky Mountain PBS Denver International Airport handles a massive amount of luggage every year. In 2019, 69 million passengers traveled through the airport with bags in tow. Some of those travelers left their empty bags behind. Sometimes people will throw away their luggage because they want to consolidate their things to save […]
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Colorado farmworkers pick food they can’t afford to buy themselves
By Sonia Gutierrez, Julio Sandoval, Amanda Horvath, Rocky Mountain PBS ARVADA — Working in the farm fields of Colorado to put food on people’s tables around the country doesn’t mean you can afford to put that very same food on your own table. Many studies show how often farm workers struggle to feed their own […]
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New fence at the edge of Cielo Vista Ranch interrupts 150-year-old religious pilgrimage
By Kate Perdoni, Rocky Mountain PBS A religious ceremony—the last of its kind in Colorado—stands threatened by private property rights. Each spring during Lent, a community gathers in a small village at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, as is has since the 1870s, for Via Crucis, or Stations of the Cross. The […]
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Stay-at-home order changed the way Coloradans work. But is it improving emissions?
By Clarissa Guy, Rocky Mountain PBS March 2020 marked the first stay-at-home order for Colorado. Since that time, the number of people working from home across the nation and the state has increased with the COVID-19 pandemic. This has pushed sustainability leaders to look at how telecommuting could decrease overall emissions. Jerry Tinianow served as […]
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20-year-old Pueblo woman was “close to dying” after strokes linked to coronavirus
By Brittany Freeman and Julio Sandoval, Rocky Mountain PBS PUEBLO — 2020 was a year of new beginnings for Jalyn Tenorio. It was the year the 20-year-old moved out on her own, leaving her hometown of La Junta for Pueblo to find new job opportunities. But as the year came to a close, a health […]