While you slept over the weekend, an estimated 9.5 million birds took to Colorado’s sky. During the peak of this spring songbird migration period, over 350 million birds fly over the continent each night, pursuing the rush of tasty bugs and warm weather that comes with spring, the resources and conditions necessary to raise their […]
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Record demand for Colorado resort homes is further pinching affordable housing for locals
As a young teacher 25 years ago, Larkin Beaman almost bought a hotel room that was converted into a studio condo in downtown Telluride. It was $80,000 for 371 square feet. Last month the ninth-grade teacher at Telluride High School toured the same unit. It was going for $445,000 and sold in a blink. “I […]
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A curiosity about Indigenous rights led a Colorado author to research migration. But a book wasn’t in her plans.
Kelsey Freeman is a writer and educator born in Denver and raised in Carbondale. Her writing focuses on immigration policy, Indigenous rights, social justice and public policy. After graduating from Bowdoin College, she received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach English and study migration in central Mexico. She currently lives in Bend, Oregon, and runs a college-readiness program […]