Left Behind Workers Fund, co-created by Mark Newhouse, helped distribute $38 million to people who could not legally collect government aid after the pandemic left them jobless.
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Littwin: The new COVID booster is out. They tell us it works on the new variants. Is anyone listening?
I understand COVID fatigue. But, by my reckoning, vaccine fatigue makes absolutely no sense.
Posted inOpinion Columns
Nicolais: As testing scores tumble, our commitment to Colorado teachers must redouble
Recent studies show that the COVID pandemic led to big drops in testing scores. We must provide more resources to educators
Posted inEducation, News
Colorado will provide free education to students across health care jobs as it tries to fill dire worker shortages
A state effort to ease Colorado’s dire shortage of health care workers will offer tuition-free training for several thousand students, providing a much-needed boost to hospitals and clinics. The Care Forward Colorado Program will invest $26 million of federal COVID stimulus funding into the program for two years, guaranteeing free schooling for students interested in […]
Posted inEducation, News
Colorado students have recovered some academic ground since COVID arrived but deficits remain, test results show
Colorado students made significant headway in overcoming academic setbacks due to pandemic-related hiccups in learning, but their progress still hasn’t set them fully back on track, according to state standardized test data published by the Colorado Department of Education on Wednesday. Colorado Measures of Academic Success assessments are typically conducted each spring as a way […]
Posted inBusiness, News
Tourists quickly returned to Colorado’s mountain towns during COVID. But they’re just now getting back to Denver.
The urban workhorse of Colorado’s tourism industry is finally recovering from COVID. Denver and its Front Range neighbors have endured long-haul symptoms from the pandemic, as convention and city tourism struggled to recover from shutdowns and the collapse of both leisure and business tourism. While other more rural communities rebounded quickly — perhaps too quickly […]
Posted inSunLit, SunLit Interviews
SunLit Interview: Jenny Shank drew on experience to reach across chasms in “Mixed Company”
Jenny Shank is a Boulder-based writer whose stories, essays, satire, and book reviews have appeared in many publications, including The Atlantic, The Washington Post and The Guardian. Her work has been honorably mentioned by The Best American Essays and the Pushcart Prize anthology. She writes a monthly newsletter called The Tumbleweed, at https://jennyshank.substack.com. She teaches […]
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Littwin: One million Americans have died from COVID. How did we allow that to happen?
It has been months since I last wrote about COVID because, well, I just gave up. Most Americans, including presumably many of my readers, had tired of COVID, tired of hearing about COVID, tired of being lectured about COVID and decided, in what seemed like a national epiphany, that whether or not COVID was done […]
Posted inEquity, News
Nonprofit gives $1.5M cash to more than 600 formerly incarcerated Coloradans transitioning back to community
Heather Fitzsimmons was working on getting her life back together and staying clean while on probation in Aurora when she noticed what seemed to be an extra deposit in the account where she gets paid. Fitzsimmons called to alert her employers at the Center for Employment Opportunities in Denver, part of a national organization providing […]
Posted inArts
The curtain fell on Colorado’s arts scene during COVID. Can it dance back to life?
Denver’s major performing arts companies have, in fits and starts, been on a comeback season. But it is proving to be a long climb back.