Rural programs sometimes struggle to get funding, can have lower participation rates and might have residents with lower incomes who can’t afford outdoors activities
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Posted inHealth
How Colorado training programs aim to cut mental health care stigma among farmers and ranchers
Hundreds of clinicians, medical professionals and pastors have been trained in early detection, intervention and ways to listen with ears tuned to the stresses and loneliness of rural life.
Posted inArts
An arts oasis on Colorado’s high plains is reckoning with changing climates of all kinds
Maureen Hearty and Kirsten Stoltz’s big idea for Prairie Sea Projects is to get people thinking about the uncertain future of life in eastern Colorado by embracing the best parts of rural life
Posted inArts
160 acres of sculptures are on display in rural Colorado through June 2025
Black Cube, a Denver-based nomadic art museum, helped produce Marguerite Humeau’s “Orisons,” the largest earthwork by a single female artist
Posted inEconomy
Rural Colorado to benefit from $85 million for workforce development — including nursing resources — amid shortage
Colorado needs thousands more nurses a year to keep up with growing demand amid staffing shortages and retirements in the health care workforce. But a $1.3 million grant to the Colorado State University Pueblo graduate school and nursing program as part of an $85 million state project is intended to keep adequate health care flowing […]
Posted inEconomy
What’s Working: Inflation in rural Colorado is likely higher than it is in the Denver area
The standard measure of inflation is only calculated for Denver and not the rest of the state. But here’s one new methodology.
Posted inEconomy
5 years in, Opportunity Zone investments in Colorado are yielding important dividends
Ranked second in the nation for program success, Colorado is a billion dollars richer in projects, with rural towns and cities both reaping the bounty
Posted inTransportation
A change to Colorado’s transportation funding process was tucked in a free-transit bill. Rural leaders are livid.
An amendment to a bill about free transit fares is stoking ire over how it would affect transportation funding for parts of Colorado with low population
Posted inHealth
Rural Colorado tries to fill health worker gaps with apprenticeships
Far from the Front Range, worker shortages mount as baby boomers retire, young people move away and demand rises for health care in homes and facilities
Posted inWater
50,000 southeast Colorado residents will finally get clean drinking water thanks to federal infrastructure funding
A decades-old pipeline project in the Arkansas Valley region will receive $60 million to finish construction by 2029