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Posted inEducation, News
Rural Colorado students go to college at low rates. But one town bucks the trend.
Sisters Shaelea and Ryanna Pruett can rattle off plenty of facts about raising cattle. The Fowler High School graduates know the ideal build for a bull and how to bottle-raise a calf. The sisters could try to make a living on their family ranch tucked between Manzanola and Fowler on Colorado’s southeastern plains. Instead, their […]
Posted inHousing, News
In housing-starved Kit Carson, Coloradans band together to find a solution
The sprawling, multi-level home commanding a corner lot on Kit Carson’s Main Street had seen better days. A double-whammy of passing time and pervasive asbestos long ago put to rest any thoughts of even a massive remodel. So Amy Johnson, whose relatives once inhabited the stucco home nearly a century ago, resolved to start from […]
Posted inCartoons, Opinion
What’d I Miss?: If Congress is broken, maybe we should stop and fix it
Myra has missed 30 years of her life, due to a coma, but has found a new friendship with her young neighbor, Ossie. Together, they both are searching for their place in this world. < Previous | Start from the beginning | More cartoons from The Colorado Sun
Posted inCOVID, News
The Colorado county with the highest coronavirus infection rate is now on the Eastern Plains
When the coronavirus began its deadly rampage across Colorado, the hardest hit communities were in the high country, where visitors brought the disease from across the globe, and on the populated Front Range, where it easily spread from person to person in crowded urban areas. But now the county with the highest coronavirus infection rate […]
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Opinion: Rural broadband goals shelved for backroom politics
Speaker of the Colorado state House, KC Becker, a Democrat, recently appointed Jon Becker, a Republican and no relation, to the Broadband Deployment Board without interviewing any other candidates. Brian Martin, interim director of the Broadband Fund confirmed Becker’s appointment. Becker’s appointment matters because this 16-person board, an arm of the state Department of Regulatory […]
Posted inGrowth, News
It’s not just Denver: Rural Colorado feeling housing crunch, with more residents spending half their income on a place to live
YUMA — In one of her two jobs, Kerri Horton visits the homes of new and expectant mothers to advise them on healthy practices as they step into parenthood. Along the way, she sometimes catches an inside look at what the lack of affordable housing looks like in rural Colorado. One young mother she counseled […]
Posted inColoradans, Growth, News, Politics and Government
Big questions about voting rights — and short-term rentals — splinter tiny Colorado town of Pitkin
Trouble began brewing in the Colorado mountain town of Pitkin the way trouble often begins in small towns: in a debate over the prospect of change. When the tiny Gunnison County municipality held its first trustee election in a decade, the April 2016 vote was really a referendum on whether or not to allow short-term […]
Posted inColoradans, Environment, Health, News, Politics and Government
Rural southeast Colorado loved its landfills. After a health department deal, some will finally close
Over the past few years, as the state health department told small landfill operators in southeast Colorado that it would be more closely enforcing environmental regulations — probably pushing some of them toward closure — locals pushed back with a familiar refrain: Urban rulemakers didn’t understand rural communities and burdened them with unfair expectations. “I […]