Good morning and comfortable spring! Simply kidding, everyone knows it’s solely the primary faux spring and that March is Colorado’s snowiest month. However seeing the gobs of individuals — walkers, runners, cyclists with mud-spray on the backs of their T-shirts — on the Platte River Path throughout Sunday’s 60-degree sunshine would make anybody who hasn’t lived right here lengthy assume winter was over.
It will have been the right temperature to look at a children soccer event, however the snowstorm two days earlier wiped my total weekend schedule clear. Not too usually you possibly can snowshoe 20 minutes from Denver someday and stroll in shorts the subsequent.
Gotta love Colorado! And I hope together with it, its homegrown, journalist-run, nonprofit information supply bringing you worthwhile info from each nook.
BUSINESS
The Empowering Rural America program — a part of the Biden administration’s Inflation Discount Act — had awarded Colorado co-ops greater than $3 billion in loans and grants to assist transfer away from coal to cleaner sources of vitality. Not solely has the funding been frozen, Mark Jaffe experiences, however particulars concerning the awards have been faraway from the USDA’s web site.
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
The yearly value for the Colorado Youth Advisory Council program on the state Capitol
Because the price range shortfall that legislators are working to shut continues to develop, lawmakers are sending the message that every part is on the desk to save cash, Jesse Paul experiences — together with chopping the comparatively low cost program that introduced teenagers from each state Senate district and two tribes underneath the dome to find out about lawmaking.
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WATER
On paper, floating photo voltaic panels on high of the reservoirs and canals that retailer and transfer water round Colorado may forestall 429,000 acre-feet of water being misplaced to evaporation — greater than the water utilized by the entire state’s cities and cities mixed. However as Shannon Mullane experiences, getting the thought to actuality from paper means crossing a various set of boundaries.
OUTDOORS
For the primary time in additional than eight years, the Paralympic World Cup is again on U.S. snow, and Eugene Buchanan has the tales of the Colorado athletes who need to make the second rely.
ECONOMY
Solely two dozen federal staff had filed for unemployment advantages as of Tuesday. However the knowledge doesn’t embrace the impression of the “Valentine’s Day Bloodbath” of mass layoffs despatched Feb. 14. Tamara Chuang experiences on which staff can file for unemployment — even when their firings have been for “efficiency causes” — on this week’s “What’s Working” column.
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COLORADO SUNDAY
We already know there may be water on the moon, however for future lunar expeditions, we’re going to want to know much more about the place, how a lot and in what kind the water is out there. Enter Lockheed Martin’s house division, headquartered in Littleton, and the Lunar Trailblazer venture. Tamara Chuang has extra from the intersection of house exploration and geology.
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Take pleasure in the remainder of first faux spring whereas it lasts as a result of, hopefully, winter isn’t completed.
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