Good morning! It’s a snowy, windy morning for a lot of the state, so I hope you’re protected and heat, wherever you’re studying this text.
You may inform that it’s 2024’s first full week of enterprise right here in Colorado as a result of regardless of the climate, we’re completely bursting on the seams with information since our final check-in. I gained’t dilly or dally right here for too lengthy, as a result of we’ve a lot to learn.
So strap on these snowshoes and let’s hike this mountain of reports, we could?
ELECTION 2024
After serving 9 phrases within the Home of Representatives, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn turned the thirty eighth member of the Home to announce that he wouldn’t search reelection this yr. As Jesse Paul and Sandra Fish report, the sector is now open within the Republican stronghold of El Paso County.
ENVIRONMENT
The common temperature improve in Colorado between 1980 and 2022.
The projected further improve in common temperature by 2050.
The Colorado Local weather Report has been launched — and it’s not excellent news. Jerd Smith of Contemporary Water Information and The Solar’s environmental reporter Michael Sales space discover the stakes of what this report tasks for the way forward for Colorado’s water, wildfire and ozone air pollution.
HOUSING
At the least 13 owners acquired greater than $20,000 to settle their house owner’s affiliation debt beneath the Colorado Emergency Mortgage Help Program. This system comes as HOAs have initiated 3,000 foreclosures since 2018 (see The Solar’s earlier investigation right here). Jesse Paul has extra.
EDUCATION
Colorado’s charge of power absenteeism — when a scholar misses greater than 10% of a faculty yr — is rising. And as Tatiana Flowers studies, a 2-year-old college referred to as The Subject Academy is utilizing hands-on expertise and a cellular classroom to reengage chronically absent college students by displaying them the sensible connection between college work and the actual world.
MORE NEWS
COLORADO SUNDAY
Every fall, the SBT GRVL race brings 3,000 riders to a course that loops via the Yampa Valley and winds alongside county roads via Routt County ranching communities. The bikers come for the breathtaking magnificence, and in return pump cash to the economic system. However ranchers say their trash, egocentric attitudes and disrespect for security aren’t price it and wish them out. How does a county steadiness development whereas preserving its pure sources and heritage? Reporter Tracy Ross digs in.
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