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As we speak is a giant day for The Colorado Solar — we’re kicking off our winter membership drive! This annual drive is necessary for The Solar as a result of the Colorado Media Undertaking is matching the primary $5,000 in new or upgrading memberships we obtain through the drive. It’s the quickest approach to double your influence!
Members present most of our annual income, permitting us to plan, journey, write, {photograph}, edit and produce the tales you depend on from The Solar. We fairly actually can’t be The Solar with out our members. And you would be considered one of them. Our objective is to realize 200 new and upgrading members by Dec. 17. So should you’ve thought of turning into a member, now could be the time!
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Irrespective of the way you select to assist The Solar, we’re grateful for you. Now, let’s get to at present’s tales.
ECONOMY

There’s a mismatch between job openings and seekers, with about 121,000 open jobs and 106,000 unemployed folks in Colorado. The answer? The brand new Training to Employment Alliance thinks it begins with adjusting expertise taught in colleges to higher match the wants of employers. Clare Zhang explains extra.
HIGH COST OF COLORADO

The rise in common ticket costs at Denver’s Bellco Theatre since 2018
Simply how far are you able to stretch your greenback at Purple Rocks? For The Solar’s newest installment of the collection Excessive Value of Colorado, Parker Yamasaki seems to be at ticket value developments, how attendance at Colorado’s cultural establishments has dipped and different modifications within the dwell music trade that specialists say are making an evening out costlier.
OUTDOORS

The statewide coalition of land conservation teams, Preserve It Colorado, is on a mission to preserve 3.3 million acres of personal land by 2033. (For perspective: that’s twice the quantity of personal land in Colorado that has been protected since 1965.) Jason Blevins explains how they plan to deal with the formidable objective.
MORE NEWS
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TV reporter Darcy Moreland has taken a job at a Cheyenne station and instantly units out to make an impression on the metropolis’s “rodeo days” competition. However on this excerpt from “Tough Trip,” the primary quantity of writer Paulla Hunter’s journey collection constructed round Moreland’s character, her efficiency is interrupted by a sudden and mystifying demise that units up the investigation to unravel the unusual chain of occasions.
Talking of stretching your greenback … please do not forget that by turning into a member at present, or upgrading your membership, the Colorado Media Undertaking will match the worth of your membership and double your influence in making this reporting doable.
Have an excellent Tuesday.
— Olivia & the entire workers of The Solar