It’s March 3, aka 303 Day in our beloved state the place seemingly everybody has at the very least one T-shirt, baseball cap or beanie with the enduring Colorado C. And this yr, our state is celebrating its first official Purchase Colorado Day. We’ve acquired a entire story about it that features the added bonus of the Solar employees’s favourite homegrown companies, and I’ll add my native coffeehouse, Misplaced. It began as a meals truck in 2010 and now has 5 outlets within the south Denver ’burbs. Attempt the scratch-made caramel syrup.
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HEALTH
Within the two years since an investigation by The Colorado Solar and 9News discovered a harmful pattern of youngsters working away from youth facilities throughout the state, the state legislature has been finding out the issue. And as Jennifer Brown studies, a bundle of payments to focus on the issue contains the choice of creating it authorized for a state-owned youth heart to place up a safe fence — one thing presently solely allowed at juvenile detention facilities.
EQUITY
A 3-year mission to enhance and restore cell properties — whereas switching to extra environment friendly electrical home equipment — is focusing on the most important month-to-month invoice going through individuals residing in Lake County. Mark Jaffe has extra on how college students are engineering options for long-term financial savings.
HEALTH
A 2023 Western Colorado College research of Gunnison County’s senior inhabitants revealed some sobering issues. Nancy Lofholm has the story of how a scarcity of psychological well being care and in-home caregivers — and a rising charge of suicide amongst older residents — pushed the Gunnison Senior Heart to create a program designed to deal with a number of the most urgent issues on the root.
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
The share of Colorado’s 13,000 eating places which are independently owned
Senate Joint Decision 8 designates March 3 — often called 303 Day, for Colorado’s previously statewide space code — as Purchase Colorado Day and March 3-10 as Purchase Colorado Week. Jason Blevins digs into the state of Colorado enterprise and what lawmakers are hoping the decision will accomplish.
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With greater than 7,500 parcels of land in Colorado below some type of conservation easement, the authorized mechanism to maintain land undeveloped “in perpetuity” has been put to work for many years. However what occurs when the trusts charged with imposing the foundations drop the ball? Jerd Smith digs into how a two-story house off I-25 is making some query how everlasting easements actually are.
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Take pleasure in this sunny 303 Day, mates.
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