Good morning and completely happy Presidents Day for all who rejoice.
At the moment kicks off the ultimate week of my 30s (howdy to my fellow February Pisces on the market) and it’s from my privileged place as an elder millennial — sufficiently old to recollect the pre-internet world, younger sufficient to be snug with Gen Z tradition — that I convey you one other “Attention-grabbing Colorado Reality I Discovered on TikTok.”
One in all my favourite accounts, @justinthetrees, rose to relative fame through the top of the pandemic by making a map of the USA the place every state was carved out of wooden from that state’s official state tree. However within the years since, he’s turn out to be a font of nice tree information, together with the very fact that there’s a tiny grove of paper birch timber exterior of Boulder which have turn out to be fully remoted from the remainder of that tree’s native vary.
He even drove from Utah to go to the tiny grove — a holdover from the final Ice Age — simply to see the paper birches in individual. It’s a brief little video, but it surely’s an incredible reminder that there’s deep historical past all over the place we glance. And we’re seeing the evolution of that historical past in a few of at the moment’s information, from the difficult story of a lacking marker to rewriting chook names to work by the USDA to assist protect small household agriculture.
So let’s mild some paper birch bark and get this fireplace going, lets?
SUN INVESTIGATION
Lawsuits filed previously 5 years for cash owed to UCHealth
Previously 4 years, nearly not one of the lawsuits filed over cash owed to the UCHealth system — a nonprofit neighborhood establishment that’s exempt from paying taxes — have been filed within the hospital system’s identify. And the observe of working with third-party debt assortment firms has shielded UCHealth from public scrutiny over the dimensions and frequency of such lawsuits — a median of greater than eight new instances per day — based on a 9News/Colorado Solar investigation executed in partnership with the Colorado Information Collaborative and KFF Well being Information. Solar reporter John Ingold and 9News reporter Chris Vanderveen have extra from the investigation.
FOOD
Within the outdated days, beef bought its USDA grades (“Prime,” “Selection,” “Choose,” and many others.) when a beef processor paid an inspector to journey to their plant to see the meat in individual. However a brand new pilot program would practice plant staff to take photographs and ship them to a distant USDA grader station. As Tracy Ross experiences, small rural processors say this might give them a leg up available in the market they desperately want.
CULTURE
Close to the nook of sixteenth and Wazee in downtown Denver, a small concrete block stands as a double ode to what’s not there. Till a few months in the past, the concrete block had supported a historic marker, put in final August within the coronary heart of what as soon as was Denver’s Chinatown — itself lacking for the reason that Nineteen Sixties, razed throughout one of many metropolis’s makes an attempt at “city renewal.” Reporter Parker Yamasaki takes us on a historical past lesson, with stops within the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty first centuries.
ECONOMY
This week’s “What’s Working” column takes a have a look at the most recent ColoradoCast report back to predict the subsequent six months of the economic system — spoiler, the probabilities of a recession are low. Tamara Chuang has this and extra information concerning the economic system, together with an replace on the Denver Primary Earnings Challenge.
MORE NEWS
COLORADO SUNDAY
There’s a nationwide motion to peck away at troubling chook names, like these named after slaveholders or Accomplice generals. The push to rename them echoes the geographic naming disputes that led to the transformation of Mount Blue Sky from Mount Evans or the handfuls of different websites labeled with a slur towards Native American girls being modified. However altering historical past is difficult. Michael Sales space digs into the controversy that’s stirring up amongst scientists and hobbyists.
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Thanks for sticking with us to begin your week, and say hello to your neighborhood timber for me. See you again right here tomorrow!
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