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POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
The tone Wednesday on the state Capitol was a departure from the sometimes optimistic opening day of the Common Meeting. Following the resignation of two Democrats final month who cited a poisonous work surroundings and a formal reprimand of one other earlier this week, Home Speaker Julie McCluskie’s opening speech known as for treating one another with kindness. Right here’s extra from Jesse Paul and Brian Eason on the legislative session’s opening remarks.
ARTS
An upcoming exhibition on the Colorado Photographic Arts Heart will show the work of 27 Colorado artists who served within the army. “By means of Their Lens: Private Initiatives by Veterans” collects and shows the works of those that participated in a free six-month program that supplied veterans with instruction and assets for growing a images observe. See a few of their work and listen to a few of their tales on this article from Parker Yamasaki.
SOCIAL SERVICES
A toddler welfare caseworker in Larimer County is going through 99 felony counts for allegedly failing to test on reported instances of abuse and neglect and submitting false paperwork. It’s a case just like one in Moffat County from 2020, and one in Denver from 2015. Jennifer Brown has extra on how Colorado has didn’t strengthen legal guidelines that might defend households who’re the victims when caseworkers falsify information.
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Cooking Lessons with Iliana Regan. Iliana Regan grew up on a small farm in Indiana. You may be taught this by studying the primary web page of her memoir, “Burn the Place,” which I did whereas dwelling in Chicago final 12 months. Regan constructed her culinary movie star within the Midwest — Chicago, in truth — first by internet hosting an condo supper membership, then by working her means via Chicago’s best eating institutions earlier than opening her very personal restaurant, Elizabeth, in 2012. Elizabeth earned a Michelin star in its second 12 months of service, 2014, and continued to earn one yearly thereafter till Regan backed away from it in 2020.
Now, Regan is in Colorado. She’s spending January (and a pair days in February) as a resident of Telluride’s Ah Haa Faculty for the Arts. Throughout her residency, Regan will educate eight cooking lessons and host six pop-up dinners. Subsequent up is a lesson on sourdough, that includes a 20-year-old yeast starter that Regan has been “tending like a pet” for 20 years, as one New York Occasions reporter noticed a number of years in the past.
Lessons are expensive — $150 a pop — however then once more, so is a dinner at a Michelin-starred restaurant. Not less than with this value of admission you possibly can personally ask the chef how she did it.
$150; Jan. 14-Feb. 3; Ah Haa Faculty for the Arts, 155 W. Pacific Ave., Telluride
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