Good morning, Sunriser readers! I’m on the street to Pueblo, which implies this intro is definitely coming to you from a previous Parker. Previous Parker is sitting on her sofa, type of sleepy and stuffed with kung pao tofu (h/t to Solar editor Lance Benzel who advisable the recipe).
That’s truly what I wish to discuss this morning: tofu. Or, recipes basically. Certainly one of my pure responses to chaotic instances is to cook dinner extra. It began after I was in grad faculty, overworked and underslept, simply on the lookout for one thing to do with my fingers. Since then, it’s grow to be kind of a consolation exercise that helps me flip the amount down a pair notches on the finish of the day. Some individuals flip on a nature documentary, others go for a stroll. I open the New York Instances cooking app and begin submitting away recipes in my little digital recipe field. And these days I’ve bought numerous dishes saved up.
Let’s see what our reporters have whipped up for you this morning.
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
A number of months in the past, lawmakers have been already bracing for the duty of reducing $1 billion from the state’s price range for the subsequent fiscal yr, which begins July 1. Now, as Brian Eason experiences, higher-than-expected Medicaid prices with no aid in sight added a 20% enhance to the hole lawmakers have been already struggling to bridge.
SPORTS
From historical Scottish highlands to the outskirts of Lafayette, the game of curling’s lengthy evolution is selecting up pace like a stone on a well-swept information path. Dan England caught up with among the passionate part-time curlers who’re hoping to toss and sweep their solution to Milan.
WATER
Snow, snow in all places however not sufficient drops to drink. Water reporter Shannon Mullane breaks down the newest snowpack experiences that don’t bode properly for a wholesome runoff season.
CULTURE
After Heather Szucs misplaced her residence within the Marshall hearth, the lists started to weigh on her. Lists of things to refill a house after shedding it to the hearth, lists of paperwork to maintain up with insurance coverage claims and extra. Parker Yamasaki writes that the method of rebuilding is documented in a brief movie, “Method the Wind Blows,” which is able to get a screening this weekend on the Colorado Environmental Movie Competition in Golden.
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CARTOONS
In “What’d I Miss?” the cartoonists think about the verbal gymnastics confronting TV friends of a sure persuasion within the present political local weather.
Drew Litton observes that regardless of all that’s occurring, from climate to the top of the soccer season to politics, issues simply is likely to be about to worsen.
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Right here’s a present hyperlink to the above talked about tofu. I couldn’t depart you hanging like that.
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