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Spokane adds fuel surcharge on city fleet to aid climate change fight

The Spokane City Council is moving forward on its plan to replace all city-owned vehicles with electric models by 2030 as part of an overall strategy to combat climate change. The vote... Read more »

How does the immune system mobilize in response to a COVID-19 infection or a vaccine? 5 essential reads

Heading into the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have become amateur immunologists, having conversations at the dinner table and in the grocery store aisle about mRNA vaccines, variants, breakthrough infections, “waning” immunity, herd... Read more »

Marijuana sales topped $151M in January

Marijuana sales in Colorado topped $151 million in January, according to the latest figures from the Department of Revenue (DOR).  The total is the second-highest mark that Colorado has recorded in the month of... Read more »

Colorado is reshaping early childhood. Some school districts are nervous.

As Colorado prepares to launch free universal preschool, lawmakers are taking up legislation that could reshape Colorado’s early childhood landscape and reverberate for decades to come. Many advocates and early educators laud... Read more »

Biden blames gas prices, inflation on Putin, but critics push back

President Joe Biden has repeatedly pointed to the crisis in Ukraine as the source of the marked increase in gas prices and inflation, but critics point out those prices were soaring well... Read more »

Most Denver teachers surveyed support proposal to limit school autonomy

A majority of Denver teachers surveyed by the school board support a proposal to limit some schools’ autonomy and bolster job protections for teachers. Principals, meanwhile, generally oppose the proposal, survey results... Read more »

Years of planning haven’t spared Aurora from angst over closing schools

With students leaving one side of Aurora and new students showing up on the opposite end of the city, the Aurora school district needed a new plan to rearrange classroom space. It... Read more »

Bennet, Polis are also responsible for Biden’s failed energy policies

Last August, I stood with Colorado Republican leaders from around the state at a gas station in Denver to warn of the dangers of rapidly rising prices at the pump. Unfortunately, the... Read more »

Denver school board member Brad Laurvick resigning

Denver school board member Brad Laurvick plans to resign this summer. Laurvick has served as the pastor of Highlands United Methodist Church in Denver for the last 10 years. He announced in... Read more »

Carbon markets could protect nature and the planet, but only if the rights of those who live there are recognized too

Nearly a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions come from timber harvesting, agriculture and land-use change, such as clearing forests to make way for farms. Many see carbon markets as key to... Read more »