- Adam Hodak, a bar industry leader in Denver and the CEO of the city's first sober bar, shared recipes for his favorite nonalcoholic drinks.
- If you're trying to buy or sell a house -- or just watching prices in your neighborhood -- you've probably noticed the housing market in Colorado is really different than it was just six months ago. We check in with two local realtors about what this means for potential buyers and sellers. Carrol Rhead is with CJV Real Estate in Denver, and Elizabeth Martinez is with Porchlight.
- New polling shows Latino voters overwhelmingly supported Democrats, but that support dropped since 2020.
- Across the political spectrum, organizers – and some voters – see opportunity for Latino representation in the new 8th congressional district, even beyond the 2022 election, given this district is nearly 40 percent Latino. Stacy Suniga, who leads the Latino Coalition of Weld County, and Angel Merlos, senior advisor for Libre Action in Colorado, talk about their outreach to Latino voters and what lies ahead.
- Voters will be deciding on measures like lodging taxes or short-term rental tax increases from Grand Junction to Denver to a number of mountain towns.
- This election, Colorado voters will weigh in on a question about the lack of affordable housing. Voters will be asked whether to dedicate tax money to try to address the issue. It’s the first time an affordable housing measure has been on the statewide ballot. About a dozen Colorado communities will also ask local voters to do something similar.
- Colorado’s new eighth congressional district is 38 percent Latino. It currently has fewer registered voters than any other district in Colorado. But Latino leaders are hoping to change that.
- Workers at a Colorado Springs Starbucks were part of a growing nationwide union movement – until the company closed their store. Their experience highlights the divide between employees who are voting to unionize and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who wants to stop the effort. Washington Post reporter Greg Jaffe is following the fight.
- A handful of Colorado schools have recently had to deal with security threats that turn out to be false. But those threats can still affect students' and teachers' mental and emotional health. We get perspective from Mo Kennedy, who leads the National Association of School Resources Officers., and Matthew Fulford, a teacher at East High School in Denver, who wrote an essay for Chalkbeat called, "Hoax threats are traumatizing my students."
- Work by Fuentes is on display at the Anythink Library in Bennett, and at Re:Vision Co-op in Denver. In October, he will open an installation inside the Aurora Central Library.
- A three-day celebration of Latino culture, power and history took place earlier this month in Aspen. Mónica Ramírez and her collaborators designed the Raizado Festival to broadly change the way people see and think about Latinx people. They plan to bring the festival back for 10 years.
- Water leaders, agriculture producers and environmentalists met in Grand Junction to discuss many ongoing problems caused by use and drought but few solutions.
- The review will involve both archival research and physical examinations to uncover the extent of what happened at the boarding school when it operated between 1891 and 1910.
- The Center for African and African American Studies, or CAAAS (known as "the Cause" to its founder), creates a space that builds community, as well as respect and connection for Black students, staff and faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder. Then, the new film "This is Not Who We Are" explores the experiences of people of color in Boulder.
- A new film, showing at festivals around the country, explores in-depth the experiences of Black people in Boulder. It’s called "This Is [Not] Who We Are." The documentary is directed by Katrina Miller and Beret Strong.
- The center plans to offer one-on-one counseling sessions, space to meditate, pray or mediate disagreements, and places to study and even defend their master’s theses.
