- 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.
- Congress is expected to pass the new climate and health care bill. One way it's designed to fight climate change is by changing how we use energy in our homes. Nathan Iyer and Srinidhi Sampath Kumar have helped shape the legislation. They're with the Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Institute. It's a nonprofit that works to advance the world's transition to cleaner energy.
- The economy’s in a strange place: Prices are soaring but employment is at a record high. Some of the effects are obvious, others less visible.
- The Latino Entrepreneur Access Program, or LEAP, has implications for building generational wealth, equity, and the nation’s financial fortunes
- In Montrose, Colorado, educators meet with local mental health and law enforcement officials to evaluate any threats that rise to a certain level of concern and make plans to help students.
