- Expanded benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, ended in February. That meant a dramatic cut in benefits for many of the more than a half million Coloradans who depend on the program. At one food bank on the Western Slope, volunteers are already seeing an uptick in need.
- A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators is touring areas along the Colorado River to get a first-hand look at the challenges basin states are facing. At a stop in Western Colorado, Colorado's two senators discussed federal aid to river projects and the need for states to agree on future cuts to water use.