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July 8, 2025: Feds’ healthcare turnabout, grocery chains’ labor deals, greener lawnmowers, most boring city

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A landscaper operates a lawnmower on a hillside
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Jose Lara, a landscaper with Centennial-based company Designworks, operates a gas-powered lawnmower at Westlands Park in Greenwood Village, June 23, 2025.

Expanding health insurance used to be a priority in Washington. It’s not anymore. Hear what that change in priorities means for you. Then, Colorado grocery workers have negotiated with their employers, and employees at one chain have ended their weeks-long strike. Plus, the state cracks down on an unlikely source of greenhouse gas emissions: equipment like lawnmowers and leafblowers. But does it apply to you?

This episode of Colorado Today is hosted by Arlo Pérez Esquivel. It’s edited and produced by Mateo Schimpf and Stephanie Wolf, with editing by Tegan Wendland. The executive producer is Rachel Estabrook. Theme music by Pedro Lumbraño.

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