The Colorado Sun

Colorado received close to $12M in pandemic-era funding to help food banks buy local produce, but the money is running low

On Wednesday evenings at the edge of a wide parking lot in Aurora, there is a forest green pop-up tent with five large, scraped-up coolers stacked nearby. The coolers hold 27 bags of fresh produce, harvested that morning at Switch Gears Farm in Longmont. 

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No human cases of rabies so far as second puppy from Colorado adoption event tests positive

More than 35 people have been referred for rabies post-exposure treatment following last week’s announcement about a rabid puppy at a rescue adoption event. But Colorado has so far identified no human cases as a result of the event, as state health officials continue to plead with those who were at the event to come forward for screening.

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In fractured state GOP, Pro-Williams wing wants bylaw amendment to make it more difficult to remove chair

If opponents of embattled Colorado GOP Chairman Dave Williams fail to remove him from the party’s top post later this month, they may be unable to dislodge him for the rest of his term, which ends in March.

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Number of new Colorado businesses drops 21.7% nearly a year after filing-fee discount ends

A 21.7% dip in folks filing to start a business in Colorado during the second quarter was largely attributed to the end of a program more than a year ago that reduced filing fees to $1, according to the latest quarterly data from the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office.

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In Larimer County, 75 laid off from mental health center amid rise in uninsured and Medicaid reform 

Larimer County’s community mental health center has abruptly laid off 75 employees, causing a gap in care for some of the most vulnerable patients and increasing concerns about how far the fallout will spread after a seismic shift in Medicaid funding. 

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