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Coloradans Need Swipe Fee Relief to Help Make Life More Affordable
For everyday Americans, the average family now spends over $1,800 a year on swipe fee-related price increases. The problem has simply become too large for business owners to hide.
The Dignity of Work: Workers Should Be Paid for Their Labor
As we talk about affordability in Denver, we should also recognize that every dollar earned by a worker preserves that worker’s basic dignity and ability to survive.
Capt. B’s Earthship Log: Booked for the Millennium
BOOKED FOR THE MILLENNIUM … I love books. Let’s start there. It’s not exactly the focus of young people these days, my own kids included. They resonate with podcasts, social media, reels & videos, movies & concerts. It’s a different world than the ‘50s, when I grew up. Books were the sources of knowledge, escape from the confines of family, community, religious affiliation. They opened up a couple thousand years of human experience, stretching back to Gutenberg and before …
DAVIS: These Are the Landlords Profiting From ICE’s Colorado Hold Rooms
ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency of the Department of Homeland Security, operates at least nine secretive detention facilities in Colorado, called hold rooms. They are not permitted to contain beds. The nine Colorado hold rooms are part of a network of at least 170 such facilities spread out across the country. Combined, those facilities held more than 140,000 detainees last year, including infants and the elderly.
‘Enough Is Enough!’ Why ‘White Coats’ Will March at Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ Rallies
by Joan Bedinghaus M.D., Seth Foldy M.D., MPH and Jacob Weiss, M.D.
Creationism Attempt at Charter School Illustrates Broader Antagonism Toward Science
A Colorado charter school quickly backed down from teaching creationism to eighth graders, but the incident illustrates that a lot of the public, and some people within public schools, remain antagonistic to the science of biological evolution.
Colorado’s Progress in Reducing Childhood Poverty Is at Risk
by Stephen Roll, Jenn Finders, and Leah Hamilton