6/30/24

awesome + uniting

• $75 million in federal funds flow into Colorado Springs to expand computer chip manufacturing
• Team of female Colorado STEM students invents wildlife detection device
• Thousands of cyclists hit the streets for Colorado’s Bike to Work Day

awesome + controversy

• Colorado’s contested Democratic primaries turned on more than ideology, despite prominent lawmakers’ losses
• Mysterious monolith has northern Colorado pointing, theorizing and buzzing
• Colorado State Patrol expands free steering wheel lock program to 9 locations

awful + uniting

• Living near oil and gas sites in Colorado could make irregular heartbeat symptoms worse, CU study says
• Grasshoppers devastating Colorado farmers’ crops and pastures in Yuma County
• ‘There’s not enough of us to go around’: VA nurses rally in Aurora claiming a staffing crisis

awful + controversy

• Boebert will likely fill the House seat vacated by congressman who criticized the GOP’s extremes
• Election losses, party tumult and frustration driving effort to remove Colorado GOP chair
• Xcel says it needs $1.9 billion to prevent future wildfires as it faces nearly 300 lawsuits over Marshall fire