Red Zone: Policies Put More Coloradans at Risk
The number of wildfires in Colorado has exploded during the past decade. So has the number of people living in high-risk fire zones. And public policies for dealing with both actually risk making the...
View ArticleTCAP Test Scores: Biggest Gains Came From Struggling Schools
Most of Colorado’s lowest performing school districts posted some of the biggest gains in state standardized tests this year, while scores at many top performing districts stagnated, according to an...
View ArticleTesting Analysis: Some Students Falling Behind
More than 100,000 public school students are not on pace to achieve proficiency in math and writing over the next three years, or by the time they reach 10th grade, an I-News Network analysis of state...
View ArticleCharges Loom As Jensen Farms Listeria Investigation Nears End
Federal prosecutors are close to concluding a criminal investigation into last fall’s deadly listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupes grown at Jensen Farms, the I-News Network has learned.
View ArticleLittle Accountability In Food Safety Audits
The deadly listeria outbreak at Jensen Farms last fall illustrates wider failures in the private food safety auditing industry, an industry which operates with little government oversight.
View ArticleAmendment 64: Who's Bankrolling What?
Colorado’s ballot initiative to legalize marijuana possession is billed by one leading local advocate as “a grassroots effort here on the ground,” but an examination of contributions to the campaign...
View ArticleAmendment 65: A Non-Binding Retort To Citizens United
Colorado Amendment 65 is a non-binding referendum that encourages the state’s U.S. representatives and senators to support a U.S. constitutional amendment limiting campaign contributions and spending.
View ArticleWho Are The Power Players In Colorado's Political Funding?
Corporations and billionaires – and their extravagant contributions to the presidential campaigns – have drawn the most national attention this year in terms of campaign financing. But in Colorado it...
View ArticleThe Colorado Vote: The President And Pot
President Barack Obama's county-by-county victories in Colorado virtually mirrored the vote to legalize marijuana use in the state.
View ArticleStark Health Disparities For Colorado's Minorities
Lucero Barrios is Latina and a new mother –circumstances that place her squarely in a group of people affected by a shocking reality in Colorado: A Hispanic baby born in this state is 63 percent more...
View ArticleConfronting Challenges And Fairness In Minority Health
Among the hurdles to attacking disparities in health between ethnic and racial minorities and whites is the confounding reality that some inequities have so far defied explanation and the differing...
View ArticleDespite Strides, Dental Care Eludes Many Medicade-Eligible Youth
When she was 3, Torrie Smith tripped on an uneven sidewalk, fell face down onto some steps and broke four front teeth.
View ArticleProposal At The Capitol To Create Commision On Racial And Ethnic Inequality
Two Colorado lawmakers plan to push for a comprehensive examination of racial and ethnic inequality in the state as a precursor to future legislation aimed at closing some of the gaps that separate...
View ArticleIn Colorado, Gun Violence Is Disproportionately Personal
In the 12 years between Colorado’s worst mass shootings at Aurora and Columbine, Coloradans used guns to kill themselves about four times more frequently than they used them to kill each other.
View ArticleColorado Adults Are Still Fit And Healthy, But What About The Children?
Colorado is continually heralded at the fittest state in the country – but behind that ranking stand a host of health measures that paint a different picture, placing the state mid-pack or worse in...
View ArticlePikes Peak Park: Colorado’s Deadliest Neighborhood
A Colorado Springs neighborhood of 1960s tract homes, apartments and schools led the state in gun deaths over the 12 years between the mass shooting tragedies at Columbine High and the Aurora theater.
View ArticleIn Colorado, Child Care The Key Between Self-Sufficiency And The Cliff
The measures passed by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996 “to end welfare as we know it” were heralded as a ticket to economic self-sufficiency.
View ArticleThe Lives Of Three Colorado Women On The Edge Of The 'Cliff'
Perhaps the most important of the welfare reform measures passed by Congress 17 years ago doesn’t serve three-fourths of working poor families in Colorado according to an I-News analysis.
View ArticleWhile Not As Powerful, Colorado Still Sees Its Share Of Tornadoes
The tornado sighting that set off alarms and frightened passengers at Denver International Airport Tuesday afternoon was a startling reminder that Colorado is indeed twister country.
View ArticleIt's Not Just People And Homes In Colorado's Red Zones, There's Oil And Gas Too
More than one million people and a half-million homes are located in Colorado’s high fire danger red zones.
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