Initiative 95 would cut taxes for 97-percent of Coloradans. Taxes for the top 3-percent would rise from 4-point-4 percent, to as high as 8-point-4 percent for people earning more than a million dollars a year. tinyurl.com/3b552wtu @provechocollective.bsky.social @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

States, corporations present a number of barriers for workers to join or form unions tinyurl.com/3y8nba4y @epi.org @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

State officials speak out about Medicaid cuts in "Big Beautiful Bill" tinyurl.com/2hhms8z7 @coloradogovernor.bsky.social @cohealthaccess.bsky.social @protectourcare.org @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

Tribal colleges and universities would be forced to close within a year if Trump's budget is approved by Congress. tinyurl.com/3s2ztsjd @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

Native Americans on the western Great Plains were making and tossing dice 6,000 years before people in Africa, Asia and Europe tinyurl.com/33xvxbyu @stacyjnick.bsky.social @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

"Our respondents told us that, as a result of some of these delays, their clients lost access to housing, were evicted. Some clients even died as a result of missing necessary medical care." tinyurl.com/y8ac992c @dredf.bsky.social @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

"Those new gas-fired power plants pose a significant risk for consumers because of the potential for really significant price spikes in the cost of the fuel, which get passed along to consumers." tinyurl.com/2s3ca56n @ieefainstitute.bsky.social @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

Gov. Polis set to claw back CO farmworker overtime protections tinyurl.com/2r3frnsp @epi.org @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

Studies show that stricter work requirements don’t help people get jobs that pay a living wage, they just reduce SNAP participation because of complex new rules and red tape. tinyurl.com/mr4yzd8d @hungerfree.bsky.social @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

Colorado lawmakers consider clawing back 'corporate welfare' tinyurl.com/bdpxzjdx @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

New "Mothership" is helping CO youths experiencing homelessness find a pathway to housing and stability three times faster than historic averages tinyurl.com/35byatk3 @publicnewsservice.bsky.social @cocoalition.bsky.social

Seniors with walkers, canes, songs plan 'No Kings' protest tinyurl.com/yap689tm @thirdactorg.bsky.social @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

CO lawmakers consider banning wage garnishment for medical debt tinyurl.com/mry2xt47 @kffhealthnews.org @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

Report: Many workers at S&P 500 corporations that pay low wages have no choice but to rely on public assistance programs. tinyurl.com/4sdkpw9u @sarahanderson.bsky.social @ips-dc.org @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

Trump’s BLM bonding rollback could cost taxpayers over $750 billion tinyurl.com/mr2f2sn9 #landstewardship @publicnewsservice.bsky.social #orphanwells #publiclands

History Colorado is conducting evidence-based research on the many practices, systems and policies that have harmed Black Coloradans. tinyurl.com/3tj46mue @publicnewsservice.bsky.social @aarp.org

Colorado lawmakers have passed a joint resolution reaffirming Coloradans’ constitutional rights after the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts resulted in 38 deaths. tinyurl.com/4w56hd6 @publicnewsservice.bsky.social @cohousedem.bsky.social

Xcel gas infrastructure plan targets communities of color tinyurl.com/r5tjewte @greenlatinos.org @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

The oil and gas industry is calling on Congress to shield companies from a growing number of lawsuits and state laws passed to make the industry pay for the impacts of pollution tinyurl.com/yjssahpy @sierraclub.org @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

Critics warn that Trump's efforts to prop up coal industry will produce negative health and economic impacts tinyurl.com/4sx62dd6 @publicnewsservice.bsky.social @publiccitizen.bsky.social @earthjustice.org

A majority of deported parents are not being allowed to take their children with them or arrange child care, even for kids as young as two months old tinyurl.com/v8t2pmvz @publicnewsservice.bsky.social @wrcommission.bsky.social

Creating new opportunities for Black communities, which have historically faced barriers to economic mobility, can help high-growth industries find and keep skilled workers tinyurl.com/3prmn29s @jointcenter.bsky.social @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

Banks and other firms that made bold public commitments to do their part to rein in climate change are financing the search for new sources of fossil fuels and new infrastructure to burn them. tinyurl.com/5n7btesn @publicnewsservice.bsky.social @pulitzercenter.org @josephinemoulds.bsky.social

Report: Charter schools undermining Colorado’s public school system tinyurl.com/4589wmew @mcolorado.bsky.social

Call for handmade blankets at 2025 Homeless Persons’ Memorial Vigil tinyurl.com/4smppd75 @publicnewsservice.bsky.social @cocoalition.bsky.social

“You Can Do Something,” a new American Indian College Fund campaign, aims to reframe how people understand history, power, and culture. tinyurl.com/mr2ju66k collegefund.org @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

What’s next for 600,000 Coloradans who lost SNAP food assistance on Saturday tinyurl.com/y9bamp2r @publicnewsservice.bsky.social @provechocollective.bsky.social @metrocaring.org

Colorado voters to decide fate of 'Healthy School Meals for All' program tinyurl.com/4pnche4e @hungerfree.bsky.social @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

Wyoming lawmakers advance library "book ban" bill tinyurl.com/bdcwarae @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

Report: Abuse and neglect at ICE detention center in Colorado tinyurl.com/52sy6za3 @publicnewsservice.bsky.social coloradoimmigrant.org casadepazcolorado.org @afsccolorado.bsky.social

Unlike the new Broncos stadium, where the owners have promised to finance the project, Greeley residents are currently on the hook for new $1 billion Colorado Eagles arena. tinyurl.com/4su2bfsu @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

SCOTUS to hear case targeting Colorado’s conversion therapy ban tinyurl.com/bdft5be6 @glaad.bsky.social @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

Most of the 2.5 million cattle raised in Colorado will meet their end in a slaughterhouse and become hamburgers and steaks. Just 19 cows have been lost to wolves since reintroduced in 2023. tinyurl.com/7vd6de7u @stopextinction.bsky.social @publicnewsservice.bsky.social @ryan-sedgeley.bsky.social

On Sunday Sept. 21, Colorado will join an international day of action called Sun Day, meant to celebrate progress made so far ramping up clean energy capacity tinyurl.com/k545r8fx @thirdactorg.bsky.social @sierraclub.org @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

Ballot measure would tax CO corporations, wealthy to fill budget gap tinyurl.com/2vb933jj @endhungerco.bsky.social @copolicy.bsky.social l

Pipelines in Colorado leak as much as 76,000 metric tons of methane annually. An explosion in Firestone linked to a natural gas pipeline leak killed two people in 2017 tinyurl.com/2p9mc9fj @publicnewsservice.bsky.social @envdefensefund.bsky.social

Report: Colorado wildfires bigger, more frequent tinyurl.com/tfthw5aw @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

Centuries-old tradition offers blueprint for future Colorado River use tinyurl.com/venxpzkw @nationalwildlife.bsky.social @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

More than two million people are expected to lose SNAP assistance each month under H.R.1, including more than one million who live where jobs are scarce tinyurl.com/ys6dsb2s @endhungerco.bsky.social‬ @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

Colorado workers must earn $36.79 per hour to afford housing tinyurl.com/y6t6wx6c ‪ @publicnewsservice.bsky.social @cocoalition.bsky.social

70% of people being detained by ICE have no criminal record tinyurl.com/274mrrva @aclu.org @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

298,000 Coloradans relying on food assistance could see benefit cuts tinyurl.com/mab6pu85 @hungerfree.bsky.social @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

GOP cuts to clean energy will cost Colorado $7.3 billion in GDP tinyurl.com/rh6s6wxw ‪@energyinnovation.org‬ @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

A majority of Americans believe the Trump administration has gone too far on immigration enforcement, according to a new poll. tinyurl.com/4rjksjas @aurora-unidos-cso.bsky.social @pslweb.bsky.social @publicnewsservice.bsky.social ‪@afsccolorado.bsky.social‬

Native communities have faced forced sterilization of women and federal policies that forced medicine men and other spiritual leaders into mental asylums up until 1978. tinyurl.com/586k568x @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

Advocates are championing psychedelic therapies that can help people overcome addiction, as well as strategies for ending mass incarceration. tinyurl.com/2k3f9b64 @publicnewsservice.bsky.social dream.org

"Regardless of who won the last election, American presidents take an oath to protect and uphold the U.S. Constitution, in which the executive branch is co-equal to Congress and the Judiciary." tinyurl.com/4j2uknva nokings.org @publicnewsservice.bsky.social

Trump says 'Big Beautiful Bill' is necessary to achieve energy dominance. But critics warn the measure could have significant impacts on Colorado's clean energy industry, public health and energy costs for families and businesses. tinyurl.com/mrmxm433 @publicnewsservice.bsky.social @sierraclub.org

Oil and gas companies fail to disclose toxic chemicals at Colorado well sites tinyurl.com/5e94myue @publicnewsservice.bsky.social @psr.org

108,000 Coloradans would lose Medicaid coverage under work requirements tinyurl.com/4yvae6fe @publicnewsservice.bsky.social