Equity Archives - The Colorado Sun

Universal basic food pilot program tackles food insecurity in new way

Saja Hindi, The Colorado Trust — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:44:00 +0000

Ian Walker, Simple Foods Market owner, rings up grocery items from employee Ruean Holt’s shopping basket on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, at the grocery store in Del Norte, Colo. Holt was enrolled in the Colorado Food Cluster’s Food Trust pilot program, which provided recipients with no-cost healthy foods as part of the universal basic food pilot program. (John McEvoy, Special to The Colorado Trust)

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Colorado plan to ban using food assistance benefits for soda blocked by federal court ruling

Jennifer Brown — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:12:30 +0000

In this Dec. 25, 2018, file photo a person uses a soda fountain dispenser at the Back Bowl bowling alley in Eagle, Colo. A new study bolsters evidence that soda taxes can reduce sales but whether they influence health remains unclear. The new results were published Tuesday, May 14, 2019, in the Journal of the American Medical Association. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

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A person uses a soda fountain dispenser at the Back Bowl bowling alley in Eagle, Colo. on Dec. 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

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Who’s ready to picnic in downtown Denver’s Civic Center park?

Jennifer Brown — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:15:00 +0000

A locked gate at Lincoln Veterans Memorial Park in Denver. (Andy Colwell, Special to The Colorado Sun)

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Children’s Hospital doctors refuse to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth, fearing criminal charges

Jennifer Brown — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000

The exterior of Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, photographed on Oct. 18, 2019. (John Ingold, The Colorado Sun)

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Colorado foster kids are getting new rights about pronouns, religious freedom and physical punishment

Jennifer Brown — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Jerome, 17, writes that he is thankful for “all my second chances I’ve been given” onto a decorative leaf Nov. 15, 2023, at Groundbreakers at Kids Crossing in Colorado Springs. The therapeutic foster program provides tutoring, therapy and other services to youth throughout the state. Jerome, a senior in high school, has been attending the center five days a week since late summer of 2023. (Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun via Report for America)

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Hundreds of calls to Colorado child abuse hotline from youth treatment centers go uninvestigated

Jennifer Brown — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Cleo Wallace Academy is inside the Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health building complex in Westminster, photographed on April 21, 2021. (Hugh Carey, Special to The Colorado Sun)

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Cleo Wallace Academy was inside the Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health building complex in Westminster, photographed on April 21, 2021. (Hugh Carey, The Colorado Sun)

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Xcel Energy customers may be hit with the largest electric rate increase ever

Mark Jaffe — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:20:00 +0000

Power lines surrounding the Xcel Cherokee Power Station with the Denver skyline in the distance on Dec. 4, 2024. (Kathryn Scott, Special to The Colorado Sun)

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Colorado midwives sue state, saying regulators are making it harder for them to safely do their jobs

Daliah Singer — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:17:00 +0000

Midwife Kalie Caler in her office Tuesday, May 5, 2026, in Pagosa Springs. (Kierstan Renner, Special to The Colorado Sun)

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Colorado governor signs executive order banning sugary drinks at state functions

Jennifer Brown — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:52:55 +0000

Perdita Butler, left, and Geonna King uncover a bed of vegetables at Butler’s Quarter Acre and a Mule farm in Pueblo. Butler grows organic produce and Quarter Acre and a Mule is an anchor farm for the Pueblo Farmers Market. (Mike Sweeney, Special to The Colorado Trust)

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A 3-person team tracks ICE activity on the I-70 mountain corridor, alerting the Latino community in real time

Jennifer Brown — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Alan, a staff member of Voces Unidas, works the hotline at the office in downtown Glenwood Springs. (Gretel Daugherty/Special to the Colorado Sun)

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