Economy 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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Eastern Colorado farmers brace for worst wheat harvest since 1965

Jeff Rice — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:16:00 +0000

Wheat grows in a field Monday, June 15, 2026, in Lincoln County. Some wheat crops are suffering amidst an ongoing drought. (Cheney Orr, Special to The Colorado Sun)

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What’s Working: Why hamburgers cost more today

Tamara Chuang — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Cargill workers process beef cuts on a beef processing line, Tuesday, December 2, 2025 in Fort Morgan Colorado. (Jeremy Sparig, Special to The Colorado Sun)

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A new era for downtown Denver’s biggest mall is beginning to take shape

Robert Davis — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:29:00 +0000

The center of the Denver Pavilions is visible on June 5 in Denver. (Andy Colwell, Special to The Colorado Sun)

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Owner of Denver Post agrees to $13.5 million settlement with city over unpaid rent, will remove sign

Tamara Chuang and Jennifer Brown — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:42:39 +0000

The Denver Post building in downtown Denver, Colorado, on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun)

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What the heck is happening in downtown Denver?

Tamara Chuang — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:15:00 +0000

Businesses at the Denver Pavilions advertise to the few passersby on the 16th Street Mall on August 24, 2020. (Eric Lubbers, The Colorado Sun)

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What’s Working: Uneven inflation still eroding affordability in Colorado

Tamara Chuang — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000

The price is displayed beneath containers of cherub tomatoes in a King Soopers grocery store Friday, June 12, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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Denver-area inflation increases to 5%. Blame energy costs.

Tamara Chuang — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:14:23 +0000

A motorist pumps gas at a QuikTrip convenience store, Wednesday, March 4, 2026, in Greenwood Village, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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Are less-thirsty crops a solution to Colorado’s growing water problems?

Michael Booth — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Jason Webb, associate director of Colorado State University’s Eastern Plains agricultural research station near Akron, drops black-eyed pea seeds into a planter’s hopper from the back of a GPS-guided tractor, on June 4, 2026. Each packet of seeds in the box may come from countries thousands of miles apart that want new varieties of “cowpeas.” (Michael Booth, The Colorado Sun.)

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What’s Working: Colorado teens take different path to summer jobs — networking, entrepreneurship and asking a CEO

Tamara Chuang — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Nick Wetterling, 17, enjoys studying machine learning and artificial intelligence at his high school in Highlands Ranch. But to get some experience in the industry, he reached out to a friend’s dad who happens to be CEO of Iterate.ai. Iterate offered Wetterling a summer internship. The teenager heads into the Denver Tech Center four-to-five days a week and is already building AI agents and working on a large language model project with much more experienced colleagues. (Provided by Iterate.ai)

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