September 2022
City to improve public roadways through city lane striping project
Chronicle-News Trinidad hopes to see improved lane markings on certain thoroughfares, after Trinidad City Council approved the expenditure of nearly $200,000 for a city lane striping project. City council approved the expenditure of $198,266 to RoadSafe Traffic Systems Inc., to address pavement markings on roads across town at a regular meeting Tuesday, Sept.
WEATHER WATCH
Monday: A 10% chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Sunny, with a high near 82.
COVID transmission remains high after NMDOH amends health order
Chronicle-News New Mexico has amended its emergency public health order in an effort to adapt to the “evolving” nature of COVID- 19. The New Mexico Department of Health announced Aug.
Key takeaways
— Researchers looked at fecal samples from 103 healthy Latino infants and used genetic sequencing to identify gut microorganisms. — Infants exposed to higher levels of air pollution had microorganisms associated with inflammation, which boosts risk of disease. — Racial minorities and low-income communities are exposed to 1.5 times more air pollution than whites.

How pollution changes a baby’s gut, and why it matters
Exposure to air pollution in the first six months of life impacts a child’s inner world of gut bacteria, or microbiome, in ways that could increase risk of allergies, obesity and diabetes, and even influence brain development, suggests new CU Boulder research.
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“The Book Eaters,” by Sunyi Dean
You’ve consumed a lot of fairy tales in your lifetime. Princesses on mattresses, princesses with glass slippers, princesses in towers, princesses and frogs, you knew them all before reality set in and you stopped dreaming about any sort of handsome prince.
Lives under the Klan: New novels focused on height of white supremacy in Colorado
In Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s new novel “Woman of Light,” protagonist Luz Lopez has the gift of clairvoyance, a family trait that allows her to peer into the future. In reverse fashion, Fajardo-Anstine’s book takes a scrying bowl to Colorado’s past, delving into parts of the state’s history that are often overlooked.