Colorado’s $38.5 billion proposed budget would increase per student K-12 spending by 8.4% — an increase that barely keeps pace with inflation — and gives a boost to higher education while also allowing public colleges and universities to increase tuition by as much as 5%, the highest increase in the last five years.
You dislike uncertainty even more than usual now. You would rather know what’s going to happen, even if it’s bad, than not know and worry that it might be bad.
Locals from Trinidad and Raton spent a recent Saturday touring local food producers and food supply chain locations through a bus tour spearheaded by a nonprofit focused on building vibrancy in and near the Great Plains.
One in four Colorado teens reported they could get access to a loaded gun within 24 hours, according to survey results published Monday. Nearly half of those teens said it would take them less than 10 minutes.
“The essential truth is that sometimes you’re worried that they’ll find out it’s a fluke, that you don’t really have it. You’ve lost the muse or — the worst dread — you never had it at all.”
While debate concerning the impact of natural gas production on the frequency of earthquakes continues, Colorado oil and gas regulators say that seismic events seen in Las Animas County during March do not appear to be related to production in the Raton Basin. Las Animas County saw at least 10 earthquakes during the last 30 days (as of March 28) with magnitudes of 2.5 or greater, according to the U.S.
Thursday: Widespread blowing dust after 9 a.m. Sunny, with a high near 65.
Italian Sausage & Cabbage Stew 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 pound sweet Italian sausage, bulk, or removed from casings 1 large yellow onion, half sliced and half minced 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 1/2 cups white wine 1 (15-ounce) can of white beans (cannellini, Great Northern, or Navy), drained 1 quart vegetable or chicken stock 1 quart water 1 teaspoon salt, more to taste 1 large (2-pound) savoy cabbage, quartered, then sliced into 1/4-inch thick slices 2 bay leaves 1 cup chopped parsley, loosely packed 1/2 cup to a cup of freshly grated Parmesan or pecorino cheese for garnish Cook the sausage: Heat the olive oil on medium heat in a large (8-quart), thick-bottomed pot. Add the sausage, breaking it up into pieces as you put it into the pot in a single layer.
An ordinance sponsored by Trinidad City Councilmember Aaron Williamson, a proponent of tourism in the city, would nix the Trinidad Tourism Board — and replace it with a tourism-focused advisory board that would see more oversight from city council — and approve city officials to list a ballot question seeking to double the tourism tax tourists pay when visiting the city.
DEAR ABBY: My husband barely speaks to me. We both work full time and are facing the empty nest very soon. At home, I have to initiate even the smallest of small talk. He’ll never say “Good morning” or ask “How was your day?” Although I work hard to keep the house the way he likes it, he speaks up only to criticize the few times I don’t meet his standards. There’s never a word of acknowledgment when I have accomplished other elements of housekeeping.