Author: Debbie Kelley
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Vaccine mandates lead to job loss for some in Colorado as deadlines mount
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A city councilor in the small Colorado mountain town of Woodland Park has lost her job over her employer’s edict to either get a COVID-19 vaccinate and/or wear a mask, as deadlines for mandatory vaccines loom and protests mount. Stephanie Alfieri, senior banker at Vectra…
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‘People are fed up:’ Staff shortages, waiting list grows at Colorado mental hospital
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Chase Falk waited nearly six months in the Larimer County jail for a bed to open for a court-ordered mental competency evaluation at the state-run Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo. From January until the end of June, the 20-year-old Kersey resident was kept in isolation…
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Some standardized test scores fall to lowest levels ever in Colorado, as schools scramble to get kids caught up
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Scores from standardized testing that Colorado public school students took in the spring proved what educators have suspected: classroom disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic have caused significant learning losses and cut achievement from 2019 to this year across all grades and subjects. Colorado Education Commissioner…
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Latino community activist brings ‘Vaccine Sunday’ to churches statewide
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Latino community activist Julissa Soto figures she has a captive audience among church-goers, so she’s trekking the state to deliver the message at services that COVID-19 vaccinations are important. “People are listening,” she said. “I’m…
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No tuition hike for University of Colorado system undergrads thanks to feds
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The University of Colorado Board of Regents agreed Thursday to a plan that results in essentially no tuition increase for undergraduate students for the school year that starts in August. The latest round of federal…
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Easter, Passover messages around Colorado Springs timeless amid pandemic, faith leaders say
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The timeless Easter messages of hope and redemption won’t be any different for the second observance under the trials and tribulations of COVID. But it seems that now, more than ever, people need to hear…
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Funeral Mass for fallen Officer Eric Talley imparts messages of faith, hope and love
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER — The candles surrounding the casket containing the mortal remains of fallen Boulder Police Officer Eric Talley may have appeared to burn a little differently on Monday than others illuminating the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. Perhaps a little brighter. They were made of…
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‘See something, say something’ still good advice when it comes to mental health concerns
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save How can someone walk into a grocery store and randomly kill 10 innocent strangers? There’s no simple answer, experts say, but there are a few things they know. Mass shooters often are socially isolated, or loners, and have some sort of grievance, said Susan Payne,…
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Public forums underway to shape what new Colorado Behavioral Health Administration will look like
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Virtual public meetings began this week to help shape the state’s emerging Behavioral Health Administration, an idea from a gubernatorial task force that spent a year studying how to reform Colorado’s admittedly broken mental health care system. Plenty of ideas are being floated about what…