“I thought our fight was over.” ...Middle East

Good morning, Colorado.

I tend to jog the same running path at the same time on the same days. Which means I tend to see the same people. The competitive runner who’s TikTok famous, the two chatty dudes, the older women besties who egg each other on and one woman who enjoys leisurely phone calls while on a walk.

For the past couple months, everyone has been bundled up to varying degrees. Well, except the competitive runner, but that’s a different breed. But recently, we’ve all been shedding layers. It’s so silly but seeing these people who I’ll likely never actually talk to all gradually changing at the same time just makes me smile. It makes me feel like part of a community.

So to be a bit sappy, I love my little Colorado community and thank you for being part of this larger Sun community. Now, the news.

Danika Worthington

Presentation Editor

THE NEWS

HEALTH

Colorado mom whose 14-year-old died by suicide pushes for better emergency room care for kids in mental health crisis

Laura Love wears a sweatshirt honoring her son, Sam Aden, at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area on Jan. 31. The gathering was a celebration of Sam, who died by suicide in 2023 at the age of 14. Sam’s loved ones gather each year at A-Basin for a “Day of Stoke” to celebrate the teen. (Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun)

“The ER should be a lifeline in a child’s darkest moment. Since it is often the first entry point in a mental health crisis it can be the deciding factor of whether a child is willing to come back for treatment or not.”

— Laura Love

As Colorado struggles with a statewide psychiatric bed shortage, a record-breaking number of children are spending longer in emergency rooms, for days and even weeks. After Laura Love’s son Sam Aden’s experience in the ER, he refused to go back before he died by suicide — a situation Love does not want any other parent to experience. Chryss Cada has more.

Southern Ute plans for $19M upgrade to crumbling water system get caught in Trump funding freeze

A steady stream of water leaks out of Butzbaugh Flume on Jan. 19, 2024, in southwestern Colorado. The flume is part of the Pine River Indian Irrigation Project. As part of the project’s main ditch, the flume carries water to hundreds of acres of irrigable land around the Southern Ute reservation and La Plata County. (Shannon Mullane, The Colorado Sun)

“The federal government has shamefully failed to honor its trust commitments to tribes by the longstanding shortfall in funding for all Indian Irrigation Projects like the Pine River project on the Southern Ute Reservation.”

— U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet

For the 400 residents of the Southern Ute Reservation and La Plata County who depend on the aging water system, the $19 million in federal funding was a good first step to upgrade their drinking water. But as the Pine River Indian Irrigation Project’s maintenance backlog grows, that funding is in limbo, Shannon Mullane reports.

Judge sides with Colorado, other states, to stop feds from ending grants to train teachers

The Auraria Campus in downtown Denver, pictured Feb. 28, 2024, is home to Metropolitan State University of Denver, the University of Colorado Denver and the Community College of Denver. (Erica Breunlin, The Colorado Sun)

Judge Myong J. Joun agreed with the eight attorneys general — including Colorado’s Phil Weiser — who argued in a lawsuit that the immediate end to the two grant programs to train teachers at higher education institutions came with no advance notice nor any explanation and therefore violated the Administrative Procedure Act. Erica Breunlin has more.

Life-saving avalanche forecasts in Colorado, across the U.S. could be hindered by Trump budget cuts. Forecasting work is crucial for skiers and climbers who flirt with danger when they travel through mountain gullies that are prone to slide — and the Trump administration’s firing of hundreds of meteorologists and other environmental sciences could make that worker harder.

MORE NEWS

Nephi Cole, director of government relations state affairs for the National Sports Shooting Foundation, loads and unloads a 10-round magazine from an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle at Bristlecone Shooting, Training and Retail Center in Lakewood on Jan. 16. (Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun) Colorado bill restricting sale of certain semiautomatic guns clears first House committee after notable tweaks. Jesse Paul has the latest, including a change to Senate Bill 3 that would give sheriffs broad power to deny an application to buy certain semiautomatic guns that accept detachable magazines if they have a “reasonable belief that documented previous behavior by the applicant makes it likely the applicant will present a danger to themself or others.” Woman pleads guilty in cross-burning hoax during Colorado Springs mayoral campaign. Deanna West pleaded guilty Tuesday in what authorities say was a hoax. She was part of a group charged with setting a cross on fire in front of a defaced campaign sign for then-candidate Yemi Mobolade, who became Colorado Springs’ first Black mayor.

Section by Eric Lubbers | CTO & Newsletter Wrangler

THE COLORADO REPORT

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Thornton’s Meati Foods may be forced to lay off 150 workers and shutter its plant. A celebrity-endorsed alternative meat producer is vowing to keep its huge Thornton production plant open after giving notice it may have to lay off its 150 employees and shutter the facility.— Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Rent is due but they’re afraid to leave the house: 3 months with an immigrant family. Kyle Harris followed the Fonescas, an immigrant family who lost their home when the Fitzsimons apartment complex in Aurora was shut down by police last August.— Denverite Denver icon Mercury Cafe closes after 50 years, will become LGBTQ-focused bar. The space was taken over by The Pearl, an offshoot of Pearl Divers, a sapphic speakeasy inside the Cap Hill venue Your Mom’s House.— The Know ? Could SkyGoat be the next Melanzana? I love how depending on the reader’s lived experience, this headline either makes perfect sense or sounds like a question that would be on a test during a stressful dream.— 5280 “Colorado barrier” repurposes old tires for road safety. I learned two things reading this article. 1: Those vaguely Toblerone-shaped concrete barriers used for temporary road construction are called “Jersey barriers.” 2: A new lighter, easier-to-relocate design is apparently called the “Colorado barrier” — and one mile of barriers will repurpose more than 65,000 old tires that would be headed for landfills.— Equipment World

Section by Eric Lubbers | CTO & Newsletter Wrangler

THE OPINION PAGE

COLUMNS

I may not know much about economics, but I know what the market downturn means for my bottom line. The stock market finally gets that Trump is serious about tariffs — even if they wreck the global economy and, of course, our own.— Mike Littwin

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SunLit

REVIEW

Out West Books suggests titles featuring all kinds of heroes

Each week as part of SunLit — The Sun’s literature section — we feature staff recommendations from bookstores across Colorado. This week, the staff from Out West Books in Grand Junction recommends:

“By the Fire We Carry” by Rebecca Nagle, legal heroes stand up for native land rights “Under the Same Stars” by Libba Bray, YA heroes step up to solve a WWII disappearance “Swordheart” by T. Kingfisher, fantasy heroes rise to the occasion in a cozy romance

Read what the bookstore staff had to say about each. Pick up a copy and support your local bookstores at the same time.

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Section by Kevin Simpson | Writer

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