Good morning, Colorado.
My wife and I have lived in the same apartment for several years now and we love it. After a while, though, it’s hard not to look around and wonder about buying your own place. But it feels like there’s a shroud over the whole process: Where do you start, how do you find realistic price points, what first-time buying programs are out there?
So my coworker suggested that if I have the problem, many others probably do, too. Why not make an event where experts can answer questions from would-be homebuyers. So that’s what we did.
If you — or someone you know — is dipping their toes into home buying, tell them to come to our event tonight in downtown Denver. It’s free, plus there will be drinks and snacks. Just make sure they RSVP. See you there!
Danika Worthington
Presentation Editor
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Colorado counties, towns step up to fund Forest Service workers amid federal budget cuts
Stewardship coordinators for the National Forest Foundation in Gunnison County staff an information kiosk at the Judd Falls trailhead near Gothic on Aug. 1, 2021.(Dean Krakel, Special to The Colorado Sun)Eagle, Gunnison, Pitkin and Summit counties will direct local tax dollars toward backcountry rangers who will maintain trails, douse fires and pick up trash amid surging visitation to public lands, hiring freezes and layoffs of federal workers who normally handle these responsibilities. Jason Blevins reports on where the counties are finding their funding and how contributing financial support to federal management could come back to bite them.
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POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
PERA could be the big winner of Colorado’s police funding deal. Here’s how.
The sign on Colorado PERA headquarters in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver on Sept. 18, 2018. (Eric Lubbers, The Colorado Sun)Gov. Jared Polis signed a new bill this week authorizing an unusual budget maneuver that will, in theory, use Public Employees’ Retirement Association investment returns to cover $350 million in funding for Colorado law enforcement. But as Brian Eason reports, it’s trickier than it sounds.
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Jared Polis signs bill aimed at reducing Colorado’s rape kit backlog. The law will increase oversight of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and try to make the turnaround time for sexual assault evidence kits three times as fast.TRANSPORTATION
Front Range Passenger Rail stars in a new student documentary — despite not yet existing
Cat Schadegg, Morgan Treat, Victoria Flores and Julian Hanes plan to meet the fifth member of their crew, Jacob Brown, at The South Transit Center on April 25 on the MAX Bus in Fort Collins, Colorado. (Tri Duong, Special to the Colorado Sun)Journalism students at Front Range Community College flexed their civic engagement muscles when they decided to make a documentary that gets into the nitty gritty of Colorado’s proposed Front Range Passenger Rail, which is years away from coming to fruition. Tracy Ross has more.
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Colorado Treasurer Dave Young jumps into crowded Democratic primary in 8th Congressional District. Young, who lives in Greeley, is the fourth Democrat — so far — running to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans. He was elected treasurer in 2018 and reelected in 2022. What we know about the visa obtained by Egyptian man accused of injuring 12 people in Boulder. Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, was born in Egypt and moved three years ago to Colorado Springs, where he lived with his wife and five children, according to state court documents. He lived for 17 years in Kuwait. Family of man charged in Boulder attack is being taken into immigration custody, Homeland Security chief says. One of the alleged attacker’s daughters was recognized as one of the best and brightest high school seniors in Colorado Springs by the Colorado Springs Gazette. Judge sentences Jeffco man to life, plus 60 years for killing Alexa Bartell in rock-throwing spree. A jury in April found Joseph Koenig guilty of first-degree murder and other crimes tied to a weekslong rock-throwing spree.Section by Tracy Ross | Reporter
THE COLORADO REPORT
Man shoots moose in self-defense during encounter in Grand Lake. After a cow moose knocked a woman down and threatened to stomp her, the woman’s husband shot the animal fearing her life could be in danger, sparking warnings from state wildlife experts to beware moose with young offspring.— Sky-Hi News Evergreen Metro District to give further study to removal of fluoride. The district is reevaluating a 2024 decision to remove fluoride from its drinking water, saying further research is necessary before removing the cavity-fighting chemical from the water supply.— Canyon Courier Denver sees warmest spring in 13 years, National Weather Service says. Warm temperatures and minimal snow in March brought Denverites the warmest spring the city has seen in more than a decade.— The Denver Post Inside the next generation of 16th Street kiosk entrepreneurs. Kiosk merchants are flocking to the reinvented 16th Street in Denver, hoping to write a new chapter for the commercial strip after a wave of business closures amid the pandemic and years of construction.— Denverite? = source has article meter or paywall
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SunLit
REVIEW
The Bookies Bookstore offers tales from Europe to the American West
Each week as part of SunLit — The Sun’s literature section — we feature staff recommendations from bookstores across Colorado. This week, the staff from The Bookies Bookstore in Denver recommends:
“The Harvey Girls” by Juliette Fay, a story of two waitresses on the Santa Fe railroad “Long Island” by Colm Tóibín, a novel powered by a woman’s strong Irish roots “The Postcard” by Anne Berest, a “true novel” of a family devastated by the 20th centuryRead 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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