Author: Stephanie Earls, The Gazette
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UCHealth launches $100M initiative to combat Colorado mental health crisis
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Aurora-based UCHealth today announced a sweeping, $100 million initiative to combat the state’s mental health crisis. A $25 million matching donation program could boost support to as much as $150 million, which will be used to embed mental health care professionals in primary care offices, build and expand tele-psychiatry and virtual care and ultimately complete…
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Protesters turn out in Colorado Springs against Trump’s wall order
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Despite bitter weather, snow and biting winds, about two dozen people met on the west steps of Colorado Springs City Hall at noon Monday to protest President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. That it was a federal holiday set aside to honor American presidents and…
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National Park Service honors Underground Railroad ‘conductor’ buried in Colorado Springs
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On the eve of the Civil War, a 22-year-old Iowa farmer and Underground Railroad “conductor” named Edward Thompson Sheldon – buried in Colorado Springs’ Evergreen Cemetery – set out to help four men escape to freedom. The men – “runaway Negroes” or free men who’d been “kidnapped” into slavery, depending on where one got one’s…
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Veterans, doctors alike stranded as Vet Choice fails to pay its bills
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One day in 2016, Army veteran Jason White finished cleaning his pistol, wrapped his hand around the grip, and put the barrel to his temple. He’d had enough. Five years after his deployment in Afghanistan ended when an IED explosion pinned him between two vehicles, he was 100 percent disabled, in pain and still at…
