Colorado’s health care cuts are painful — what comes next could be worse | PODIUM

05/13/2026

By Ross Brooks and Beverly Razon Last December, a broad coalition of consumer advocates, safety net providers, hospitals, health plans and physicians statewide published a warning: our state was facing a health care crisis, and fragmented policymaking would make it harder to solve. These members…

Solar and wind —what a difference a border makes | Hal Bidlack

by Hal Bidlack | 05/12/2026 | 0

If you ask most Americans where Colorado and Wyoming are on a map, they will likely be able to find us, somewhere out west. A few might be confused by our roughly similar shapes. Sure, Colorado is actually a 697-sided polygon (a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon) due to surveying errors during…

Antitrust suit seeks better prices for farmers | Rachel Gabel

by Rachel Gabel | 05/11/2026 | 0

A stack of papers is keeping eastern Colorado and western Kansas farmers out of the lucrative west-coast market and bringing a group together to levy an antitrust suit against the railroads.  Stefan Soloviev was an unlikely farmer with his full-sleeve tattoos, big-city upbringing, and a last…

The community-less, hyper-online citizen is a threat to democracy | Miller Hudson

by Miller Hudson | 05/11/2026 | 0

Robert Putnam, a political scientist and sociologist, first came to widespread public attention with his turn-of-the-century tome, “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community.” There has been frequent debate regarding whether Putnam, who taught for several decades at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government,…