family
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For Colorado’s regional small business administrator, family matters
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A month after Aikta Marcoulier started her new job overseeing 580,000 square miles of the West as the regional administrator for the Small Business Administration, her mother died. Marcoulier’s mother, Dr. Rajeshvari Verma, was 70 when she succumbed in June to interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that destroys lung tissue. Despite losing who her sister…
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COVER STORY | Facing ‘hopeless’ future, many young Coloradans turn away from having children
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When she was a little girl, Malhia Guzman dreamed of having children of her own. Now, at 21 years old, Guzman said she’s almost certain she’ll never have kids. Guzman’s desires haven’t changed — she still loves and wants children — but she no longer believes she’ll be able to afford them. Guzman said she works two…
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State Supreme Court upholds Colorado’s voter-approved paid leave program
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The Colorado Supreme Court has turned aside a challenge to the state’s paid family and medical leave program, upholding the voter-approved expansion of the social safety net as constitutional and rejecting the claims from a Grand Junction-based construction company. Nearly 58% of voters supported Proposition 118 in 2020, which required most employers to provide up…
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COVER STORY: DEADLY CARE | Scrutiny mounts as 14 Coloradans die under care of Office of Public Guardianship
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Policymakers who launched a pilot program for the state to serve as guardian for individuals who have no family or friends and often end up in hospitals are scrutinizing its work, particularly following the deaths of 14 wards under its care. Alarmed by the deaths, Gov. Jared Polis also indicated he would seek more oversight…
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State Supreme Court to consider whether paid family, medical leave violates TABOR
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The Colorado Supreme Court will decide whether the paid family and medical leave program that voters enacted in the 2020 election violates the state’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights. The court announced on Monday that it will review a decision from Denver District Court that dismissed a lawsuit over Proposition 118, the Paid Family and Medical Leave…
