As a wave of legislation in other states targets access to health care, bathrooms and sports for transgender children, Colorado families say they are grateful to live here, and uneasy.
In communities with many reasons to distrust government efforts, vaccine distribution efforts by tribal and urban Native programs have expanded access and eased worries.
Confronting the double crisis of the decline of coal jobs and a pandemic, some people in the northwest Colorado city of Craig are finding silver linings.
Overall, childhood poverty is trending downward, but a third of Colorado’s black and Latino kids still live in poverty, while child homelessness is increasing dramatically.