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Farmer Nathan Weathers configures a high-power, high-tech quad-track tractor near his farm in Yuma, Colo, June 30, 2008. Lawmakers in Colorado and 10 other states have introduced bills that would force farming equipment manufacturers to provide the tools, software, parts and manuals needed for farmers to do their own repairs. The bills are a response to farmers unable to repair their own tractors and combines, forcing them to wait sometimes days and paying steep labor costs. (Brian Brainerd/The Denver Post via AP, file)

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11 states consider 'right to repair' for farming equipment
By JESSE BEDAYN - Associated Press/Report for America
Mon,02/13/23-6:45AM , 158 Reads
DENVER (AP) — On Colorado’s northeastern plains, where the pencil-straight horizon divides golden fields and blue sky, a farmer named Danny Wood scrambles to plant and harvest proso millet, dryland corn and winter wheat in short, seasonal windows. That is until his high-tech Steiger 370 tractor conks out.
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Teacher Jessica Flores directs students as they work on laptops in a classroom in Newlon Elementary School on, Aug. 25, 2020, in Denver, Colo., which is one of 55 Discovery Link sites set up by Denver Public Schools where students are participating in remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Colorado lawmakers are considering joining eight other states in an agreement that would eliminate many of the requirements for teachers to get licensed when they move within the member states. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

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10 states mull cross-border rules to tackle teacher shortage
By JESSE BEDAYN - Associated Press/Report for America
Wed,02/01/23-6:36PM , 190 Reads
DENVER (AP) — Every Colorado school district, like many across the country, began 2023 understaffed. That's caused classes to be crammed together, school bus routes to shrink, Spanish language courses to get cut from curriculums, and field trips to be nixed.
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Larry Clark talks outside a supply store on Friday, Dec. 30, 2022, in Grand Junction, Colo. (AP Photo/Jesse Bedayn)

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Boebert's backers urge her to 'tone down the nasty rhetoric'
By JESSE BEDAYN - Associated Press/Report for America
Sun,01/08/23-7:23AM , 149 Reads
RIFLE, Colo. (AP) — Debbie Hartman voted for Lauren Boebert for Congress in 2020 and again in 2022, delighted by Boebert's unequivocal defense of cultural issues that animate the Republican Party's far right flank.
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Bill Loper, interim artistic director of the Out Loud Colorado Springs Men's Chorus, leads the group during a rehearsal for its Christmas program in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. Gay and lesbian choruses like Out Loud came about after the assassination of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and have remained steadfast institutions through the civil rights struggles of the 20th century up to today. They've taken an active role in the healing process after mass shootings like that at Orlando's Pulse nightclub and the Nov. 19 attack at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs that killed five people. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

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LGBTQ chorus in Colorado Springs unifies community with song
By JESSE BEDAYN - Associated Press
Fri,12/02/22-12:21AM , 202 Reads
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Below the vaulted dome and dark wood beams of a church in Colorado Springs, a gay men's choir rehearsed for a concert that's taken on new meaning after an LGBTQ night club became the site of a shooting that killed five and wounded 17.
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