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A new report released yesterday by the Colorado Center on Law and Policy called Vital Signs highlights the dramatic influence of income, race and place on health. Health outcomes for low-income Latinos, African-Americans and other people of color are not as favorable as the outcomes for affluent white people. Other findings include that income affects life expectancy, that the share of Coloradans reporting poor physical and mental health is substantially higher among lower-income people across racial and ethnic groups, and that the economic gap between urban and rural areas of the state has continued to widen since the Great Recession with direct consequences on health outcomes. Learn more at CCLPonline.org.
The White River National Forest on Monday approved an expansion plan for the Arapahoe Basin ski resort that will open up over 300 acres of terrain, plus a new chairlift to the highest-lift point, the top of Lenawee Mountain, and a summer adventure tour including new trails. Citizen groups oppose the plan but Forest supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams says the environmental footprint will be minimized. He also says this could be the last major ski resort expansion in the White River National Forest.
Last night Dan Richardson was formally sworn in as mayor of Carbondale. Earlier this month, Carbondale’s Bike, Pedestrian and Trails Commission held a public hearing at Town Hall to discuss creating safer routes through town at night. KDNK news intern Raleigh Burleigh reports.
A recent Facebook post said that students at Coal Ridge High School, west of New Castle, had built a wall in the music room, symbolic of the wall President-elect Trump has threatened to build between the border of the US and Mexico. But, school principal Richard Elertson told KDNK’s Amy Hadden Marsh that no such wall was found.
