We’re thrilled to share some exciting news with you this morning. The Sun has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the nonprofit American Journalism Project. You can read our full announcement here.
This is not only a tremendous vote of confidence in The Sun from a respected national funder, it’s confirmation of the trust you have placed in The Sun as readers, members and donors over the past six years. We built this nonprofit for you, Colorado, and with your continued help we’re now aiming to expand our news coverage around the state because there are so many important stories that deserve to be told.
We’re grateful for the support so many of you have given us, and we’re thankful for AJP’s help, too. Today’s grant doesn’t get us over the finish line. However, it does pour rocket fuel into our engines for this amazing journey we have charted together. And if you’re not already a member or donor, today would be a great day to climb aboard!
Thanks, Colorado.
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POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
Democrats need just one more seat to gain a supermajority in the state Senate. But, they have to defend their supermajority in the House, where several incumbents are facing close races — including some in Republican strongholds like Colorado Springs. Brian Eason has more.
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HEALTH
Visiting Siemens engineers Larry Wright, left, and Michael Szabo do routine maintenance of a CT-scan machine inside the Memorial Regional Health hospital, Feb. 2, 2023, in Craig. (Hugh Carey, The Colorado Sun)
Have surgery coming up? A new website — ColoradoHospitalPrices.com — lets you look up various procedures at a hospital and see a list of prices based on insurance carriers. The goal is to help people find the hospital with the lowest price. John Ingold has more.
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COLUMNS
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BOOKS
Each week as part of SunLit — The Sun’s literature section — we feature staff recommendations from bookstores across Colorado. This week, the staff from The Bookies Bookstore in Denver recommends:
“Spark of the Everflame” by Penn Cole, a fantasy of navigating unwritten rules of love, power and politics
“A Pirate’s Life for Tea” by Rebecca Thorne, a love/adventure story about capturing a river pirate
“Predestined” by Rachel Byrne, a mystery built around teens at a very strange summer camp
Read what the bookstore staff had to say about each. Pick up a copy and support your local bookstores at the same time.
RECOMMENDATIONS
A major element of the AJP grant we’re announcing today is that we will be adding some help on the business side of our operation. So, if you or someone you know is looking for a great place to work and wants to have an impact on our state, please reach out! The first job postings are here. Thanks again!
— Larry & the whole staff of The Sun
Corrections & Clarifications
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Type of Story: News
Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources.
Police in Northern Colorado are investigating after a crash involving multiple vehicles claimed the life of a pedestrian.
The Greeley Police Department received reports of a crash at the 5500 block of Highway 34 around 5:50 p.m. on Monday. When officers arrived, they discovered that two vehicles were involved in a crash with a 19-year-old woman who attempted to walk across the highway.
Police said there was no crosswalk in the area, and she was struck by the driver’s side of a Chevrolet Blazer. The impact knocked the woman into the inside lane, where she was struck by a Chevrolet Traverse. A witness told officers they saw the woman crossing the roadway ‘as traffic arrived at her location.’
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First responders attempted life-saving measures on the woman at the scene before she was taken to North Colorado Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. GPD said the Weld County Coroner’s Office will release her identity at a later time.
Neither driver involved was injured in the crash. Police said they don’t expect charges to be filed against those drivers at the moment, but the case remains under investigation. The police department asked anyone with information on the crash to contact Officer Ed Kubala at Edward.Kubala@greeleypd.com.
Colorado’s best ski deal? Maybe one that costs nothing at all. At Steamboat Springs’ Howelsen Hill, “Sunday Funday is taken to an entirely new level,” reads the city webpage for Ski Free Sundays. Yes, on Sundays throughout the season, visitors need only to walk into the ticket office to grab a pass at no charge. […]
While Colorado ranks near the middle of U.S. states for carbon emissions per capita, it still produces enough CO2 per person to rival countries on the World Bank’s list of top emitters internationally.
In 2023, Colorado produced 13.9 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per capita. If it had been ranked by the World Bank during the same year, Colorado would have placed 14th among the more than 200 countries on the list, just behind Canada, at 14.1, and just ahead of the U.S. as a whole, at 13.7.
Among U.S. states, Colorado ranked 26th in carbon emissions per capita. Wyoming had the highest per capita emissions in the country, at 92.9 metric tons, while Maryland had the lowest, at 7.8.
Most of Colorado’s emissions come from energy production and consumption, primarily natural gas and oil production and electric power production and consumption.
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Colorado State Energy Profile, U.S. Energy Information Administration, accessed in December 2025. Source link
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2023 Colorado Statewide Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks, pg. 128, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, November 2024. Source link
Senate Bill 24-230 Oil and Gas Production Fees, Colorado General Assembly, accessed in December, 2025. Source link
Senate Bill 23-016 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Measures, Colorado General Assembly, accessed in December 2025. Source link
Carbon dioxide emissions, World Bank Group, 2024, accessed in December 2025. Source link
Energy-related CO2 emission data tables, U.S. Energy Information Administration, accessed in December 2025. Source link
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Cassis Tingley is a Denver-based freelance journalist. She’s spent the last three years covering topics ranging from political organizing and death doulas in the Denver community to academic freedom and administrative accountability at the…
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