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A statewide housing fight plays out in one growing Colorado city

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:40 GMT

FORT COLLINS — As far as Mellisa Rasor is concerned, Fort Collins is where she is meant to be. She’s just not sure if the city of nearly 170,000 people feels the same way about her.She moved to the city from Oklahoma 11 years ago, alienated by the politics of her small hometown. The schools and environment have been “fantastic” for her two children, and she’s felt at home here through a career change and a divorce. Even for a self-described punk transplant who doesn’t fit the city’s outdoor crunchiness, Rasor felt she’d finally found a place filled with “kind, caring, supportive” people.Except, she said, when it comes to “this housing issue.”Like most renters in Fort Collins, Rasor is cost-burdened, meaning she pays more than 30% of her income toward housing every year. To stay in an apartment that’s too small for her family, Rasor pays $1,650 each month, eating up a large slice of what she makes from work...

Filling dangerous gaps in the Continental Divide Trail may require congressional action

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:40 GMT

The Continental Divide Trail stretches more than 3,100 miles from Canada to Mexico, but 44 years after Congress authorized its creation, it still has 160 miles of gaps. Rep. Joe Neguse has been trying to fill them through congressional action, and he visited one of them this week, a potentially dangerous stretch at Muddy Pass in northern Colorado near Rabbit Ears Pass.On that 15-mile section, CDT hikers must walk along U.S. 40 and Colorado Highway 14. Neguse went there Wednesday to dramatize the need for completing the trail.“To see that portion of the road — some of the busiest highways in northwest Colorado that 10, 20, 50, 70 hikers are traversing as they attempt to walk the full extent of the Continental Divide Trail — from a safety perspective this is really important,” Neguse said in an interview following his visit.The Muddy Pass gap is the only one on the CDT in Colorado. There are four in Montana, one in Wyoming and six in New Mexico.Teresa Martinez,...

SUV driver in critical condition after slamming into tree in Orange Circle

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:40 GMT

A driver had to be rescued from an SUV after he slammed into a tree in Orange early Friday.The crash occurred around 12:30 a.m. after the man apparently lost control of his vehicle and drove into the Orange Circle area near Glassell Street.Video showed smoke and fire coming from the crashed vehicle as police and bystanders tried to help the driver. Firefighters arrived and used the jaws of life to eventually free the injured driver. The unidentified man was taken to a local hospital in critical condition. The cause of the crash was unknown.

Harmless for Charles Bradley

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:40 GMT

Harmless for Charles Bradley: Harmless, aka L.A.-based, Mexico-born singer and songwriter Nacho Cano, told us about his Charles Bradley experience.Harmless: One of the best gigs I ever saw was Charles Bradley at FYF in 2016.It was a bad year. I was a full year out of college, working retail and kicking myself for not having ‘made it’ yet in music. I was in a rocky place with my then-girlfriend, with no signs of improvement.Like most couples in dire straits, despite seeing the warning signs, we made plans for the future and purchased tickets to an event we knew we wouldn’t attend together. We were just three weeks shy of actually making it to the event, but unfortunately, I took an edible that awoke me at 3 am in a panic that prompted me to break up with her on the spot. A series of embarrassing Instagram stories followed before the close friends’ time. The kind of stuff that makes your friends cringe.I swore off not going to FYF. We had a thing where we went every year, like a...

Opinion: John Fisher couldn’t hide how he failed Oakland A’s

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:40 GMT

John Fisher is a notorious media recluse.So reading Fisher’s words for the first time since he bought the Oakland A’s 18 years ago felt like a fever dream.His canned comments in a Q&A with the Las Vegas Journal Review and team-affiliated NBC Bay Area made clear why Fisher hid from the public eye. Even the friendliest media questioning reveals him to be the entitled and out-of-touch owner many drew him up to be.One answer to a question by NBC’s Raj Mathai — a TV interview that Fisher oddly mandated not air him actually speaking — was particularly illuminating in light of Fisher’s attempts to relocate the A’s to Las Vegas after decades of operating an unnecessarily low-budget operation.“Are you the right guy to be an owner of any franchise?” Mathai asked.“I don’t think being an owner of a franchise is like being a politician,” Fisher said.Fisher didn’t even have to say it on record. It’s always bee...

Breaking down the 49ers’ position groups entering preseason finale vs. Chargers

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:40 GMT

SANTA CLARA — The 49ers play their final preseason game Friday night against the Los Angeles Chargers with only minor tinkering left on a roster they believe to be Super Bowl caliber.Having settled the quarterback pecking order, the only question is whether Trey Lance sticks around as a high-priced No. 3 or if he’s traded or granted a release to start anew someplace else. For what it’s worth, KNBR’s Greg Papa reported that Lance was at Thursday’s walkthrough, which is closed to media outside of the flagship station.Should Lance depart, Brandon Allen slides in as No. 3, whether it’s on the 53-man roster or the practice squad.Other than that, there’s at least one top-level player at every position group and sometimes two when you consider Brandon Aiyuk and Deebo Samuel at wide receiver, Nick Bosa (once he signs) and Javon Hargrave on the defensive line, Christian McCaffrey and Kyle Juszczyk in the backfield and Fred Warner and Dre Greenlaw at ...

West Nile virus is leading cause of viral disease spread by insects in U.S,, CDC study says

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:40 GMT

By Jacqueline Howard | CNNThis summer has brought a flurry of warnings about cases of mosquito-borne illnesses, including malaria, dengue and Eastern equine encephalitis.But West Nile virus, transmitted primarily through the bite of an infected mosquito, continues to be the leading cause of viral disease spread by insects, known as arboviral disease, in the continental United States, according to a report published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The report summarizes how many infections of West Nile virus and other arboviral diseases occurred across the United States in 2021.RELATED: Person tests positive for West Nile virus in Santa Clara CountyForty-nine states and the District of Columbia reported more than 3,000 cases of arboviral disease that occurred domestically – and 2,911 of those cases were West Nile virus. A total of 2,099 people with West Nile Virus were hospitalized, and 227 died.Nationally, the incidence rate of neuroinvasive West Nile vi...

Clendaniel: 50 years later, Mr. Corfield’s lesson still resonates

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:40 GMT

“Every generationBlames the one before,And all of their frustrationsCome beating on your door.”— Mike and the Mechanics, “The Living Years” As you read this, I on my way to Walla Walla, Wash., for my 50th high school reunion.It’s cause for reflection.In 1973, as with previous generations, we were critical of those who went before us. The Greatest Generation may have won World War II, but they also gave us Vietnam and Watergate. You know there’s work to be done when your president, Richard Nixon, feels a compelling need to tell Americans, “I am not a crook.” And it subsequently becomes evident that he was not only a crook but also a liar.In the midst of the 51-day, must-see Watergate hearings during my senior year at Walla Walla High School, I wrote an essay for Tim Corfield’s innovative “Social, Economic and Political Systems” class. It argued a theory that I still believe: The great thing about America, I ...

Updated Covid-19 vaccines are coming mid-September, officials say

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:40 GMT

By Brenda Goodman | CNNCovid-19 vaccines that have been tweaked to teach the body how to fend off the current crop of circulating variants are now expected to land in drugstores and clinics in mid-September, CDC and FDA officials said.The officials spoke Thursday about the US government’s preparations for the fall and winter respiratory virus season on the condition that they not be named.The US Food and Drug Administration is expected to give its nod to the updated vaccines in a few weeks. Then the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a group of independent experts that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its vaccination decisions, will weigh the safety and effectiveness of the new shots and make recommendations for their use. After the CDC director signs off on those recommendations, the vaccines can be administered.Officials said ACIP will meet quickly after the FDA decision in order to expedite the regulatory steps and get the vaccines to market...

Walters: California partially walks back decision to muzzle researchers

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:40 GMT

As noted in this space recently, there’s been a recent trend in California’s state government toward secrecy — restricting the flow of information to media and the public about what officialdom is doing.A prime example of that trend was a harsh warning from the Department of Education to education researchers that they could be punished if they testified in any lawsuit against the department.A clause in research contracts banned such testimony, even if the researcher was not using data obtained from the department. The warning, which officials partly walked back, was issued because the state was being sued by students whose schooling was interrupted and damaged by shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic.Attorneys for the plaintiffs sought expert testimony from academic researchers about the effects of the shutdown and the evidently haphazard efforts to instruct students online, known colloquially as “zoom school.”Several studies have demonstrated that not only did academic achi...