Tina Griego, Colorado News Collaborative

Oban Pitts, 13, center, plays the trombone with other members of the Monarch PK8 and Eldorado PK8 middle school marching band as they take part in the annual Labor Day Parade along Main Street on Sept. 4, 2023, in Louisville, Colorado. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

Ahead of the election, here鈥檚 what thousands of Coloradans told us matters most in their votes

October 31, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

The thousands of community responses to the Voter Voices survey by Colorado news outlets have been used by local newsrooms to inform election stories, voter guides, candidate forums and questionnaires....

Jody Rein of Centennial, Colo., hangs ...

Coloradans want candidates to focus on good government and democracy — but that can mean many things

June 9, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

A lot of Coloradans are worried about our democracy -- that is the message that comes through loud and clear from thousands of responses to the Voter Voices survey that...

The Fourth of July parade in Silverton, Colorado in 2023. (Photo by Hart Van Denburg/CPR News via COLAB)

We are asking Coloradans what they want candidates to focus on this election. Thousands have answered.

June 8, 2024 at 10:26 a.m.

Thousands of Coloradans responding to a survey by The Denver Post and other local newsrooms say candidates competing for their votes this year need to be focused primarily on several...

Alejandra Carrera (izq.), de 66 a帽os, y su esposo Clemente Flores, de 67, posan para una fotograf a en su apartamento en Aurora, Colorado el martes, 31 de enero de 2023. (Fotograf铆a de Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Buscando Avances: A pesar de tasas de pobreza hist贸ricamente bajas, sigue siendo dif铆cil que las personas latinas y negras en Colorado alcancen la estabilidad econ贸mica

February 17, 2023 at 6:07 p.m.

A pesar de una disminuci贸n en las tasas de pobreza, los coloradenses latinos y negros siguen teniendo una probabilidad dos veces mayor de vivir en la pobreza en comparaci贸n con...

Alejandra Carrera, 66, left, and her husband Clemente Flores, 67, at their apartment in Aurora on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Latino and Black poverty rates in Colorado are near historic lows, but economic stability remains elusive

February 17, 2023 at 6:06 p.m.

Despite falling poverty rates, Latino and Black Coloradans were still about twice as likely to live in poverty as white Coloradans.

Guadalupe Bocanegra, 59, right, and Raquel ...

Black, Latino residents have narrowed economic gaps with white Coloradans, but equity remains “a dream unrealized”

June 2, 2022 at 3:13 p.m.

U.S. Census data shows Black and Latino Coloradans have made progress in narrowing the socioeconomic gaps with white residents but key inequities remain in housing, graduation rates and unemployment worsened...

On Edge: Veteran paramedic grapples with post-COVID toll on his lungs and his sense of self

January 16, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.

Even now, nearly three months after COVID invaded his body, Jason McGinnis cannot stop asking himself how he contracted the virus.

On Edge: Breckenridge businessman searches for balance in the midst of chaos

January 2, 2021 at 6:30 a.m.

Time gave Dick Carleton no more preparation for 2020 than it had given anyone else. It certainly didn鈥檛 prepare him for the drumbeat of anxiety, the worry, the weight of...

For one Lakewood family, mental health difficulties aren鈥檛 just about 2020

December 14, 2020 at 11:40 a.m.

School is online, then hybrid, then online. Her son鈥檚 job training is meeting today, no, tomorrow. Her daughter鈥檚 Westernaires horse club meetings are in person, then remote -- too few...

On Edge: A Denver COVID survivor finds her footing amid her fears

December 11, 2020 at 9:29 a.m.

鈥淚 am not like this. I am a person who loves to be out and about. I am very social. And there is just all of this. I can鈥檛 go...

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