Kwon Atlas

(Colorado Newsline) Big-box stores and their lobbyists are trying to meddle with our wallets, again. Right now, they are pushing to pass the Credit Card Competition Act of 2023, a bill that would make credit less accessible to our marginalized communities and give big-box stores a payday. Congress was able to shut this bill down when it was introduced in 2022.

You can’t see it, smell it, or taste it. This invisible pollutant even accumulates the most on hot and sunny blue-sky days, when the Colorado air appears clear. Yet, ground-level ozone is the Front Range’s most pressing air quality problem, impacting our health and environment each summer. Ozone is simply three oxygen atoms stuck together. High up in the atmosphere, ozone serves an important purpose: it protects us from the sun’s ultraviolet radiation.

State Representative for House District 8, Leslie Herod, launched her campaign for Mayor of Denver this month. Herod vows to refrain from a business-as-usual approach and instead focus on bringing people together to meet today’s challenges and create real results. “I’m running for mayor for a very simple reason — our city is struggling as it changes and I have the record of achievements and experience to chart a new path forward for Denver,” said Leslie Herod.