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Democrat Javier Mabrey, an attorney and co-founder of a group that defends Coloradans facing eviction, announced Tuesday that he's running in next year's election for House District 1, a southwest Denver seat held by term-limited Democratic state Rep. Susan Lontine. Raised by a single mother whose only source of income was a disability check, Mabrey, 30, said he wants to bring his experience growing up in the district — dependent on food stamps, his family faced eviction and was homeless for a stretch — to advocate for economic and racial justice at the state Capitol. "Too many Colo...

Fact check: Breaking down Joe Biden's first month of claims CNN 2/23/2021 By Daniel Dale, Holmes Lybrand and Tara Subramaniam, CNN © Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images US President Joe Biden speaks virtually to the Munich Security Conference in Germany, from the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 19, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) President Joe Biden was more consistently factual in his first month in office than his predecessorever was in office. But Biden was not perfect himself. Biden was not remotely c...

Ninety-seven Black Cook County residents died by suicide in 2020 — the highest total for a single year in more than a decade. The alarming rise came as government officials fell short on pledges to improve suicide-prevention efforts that were made after The Trace and the Chicago Sun-Times reported last July on the rising number of deaths. In response, Chicago city health officials said they would seek proposals from private agencies to create and implement a suicide-prevention plan. And county officials said they were working on a similar plan and would have it by year’s end. But neither...

New software warns adults when students search for ways to harm themselves CDC: Suicide is 2nd leading cause of death for ages 14-18 and last updated 2021-02-10 13:57:56-05 School counselor Tracy Clements works in Neosho, Missouri, a town with small school district dealing with a big suicide problem. “Between 2014 and 2018, our suicide rates were many, many the national average,” Clements said. Since the pandemic started, Clements says three students have attempted suicide and she’s concerned that self-isolation and being away from the classroom could trigger even more. “T...

Colorado runs on volunteerism, from the church groups that adopt and clean a section of highway to the activists who keep watch on the Capitol for those who can't. Except for "grassroots" groups that are more astroturf with special interest money, volunteer organizations don't have the big bucks with which to do battle. For their ideas to be heard, they do it with a commitment to delivering meals for neighbors, building trails, advocating for the homeless or giving a few bucks to promote their ideology. "Our whole system of government rests on the idea that everyday people elect officials to ...