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How can Texas take better care of its Black mothers?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:14 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Patrice Lott felt her appointments were rushed whenever she went in for her prenatal visits. She had deliberately chosen a doctor of color, following a Facebook group recommendation and her own research, and so this was not the experience she was expecting.“They let me know my appointments coincided with when she got called into the hospital, so we switched it up,” Lott said. “After that, I definitely felt taken care of from top to bottom.”Black mothers continue to experience health disparities and inequities during and after pregnancy in Texas and across the U.S. To raise awareness on the subject, Black Mamas Matter Alliance created "Black Maternal Health Week" or BMHW. The theme for 2023 is, "Our Bodies Belong to Us: Restoring Black Anatomy & Joy."Established in 2018, BMHW (April 11 - 17) is a week of awareness, activism and community building intended to deepen the national conversation about Black maternal health in the U.S., center the voices of Black mother...

5 things to know this Monday, May 1

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:14 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- “Mondays are the start of the work week which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!” — David Dweck. We hope everyone had a great weekend! According to Meteorologist Jill Szwed, your umbrellas and wipers will be getting a workout in today. The soggy weather from the weekend is spilling over to the new week and new month. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office is investigating a burglary of a donation box at the Auriesville Shrine that happened on Sunday. While there is surveillance footage, it is grainy and hard to identify the suspect. Meanwhile, in Columbia County, the Malden Bridge Community Center is searching for its church bell after it went missing between 7 p.m. on April 24 and 7 a.m. the following morning. These stories, and more, are covered in your five things to know this Monday morning. 1. Deputies investigating church donation box burglaryThe Montgomery C...

Money Saver: This deal from Columbia Online is offering the lowest prices of the season on women's hooded jackets

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:14 GMT

ST. LOUIS - A deal from Columbia Online is offering the lowest prices of the season on a hooded jacket for women.One Joy Peak Omni Heat insulated hooded jacket drops from $180 to $59.98. It's available in three colors for this low price, but sizes are going quickly. 3 teens, 1 adult killed in Highway 79 collision in Lincoln County One jacket got more than 1,000 good reviews. Shipping is free with your Columbia account.For more information, head to Margie Money Saver. Check out the discounted items here.

Announcement of 'All Things New' reorganization of 178 catholic parishes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:14 GMT

ST. LOUIS -  The St. Louis Archdiocese is gearing up for the 'All Things New' reorganization of the 178 catholic parishes.The changes are expected to be announced this month.While a group of parishioners plans to fight the changes, other parishioners as well as church leaders are optimistic. FOX 2's partners at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Deacon Bill Twellman believes 'All Things New' will invigorate catholic ministries by enlarging congregations and their staff, and expanding charitable works. 3 teens, 1 adult killed in Highway 79 collision in Lincoln County He also said it will help families who are currently bouncing between multiple parishes just to participate in school, sports leagues, scouts, and other church activities.Some of the smaller parishes are still resisting the consolidation, with attendees of those churches saying they don't want to lose their small, tight-knit community.

The Pro’s Closet in Louisville is like a Willy Wonka factory for bikes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:14 GMT

The folks who run The Pro’s Closet bike refurbishment factory in Louisville simply call their online operation the world’s largest retailer of pre-owned bikes, and they say their new walk-in retail store is the Denver area’s largest bike shop. Yet the sheer scale of the operation, which buys and sells bikes to consumers throughout North America, is hard to grasp from the outside.The physical plant is the size of two and a half football fields, so immense that employees use scooters to get from one end of the factory floor to the other. Massive five-tier steel racks stack bikes in boxes waiting for purchase because, depending on the time of year, TPC refurbishes 50 to 150 high-end bikes per day, assembly-line style. Myles Gaines tests a refurbished bicycle at The Pro’s Closet in Louisville, Colorado on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. TPC buys used bicycles shipped to them from around the country and refurbishes bikes for online sale. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denv...

Mixed data on Suncor’s discharge of harmful sulfur dioxide illustrates complexity of air-quality monitoring

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:14 GMT

When a malfunction at Suncor Energy’s oil refinery spewed sulfur dioxide into the air over Commerce City in the predawn hours of April 12, a machine quietly sampling air quality in the community detected the pollution.Sensors at the Boulder Air monitoring station in Commerce City on Wednesday, April 19, 2023. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)But other instruments tracking the air around Suncor did not.Air monitors operated by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Suncor itself and Cultivando, a nonprofit that serves as a watchdog over the refinery, all recorded different data on what had been blown into the air as people were just beginning their day. In fact, some instruments did not record the spike in sulfur dioxide at all.And when the state health department made the sulfur dioxide incident public later that evening, its report included a data set that did not reflect the peak emission point, but instead provided a less-alarming five-minute averag...

“Belly flop”: After promise to wade into water crisis, Colorado lawmakers propose further study

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:14 GMT

Colorado’s legislative leadership promised this year that the state’s water problems would be the “centerpiece” of conservation efforts but their keystone proposal focused on the Colorado River and widespread drought plaguing the West is to study the issue further.At such a late stage in the drying American West, water experts tell The Denver Post that creating another study group amounts to procrastination while time is running out. And, they say, it’s unlikely that evaluating the drought – exacerbated and made permanent by climate change – yet again will yield any new ideas.Lawmakers introduced the bipartisan bill, SB23-295, late in their session. It is on its way to clearing the Senate and heading to the House of Representatives. Behind the measure are Western Slope Sens. Dylan Roberts, an Avon Democrat, and Perry Will, a New Castle Republican, Speaker of the House Julie McCluskie, and Marc Catlin, a Montrose Republican.The bill would create a 16-mem...

Barcelona Wine Bar welcomes everyone with tapas, wine and fun | Opinion

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:14 GMT

Editor’s note: This is part of The Know’s series, Staff Favorites. Each week, we offer our opinions on the best that Colorado has to offer for dining, shopping, entertainment, outdoor activities and more. (We’ll also let you in on some hidden gems). Find our previous Staff Favorites here.My girlfriends and I still chortle over ordering tapas at a seaside bar in Barcelona in 2004. (We guessed, since it was all in Spanish.) One dish was some little fried minnow-looking things, and my friends looked to me, an East Coast seafood-eater, for what to do.Paella Mariscos, with mussels, clams, calamari and prawn, at Barcelona Wine Bar in RiNo. (Thomas McGovern, provided by Barcelona Wine Bar)I confidently popped the whole thing in my mouth.In between spitting out shell and bones, I had to admit I had no idea what I was doing.I looked for those crunchy little mystery morsels on the tapas menu at Barcelona Wine Bar in Denver’s River North neighborhood when it first opened in 2018. But alt...

Drug dealers who sell lethal fentanyl doses rarely prosecuted under new Colorado law

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:14 GMT

Prosecutions of drug dealers who sell fatal doses of fentanyl remain scarce in Colorado nearly a year after state lawmakers enacted harsher penalties for fentanyl sales that end in death.Since the law became effective July 1, Colorado prosecutors have filed nine cases against people suspected of dealing fentanyl that killed someone, court data shows. In that same time, at least 611 Coloradans have died of fentanyl overdoses, state health data shows.During the debate over the 2022 bill, prosecutors and law enforcement officials said the creation of a criminal charge of fentanyl distribution resulting in death would give them another needed tool to stem the flow of the synthetic opioid into communities and hold dealers accountable.Families of people who died of fentanyl also asked for change and criticized police for not investigating their loved ones’ dealers under existing drug distribution laws.But criminal cases under the new law remain rare. Only three of the state’s ...

The Eagles’ Joe Walsh, Mumford & Sons and Phish show why Chuck Morris’ CSU music-biz program is growing so fast

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:14 GMT

When Eagles singer and guitarist Joe Walsh popped into Colorado State University on Thursday to speak via video, he highlighted the stellar curation that makes the school’s music-business program such a hit — thanks in large part to the reputation of founder Chuck Morris.“Chuck and I have been able to bring in people the parents can relate to, but also people the students can relate to, so it’s a balance,” said Eric Griffin, assistant director of CSU’s three-year-old Music Business Program. “It’s taking our list of 16 weeks and looking at who we can get.”That includes not only Walsh, but names that college students would likely recognize, such as up-and-coming Boulder band The Velveteers, which has lately been opening for The Black Keys, singer-songwriter Neil Francis, and EDM artist GRiZ.Colorado’s The Velveteers are breaking out nationally — and playing Denver’s Gothic Theatre on Friday, Nov. 16. (Daniel Mermi...