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By Kevin Vaughan and Burt Hubbard | The I-News Network During the 12-year span between the mass shootings at Columbine and Aurora, Coloradans used guns to kill themselves about four times more frequently than they used them to kill each other, an I-News analysis of death certificates found. The analysis, which covered the years 2000 [...]
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By some of the most important measures of social progress, black and Latino residents of Colorado have lost ground compared to white residents in the decades since the civil rights movement. Minority gains made during the 1960s and 1970s have eroded with time, an I-News analysis of six decades of demographic data from the U.S. [...]
Kids in Colorado miss nearly 8 million hours of school each year because of toothaches. Children from low-income families are most at risk for tooth decay, the most common childhood disease, with untreated cavities affecting 19 percent of kindergartners in the state’s poorest schools. Many if not most of these children are eligible for Medicaid [...]
Colorado’s Medicaid dental woes
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Dr. Amal Trivedi is a medical doctor who practices in several states, a researcher who has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine and a faculty member at Brown University. “It’s an economic issue, certainly, but it’s also a moral issue. I mean, ideally what we’d like to see is that every member [...]
Dick Wadhams is a political consultant and former chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. “The drop-out rates are very high and you drop out of school, you’re confined to a life of poverty. That’s the bottom line.” First thing that comes to my mind, I think this is one of the direct consequences of an [...]
Now that you know about the growing disparity between whites and minorities in Colorado, what will you do with that information? Let us know at www.facebook.com/iNewsNetwork. Here are just some of the possibilities you might consider: Lead a discussion at your home, place of worship, school, book club, service club or other organization. Host a [...]
