There are people who spend their days going through the motions of their career. And then there’s Dylan Wiman. As Wiman climbed the ladder in his fields of construction and private equity,…
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Rural Colorado town’s battle against solar project raises questions about the cultural cost of clean energy
Story first appeared in: It seemed like a good idea. Put a large solar array on 640 acres of sagebrush and cedar about 30 miles northwest of Telluride. There was already a…
Rural Colorado’s “cowboy up” culture has led to high suicide rates. How can the state improve mental health in agriculture?
San Luis Valley cattle rancher George Whitten was halfway through a mental health workshop when he let himself tally up a figure he had never wanted to know — the number of…
Agencies downgrade Tri-State bonds, adding to rural power cooperative’s ongoing pressures
The financial pressures on Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, a wholesale power provider to rural electric cooperatives, continue to pile up as bond rating agencies have downgraded their bonds and four members…
What’s Working: How the pandemic helped provide permanent funding for rural Colorado’s economic development
COVID may have harmed us in a thousand different ways, but one place it’s had a beneficial impact is rural Colorado, which is getting permanent economic attention. Thank Katharina Papenbrock, director of…
How hard is it for rural Colorado hospitals to hire CEOs? Ask the 24-year-old boss at the medical center in Julesburg.
When Aidan Hettler showed up for a job interview at the Sedgwick County Health Center in the summer of 2022, he was prepared to tell the hospital’s board that he absolutely should…
Rural Colorado awarded $113.5 million to build better broadband, but most applicants left empty-handed
While filing papers at her office earlier this month, Leslie Mastroianni’s Apple watch vibrated. An email from Advance Colorado announced the Southern Colorado Economic Development District had won a grant to improve…