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…
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Colorado construction workers, pressured by longer, harder hours, die by suicide twice as often as other professions
Tyler Olson was whip-smart as a kid—“Mister Brainiac,” his mom, Terri Olson, remembered. After graduating from Colorado School of Mines, he found a job doing construction at an oil field. Pulling long…