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When it comes to developing land in a city, the expenses can often be through the roof. Adding to that, certain properties require that developers make improvements to the infrastructure around their development.

State legislatures across the country are trying to address the complex, and controversial issue of how to balance transgender athletes and athletics. In April, House Concurrent Resolution 1004 “Fundamental Rights for Parents,” a resolution to amend the Colorado Constitution was introduced in the Colorado House of Representatives.

After the pandemic struck the nation and schools were shuttered, a school reform movement took root. Many say that once schools became remote parents caught a glimpse as to what was actually being taught in classrooms. Some of the curriculum being taught and other situations that were happening in public schools caught the attention of parents and conservatives nationwide.

Even though a new wave of people has started embracing school choice, charter schools tend to have trouble getting approved by school districts. Merit Academy in Woodland Park was forced to jump through several hoops before it was chartered into the district. But now the school is entering its third year this fall and its founders are pleased with the results. In fact, the school has become the talk of the town with some pleased with its existence and others seeing it as taking away resources from the district’s other schools.

Ryan Prickett knows the value of building a business but also the importance of good support in shoes. As a manager and partial owner of Brown's Shoe Fit Co. in Colorado Springs, Prickett realizes the balance of good quality brands, knowledgeable staff, and local understanding is crucial along with building up a loyal base of a trusted shoe store.

A Colorado fire map shows about 35 wildfires in the state as of late June, according to the non-profit Fire, Weather and Avalanche Tracker. The expected count is 5,500 wildfires for Colorado in 2023, according to the Forest Service cited by ABC News 7 KMGH.

All across the world, homelessness seems to be becoming more of an issue each year. In Colorado, the number of homeless people has increased over the last several years due at least in part to rising housing costs. According to the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, 2,455 people identified as being homeless in 2022 which was an 85 percent increase from the 1,326 homeless people in 2020. Chronic homelessness has increased by 130 percent over the last 10 years.

Providing an escape or clearing one's mind through biking can be a freeing experience, but many do not get that opportunity because of a lack of funding, availability, or instruction. At Kids on Bikes, Executive Director Daniel Byrd, who has been with the organization since 2013, tries to improve kids' lives with bikes as they did his.

As the Maverick Observer has covered, Colorado has an illegal drug use problem. That's true for the US as well. As such, harm reduction is gaining popularity in the media, academia, and elsewhere. In Colorado, a bill to allow the opening of so-called overdose prevention centers made it far but was quashed in late April.

llegal drug use has been an issue that has plagued the country for decades. The war on drugs that began in the 1970s has done little to stop illegal narcotics from entering the country. Cartels use various methods to sneak the drugs across the border and then once they get into the U.S. they get distributed all across the country with drug smuggling pipelines.