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Fewer students are attending public schools in Colorado. The state's combined public elementary, middle and high school enrollment has dropped by 0.5% from Oct. 2020. The fall of that year was the time of full-blast pandemic shutdowns, which included many schools. Middle school enrollment has dropped by 2.21% from 2020.

One of the main issues Ganahl focused on was the drug problem, specifically the fact that Colorado has the highest cocaine use rate out of all the other states in the country. In fact, the statistic was used in several campaign ads for Ganahl including billboards across the state and television and radio commercials.

In American entertainment, people who dwell in rural parts of the country's interior are generally caricatured as narrow-minded, incurious, hostile to outsiders and often dangerous. In entertainment, there has been a surge and reinvention of the true crime genre in the last decade.

Brent Baldwin, the owner of Veterans Wine & Liquor in Colorado Springs, knows that if people work together in the community to push local, especially craft beer and spirits, everybody wins. His approach is knowing what he likes, and understanding the supply chain but also knowing what his customers want and what the brewers and distillers can provide.

Colorado became the first state in the U.S. to legalize recreational sales of marijuana starting in 2014 and residents were shocked about how well it kicked off at first. Being one of two states (Washington legalized recreational marijuana the same year) where people could legally buy the drug without having medical reasons, the marijuana industry boomed right away.

Mark Anthony of Mark Anthony's Pretzels in Colorado Springs makes his food for the love of it. A transplant from Pennsylvania, he has lived and worked everywhere from Germany to Texas to Kentucky. Anthony is known in the Colorado Springs area for his pretzels. But his diversity of food knowledge and preparation stretches from meatloaf family meals to Italian specialties and maybe even a pretzel Cuban sandwich.

Everyone is accustomed to hearing the terms El Nino and La Nina and how they relate to weather activity. But even though most are familiar with the terms, some are confused as to what the weather-related phrases exactly mean and how the occurrences can change weather patterns.

Elevating Mexican cuisine with a sense of fusion is a paramount experience for Milagros Cocina Mexicana co-owner Eric Morales. In collaboration with their executive chef Roberto Reyes, the intention in many of their dishes and their setting is to invoke a sense of style with new possibilities.

Club Q is planning on a 2023 reopening. According to general manager, Ms. Beyonca, “The club is not having a grand opening. Nor is the club just getting back to business. It’s more of a homecoming. It’s still our home.”

As the cost of living in many cities across the country continues to rise, more families are choosing to have both parents work to afford their lifestyles. In recent years, the tradition of having one parent in the workforce and the other one home caring for kids has become harder to accomplish.