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The aftershocks — often unacknowledged in the years before mental health struggles were more widely recognized — led to some survivors suffering insomnia, dropping out of school, or disengaging from their spouses or families. But some have developed healthy ways to cope with the shadow of that horrific day through therapy and the support from an expanding group of fellow mass shooting survivors.
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KUNC’s In The NoCo is a daily window to the communities along the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
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Emma VandenEinde/KUNCThe popularity of mocktails is soaring, and while many bars in Northern Colorado have non-alcoholic menus, there’s not yet a completely sober space for people to hang out. Today on In The NoCo, we hear about two mixologists who are trying to create fun spaces for people to explore sobriety. -
!["Part of my job [as a barback] was to kind of hang out until they actually needed me," says Eric Turner, pictured on the left. "And the way they kept me there was to keep feeding me alcohol." Turner, now a certified addiction technician, was featured in journalist Ryan Spencer's in-depth reporting on the drug and alcohol epidemic plaguing Colorado's mountain communities.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d012b5a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1873x1054+0+0/resize/480x270!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F4a%2F39%2F70d80f87473e9603f9196979d532%2Feric-and-ryan.jpeg)
Courtesy of Ryan Spencer and Eric TurnerColorado may rank at the top with regard to physical fitness. But when it comes to mental health, Coloradans are struggling. On today’s In The NoCo we discuss how a culture of drug and alcohol use in mountain resort communities can negatively affect the mental health of those who live and work there.
!["Part of my job [as a barback] was to kind of hang out until they actually needed me," says Eric Turner, pictured on the left. "And the way they kept me there was to keep feeding me alcohol." Turner, now a certified addiction technician, was featured in journalist Ryan Spencer's in-depth reporting on the drug and alcohol epidemic plaguing Colorado's mountain communities.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/ba2121f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1873x1054+0+0/resize/960x540!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F4a%2F39%2F70d80f87473e9603f9196979d532%2Feric-and-ryan.jpeg)
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Governor Jared Polis signed a bill Monday that eliminates discriminatory occupancy limits statewide. Several communities in Northern Colorado will be impacted, including Fort Collins, and residents have mixed responses. -
Several local organizations in cities and towns that support Colorado's universal preschool program recently sent a letter to the Governor's office expressing their concern about possible financial cutbacks that could occur within the next two years. Chalkbeat Colorado reporter Ann Schmike joined KUNC's Michael Lyle, Jr. to get more on this story. -
Greeley farmer Sean Short has created a sustainable chicken farm with a mixture of fish farming and hydroponics. And he’s bringing at-risk young people into the fold to learn how. On today’s In the NoCo we listen back to a conversation about aquaponic chicken farming. -
Last year, lawmakers handed Gov. Jared Polis a major defeat when they rejected his controversial plan to tackle Colorado’s housing crisis. Now, a similar set of proposals is advancing in the legislature despite bipartisan opposition. Polis signed one proposal into law Monday that will ban occupancy limits statewide, but the rest of his housing proposals face an uncertain future. -
Federal authorities have indicted the owners of a Colorado funeral home on criminal charges for fraudulently obtaining pandemic relief funds from the U.S. government. The husband and wife already face state charges of corpse abuse after 190 decaying bodies were discovered in their funeral home's storage building last year. The new charges Monday against Jon and Carie Hallford underscore their alleged lies, money laundering, forgery and manipulation over the past four years that devastated grieving family members.
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With the habitat shrinking for Lahontan Cutthroat Trout, fish and wildlife officials are working to return the fish to a river in the Mountain West. -
Vice President Kamala Harris made an appearance in Las Vegas on Monday, touting President Joe Biden's record in preserving reproductive rights and framing Donald Trump's choices for Supreme Court justices as the reason Roe v. Wade was overturned. -
Weddings on unusual dates, such as ones with patterns — think 12/31/23, which is 1, 2, 3 repeated, or 07/07/07 — are popular. In April, there are several palindromic dates, or dates that are the same backwards and forwards, such as 4/22/24. There's also 4/20/24, which falls on a Saturday and might be a chance to have a cannabis-related wedding. It could be even bigger business for chapels in Las Vegas. -
Vision Zero is a European-inspired program which aims to eliminate traffic accidents by 2050. Las Vegas a few other cities in our region that are participating in the program. -
For the first time, the federal government is putting limits on “forever chemicals” called PFAS in the nation’s drinking water – a move that will protect communities across the Mountain West.
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