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“As far as the next round of possible funds from the federal government, there is no carve-out for municipalities at this time,” city spokesman Rigo Leal said in an email. “So we will be closely watching the details of how the funds will be distributed from the state.” 

The new plan places teachers in Tier 1B, along with people 70 and older, health care workers who don’t work directly with COVID patients, and first responders like police, firefighters, and funeral workers. People with pre-existing conditions remain in Tier 2.

A second case is suspected in another Colorado National Guard member, health officials said Wednesday. A state laboratory detected the cases after it began looking for signs of the variant after its spread was announced in England earlier this month, said Dr. Rachel Herlihy, the state's epidemiologist. 

In the 20th Judicial District in Boulder County, the cuts add up the equivalent of 12.9 full-time employees.

A Way Forward is working to eliminate financial barriers for families struggling with addiction through counseling services.

The dispute is not just liberal and conservative politics clashing. But it is an example of how the virus is tapping into long-standing Western strife.

The Longmont farm this year was honored as a Community Food Champion by the National Farm to School Network, and also received a Good Food Farmer & Purveyor of the Year award from Good Food 100 Restaurants,

Weld County last week extended the amount of time people can live in their RVs as a means of social distancing or quarantining during the pandemic. Longmont's new ordinance aimed at keeping RVs from parking on city streets goes into effect Friday.

A deadly pandemic was far from the only thing that left its mark on a tumultuous year in Colorado politics.

"Families really can't overcome these challenges on their own," said Sarah Hughes, vice president of research initiatives at the Colorado Children's Campaign. "They can't do it by working harder, by being more frugal. No amount of individual resourcefulness is going to change the situation that we find ourselves in right now."