Denver Post

Early in the pandemic, after Graciela Flores’ husband lost his job, the couple was so broke they could scarcely afford to put gas in their car. It was easy for her to picture where things were headed: food stamps, no new school supplies for their three kids, debt on the phone and water bills.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Duluth, Minnesota, is hiring a social worker to help people with addiction and mental health problems.
Pueblo, Colorado, started paying homeless residents to clean city streets.
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida — in Palm Beach County, home to 160 golf courses — is building a new golf course.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon had another positive COVID-19 test on Saturday and won’t travel with the team to Washington on Monday, coach Jared Bednar said after Sunday’s practice.
MacKinnon missed the Avs’ first two games of the season — a 4-2 win over Chicago and 5-3 loss to St.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

By DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A notorious Haitian gang known for brazen kidnappings and killings was accused by police Sunday of abducting 17 missionaries from a U.S.-based organization.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

DAVIS, Calif. — UC Davis (6-1, 3-1 Big Sky) hosted the University of Northern Colorado (2-5, 1-3 Big Sky) for a conference matchup on Saturday and controlled the game from start to finish.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The Avalanche produced a moving, star-studded pregame ceremony Saturday to honor its first general manager, Pierre Lacroix, who died in December at age 72 of a COVID-related illness.
Lacroix built the Avs’ two Stanley Cup-winning teams in 1996 and 2001 after the franchise moved to Denver from Quebec in 1995.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

It was a mixture of hockey players in the Avalanche salary-cap compliant lineup on Saturday night.
Coach Jared Bednar said he would use a “blender” to create it, and the Avs nearly whipped it into a win.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

If Michael Malone has one blind spot, it’s that he can’t always see the rookies sitting on his bench.
As we learned with Michael Porter Jr. two years ago — and Zeke Nnaji a year after that — the Nuggets coach doesn’t always have the stomach to sit through the inevitable mistakes that come with giving young players consistent minutes.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

By Rae Ellen Bichell, Kaiser Health News
In one recent week, a New Yorker got a free COVID-19 test in a jiffy, with results the next day, while a Coloradan had to shell out $50 for a test two cities from her hometown after a frantic round of pharmacy-hopping.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

By Steve Lohr, The New York Times Company
Melissa Brinkman’s troubles are threatening to slow down AT&T’s multibillion-dollar rollout of ultrafast 5G wireless technology.
Brinkman is CEO of Custom Alarm, a company that installs and monitors home and commercial security systems, fire detectors and personal emergency alert devices in and around Rochester, Minnesota.