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Colorado DMV ready to roll with DMV2GO

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Colorado DMV ready to roll with DMV2GO

State aims to better serve underrepresented Coloradans

Coloradans have another option in getting the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) services they need as the Division shifts its DMV2GO mobile office program into drive, literally.

The new program which fully launched following a public reveal of these mobile offices in Pagosa Springs on Friday, Aug. 12 is part of the DMV’s sweeping efforts to better serve Coloradans, especially those who might be underserved such as rural Coloradans, long-term care facility residents and people experiencing homelessness.

The program currently includes the DMV2GO RV an office on wheels and two DMV2GO pop-up driver license offices, which can be set up almost anywhere in the state.

“One of our priorities is to continue to find innovative ways to offer our services, and our DMV2GO does just that bringing DMV offices to our customers in an easy and convenient manner,” DMV Senior Director Electra Bustle said. “We are excited to bring more flexibility to doing work with the DMV and add to our other convenient service delivery options like myDMV, kiosks, @Home Driving Knowledge test and the myColorado™ App.”

DMV2GO offers Coloradans the same services as a standard driver license office, with Driving Knowledge tests and endorsement exams being the only exception. DMV2GO also offers access to online vehicle registration and driver record services as well.

The DMV2GO reveal in Pagosa Springs was the culmination of about three years of planning and testing, which was delayed by supply chain issues, particularly vehicle microchip shortages.

“We are so excited to get DMV2GO on the road,” DMV Deputy Senior Director Rosalie Johnson said. “DMV2GO really helps us provide services to Coloradans who don’t have easy access to driver license offices because not having a valid form of identification can present significant barriers for people. The Colorado DMV wants to help put people on the road to success and with DMV2GO we are.”

The DMV started piloting DMV2GO in July 2021 and began serving Coloradans throughout the Centennial State, including helping dozens affected by the Marshall Fire. During the pilot phase from July 2021 through June 30, the DMV visited 191 locations, helped more than 3,000 Coloradans and issued 2,933 identification cards and driver licenses.

Currently, DMV2GO does not require appointments for scheduled pop-up offices. Coloradans interested in having DMV2GO visit their nonprofit, community center, senior living facility, library or correctional facility can request a visit online at DMV.Colorado.gov/DMV2GO.

For more information, visit DMV.Colorado.gov/DMV2GO. It’s important to note that DMV2GO does not make house calls.

Other options to get DMV services include online options, https://mydmv.colorado.gov/_/ and the myColorado™ app, as well as self-service MV Kiosks, and of course, in-office services.

The DMV is committed to providing services for all Coloradans where they are needed most, whether it’s in-office, online or on the go. Visit DMV.Colorado.gov/Anywhere to find out how you can DMV anywhere. Yes, anywhere.

Photo courtesy: Colorado DMV

Broncos lose starter in preseason opener

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Broncos lose starter in preseason opener

By: Brandon Rivera

The Denver Broncos hosted the Dallas Cowboys over the weekend in the first preseason game of the 2022 season. While the Broncos looked great and dominated most of the game, they also managed to lose inside linebacker Jonas Griffith to a dislocated elbow which should sideline him for about four to five weeks.

Denver moved into action quickly signing ex-Steeler, Joe Schobert on Monday to help alleviate the injured Griffith. Schobert has been consistent with the Steelers racking up 386 tackles over the past three seasons not including his best season in 2017 where he made the Pro-Bowl with 1 interception, 3 sacks and 144 tackles that season.

Denver has yet again, been bitten by the injury bug and for fans it was difficult seeing Griffith go down to injury. This year, however, fans seem to have a much different disposition about the Broncos and for good reason, there was plenty to be excited about after Denver’s win over the Cowboys.

While most of Denver’s starters were sidelined over the weekend, the players that did play, showed out for fans with flashes of what’s to come on special teams offense and defense. Denver’s defense held the Cowboys to 35 percent third-down completions and stopped them all three times on fourth down. Denver’s offensive line prevented a sack all game and Denver’s quarterback Josh Johnson made his case for second string behind Russell Wilson with 16 completions on 23 attempts for 172 yards and two touchdowns.

The Denver Broncos will head to New York this weekend to face the Bills this Saturday at 11 a.m. Fans could see Russell Wilson at the start of the game for Denver’s first drive however there hasn’t been any indication he will play.

The Rockies remain in dead last in the National League’s West after two straight losses to the Arizona Diamondbacks over the weekend including a 6-0-blowout loss on Saturday. This week the Rockies are in St. Louis to face the Cardinals who beat the Rox 2 games to 1 last week.

Thirty years ago the Colorado Rockies kicked off their inaugural season in Denver with local fans excited about their very first MLB team. Thirty years later, not a single division pennant, it’s 25th season with no post season play and should they remain in the current position throughout the remainder of this season, it will have been the 26 seasons where the Rockies came in either third, fourth or fifth.

The Colorado Avalanche kick off the preseason on September 25th and yet are no closer to knowing if Nazem Kadri will remain an Avalanche or move on to another franchise. The Avs are still currently enjoying the spoils of Sir Stanley Cup with the most recent Avalanche, Kurtis MacDermid heading to South Bruce Peninsula, Sauble Beach for a special parade scheduled for the end of August.

Jared Orsi named state historian

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Jared Orsi named state historian

By: Joseph Rios

Photo courtesy: History Colorado

Colorado Day — which is celebrated every Aug. 1 and commemorates the admittance of Colorado as a state of the Union on Aug. 1, 1876 — has officially come and gone. And while Coloradans proudly flew the state’s flag and dressed in blue, yellow and red on Aug. 1, Dr. Jared Orsi, Ph.D., professor of history at Colorado State University (CSU), officially started a new role.

Orsi began his one-year position as the State Historian and leader of History Colorado State Historian’s Council. He is succeeding historian and professor Dr. Nicki Gonzales who became the first Latino/a state historian last year. According to a release from History Colorado, the State Historian Council rotates the leadership role every year on Aug. 1 to achieve greater reach and representation for the state, to amplify different perspectives and to reinforce the collaborative foundation of history and storytelling.

Orsi has been part of the State Historian’s Council since 2018 and has taught at CSU for more than 20 years. His courses have included information about U.S. Mexico Borderlands and U.S. Environmental History. He also serves as the director of CSU’s Public Lands History Center which aims to integrate research, education and outreach that informs and elevates resource management of public lands.

“It is humbling to follow in the footsteps of Dr. Nicki Gonzales and the many distinguished State historians who preceded her. I look forward to working with the amazing History Colorado staff and State Historian’s Council members to tell the rich stories of our state,” said Orsi in the release. “Colorado is a great state, but not equally for everybody. As state historian, I would like to contribute to the stories of all Coloradans being told and valued.”

Orsi said he views the State Historian position as a chance to illuminate and explore issues impacting Colorado while providing historical context. In particular, Orsi wants to highlight the history of public lands and amplify indigenous histories and Colorado history outside of the Denver metro area. Public lands for example became public through a process of dispossessing Indigenous people who already lived there and erasing evidence of their presence.

“Dr. Orsi brings to the State Historian’s role a powerful perspective founded upon decades of research, teaching, writing and working in the field. His expertise in borderlands and environmental history, reckoning with both the colonial legacy and democratic potential of our public lands, exemplifies his powerful approach to Colorado’s history,” said History Colorado Chief Creative Officer and Director of Interpretation and Research Jason Hanson. “His scholarship is rooted in a commitment to illuminating the histories of all who have called Colorado home as well as a compelling hope that our shared history can light the way to a brighter future. His ability to bring historical insight to pressing environmental issues in the present could not be more timely. We look forward to Dr. Orsi’s leadership in the coming year.”

Pueblo chili, ‘some like it hot’

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Pueblo chili, ‘some like it hot’

By: Ernest Gurulé

As winter wanes, and with a degree of confidence that the season’s worst is past, Pueblo chili growers cautiously eye the fallow ground that, barring a fickle Mother Nature, will cooperate and turn a vibrant shade of green. In ten, maybe twelve weeks, they hope the tiny seeds planted in late April and early May will slowly transform, penetrate thousands of crusty clods of dirt and transform acre after acre into a kaleidoscope of nature’s art.

It has been a hotter than anticipated summer in southern Colorado. The heat, however, hasn’t hurt the crop. What it has done, say chili farmers, is added a bit more pop to their peppers. This year’s harvest will be hotter and, no doubt, add a little heat to a friendly rivalry in a longstanding border war.

New Mexico, Pueblo chili farmers say, may be the ‘land of enchantment,’ but that’s where it stops when you’re talking chili. New Mexico’s Hatch, once the gold standard of peppers, they’ll tell you, has been supplanted by Pueblo’s Anaheim, Fresnos, poblanos and the region’s standard bearer, the MiraSol, so named because it grows facing the sun.

The MiraSol is also the favorite for Carla Houghton. “The MiraSol is different than the average chili,” she said. “It has a distinct flavor.” Though not a scientist, Houghton and her family believe that flavor comes from the friendly soil “from here to Rocky Ford.” Also, chili farmers will say that Pueblo’s hot summer days and cool nights, add to the taste.

Houghton’s family has been in the chili business for generations. “My grandparents came from Italy and started farming,” she said. As the popularity and consistency of the product grew, so too did the operation. Its formal name is Mauro Farms and Bakery. The bakery arm, said Houghton, began “about 45 years ago.”

If all goes well and the weather holds, said Houghton, chili will continue to be harvested until October. A “hiccup in May,” when snow fell just before Memorial Day, “caused a little setback.” For a moment, it caused a bit of apprehension. But the hiccup was brief, and things are looking good and the perfect show opening for the steel city’s evergrowing ‘Chile and Frijoles Festival,’ set for the weekend of September 22-25.

The festival has turned into southern Colorado’s biggest fall events attracting more than a hundred thousand visitors and adding an estimated $6-8 million to the local economy. This will be the 28th year that the city has cleared historic Union Avenue for the ‘homage to chili’ festivities.

The Pueblo versus Hatch rivalry, though friendly, did inspire a bit of a tête-à-tête between the two state’s governors, Colorado’s Jared Polis and New Mexico’s Michelle Lujan Grisham. Polis proudly proclaimed that Pueblo’s peppers—and not New Mexico’s famous Hatch chilis—were not only better but now the pepper of choice for Whole Foods in Colorado, Kansas, Idaho and Utah.

Denver actor and radio personality, Debra Gallegos, is torn over her sentimental attachment to New Mexico and Hatch chili—especially the green—and southern Colorado’s. For texture, she said, “I prefer Hatch.” It’s also her choice for making rellenos. “Also, since my mom and her family were from a little town near Hatch called Rodney, it’s kind of a family thing.” Gallegos’ preference is not dissimilar to a lot of Houghton’s customers.

Houghton has New Mexico customers—who regularly call in orders for Pueblo chili. But it’s not only New Mexico customers; she said she ships chili, MiraSol, Anaheim and all varieties grown on her farm, to customers as far away as Ohio. She said, the consistency of southern Colorado’s chili and the fact that “they’re not too hot or too mild,” makes them an ideal choice.

On the Scoville Scale, the standard for measuring heat in any given pepper, Pueblo’s MiraSol comes in, said Houghton, “at around 5,550…not the hottest, not the mildest.” For perspective, Scoville measures the ‘ghost pepper,’ native to Northeastern India, at 417 percent hotter than your everyday jalapeño. The website Mashed.com recommends strongly against eating one. “If you pop an entire ghost pepper in your mouth, chances are you’re soon going to feel like you really are dying.” Of course, you’re free to try.

For expatriate Puebloans, of which an estimated 20,000 now reside in the Denver metro area, a Fall trip to Pueblo for their winter’s supply of chili is a rite of passage. Houghton said no one need worry about showing up and finding the crop’s been exhausted. Harvesting will continue until the first frost, usually a mid-October occurrence. But she also offered a word of caution. “August and September are the prime months to buy raw chili.”

A trip to Pueblo and Mauro Farms and Bakery is an hour and forty minutes from Denver on a good day. Houghton said from Interstate 25, “take exit 100A and follow to 36th Lane and take a right.” To get business hours, call 719.948.3381.

Pledge to our flag and oath to Constitution are important

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Pledge to our flag and oath to Constitution are important

By: David Conde

David Conde Senior Consultant for International Programs

My earliest recollection of the Pledge of Allegiance was in the second grade at Lincoln Elementary School in Sterling, Colorado. We were taught to face the flag and put our right hand over the heart as we said the Pledge.

Not so for the Cub Scouts in the class who would instead raise their right hand showing two fingers. I remember envying those kids and wishing I was a scout in order to show respect their way as it appeared more cool.

At Garden Place Elementary in Denver the ritual was more elaborate as there was an honor guard that marched into the auditorium every morning and brought in the flags of the United States and Colorado to be placed on stage before saying the Pledge. I saw these occasions as a normal ritual that somehow brought us together.

As a military inductee at the age of 17, I took the oath, this time, to the Constitution of the United States and swore to defend it “against all enemies foreign and domestic” as well as the laws that derive from it. At the time, I took the oath to be a very serious promise and later learned that it was more than that.

When I deployed to West Germany I also took the opportunity to attend the University of Maryland local campus enrolling in a variety of available courses. Among them were several history and political science classes that gave me a greater understanding of why my oath to the Constitution was so significant.

I learned that for it to work, democracy demands a common understanding of allegiance to who we are as a people. I learned that we do not swear fidelity to a person or an institution but to the words written on a piece of paper that express the ideals that form a legal road map, unifies our belief in self government and facilitates a common vision of our country.

There are no short cuts or expedient departures from the Constitution in order to fulfill even a desire to better our human condition. If that desire is strong enough and is shared by a great majority of the people, there are ways to explore its constitutionality or create amendments that can be voted on by citizens.

The Constitution as amended provides for equality of treatment under the law. Although America has had a long history of violating that premise, the perfection of the union with ideals such as this is still an ongoing process.

The present danger to the Constitution is by far the feeling on the part of many people with political power that they are above the law or that the rules do not apply to them. This has been dramatically demonstrated by former President Donald Trump and his followers in the present and in the immediate past. This is extremely dangerous because the Constitution provides for a biblical type of covenant that unites a people. When this covenant is diminished or not respected, it results in fragmentation much like the one that split the Confederacy from the Union.

Not making the Constitution the center of our self government because of race-based grievances is a major contributor to our current disunity. We fought a Civil War once before because of people turning their back on the Constitution. Faithfully following the Constitution and pledge to our flag is key to our unity and independence. Taking the oath and pledge seriously is important because it has to do with our future.

A week in Review.

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A week in Review.

By: Joseph Rios

Africa

Deadly fire at Egypt church – Officials in Egypt estimate that at least 41 people died because of a fire that broke out at a church. Reports suggest that an electrical unit caused the fire at a time when 5,000 people were in the church. The fire blocked an entrance and caused a stampede. Among the victims included some 18 children who are between the ages of three and 16 years old.

Election results postponed in Kenya – Allegations of vote rigging and more has caused division among Kenya’s electoral commission, causing the group to postpone election results. Four of the seven electoral commissioners said they could not support the last phase of tallying. One party alleged that there were irregularities and mismanagement in the election.

Asia

Marshall Islands reports first COVID outbreak – Health officials in the Marshall Islands reported that COVID-19 cases have surged in recent weeks. The Marshall Islands was one of the last countries in the world to have not dealt with an outbreak of the virus. The nation’s government declared a state of health disaster, closed schools and enforced new public health measures.

Taliban break up protest – The Taliban broke up a protest that involved 40 women who marched through Kabul demanding rights. The group seized phones from the demonstrators and fired in the air to break up the protest. Women have dealt with increased discrimination since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan last year. Afghanistan is the only country in the world that limits education based on one’s gender.

Europe

Russia seeks to expand relationship with North Korea – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia and North Korea will expand their relations in a letter he sent to North Korea leader Kim Jong-un. Kim said the friendship between the countries had been forged in World War II. Russia’s ambassador recently said North Korea was keen to get replacement parts for Soviet-era heavy equipment delivered to factories and power plants from eastern Ukraine.

Scotland introduces new law for feminine products – Scotland became the first country to protect the right to free sanitary products thanks to a new law that went into effect on Monday. The law requires councils and education providers to make feminine products free to those who need them. Hey Girls, a group working to combat poverty in the UK, said that one in four women in Scotland faced poverty at some point.

Latin America

Brazil protests as elections near – Thousands of people in Brazil took to the streets last Thursday as the country’s presidential election draws closer. Many in Brazil fear President Jair Bolsonaro will try to stay in power even if he loses the election in October. He’s already attempted to discredit Brazil’s voting system. Protesters marched in Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Recife and other parts of the country.

Argentina rate of interest rises again – Argentina’s central bank raised its main rate of interest to 69.5 percent as new figures show inflation in the country had hit a 20-year high. The bank said in a statement that the rise in the policy rate will help reduce inflation expectations. Forecasts show that the inflation rate in Argentina is expected to reach 90 percent by the end of the year.

North America

Southern Baptist Convention under investigation – Authorities have started an inquiry into sexual abuse by clergy of the Southern Baptist Convention. Earlier this year, a report suggested that the Southern Baptist Convention covered up abuse and vilified survivors. The organization has 13 million members and focuses largely on southern states in the United States. The Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News exposed hundreds of alleged cases of sex abuse within the church in 2019.

FBI raids Trump’s home – Last week, the FBI seized top secret files that were located at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. The FBI took more than 20 boxes of items that included a binder of photos, a handwritten note, and information about the “President of France.” Investigators reportedly tried to get the documents back from Trump before carrying out the raid. He denied any wrongdoing and said the items were declassified.

Our Government

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Our Government

White House

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack traveled to Colorado where he joined Senator Michael Bennet in a series of events highlighting how the Inflation Reduction Act will bolster the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s efforts under the Biden-Harris Administration to meet the moment on the climate crisis, combat inflation and lower costs by supporting rural America and the nation’s producers, as well as the need to conserve and protect America’s natural treasures.

Colorado Governor

Governor Polis announced that the final round of applications for the Response, Innovation, and Student Equity (RISE) Fund are now available for schools. This round is specifically targeted towards serving students attending schools and districts in turnaround status. Previous rounds of RISE grants have supported innovation in high-needs school districts, charter schools, mobile education programs, and collaboration with higher education to improve student learning, close equity gaps, and enhance operational efficiency for pre-K-12 through higher education.

Denver Mayor

Mayor Michael B. Hancock, District 11 City Councilwoman Stacie Gilmore, city leadership and community leaders joined together Wednesday to break ground on and kickstart the $40 million 56th Avenue Travel and Safety Improvement Project. The project, approved by Denver voters in the 2017 General Obligation (GO) Bond program, will widen 56th Avenue between Peoria Street and Peña Boulevard into a four-lane divided multimodal roadway to improve safety and enhance transit services.

American jury out on Trump’s presidency

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American jury out on Trump’s presidency

By: Ernest Gurulé

The last week has been an amazing, almost dizzying seven-day period in which American politics have unfolded into surreality. Outside of a cinematic political thriller, the nation has had front row seats to a drama involving a former American president accused of taking top secret documents perhaps up to and including the highest level of nuclear plans and information.

The FBI, acting on a warrant approved by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, executed a search of the Florida estate of former president Donald Trump. According to the warrant, agents seized 11 sets of classified documents including materials marked “top secret/sensitive compartmented information” —(SCI) the highest level of secrecy in government—along with other materials potentially critical to U.S. security.

Set aside the headlines of a former U.S. president absconding with the nation’s most sensitive materials and storing them in a venue in which visitors, including foreigners, move freely about, it has also exposed a Grand Canyon like rift between Trump supporters and critics with one side accusing the FBI of planting damaging information aimed at hurting the former president and the other demanding answers as to why the nation’s secrets were carelessly lying around at a Florida resort a thousand miles away from Washington D.C. in the first place.

Trump supporters, including his party’s elected leadership, have taken sharp aim at the attorney general and the FBI for even executing the warrant, calling it a ‘witch hunt’ and offering the most creative explanations for the materials even being at Mar-a-Lago. One of Trump’s attorneys said it was just stuff the ex-president took with him to work at home.

Few Republicans have been more defensive of nor more supportive of the twice-impeached ex-president than Colorado Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert. “Everyone saying ‘a judge signed off on the FBI’s search warrant’ clearly won’t admit that the entire Deep State hates President Trump and would sign off on ANYTHING to hurt him.” ‘Deep State’ is a Republican Trump-era descriptive for those who would stand in the way of Trump plans and policies.

Boebert also accused the FBI of using ‘Gestapo’ tactics in carrying out the seizure. The Gestapo, of course, was Hitler’s military arm that arrested and ordered the detention of hundreds of thousands of Jews, a majority of whom later died in Nazi death camps.

Trump, however, does have a documented history during his time in the White House of carelessly mishandling or even clumsily sharing highly sensitive materials. Early in his presidency, he allegedly revealed highly classified materials to Russian foreign minister Lavrov along with Russian ambassador Kislyak during an Oval Office visit in which American media were cleared out of the room leaving only a Russian photographer to record the visit.

In another inexplicable security breach, he also tweeted a photograph to Iran’s government of a classified airstrike. “We had a photo and I released it, which I have the absolute right to do and we’ll see what happens…they had a big mishap,” he told reporters of a failed Iranian missile launch. The photo, of course, exposed secret U.S. drone surveillance capabilities.

Other curious incidents of carelessness include his handling of high level secrets, one of which occurred in 2017 when Trump hosted Japanese Prime Minister Abe at Mar-a-Lago. During Abe’s visit, North Korea staged a missile test. A bit later, in a wedding Trump dropped in on, guests could clearly hear Trump discussing U.S. plans for dealing with the action.

While Trump has a track record of doing things his way when it comes to everything from dubious personal behavior to the handling of sensitive government documents, it was last February when news first broke about the transfer of 15 boxes of classified materials to Mar-a-Lago. In addition to documents, the government alleged that Trump had also taken various items given the president during various foreign trips. (When an official gift is given the president, it belongs to the office and not the individual, says the National Archives.) Most of those boxes were returned to Washington, but it was later learned—and the reason for the recent Mar-a-Lago search—that there was another trove of boxes and classified material still in Florida.

A major point of contention now is whether Trump or any president has the authority to arbitrarily ‘declassify’ sensitive documents. Former Trump national security staffer, Kash Patel, recently said when you’re president, you have that power. “If he says something is declassified, that’s it. It is declassified,” said Patel, much like priestly absolution. Others far more experienced in matters of policy and security disagree and call Trump’s track record—but especially this latest episode—dangerous or foolish.

Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff who led Trump’s second impeachment trial, says there is a written and formal process for declassifying materials. Trump, he said, ignored protocol. “We should determine, you know, whether there was any effort during the presidency to go through the process of declassification…I’ve seen no evidence of that.”

It may be a while—perhaps months—before it is determined just what laws and directives Trump may or may not have violated by removing government secrets out of Washington. But what is certain is this latest episode of his behavior has only widened the gap at all levels between his most ardent supporters and his critics, including a growing number of Republicans.

His acolytes, including one-time presidential advisor and recently convicted Steve Bannon, have called for MAGA destruction of the ‘Gestapo FBI.’ Also, in just the last week, two Trump loyalists have acted out violently against the government. In one case, a one-time Proud Boy and January 6th insurrectionist tried to enter a Cincinnati FBI field office armed with both an AR-15 and nail gun. He later died in a shootout with authorities. Also, over the weekend, a Trump supporter crashed his car into a cement barrier near the U.S. Supreme Court before turning his weapon on himself.

To date, nearly every Republican in Congress has remained silent with any criticism over Trump’s open disregard for policy in removing government property up to and including information potentially damaging to national security. This despite FBI receipts, including clearly marked and for-eyes-only documents.

Advance EDU allows students to go to college and build a career at the same time

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Advance EDU allows students to go to college and build a career at the same time

College students today are faced with challenges such as high tuition costs and balancing work and family. Over half of college students who are managing school, work and family commitments have to drop out. That’s because traditional colleges weren’t built around their needs.

AdvanceEDU is changing that by giving college students an innovative college and career experience that is affordable, flexible, deeply supported and career-connected. Students begin by getting one-on-one support to select an online certificate or degree program from one of three collaborating colleges: CSU Global, Southern New Hampshire University, or Western Governors University. Then they are matched with a personal success coach and begin a free trial period before they formally enroll.

Students have access to AdvanceEDU’s downtown Denver community space, where they can have a coaching session, enjoy snacks and meals, meet other students, and get tutoring support. AdvanceEDU even offers childcare for parenting students.

Many students choose to build their career while they are in college. With support from the AdvanceEDU team, students are getting placed into great Colorado companies like DaVita, Liberty Global and Denver Health.

AdvanceEDU is proud to serve a predominantly Latino/a student body, most of whom are the first in their family to attend college. Because 83 percent of students work at least part-time, degrees are self-paced and low-cost so students can earn a degree around their schedule with little to no debt.

Our students are accomplishing big things for themselves, including:

  • Marcos, a student pursuing a business degree through Southern New Hampshire University and while building his own business at the same time.
  • Karen, a student working toward a technology certificate with Colorado State University Global and who was recently offered an international role with a Fortune 500 company.
  • Albert, a student pursuing a cybersecurity bachelor’s degree after he successfully earned his first industry credential.

Denver is full of aspiring college students with so much potential. Students who may not have pictured themselves attending college but have found their support system at Advance EDU and are breaking down barriers to success.

A week in Review.

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A week in Review.

Africa

Kenya mixes up ballot papers, suspends part of elections – Officials in Kenya have suspended voting in four places in the country because of a mix-up during the printing of ballot papers. The ballot papers displayed details and images of candidates listed wrongly. Areas affected by the mix-up include Mombasa and Kakamega counties and Pokot South and Kacheliba constituencies. Kenya’s election body also suspended elections in four wards recently after the deaths of candidates.

Chad signs peace deal with rebel groups – Chad signed a peace deal with more than 40 opposition groups after months of mediation. However, the main rebel group, the Front for Change and Concord in Chad, refused to be part of deal unless Chad military ruler Mahamat Idriss Déby removed himself from the country’s October elections. Déby took over the country after his father Idriss Déby died fighting rebels.

Asia

China military carries out drills near Taiwan – China’s military carried out live fire exercises around Taiwan over the weekend as tension between the two countries continue. Taiwan accused China of using the drills as practice for a possible invasion of the country. The Chinese army is planning on continuing military drills near Taiwan and will practice anti-submarine attacks and sea raids. Countries like the United States, Australia and Japan have all condemned the drills.

Thailand nightclub fire leaves 14 dead – At least 14 people were killed and dozens were injured due to a fire at a nightclub in south-eastern Thailand. It is unknown what caused the fire, but officials said flammable material on the walls may have worsened the situation. The fire started during a live music performance at the club. Firefighters brought the fire under control after two hours of battling it.

Europe

Unexploded World War II bomb found in Italy – Fishermen on the banks of the River Po in Italy, which has largely dried up because of a drought, discovered an unexploded World War II bomb. The bomb contained around 530 pounds of explosive and caused around 3,000 nearby residents to evacuate so that bomb disposal experts could safely conduct a controlled explosion. Four hundred miles of the river has dried up.

Russian rockets damage part of nuclear plant in Ukraine – Officials in Ukraine said Russian rockets damaged a nitrogen-oxygen unit and a high-voltage power line at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in the country. Officials said there has been no radiation leak. The plant is the largest of its kind in Europe and located in southern Ukraine. Russia seized it in March and kept the plant’s Ukrainian employees.

Latin America

Men convicted over fire in Brazil freed – Judges in Brazil overturned the conviction of four men who were sentenced to prison over a 2013 fire at a nightclub that killed 242 people. The court’s decision was made after ruling that there had been irregularities in the trial’s jury selection. The fire started when a band playing at the club lit flares which ignited the ceiling. Two band members and two owners of the club were found guilty of murder and attempted murder one year ago.

Colombia swears in new president – Colombian President Gustavo Petro has been sworn into office. He is the country’s first ever left-wing leader and promised to fight inequality and ban new oil projects. While speaking at his inauguration, Petro called for a new global strategy to fight illegal drug trafficking. The Narcotics trade has caused a long-lasting civil war in Colombia that has killed hundreds of thousands of people.

North America

U.S. Senate approves climate bill – Over the weekend, the United States Senate approved the Inflation Reduction Act which includes $369 billion for climate action. Authors of the bill expect it to cut the country’s carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030. The bill will be sent to the Democrat-controlled House next and is expected to be backed as soon as this week. The bill also includes $64 billion for healthcare and a provision that will allow some households to receive a tax credit to buy an electric car or used car.

Canada set to ban import of handguns – Starting Aug. 19, imports of handguns will be banned in Canada. The ban comes at a time when Canada has seen numerous deadly shootings. The bill was proposed days after a Texas school shooting that left 21 people dead in May. Gun ownership is not part of Canada’s constitution, but guns are popular throughout the country, especially in rural parts.

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