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Soap or a phone call? Colorado lawmakers want to make prison phone calls free so families don’t have to choose

DENVER — Norman Vasquez often has to choose between buying soap or calling his family while serving time at Colorado’s Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility.

The Denver Post · Mar 2, 2023

Colorado wildfires are making it harder to insure homes. Could a publicly funded plan stave off an insurance crisis?

The increasing risk of wildfires in Colorado is driving insurance carriers to raise premiums on homeowners’ policies — if they decide to insure them at all — and now the state’s insurance chief is suggesting a publicly funded pool of money be established to provide property insurance for those who…

The Denver Post · Dec 1, 2022