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Lorena Cantarovici, CEO of Maria Empanada, has begun teaching empanada-making classes via Zoom to help keep her business solvent during the pandemic.

Latino small businesses struggle to stay afloat during the pandemic

Small businesses often have trouble accessing capital as they start out. And during the coronavirus, it’s been particularly difficult to access financial aid, such as the US government’s Paycheck Protection Program.

Tantalus

Arts, Culture & Media
Wages for American workers are ticking upwards, but the US remains one of the world’s most inequitable nations, and one with a weak social safety net compared with other Western democracies.

Wages for American workers are ticking upward, but the US remains one of the world’s most inequitable nations

Business, Finance & Economics
The percentage of parents who refuse to give any vaccines to their children remain at one to two percent of the general public. There is a much larger group of people who have doubts and concerns over certain vaccinations, experts say.

Despite dozens of recent flu deaths among US children, vaccination skeptics remain — and their numbers have grown

Health
Princess Leia

The little-known link between Princess Leia’s iconic hairstyle and the Mexican Revolution

Culture
High above Denver's City Park

How Denver’s next-generation design can reduce inequality

Culture

Can Denver continue to redesign itself to create an economy of young creatives that avoids the pitfalls seen in other rapidly gentrifying cities like San Francisco and New York?

Corpse flower in bloom

Here’s why they call this the corpse flower

Science

A corpse flower bloomed at the Denver zoo last week — now another one is blooming in Chicago. In both instances, crowds of people gathered to smell their disgusting odor.

Man on bicycle

Survey finds bicyclists and motorists ignore traffic laws at similar rates

Science

Whether it’s driving five miles over the speed limit or breezing past a stop sign on your bike, chances are, we have all broken a few — or more — rules of the road. When it comes to obeying traffic laws, “we’re all criminals,” says the author of this survey.

Bald Eagle

From napalm to nature: How the bald eagle helped turn a weapons factory into a wildlife refuge

Environment

The Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge, outside of Denver, didn’t start out as a conservationist’s dream: During World War II, the army built a chemical weapons factory on that spot. The plant produced mustard gas, napalm — an entire arsenal of deadly chemicals. Now it’s one of the largest wildlife sanctuaries in the country.

Pastor Nadia Bolz Weber.

Nadia Bolz Weber: A pastor for America’s outsiders

Belief

“I had to start a church I’d want to show up to, basically because I’d rarely gone to one I liked,” says the foul-mouthed, tattooed onetime Pagan who is leading a popular Lutheran church in Colorado.