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Week of March 9, 2023
JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO
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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris Jeffco visits Arvada to speak on climate crisis homelessness stakeholders agree on cause but not action steps BY ANDREW FRAIELI AFRAIELI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
afford to replace the pipes themselves, bringing medical issues that can arise in pregnant women, children and the elderly was one example she gave, “And so the significance of what we are doing with the infrastructure law around lead pipes, is we’re saying, ‘This is a public health matter, it affects all of us,’” Harris said. “And so we are saying therefore it is in the public interest to use public resources to address it.”
The League of Women Voters of Jefferson County and the Jefferson Unitarian Church Community Action Network co-sponsored a virtual panel discussion on Feb. 28 to “explore what can be done in Jefferson County to ease the plight of the unhoused.” This included the Mayor of Wheat Ridge Bud Starker and Jeffco Commissioner Tracy Kraft-Tharp along with various nonprofit, city and county representatives. If there is anything that they all agreed on, it’s that everyone needs to work together. But opinions on how that translates into action differed greatly, as do the consequences. The current amount of people experiencing various forms of homelessness — from vehicular and couchsurfing to unsheltered on the street — is always changing, but even this varied in the panel. Mayor Bud Starker said the city believes there to be only 250 people homeless across the county, where-
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Vice President Kamala Harris sat with Rep. Brittany Pettersen and professional rock climber Sasha DiGiulian to discuss Colorado’s PHOTOS BY ANDREW FRAIELI climate issues.
Rep. Brittany Pettersen and professional rock climber Sasha DiGiulian discussed Colorado’s climate issues with the VP BY ANDREW FRAIELI AFRAIELI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris spoke in Arvada with Rep. Brittany Pettersen on climate action, highlighting the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to combat climate change through a “clean-energy economy.”
The March 6 discussion at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities touched heavily on water policy, as well as wildfires, droughts and equity issues stemming from climate change in Colorado and the rest of the country, highlighting the Bipartisan Infrastructure law. Lead pipes and their effects on lower-income people who cannot
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