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Western Slope farmers fear impact of mass deportations and labor market changes
PALISADE • To be a farmer in any era is to live, unsteadily, with constant change. On rural Colorado’s small family farms one thing is certain: the landscape of agriculture is shifting. And the tenuous balance is in for a new test as promises of mass deportations threaten to wipe out the labor force that small…
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‘Village’ of Hispanic food and culture almost complete in Colorado
AURORA • Doug McMurrain is raising a village. Seven long years after he first came to the abandoned Kmart here along East Colfax Avenue, customers have finally started to fill the parking lot. What started in 2017 with clearing trash — “seriously, like 40 bags of trash,” McMurrain said — is now close to the…