DENVER, Colorado, Feb. 8 -- The American Indian College Fund issued the following news: A law degree is foundational for Native leaders to ensure the rights of their sovereign Nations and citizens. Law school graduates work as lawyers, in public policy, government, law enforcement, education, and more. Thanks to a $1 million gift from an anonymous donor, the American Indian College Fund is awarding its third American Indian Law School Scholarship for a student entering Harvard Law School in the more PR

FORT COLLINS, Colorado, Feb. 8 (TNSres) -- Colorado State University issued the following news release: A Colorado State University experiment spanning more than two decades has found that removal of apex predators from an ecosystem can create lasting changes that are not reversed after they return - at least, not for a very long time. The study, funded by the National Science Foundation and published in Ecological Monographs, challenges the commonly held belief that the reintroduction of wol more PR

DENVER, Colorado, Feb. 8 -- The Colorado Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: The Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA) is offering more than $3 million in competitive grant funding for projects designed to build resilience across Colorado's food system supply chain. The Resilient Food System Infrastructure (RFSI) program is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) under a cooperative agreement with Colorado. By focus more PR

DENVER, Colorado, Feb. 8 -- The Colorado House Democrats issued the following news release: The House today advanced the FY 2024-2025 Budget Supplemental Package on a preliminary vote. The package of bills includes $4.6 million for at-risk students, $11 million for child care and $69.4 million toward expanded access to behavioral health care treatment, including residential beds. Other top priorities in the package include funding for autism care for children, workforce housing, victims of cri more PR

DENVER, Colorado, Feb. 8 -- The Colorado Senate Democrats issued the following news release on Feb. 7, 2024: Today the Senate Health and Human Services Committee voted to advance Senator Tom Sullivan's, D-Centennial, bill focused on suicide prevention in rural and agricultural communities in Colorado. SB24-057 would establish the Agricultural Workforce Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Program. The bill would create a free, confidential crisis hotline specific to the needs of agricultural w more PR

DENVER, Colorado, Feb. 8 -- The Colorado Senate Democrats issued the following news release on Feb. 7, 2024: Today the Senate Health and Human Services Committee voted to advance Senator Janice Marchman's, D-Loveland, bipartisan bill focused on supporting mental health promotion in rural and agricultural communities in Colorado. SB24-055, co-sponsored by Senator Perry Will, R-New Castle, would improve access to behavioral health care in rural Colorado by creating a new Agricultural and Rural C more PR

DENVER, Colorado, Feb. 8 -- The Colorado Senate Democrats issued the following news release on Feb. 7, 2024: Senator Kyle Mullica's, D-Thornton, bill to improve eviction data collection and reporting cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee today. SB24-064 would require courts to electronically collect data for eviction cases in every county, beginning July 1, 2024. By January 1, 2025, the Judicial Department would be required to publish data on all residential evictions, including final orders  more PR

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Feb. 8 -- The Indiana University McKinney School of Law issued the following news release: IU McKinney Professor Gerard Magliocca is much in demand for his expertise on the 14th Amendment. In addition to speaking with media members nationwide about how Section 3 of the 14th Amendment applies to people running for public office who have been accused of insurrection, Professor Magliocca has written guest opinion pieces and testified in multiple hearings on these matters acr more PR

GOLDEN, Colorado, Feb. 8 -- The Jeffco Public Schools issued the following news: The Department of School Safety was recognized at the Hero/First Responder Night at the 2024 National Western Stock Show. Two Jeffco patrol officers, William Bradford and Steven Locke, received the honor in front of thousands of people. "They are unsung heroes that protect our children every day," said the announcer at the stock show. The video below shows how big of an honor this was for Jeffco's Department of Sc more PR