John Ingold

1 day ago | coloradosun.com | John Ingold |Michael Booth

Happy Wednesday, Colorado, and welcome to a policy-packed edition of The Temperature. The lilacs in my Denver neighborhood are in bloom, and that means I’ve been spending a lot of time smushing my nose into bushes in strangers’ yards. There’s something about the annuality — annualness? — of their blossoms that is reassuring, like a memory water slide whooshing directly back to carefree spring and summer days of youth.

1 week ago | coloradosun.com | Michael Booth |John Ingold

Bless you, Colorado, in both the philosophical sense and in the hyper-local meaning of gesundheit when an April zephyr drives cherry blossom pollen straight up your nose. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to wash my hands during one school lunch sandwich construction when a sneezing fit hits during the mayo course. Take heart that April’s climate transitions also bring the transformation of two great sports seasons from the mundane regular schedule slog to the intensity of the playoffs.

2 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | John Ingold |Parker Yamasaki

Hey there, Temperature readers, they say that hope springs eternal on baseball’s opening day. They, however, are obviously not Colorado Rockies fans. As of this morning, our very own Blake Street Bumblers are tied for the worst record in baseball, on pace in the early going to lose 130 games this season, more than eclipsing the other most futile seasons in the team’s history. Which were last year and the year before. Yes, in LoDo this April, hope springs infernal.

2 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | John Ingold

Colorado lawmakers have quietly moved to shift the state’s school immunization requirements away from the recommendations of a prominent federal committee, in response to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. taking over the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The move comes in an amendment to a bill, House Bill 1027, currently awaiting Gov. Jared Polis’ signature. The amendment makes a change to how Colorado decides which vaccines to require.

2 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | John Ingold

Colorado’s struggle to keep the nation’s widening measles outbreaks from breaching its borders took another hit Tuesday, as officials announced the third new case in nine days. The new infection was reported in a person in Archuleta County, and the person who was infected did not report having recently traveled outside Colorado. That likely means, for what would be the first time in years, Colorado has seen a confirmed instance of local transmission of measles.