John Ingold

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

How-do, Colorado, and welcome to another edition of The Temperature, where we have so much important health news to talk about today that … maybe we just procrastinate a little at the top here. Are the Colorado Rockies the hottest team in baseball? Ever since the Rockies set the modern record for the fewest wins through 70 games in Major League history, they have been on a tear. They’ve won three in a row — tying them for the second-longest active win streak in baseball (behind the Dodgers, yuck).

1 week ago | kunc.org | John Ingold

The state agency that regulates health insurance announced Tuesday that it estimates more than a third of people who buy insurance on their own in Colorado could drop coverage due to rising prices if certain subsidies are not extended and the federal reconciliation bill passes as-is. That number — 110,000 people choosing to go without insurance due to affordability — would be an astonishing rollback of health coverage gains made since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

1 week ago | coloradosun.com | John Ingold

Colorado on Friday confirmed its 15th measles case of the year, in a fully vaccinated adult from Boulder who several times may have exposed passengers riding on the Flatiron Flyer bus between downtown Denver and Boulder. The infected person had recently traveled to Europe, which, like the United States, is experiencing a resurgence of measles cases.

2 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | John Ingold

Dr. Edwin Asturias found out Monday he had been fired from his volunteer position on a federal vaccine advisory committee the way the rest of the country did: He read about it in an op-ed written by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.The official notice — a two-sentence email, he said — arrived later in the afternoon. “It was surprising, the unprofessional way of dismissing people that have been committed to this work for some time,” Asturias said.

2 weeks ago | coloradosun.com | Michael Booth |John Ingold

So far in 2025, there’s been a lot of good news for people who want to utilize or extract natural resources on public lands, and a lot of bad news for those only interested in protecting and preserving. Let’s take a pause, then, to appreciate where a circa-2025 federal agency and defenders of wildlife seem to agree on an Endangered Species Act victory, and a cooperative delisting of a once-threatened life form.