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Joan Lopez, Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder, sports a patriotic hat outside the CentrePoint Plaza polling station in Aurora on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.
Democrat Joe Biden won Colorado in a landslide victory, but newly released data shows how the elections played out at the smallest level of political detail: the precinct. A new analysis by CPR News shows how Biden, Lauren Boebert and other candidates performed in Colorado’s cities, towns and neighborhoods.
Where Biden Won
This map won’t surprise anyone who has followed Colorado politics. Biden won a blowout victory by racking up votes in high-population areas along the Front Range, and he retained Democrats’ strength along the Interstate 70 corridor and down toward Aspen
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Coloradans 65 and older are now receiving vaccine shots after suffering the worst of both direct, and indirect, effects from COVID-19.
In 2020, COVID-19 ravaged the state s nursing homes, forcing an end to visitation by family and friends and lockdowns of residents. That in turn appears to have contributed to a hidden toll from the disease for some Colorado seniors.
Starvation.
As many as 100 more seniors than expected, most of them in nursing homes, essentially stopped eating in 2020 and died of what is clinically termed nutritional deficiencies on state death certificates.
COVID-19 has now officially claimed more than 5,500 Colorado lives, but as state health officials finish compiling records from the deadliest year in state history, hundreds of additional deaths, which appear to have at least an arm’s length connection to the pandemic, are becoming apparent.
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Customers lined up for more than a block at AMCH Dispensary in Denver s Capitol Hill neighborhood on Monday, March 23 after Denver Mayor Michael Hancock ordered liquor stores and pot shops to be closed by 5 p.m. Tuesday to combat coronavirus.
Like so many things about 2020, cannabis sales in Colorado were outrageous; people spent more than $2 billion on products. That s more money than they ever have before.
That total continues the industry’s upward trajectory and breaks the previous record set just the year before in 2019.
“We definitely saw a huge uptick in sales in March when. we really had all the public health orders go into effect,” said Brooks Lustig, co-founder of Seed & Smith, a Denver-based marijuana cultivator, concentrate manufacturer and dispensary.