Metro Caring

Farmer and rancher Ed Dubrick received a phone call from a father who had lost his job and was raising three kids. The man told him he had gotten some of Ed's chicken at the food bank and that it was the first time in months he felt like he could feed his children the good food they deserved.

Ed and his wife, Lindsey, sold their crops to local food banks as part of the USDA's Local Food Assistance Program, which gave money to food pantries and schools to buy food directly from small, local farmers. A year after the USDA cancelled the program, Civil Eats learned that farmers are struggling to keep up.

LFPA proved that government programs can support more local and resilient food systems, and we'll keep working to make programs like these return, stronger and better than before.

This USDA Program Transformed Food Systems. Now It’s Gone. ‘We will survive, but we’re not going to thrive.’

For too long, corporate landlords and real estate developers have blocked efforts to lift the statewide ban on the local rent stabilization policies that our communities need.

This is our message to those running to be our next governor: It's time to stand with the people and prioritize solutions – like local rent stabilization – that keep us in our homes.

SPONSORED: What you’re missing about housing — an open letter to all of Colorado’s candidates for governor By Colorado Homes For All You say affordable housing, we say housing we can actually afford. As working-class people from across the state who are renters, we are struggling to keep up with our housing costs and we are being forced into impossible choices between rent and groceries, between staying....