Colorado poll sees concern about cost of living

Housing a ordability also worries state’s residents

BY PARKER YAMASAKI THE COLORADO SUN

Cost of living and housing affordability are the top concerns of Coloradans this year, according to a poll released by the Colorado Health Foundation.

In an open-ended question asking participants what they thought the most important issue facing Colorado is right now, 16% answered cost of living and 15% answered housing a ordability. Other issues in the top ve were government and politics, public safety and crime, and homelessness.

Art Students League of Denver’s Summer Art Market returns for 30th year

BY BRUCE GOLDBERG SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

It took two decades for Jill Campbell to decide to start working with clay again.

Campbell, who is now 44, earned an arts degree in college, but for 14 years, she made a living working in the restaurant industry and “didn’t do anything with art,” she said, admitting to a battle with alcoholism at the time.

She moved to Denver in fall 2015 “in hopes of rejoining the real world,” she said. In July 2017, Campbell chose to get sober for good.

Campbell got involved with the Art Students League of Denver, and eventually received a $10,000 grant from Studio Potter Magazine. So she quit her job at Trader Joe’s to

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focus on ceramics.

“Coming back to clay for me has been a direct result of my sobriety — and coming back to myself and getting back to what does inspire me and excite me,” Campbell said.

Today, Campbell is in the midst of a year-long ceramics apprenticeship under the supervision of John Hamilton, who runs ASLD’s ceramics department. e two will share a booth at this year’s Summer Art Market, which is

About 10% of respondents said that homelessness was their top concern for Colorado, with 79% calling the problem “extremely serious” or “very serious.” e results from the 4th annual survey arrived as Denver’s new mayor, Mike Johnston, declared a state of emergency around homelessness, during his rst full day in o ce.

Polling is conducted over one month through phone, email and text invitations, in English

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