Headlines Monday November 10, 2025
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SNAP Benefits and Louisville Food Grants; Starbucks Strike Upcoming Deadline; DIA Flights See Further Cancellations Jack Armstrong
SNAP Benefits – Louisville Food Grants
The Louisville City Council may speed up the process of awarding grants to nonprofits that provide food assistance.
They’ve scheduled a special meeting for tonight to consider advancing grants to food banks ahead of their normal schedule. If they move forward with the plan, it could result in six food assistance nonprofits receiving early grants.
The Council usually awards these grants two years ahead of time, according to the Colorado Hometown Weekly. That means nonprofits getting help this year and next were decided on in 2024. But in the face of the federal government shutdown, and delayed Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, the Council said it recognizes that thousands of people in the area are facing food insecurity, and need as much help as possible, and as soon as possible.
At the same time, Mayor Pro Tem Caleb Dickinson said no local government can be the sole solution to a federal shortage.
Meanwhile, on Friday, the United States Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to make November SNAP food payments in full.
Before the high court granted Trump’s emergency appeal, recipients in some states were issued full benefits for this month. That includes about five percent of eligible Coloradans, according to the Denver Post. About 600,000 people in Colorado get SNAP benefits, 19,000 of them in Boulder County.
The Trump administration later demanded that states that received full SNAP benefits, “undo” those payouts, under threat of an unspecified penalty. So far as is known, no state has done that.
Governor Jared Polis said in a statement Friday his administration is, “moving fast to make sure Coloradans aren’t going hungry,” and that they are committed to providing SNAP payments as quickly as possible. He also called Trump’s efforts to block food access for millions of Americans baffling. The administration, he said, is “creating uncertainty for hardworking families and individuals” by going to the Supreme Court to block SNAP benefits.
In a bipartisan vote, state lawmakers recently approved the governor’s request for $10 million to support Colorado food banks.
Nationwide, SNAP serves about one in eight Americans, according to the Associated Press.
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Starbucks Strike Deadline
Unionized Starbucks employees may go on strike this week.
Starbucks Workers United have voted to strike the coffee chain on Wednesday, unless the company finalizes a new contract. Wednesday is also Starbucks’ popular Red Cup Day, when stores give out free, reusable red cups. It’s usually one of their busiest days of the year, according to the Associated Press.
The union said on its website that their remaining, unaddressed demands are: better hours to improve staffing, increased pay, and resolving unfair labor practices on the part of the company.
Starbucks said on its website that while they hope to avoid a strike, they have bargained in good faith with Starbucks Workers United.
There are about ten thousand Starbucks stores nationwide. Of those, about 550 are unionized. That includes fifteen Colorado locations, including stores in Boulder, Denver, and Fort Collins
DIA Flights See Further Cancellations
Flight cancellations have ramped up at Denver International Airport and other major airports, after the FAA ordered a reduction in air traffic.
The flight reduction is meant to reduce stress on air traffic controllers, who have been working long hours without pay because of the government shutdown.
A United Airlines spokesperson told CBS News that more cancellations at the DIA are expected. United and other airlines are posting cancellations and delays online to ensure customers have necessary information. Concerns remain with the approach of the holidays, the busiest travel time of the year.
Pearl Street Attack Suspect
The man accused of killing a Boulder woman and severely injuring many others on the Pearl Street Mall last June will be tried on first degree murder, and other felony charges, next summer.
Mohamed Sabry Solimnan pleaded not guilty to those charges and a federal hate crime charges, at a hearing last week. The District Attorney and Soliman’s court-appointed defenders agreed to a two-week trial beginning on July 13.
Soliman is accused of throwing molotov cocktails at a peaceful demonstration in support of hostages in Gaza, on the Pearl Street Mall June 1.
According to the other protestors, Soliman shouted, “Free Palestine” during the attack, which seriously burned numerous people. An 82-year old woman died from her injuries several weeks later.
Wolf Death
Another of the gray wolves reintroduced into Colorado has died.
That brings the number of reintroduced wolves who have died to six, according to the Colorado Sun.
Each of the reintroduced wolves wears a trackable collar. State wildlife officials received a mortality alert about the wolf’s death on Oct. 30. The animal died in southwestern Colorado.
Because the wolves are on the endangered species list, the death will be investigated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The voter-approved wolf reintroduction has been controversial, in part because wolves are predatory and are believed responsible for killing livestock on Colorado ranches.
