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Boulder Immigration Policies Face New Scrutiny From House Committee
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Boulder Immigration Policies Face New Scrutiny From House Committee

By Mitchell Byars | Axios House Republicans escalated their months-long clash with Boulder County over local immigration policies on Wednesday, subpoenaing District Attorney Michael Dougherty for records. Why it matters: The subpoena pulls Boulder deeper into a national fight over local limits on participation with federal immigration enforcement. Driving the news: House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) subpoenaed Dougherty, alleging his office gives noncitizens preferential treatment to help them avoid immigration consequences and saying the DA failed to turn over documents after nearly four months of requests. Jordan argues the records could inform changes to federal immigration law, including the proposed Shut ...
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Fed Rate Hike Could Squeeze Homebuyers and Renters in Southern Colorado
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Fed Rate Hike Could Squeeze Homebuyers and Renters in Southern Colorado

By Damien Bartonek | KKTV 11 News COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - A quarter-point increase in interest rates from the Federal Reserve could make it more expensive for some El Paso County residents to buy a home, while adding pressure to an already strained rental market according to housing experts. Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said inflation remains too high and that recent data have not shown enough improvement to change the central bank’s approach. “The plain fact is that inflation is too high and has been for too long,” Warsh said. “This summer’s inflation readings do not tell me that underlying trends have meaningfully improved.” The Federal Reserve says the rate increase is intended to help bring inflation back toward its 2% target. ...
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When Conditions Change, Should Wildlife Management Change Too?
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When Conditions Change, Should Wildlife Management Change Too?

By Naomi Riess | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice We have all heard the saying: A fed bear is a dead bear. This year, Colorado is seeing what happens when nature runs short of food. In Southwest Colorado, drought and a late-spring freeze have severely reduced natural bear foods. Statewide, CPW has reported 8,672 bear-related sightings and incidents through August, 3.6 times the five-year average. Relocations are running 3.5 times the average and euthanizations 2.7 times the average. A Durango bear was recently euthanized after being found in poor condition. A necropsy found its stomach and upper intestine completely blocked with trash. The bear was essentially starving to death. We need to keep people from attracting bears. CPW worked with our local representative and...
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Roaring Fork district sought friendly press after legal threat over sex ed curriculum
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Roaring Fork district sought friendly press after legal threat over sex ed curriculum

By Kelly Notarfrancesco | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice Slides from Roaring Fork School District's "Understanding Our Bodies" 3Rs lessons, including the "Making Sense of Puberty" 4th/5th grade deck and its "A Note on Language" slide on gender identity and anatomy. (Roaring Fork Schools) Kindergarten lessons including explicit discussion of genitalia and instructing children to learn that there are “some body parts that mostly just girls have and some body parts that mostly just boys have.” Second grade lessons including graphic anatomical images of nude children and training to recognize people based on their identities. Sixth grade lessons directing kids to visit non-academic websites that invite them to take advocacy action on LGBTQ+ issues. These and o...
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Newsom Says He Will Sit Out 2028 Race if Harris Runs
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Newsom Says He Will Sit Out 2028 Race if Harris Runs

By Raquel Coronell Uribe | NBC News The California governor said there was too much “crossover” between his base and Harris’ and that it would be an electoral “gift” for everybody else if they both ran. California Gov. Gavin Newsom made a surprise announcement that he won’t launch a 2028 White House bid if former Vice President Kamala Harris decides to run again. “I wouldn’t run if she ran,” Newsom told CNN in an interview that aired Monday evening. Newsom said running against Harris, a fellow California Democrat who was the state’s attorney general before she became a senator, would be an electoral “gift” for everybody else. “They’d enjoy the hell out of it. Mutual assured destruction. It services no greater good. Why would I do thi...
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Emergency Motion Extends Douglas County Ballot Fight With Ballots Already Sent to Printer
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Emergency Motion Extends Douglas County Ballot Fight With Ballots Already Sent to Printer

By Nicholas Fogleman | The Denver Gazette The legal battle over a Douglas County ballot measure to increase the number of county commissioners is continuing after Rep. Bob Marshall asked a judge to reconsider her rejection of a preliminary injunction that would halt two ballot measures from reaching voters. Marshall filed an emergency motion for reconsideration Sunday, outlining a new legal argument that he said would give the court authority to grant his request. The case stems from actions of the Board of County Commissioners who, in the final days before ballot certification, approved additional language for a citizen-led ballot measure that would increase the board from three members to five and adopted a competing county-initiated measure addressing how commi...
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Marx Contests $51,427 Campaign Finance Penalty After Acknowledging Reporting Mistakes
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Marx Contests $51,427 Campaign Finance Penalty After Acknowledging Reporting Mistakes

By Deborah Grigsby | The Denver Gazette Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx hates that his campaign finance troubles have become a “distraction.” The outspoken Republican took to X on Tuesday with a cinematic explainer regarding the potential $51,000 in fines he faces from the Secretary of State for excessive contributions. “We’ve made honest mistakes, and we’ve never tried to hide them,” Marx said. “We’ve also been very transparent about the difficulties we’ve encountered correcting the campaign finance reporting through the Secretary of State system.” The state alleges Marx’s campaign accepted at least 204 contributions over Colorado’s $1,450 per-person contribution limit, totaling $83,560 from 111 different contributors. Marx, in a recent ...
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Joondeph: Pediatric gender medicine is cracking under its own evidence
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Joondeph: Pediatric gender medicine is cracking under its own evidence

By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D. | Commentary, American Thinker When ideology overrides biology, it isn’t compassion — it’s harm dressed as progress. For nearly a decade, Americans were told to deny what biology, common sense, and their own eyes made plain. Men could become women. Women could become men. Children were fully capable of choosing sterilizing hormones. Puberty blockers were “reversible.” And anyone who questioned any of it was a bigot. It was one of the most aggressive campaigns of magical thinking in modern public life. We were told sex was “assigned at birth,” as if doctors in delivery rooms were rolling dice rather than observing biological reality. Chromosomes, anatomy, and reproductive function were suddenly deemed less important t...
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