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Pueblo Takes Center Stage in Battle for Colorado Senate Control
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The Denver Gazette, Approved, State

Pueblo Takes Center Stage in Battle for Colorado Senate Control

By Marianne Goodland | The Denver Gazette Of the roughly two dozen state Senate seats up for election this year, one race in Southern Colorado is drawing particular attention. The outcome of this race could decide the contours of power at the state Capitol, with ramifications for what major policies get adopted next year. Just as importantly, this area called the “last purple” district in Colorado offers an interesting inflection point for a state that has become considerably bluer in each election cycle. Indeed, Pueblo presents a kind of political enigma — a union town that has voted for Pesident Donald Trump at the same time it had sent Democrats to the state Capitol. Mix in a fire that has devastated parts of the district, the debate over energ...
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Colorado Springs Delays Data Center Decision After Intense Public Opposition
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The Colorado Sun, Approved, Local

Colorado Springs Delays Data Center Decision After Intense Public Opposition

By Michael Booth | The Colorado Sun Public overwhelmingly against massive computing warehouse, as 3 protesters are arrested and 1 hit with stun gun. Colorado Springs City Council voted Thursday night to delay a hotly controversial data center proposal near Garden of the Gods, after a raucous daylong hearing with speakers overwhelmingly and profanely shouting down the concept. A scuffle broke out between police and speakers who claimed they had been denied a time slot and grabbed a megaphone to denounce the project. Social media and local TV stations showed one man being hit with a stun gun while he was being handcuffed, as police and at least two protesters wrestled between the theater-style seats. Colorado Springs Police said on X.com they had “three people in custo...
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UNC Medical School Looks to Bring More Doctors to Rural Colorado
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The Denver Gazette, Approved, Local

UNC Medical School Looks to Bring More Doctors to Rural Colorado

By Hap Fry | The Denver Gazette Editor’s Note: Colorado’s healthcare system is entering a period of accelerating instability — a “tsunami,” as multiple leaders describe it — driven by collapsing hospital finances, shrinking Medicaid reimbursements, disappearing services and a political fight over who is responsible for this unraveling. Healthcare Freefall is a multipart series examining how Colorado arrived at this moment, what H.R. 1 will do next and why communities across the state are bracing for deeper shocks. Be it Thanksgiving, Christmas or the Fourth of July, Longenecker could always bank on someone arriving at her family’s doorstep in Limeport, Penn.  More often than not, those visitors would be locals from the area with no family ties — other than the fac...
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Palantir Co-Founder Warns AI Fear Could Give Government and Big Tech More Power
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Real Clear Politics, Approved, National

Palantir Co-Founder Warns AI Fear Could Give Government and Big Tech More Power

By Tyler Stone | Real Clear Politics WILL CAIN: Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale joins me now. Joe, good to see you. Thanks for being with us here today. Are the woke wizards somebody we can count on to save us from AI doomsday? JOE LONSDALE, PALANTIR CO-FOUNDER: Man, the woke ones are the worst, but you got Steve Bannon appearing with Bernie at that same conference. I call it the BBC. It's Bannon, Bernie, and the CCP. It's crazy guys on both sides. And you got Josh Hawley proposing regulation here. This is a really interesting time, Will, because you have dozens of NGOs that are trying to astroturf this AI panic. We had lots of people call me and my friends this weekend. There's a panic going on because they're trying to scare people, because they want people scared, ...
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Colorado Rep. Gabe Evans Leads Bipartisan Push to Protect Ratepayers From Data Center Costs
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Politico, Approved, National

Colorado Rep. Gabe Evans Leads Bipartisan Push to Protect Ratepayers From Data Center Costs

By Nico Portuondo and Amelia Davidson | POLITICO The vote gives House Republicans a bipartisan win on an issue that has become increasingly politically fraught ahead of the midterm elections. House lawmakers on Wednesday easily passed the first major legislative action to address the costs of the AI boom, a bill intended to shield Americans from potential energy costs associated with data centers. The Ratepayer Protection Act, which has become the House GOP’s signature legislation to address the costs of the data center build-out ahead of the midterm elections, was passed in a broad bipartisan vote of 417-3. “Large load data centers must cover the full costs of any system updates they require, not families or small businesses. We cannot accelerate this gr...
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Colorado Supreme Court Pauses Mandatory Courtroom Livestreams Over Harassment and Jury Concerns
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The Colorado Sun, Approved, State

Colorado Supreme Court Pauses Mandatory Courtroom Livestreams Over Harassment and Jury Concerns

By Justin George | The Colorado Sun Chief Justice Monica Márquez’s 90-day directive lets judges opt out of livestreaming by default, reversing a 2023 law amid rising social-media harassment and jury-tainting fears. For the next three months, it will be up to Colorado judges to decide whether to livestream proceedings in their courtrooms. A directive by Colorado’s Supreme Court chief justice Tuesday said the pause on livestreaming by default is necessary to ensure the integrity and fairness of the judicial system.  The order is in direct contrast to a Colorado law passed in 2023 that requires all criminal proceedings to be livestreamed, and judges to make certain findings if they are to limit or discontinue the stream.  Virtual proceedings, like joini...
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Boebert Says Border Enforcement Is Delivering Results for Colorado and America
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THE HILL, Approved, Commentary, National

Boebert Says Border Enforcement Is Delivering Results for Colorado and America

By Rep. Lauren Boebert | Commentary, The Hill For four years under the Biden administration, Americans watched our southern border collapse. Record numbers of illegal crossings poured into the country. Cartels flourished. Fentanyl flooded our communities. Criminal illegal immigrants, including members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang, embedded themselves in my home state of Colorado and across the United States. The previous administration’s open-border policies were a choice. That chaos ended when President Trump returned to office and Republicans in Congress kept the promise we made to the American people. At the start of the 119th Congress, I voted for the Laken Riley Act, which requires the detention of illegal immigrants charged with theft, burgl...
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Wrongful Death Notice Alleges Security Failures Before Charlie Kirk Assassination
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DENVER7, Approved, National

Wrongful Death Notice Alleges Security Failures Before Charlie Kirk Assassination

By AP | Denver7 Charlie Kirk’s family blames Utah officials and UVU security lapses for his 2025 assassination in a wrongful death notice ahead of a possible lawsuit. Charlie Kirk’s family blamed Utah officials for failing to prevent the conservative activist’s assassination at a state university, in a wrongful death notice announced Wednesday that presages a possible lawsuit. Attorneys for the family said Kirk's death resulted from a string of “reckless decisions” by officials at Utah Valley University that left him exposed to a rooftop sniper, who fired a fatal shot from more than 400 feet away on Sept. 10, 2025. The university has faced harsh criticism for a lack of key safety measures on the day of the shooting. Kirk, 31, had been debating students in an outdo...
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New Uses for Pueblo Half Cent Tax Prompt Debate Over Voter Intent
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Uncategorized, Approved, Commentary, Complete Colorado, Local

New Uses for Pueblo Half Cent Tax Prompt Debate Over Voter Intent

By Nicki Hart | Commentary, Complete Colorado Pueblo offers a cautionary tale for communities across Colorado being asked to extend, renew, or continue a dedicated tax. When voters approve a tax for one purpose, how much can the government redefine that purpose before it must return to the people for permission? That debate is unfolding in Pueblo over the city’s Half-Cent Sales Tax Fund, a voter-approved revenue source that has existed for more than four decades. The fund originated in 1984 following the collapse of Pueblo’s steel economy. In 1992, voters fundamentally reshaped the program around a more specific economic promise that public funds would support capital improvements that create “primary jobs.” Primary jobs are those that bring new money into the local ec...
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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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