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Justice Department warns Boulder can’t set global energy policy in Colorado climate case
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Justice Department warns Boulder can’t set global energy policy in Colorado climate case

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice A lawsuit that started with three Colorado local governments and a stack of state tort claims will open the U.S. Supreme Court's new term. On Monday, Oct. 5, the justices hear argument in Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, the first case of October Term 2026. It is the first time the Court will decide on the merits whether federal law bars state-law climate-damages claims of this kind against fossil-fuel companies. The city of Boulder, Boulder County and San Miguel County sued Suncor and ExxonMobil in 2018. San Miguel County's claims were later transferred to a separate case, leaving the city and Boulder County as the plaintiffs before the Supreme Court. They want the companies to...
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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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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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Only Congress can tax you. So why are unelected regulators doing it?
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Only Congress can tax you. So why are unelected regulators doing it?

By Jay Davidson | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." —Thomas Jefferson (1820) A battle of wills has been developing over the past 100 years, actually longer. It's a war between ideas, principles, philosophy and is the seminal event for our children's children. In truth, this conflict is eternal. Once we realize the dividing lines, our life philosophy comes clear. What type of government best suits the concept that Jefferson (the...
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‘Wolves in White Coats’: HHS official warns of harms, profit behind gender medicine for minors
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‘Wolves in White Coats’: HHS official warns of harms, profit behind gender medicine for minors

By RMV Staff | Rocky Mountain Voice Assistant Secretary for Health Brian Christine joins Heidi Ganahl on ‘Unleashed’ to discuss a new federal report, detransitioner stories and what the findings could mean for Colorado families A new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is putting renewed scrutiny on medical interventions for minors experiencing gender dysphoria — and one of the nation's top public health officials says accountability may be coming. Admiral Brian Christine, the 18th Assistant Secretary for Health at HHS, joined Heidi Ganahl on the latest episode of Unleashed to discuss the department's new report, Wolves in White Coats, which examines medical treatments for minors, financial incentives within gender clinics and potentially improper medi...
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Case: Why Colorado’s Next Attorney General Must Investigate the Flawed Voting System
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Case: Why Colorado’s Next Attorney General Must Investigate the Flawed Voting System

By John Case | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Colorado voters deserve to know the truth about our voting system. Based on the evidence cited below, this letter calls for our next Attorney General to conduct an independent investigation of the voting system and publish the results to the people. The evidence: Please watch the 21 minute video at https://vimeo.com/1220653027 in which computer expert Mark Cook demonstrates how bad actors can control Colorado election outcomes without being detected. Votes in 62 counties are counted on computers leased from Liberty Vote, Inc., formerly known as Dominion. Federal standards prohibit use of components in critical infrastructure that are supplied by America's enemies or are subject to foreign control. Supply chain expert Co...
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Colorado Medicaid rolls fell 30 percent as spending climbed by $2 billion
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Colorado Medicaid rolls fell 30 percent as spending climbed by $2 billion

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice Colorado Medicaid covered about 510,000 fewer people in an average month in fiscal 2025 than it did two years earlier. Estimated spending still climbed. That is part of the puzzle a new legislative commission has been handed.  When the state unwound the pandemic-era rule that kept people continuously enrolled, average monthly enrollment fell roughly 30 percent between fiscal 2023 and fiscal 2025. Common sense says a program covering far fewer people should cost less. Colorado's cost more.  A September brief from the Common Sense Institute puts the increase at an estimated $2.09 billion, a 15 percent jump. Fewer members. Higher costs. Less room to move. What the state pays per person The clearest w...
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From no-fault divorce to VAWA, the case that fatherlessness was by design
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From no-fault divorce to VAWA, the case that fatherlessness was by design

By Carl Roberts | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice My guess is that most people, most parents, rarely think about parental rights. Why? Most likely because their parental rights have never been threatened. Their role in their child's life never questioned or judged. They haven't been through the drill of a custody battle or had CPS show up at their door. Nor have they had someone at their child's school secretly try to transition their son into a girl or daughter into a boy. Most parents are simply unaware that this is happening all around them, every day, until it hits them square between the eyes. Another layer to it is, not only do they not have the lived experience, but they can't imagine how the systems that were built to protect children often cause far more harm than...
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