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Immigrants buoys Denver schools’ enrollment by 200 to 250 students each week
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Immigrants buoys Denver schools’ enrollment by 200 to 250 students each week

By Nicole C. Brambila | Denver Gazette The number of immigrants arriving in Denver may have slowed, but Denver Public Schools, which has struggled with declining enrollment for years, is seeing a steady pace of new students each week. And district staffers warned during the board’s regular meeting on Thursday that, if the enrollment numbers continue to climb, budget "adjustments" may arise this year and next. That could potentially mean cuts.    The district saw roughly 300 students enroll since its last update in January. This time last school year, the district had 82,401 students, according to a district update on Thursday. Now, the district has 84,327 students. READ THE FULL STORY IN THE DENVER GAZETTE
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Yuma District Hospital will draw on reserve fund to cover $2.5M operating loss
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Yuma District Hospital will draw on reserve fund to cover $2.5M operating loss

By Yuma Pioneer Yuma District Hospital has been authorized by the board of directors to access up to $2 million of the district’s investments to help cover operations cost. The move came during the YDH Board’s regular monthly meeting on January 24. Interim CEO Ted Beckman made the request to board members Monica King, Mitch Korf, Delaina Klein and De Ann Rawson Sewell. Board member Robert Dorothy was absent. It had been addressed earlier in the meeting when an employee voiced her concerns about the hospital district operating at a $2.5 million loss. She added she was anxious to hear where the the process is in regards to hiring a permanent CEO. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE YUMA PIONEER
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Could $4 a gallon gasoline be back before Presidential Election Day?
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Could $4 a gallon gasoline be back before Presidential Election Day?

By Charley Blaine | The Street Oil and gasoline prices have distinct seasonal patterns, up after the first of the year up until some time in the summer.  The big questions for this year are:  How high will crude oil prices go?  Will gasoline prices hit startling levels? After peaking and sliding into the end of the year, what happens next might be more painful than you expect. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE STREET
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The crazy things Biden’s anti-coal crusade will do to ordinary Americans
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The crazy things Biden’s anti-coal crusade will do to ordinary Americans

By Roger Hanshaw | Fox News The Biden administration’s approach to energy policy ignores the importance of coal and baseload electricity demands.  President Joe Biden revealed as much in a speech last year, announcing that the U.S. will "be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar." Further, Biden's Climate Envoy John Kerry stated at the UN climate conference COP28 that, "we will be working to accelerate unabated coal phase-out across the world."  The Biden administration is determined to eliminate coal-fired power plants in the name of "environmental justice." This is shortsighted.  Biden is now following through on his plans by wielding the vast power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Biden's EPA gave th...
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Study: $95K income is ‘lower middle class’ in Denver
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Study: $95K income is ‘lower middle class’ in Denver

BY Maddie Rhodes | KDVR-TV It takes a lot more money to be considered anything above the lower middle class in the Mile High City. In Denver, making $95,000 a year isn’t enough to break you out of the lower middle class, according to a new study – but it is close. GOBankingRates researched the 100 largest cities in the U.S. and found the median household incomes for those cities. The study then followed the Pew Research Center’s definition of middle-class income as “two-thirds to double” the median income of an area. READ THE FULL STORY AT KDVR-TV
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Colorado county clerks are divided over bill to require voting service centers in jails
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Colorado county clerks are divided over bill to require voting service centers in jails

By Marianne Goodland | Colorado Politics The state Senate Judiciary Committee is expected in the coming weeks to take its first look at a bill that has divided the usually united county clerks in Colorado over allowing people in jail to vote on election day. This could cost the state between $200,000 and $1 million. If passed, Senate Bill 72 would require county clerks to set up voting service centers in jails and detention facilities to allow eligible prisoners to vote. Clerks in the state's smaller counties are calling it an unfunded mandate, while sheriffs are taking issues with the bill's language regarding possible penalties for jail facilities not in compliance. The bill's fiscal note shows a state cost of $200,000, but opponents claim the real cost could be clo...
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Trump ordered to pay over $350M in civil fraud case
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Trump ordered to pay over $350M in civil fraud case

By Alison Durkee | Forbes Former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants will have to pay $364 million for fraudulently misstating the value of his and his company’s assets on financial statements, a New York judge ruled Friday, levying significant punishments against the ex-president and his business that could hurt him financially and affect his business’ operations. New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Trump, his associates — including his sons — and the Trump Organization for allegedly fraudulently misstating the value of assets on financial documents in order to obtain more favorable business deals and reflect a higher net worth for Trump. READ THE FULL STORY AT FORBES
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New $30 million Colorado rental assistance program launches this week
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New $30 million Colorado rental assistance program launches this week

By Tatiana Flowers | Colorado Sun State leaders opened a new temporary rental assistance grant program this week that will use $30 million approved by the Colorado legislature in November to try to keep people in their homes after eviction filings reached record high numbers in pockets of the state last year. The Colorado Department of Local Affairs launched the first pre-application process through the Temporary Rental Assistance Grant program Thursday. The first round of pre-applications will remain open until 5 p.m. Tuesday. Coloradans who aren’t selected to move forward in the process to receive funds, and others who miss the deadline, will have another chance to apply when grant program leaders reopen the process again on the 15th day of each mon...
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Meet ‘The Good Ol’ Boys’ Club of Douglas County, where you can ‘throw your two cents in’
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Meet ‘The Good Ol’ Boys’ Club of Douglas County, where you can ‘throw your two cents in’

By BRIAN PORTER | The Rocky Mountain Voice CASTLE ROCK – There’s no mollycoddles or wallflowers allowed. But just about anything else goes. In a back room of the Castle Cafe here once a week meets a group of like-minded men from a variety of professional backgrounds known as ‘The Good Ol’ Boys’. Now, this isn’t Bo and Luke Duke, and Boss Hogg is no where to be found, mind you. Cigar smoke doesn’t fill the air and no one is running illegal moonshine. No, in fact, most of the members of this club might have trouble sliding across the hood of a 1969 Dodge Charger. These Good Ol’ Boys meet weekly to hear from candidates for office, other subjects, and in general to reach conservative solutions on the big issues of the day. “We may all be retired – or most of us – but that doesn’...
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Metro District board member recalled in special election amid complaints of ‘verbal abuse and physical intimidation’
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Metro District board member recalled in special election amid complaints of ‘verbal abuse and physical intimidation’

By Heather Willard | KDVR-TV DENVER (KDVR) — According to the unofficial vote tally published by the Denver Office of the Clerk and Recorder, a reportedly contentious board member of the Ebert Metropolitan District Board of Directors has been recalled and replaced. Murray Hawthorne, treasurer and board member for the Ebert Metro District, was described in a recall petition as someone who “does not represent or respect Ebert residents.” The petition further claimed a pattern of verbal abuse and physical intimidation from Hawthorne to residents. Hawthorne protested the recall election on Nov. 29, 2023. The protest was dismissed and the recall election date was set for Feb. 13, with polls open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. READ THE FULL STORY AT KDVR-TV
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