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Colorado Turns Sports Betting Into Major Water-Project Funding
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Colorado Turns Sports Betting Into Major Water-Project Funding

By Marianne Goodland | Colorado Politics Funding for the state’s 2015 water plan started as a trickle. But sports gaming revenue has now turned that trickle into a steady stream. The Colorado Division of Gaming announced this week that nearly $33.8 million from 2024-25 will be allocated to the Colorado Water Conservation Board to support the state’s water plan, with distribution to water projects set to begin in July 2026. Estimates of the following year’s revenues are even better: a forecast of nearly $39 million that could help fund hundreds of projects throughout the state. It’s a far cry from when the water plan got underway in 2015. Back then, the expectation was that the state would need to invest approximately $100 million per year for 30 years between 2020 and 2050, ...
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Trump Calls Out UN Failures in Fiery Speech Against Globalism
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Trump Calls Out UN Failures in Fiery Speech Against Globalism

By Just the News staff | Just the News Representatives from several nations met in New York ahead of the Tuesday event as part of a summit to reaffirm support for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Nations supporting the idea have yet to explain how it would work. President Donald Trump’s Tuesday speech to the United Nations General Assembly saw him excoriate the international body as ineffective and forecast Washington putting more distance between itself and the UN. Trump accused the United Nations of leaving the job of peacekeeping to him, highlighting the many global conflicts that he resolved in the first seven months of his presidency. Among those, Trump managed to speedily resolve conflicts between India and Pakistan, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Rwanda a...
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Google Promises Free Speech After Years of Political Censorship on YouTube
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Google Promises Free Speech After Years of Political Censorship on YouTube

By Sean Moran | Breitbart Google on Tuesday promised to restore YouTube accounts that have been banned for political speech, admitting that the Biden administration pressured it to censor Americans that did not violate the company’s terms of service, in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH). “Reflecting the Company’s commitment to free expression, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect,” a lawyer representing Google wrote to Jordan. The letter would likely affect pro-Trump political commentators such as White House counterterrorism chief Sebastian Gorka, War Room host Steve Bannon,...
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Colorado Supreme Court to decide if state wrongly denied child abuse hotline data to media orgs
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Colorado Supreme Court to decide if state wrongly denied child abuse hotline data to media orgs

By Jennifer Brown | The Colorado Sun The news agencies wanted to know the number of times child residential treatment centers had called the child abuse hotline but were denied by state human services officials A legal battle over child abuse hotline data requested four years ago by The Colorado Sun and 9News has reached the Colorado Supreme Court.  The case centers on the news organizations’ joint request under the Colorado Open Records Act for the number of calls made to the state child abuse hotline from three child residential treatment centers in the Denver area from 2018 to 2021. Journalists sought the information while investigating the safety of children in residential centers, including the death of a 12-year-old boy who ran away from Tennyson Center and...
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Texas parents pressured by activist group to block conservative TPUSA chapter
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Texas parents pressured by activist group to block conservative TPUSA chapter

By Thomas Stevenson | The Post Millennial "Please please please send emails to two teachers who are rumored to have agreed to sponsoring a club that will sow division and hate among our students." The vice president of a local Democrat club in Texas Adults attempted to rally adults in a private Facebook group to pressure teachers at Stratford High School in Texas to refuse to sponsor a Turning Point USA chapter (known as Club America at the high school level) at the school. Details of the chat were leaked by adults into a private Facebook group page. They also spread falsehoods about the identity of the killer of Charlie Kirk, who founded TPUSA. Andrew Kolvet, spokesman for Turning Point USA and close friend to the late Charlie Kirk, said on X, "Some grown adults in...
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Jefferson County Sheriff releases timeline of SRO’s location during Evergreen shooting
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Jefferson County Sheriff releases timeline of SRO’s location during Evergreen shooting

By: Brooke Williams | Fox31 DENVER (KDVR) — The school resource officer assigned to Evergreen High School was not there at the time of the shooting earlier this month, raising questions about their whereabouts throughout the community. After the shooting on Wednesday, Sept. 10, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said during a press conference that the officer assigned to the school had left about two hours before shots were fired. Evergreen High School previously had a full-time School Resource Officer; however, that officer has been on medical leave, and the responsibility was being shared between other deputies. On Monday, the sheriff’s office released more information about the officer’s whereabouts that day. On Sept. 10, the SRO was going between Evergreen a...
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Sinclair holds firm: Rejects airing Jimmy Kimmel while ABC parent-company Disney touts return
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Sinclair holds firm: Rejects airing Jimmy Kimmel while ABC parent-company Disney touts return

By Virginia Kruta | Daily Wire Sinclair owns nearly 40 ABC affiliates across the United States, including one in Washington, D.C. Sinclair Broadcasting Group doubled down on Monday, saying that despite an agreement reached earlier in the day by ABC and late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, their ABC affiliates would not air “Jimmy Kimmel Live” when it returns to ABC on Tuesday. Sinclair owns nearly 40 ABC affiliates across the country — including one in the nation’s capital — and while those affiliates will preempt Kimmel’s show for the time being, the broadcasting group released a statement indicating that a deal could be reached in the future. https://twitter.com/WeAreSinclair/status/1970266039532306593 “Beginning Tuesday night, Sinclair will be preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live!...
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White House Links Tylenol in Pregnancy to Autism, Pushes New Treatment Path
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White House Links Tylenol in Pregnancy to Autism, Pushes New Treatment Path

By Amanda Prestigiacomo | Daily Wire Trump said Tylenol use during pregnancy is linked to increased risk of autism. On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced findings into the concerning spike in national autism rates, labeling one medication as a potential cause of autism, and another as a potential treatment. It was announced that the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy is tied to an increased risk of autism. Acetaminophen is the active ingredient in Tylenol, one of the most widely used medications globally for pain relief and fever reduction. “Taking Tylenol is not good. I’ll say it. It’s not good,” Trump said, noting that it might be necessary if a pregnant woman spikes a very high fever. “There’s ...
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1776 Project PAC launches accountability campaign against teachers celebrating Kirk’s assassination
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1776 Project PAC launches accountability campaign against teachers celebrating Kirk’s assassination

By Andrew Mark Miller | Fox News Conservatives have been successfully calling on teachers to be fired for justifying Charlie Kirk's murder A conservative political action committee launched an effort to expose teachers across the country justifying Charlie Kirk’s assassination online and is pushing back on claims from the left that conservatives are being hypocritical about free speech. Stefano Forte, executive director of 1776 Project PAC, spoke to Fox News digital about the new form live on the organization’s website where users can flag teachers and administrators who have justified Kirk’s killing online, a form he says has already yielded an "endless stream of tips." "Many people are essentially happy that Charlie Kirk has been killed. And these people are in char...
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A Senior’s Perspective: Fear, Hope, And The Path Forward At Evergreen
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A Senior’s Perspective: Fear, Hope, And The Path Forward At Evergreen

By Hanna Powers | KDVR FOX31 EVERGREEN, Colo. (KDVR) — Students at Evergreen High School are taking their first careful steps back onto campus just over two weeks after a shooting that left the community shaken. Senior Sylvia Howell said the return will be filled with hugs, tears and a shared sense of healing. “I think there’s going to be a lot of hugs, maybe some tears, which has been kind of the story of the last few weeks,” Howell said. The Jefferson County School District is staggering the reopening to support students and staff. Monday: Staff returned to prepare classrooms. Early this week: Parent information sessions held. Thursday and Friday: Optional half days welcome students back for the first time. Howell said she plans to be there. “I think it’s import...
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