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Gaines: You can make a difference by volunteering for a local board or committee

Realigning the main drag through Sterling left a couple parcels of land orphaned.  It wasn’t necessarily that they looked worse than they did before — one of them was a former trailer park where the only vestiges of its former life were bare concrete pads with socketless meter boxes poking up here and there.  The highway realignment didn’t make them ugly, it made them uglier:  it left a bit of land whose shape wouldn’t be too conducive to anything useful.  Yet another empty patch of dirt on my daily commute.

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Trump inner circle shares McDonald’s meal as Donald Jr. jokes ‘Make America Healthy Again starts tomorrow’

President-elect Trump and members of his inner circle shared a McDonald’s meal aboard Trump’s private plane, with Donald Trump Jr. posting a photo Sunday morning and joking that the Trump campaign’s mission to make Americans healthier will have to wait a day.

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Trump puts US colleges on notice to ‘end antisemitic propaganda’ or ‘lose their accreditation and federal taxpayer support’

On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump said that all American universities must end campus antisemitism or they will lose accreditation and funding. At the rally against antisemitism in Washington, Trump said that to “defeat antisemitism and defend Jewish citizens in America, my first week back in the Oval Office, my administration will inform every college president that, if you do not end antisemitic propaganda, they will lose their accreditation and federal taxpayer support.”

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Florida sues FEMA for ‘conspiring’ to deny disaster relief to Trump supporters

Florida is suing FEMA for allegedly discriminating against supporters of President-elect Donald Trump after a Daily Wire report revealed a supervisor directed relief workers in the Sunshine State to “avoid homes advertising Trump.”

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Polis proposes conversion of Pinnacol in controversial measure to balance budget

Gov. Jared Polis’ pitch to convert Pinnacol Assurance into an independent company is being driven not just by money it could generate for the state budget but by the belief that failing to loosen the company’s operational restrictions could jeopardize its sustainability.

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