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How the return-to-office order will affect 45,000 federal employees throughout Colorado
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How the return-to-office order will affect 45,000 federal employees throughout Colorado

By Tamara Chuang | The Colorado Sun As per one of the new orders from President Donald Trump, remote work is ending for federal employees, who must return to the office full time. That could be a boon for downtown Denver, which hasn’t recaptured the office workers, visitors and companies it once had. But the impact of such a move will be a challenge to measure as efforts are already underway to complete 16th Street Mall construction, recruit new retail, restaurant and corporate tenants, and steer tax dollars to the central business district. Many may already be back in their downtown offices, if only a few days a week.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN
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Trump signs order to declassify files on JFK, MLK assassinations
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Trump signs order to declassify files on JFK, MLK assassinations

By Louis Casiano  | Fox News President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to declassify files on the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.  Trump had promised to declassify the previously-classified documents during his 2024 campaign. "Everything will be revealed," Trump told reporters as he signed the order in the Oval Office of the White House. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX NEWS
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Eviction of Longmont’s prairie dogs a go and likely by death over relocation
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Eviction of Longmont’s prairie dogs a go and likely by death over relocation

By Catie Cheshire | Westword Over one hundred prairie dogs that live next to the Harvest Junction Village neighborhood in Longmont will likely be killed in March after the Homeowners Association board voted to move forward with an extermination plan. The HOA board is giving activists and community members who don’t want the animals to be killed until March 1 to move the colony, but activists say that timeline is impossible. “This rushed decision disregards both resident input and the humane, cost-effective solutions that are available if the board delays extermination,” Longmont prairie dog advocate Jaime Fraina says in a statement. READ THE FULL STORY AT WESTWORD
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Garfield County commissioners ‘demand a pause’ in wolf reintroduction program
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Garfield County commissioners ‘demand a pause’ in wolf reintroduction program

By Lindy Browning | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice Tom Jankovsky, Mike Samson and Perry Will are setting the standard. The Garfield County commissioners are doing what some say commissioners in every county should do for their constituencies who voted against the 2020 ballot initiative to reintroduce wolves to Western Colorado.  In a press release on Jan. 21, 2025, the commissioners announced they had written a letter to Gov. Jared Polis and Colorado Parks and Wildlife, requesting that the agency reconsider its approach to releasing grey wolves on the Western Slope. “The Board of County Commissioners’ letter demands a pause in the reintroduction of wolves to ensure the program is working, that impacts to ranchers be mitigated, and that people have the right to defend...
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White House announces: ‘Deportation flights have begun’
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White House announces: ‘Deportation flights have begun’

By Sandy Fitzgerald  | Newsmax The White House early Friday announced that "deportation flights have begun," while releasing photographs of lines of people led onto military planes to be taken out of the country.  "President Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: If you illegally enter the United States of America, you will face severe consequences," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday on X  while showing two photographs of people boarding the planes.  It was not specified when the photographs were taken, where the deportations were being carried out, or where the flights were destined. READ THE FULL STORY AT NEWSMAX
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DOJ pledges to end ‘weaponization’ of FACE act, drop three ongoing cases
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DOJ pledges to end ‘weaponization’ of FACE act, drop three ongoing cases

By Robert McGreevy | Daily Caller The Department of Justice (DOJ) pledged to end the federal government’s weaponization of the law, instructing the Civil Rights Division to dismiss with prejudice three FACE Act cases that targeted pro-life protesters, according to a memorandum obtained by the Daily Caller. The DOJ under former President Joe Biden used the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act to prosecute a relatively large number of pro-life protesters. The 1994 law prohibits “violent, threatening, damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain or provide reproductive health services.” The majority of the pro-life protesters Biden’s DOJ prosecuted under the FACE Act were nonviolent. “Even though more than 1...
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Missy Woods case could plant necessary doubt within DNA testing, judicial system, DA Brauchler says
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Missy Woods case could plant necessary doubt within DNA testing, judicial system, DA Brauchler says

By Gabby Easterwood | KDVR-TV Fox 31 News Officials said that after the filing of Missy Woods’ felony charges, re-trials and multiple strains on the justice system could be next. Woods, the former Colorado Bureau of Investigation DNA analyst, had her first court appearance Thursday morning. This comes after she was charged with 102 felonies related to alleged tampering and excluding of DNA evidence. There are 58 cases impacted, ranging from homicides to robberies to sexual assaults and sexual assaults on children. READ THE FULL STORY AT KDVR-TV FOX 31 NEWS
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CBI under fire for failing to notify defendants evidence used against them may have been falsified
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CBI under fire for failing to notify defendants evidence used against them may have been falsified

By Shaun Boyd | CBS Colorado The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is under the microscope. State lawmakers grilled CBI Director Chris Schaefer about the agency's handling of a scandal involving evidence in thousands of criminal cases. All of the cases were handled by now former DNA analyst Yvonne "Missy" Woods, who appeared in court on Thursday on 102 felony charges related to tampering with or falsifying evidence. The legislature allocated millions of dollars last year for CBI to retest DNA in the cases, but the agency is still sitting on most of that money. READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS COLORADO
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Under the Dome, Democrats take aim at big business, Republicans at overregulation
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Under the Dome, Democrats take aim at big business, Republicans at overregulation

By Marissa Ventrelli  | Colorado Politics State lawmakers from both parties are pledging to pass legislation aimed at saving Coloradans money — whether by eliminating fines they deem unnecessary or regulating practices they believe exploit working-class families.  Democrats are setting their sights on major corporations, which they say have taken advantage of inflation to boost profits while working families bear the brunt. They're banking on a pair of recent lawsuits against the nation's largest property management companies to drum up support for legislation they say will save Coloradans more than $1,500 a year. Republicans, on the other hand, have repeatedly referred to the state's high number of regulations, the sixth-most in the country, as the problem. They've draf...
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Senate Bill 3, banning semiauto firearms, could cause gun shops to shutter, owners warn
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Senate Bill 3, banning semiauto firearms, could cause gun shops to shutter, owners warn

By Lucas Brady Woods and Jesse Paul | The Colorado Sun Colorado gun stores say they may be forced to shutter should Democrats in the legislature this year pass a ban on the manufacture, sale and purchase of semiautomatic firearms with detachable ammunition magazines. Senate Bill 3 would make a large portion of the merchandise at Colorado gun stores illegal to sell overnight, hitting their bottom lines but also presenting safety and liability issues.  The measure is aimed at making it harder for people to violate the state’s 15-round magazine limit, and in turn limit the violence someone can inflict during a mass shooting. It targets semiautomatic rifles and shotguns that are capable of accepting detachable ammunition magazines, like AR- and AK-style firearms, as well as ...
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