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Federal Reserve leaves key interest rate unchanged amid uncertainty over economy, inflation
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Federal Reserve leaves key interest rate unchanged amid uncertainty over economy, inflation

By Eric Revell  | Fox Business The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced that it will leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged as policymakers continue to assess uncertainty around inflation and economic conditions in light of federal policy shifts. The central bank's decision leaves the benchmark federal funds rate at a range of 4.25% to 4.5%.  The move comes after the Fed left rates at that level at its previous meeting in January, which came on the heels of three consecutive rate cuts at its preceding meetings — which involved a 50-basis-point cut in September and a pair of 25-basis-point reductions in November and December. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX BUSINESS
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Rep. Gabe Evans says sanctuary cities protect criminal gangs and drug traffickers
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Rep. Gabe Evans says sanctuary cities protect criminal gangs and drug traffickers

By Just The News Representative Gabe Evans (R-CO) says Colorado’s sanctuary laws embolden illegal immigrant gangs while endangering the lives of local law enforcement. “These sanctuary policies really provide sanctuary only for criminals and violent gangs and cartels that are committing crimes and dealing poison like fentanyl in our communities,” he says. WATCH THE VIDEO HERE
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Inside the now-shuttered federal agency where employees lived ‘like reigning kings’
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Inside the now-shuttered federal agency where employees lived ‘like reigning kings’

By Luke Rosiak | Daily Wire One of the seven small federal agencies that President Donald Trump ordered downsized or eliminated on Friday was rife with corruption, with its employees hiring friends and relatives, commissioning paintings of themselves, and using government credit cards to indulge in constant luxuries. The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) occupied a nine-story office tower on D.C.’s K Street for only 60 employees, many of whom actually worked from home, prior to the pandemic. Its managers had luxury suites with full bathrooms; one manager would often be “in the shower” when she was needed, while another used her bathroom as a cigarette lounge. FMCS recorded its director as being on a years-long business trip to D.C. so he could have all of h...
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Krannawitter: The budget and rule of law
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Krannawitter: The budget and rule of law

By Thomas L. Krannawitter, Ph.D. , Substack, Commentary Think the rule of law is important? Then the joke is on you. The rule of law has been murdered—it is dead, or close to it. And the prime suspect is the very body that writes laws: Congress. In 1974, Congress passed The Congressional Budget Act, a law prescribing a proper, formal annual budget process that features separate itemized appropriations bills that are supposed to be passed on time like clockwork. Congress didn’t have to create this kind of law binding on itself, but it did. READ THE FULL STORY AT SUBSTACK
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The Colorado psychedelic mushroom experiment has arrived
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The Colorado psychedelic mushroom experiment has arrived

By Kate Ruder | CBS Colorado Colorado regulators are issuing licenses for providing psychedelic mushrooms and are planning to authorize the state's first "healing centers," where the mushrooms can be ingested under supervision, in late spring or early summer. The dawn of state-regulated psychedelic mushrooms has arrived in Colorado, nearly two years since Oregon began offering them. The mushrooms are a Schedule I drug and illegal under federal law except for clinical research. But more than a dozen cities nationwide have deprioritized or decriminalized them in the past five years, and many eyes are turned toward Oregon's and Colorado's state-regulated programs. "In Oregon and Colorado, we're going to learn a lot about administration of psychedelics outside of clinical, religi...
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Air Force Academy graduate pilots SpaceX mission to International Space Station, known as ‘focused’
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Air Force Academy graduate pilots SpaceX mission to International Space Station, known as ‘focused’

By O'Dell Isaac | Colorado Springs Gazette A Woodland Park High School and Air Force Academy alum is currently representing the Pikes Peak region in space. Air Force Maj. Nichole “Vapor” Ayers, a 2011 academy graduate, served as the pilot on a SpaceX capsule that launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, bound for the International Space Station. The capsule, which carried Ayers and three other astronauts, successfully docked into the ISS on Sunday. The mission was part of a NASA crew swap that allowed astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who had been on the orbiting space lab for nine months, to return home. Williams and Wilmore, both retired Navy test pilots, were scheduled to depart the ISS on Wednesday along with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russi...
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Democrats target TABOR as budget crisis exposes reckless spending
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Democrats target TABOR as budget crisis exposes reckless spending

By Rocky Mountain Voice Staff As Colorado faces a $1.2 billion budget deficit, state lawmakers are once again debating the role of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) in shaping the state’s financial future. With deep cuts expected for education, health care and social services, some Democratic legislators are raising concerns over TABOR’s limits on government spending. Yet Republicans argue that the deficit is a result of overspending rather than shortfalls in revenue. Passed by voters in 1992, TABOR restricts government spending growth to population increases, plus inflation, and requires that any surplus revenue be refunded to taxpayers.  Supporters argue that these restrictions prevent excessive government expansion, while critics say the formula is too rigid, making it...
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Colorado moves toward a nuclear future as energy demands skyrocket
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Colorado moves toward a nuclear future as energy demands skyrocket

By Rocky Mountain Voice Staff Colorado is at an energy crossroads, and House Bill 25-1040 is now sitting on Governor Jared Polis' desk, awaiting his decision. The bill, which recognizes nuclear energy as part of the state's clean energy portfolio, has gained rare bipartisan support—but the real question is whether Polis will cave to radical environmentalists or side with the majority of Coloradans who support nuclear energy. With the Craig Station Power Plant set to close and electricity demand expected to double by 2050, leaders across the state are finally acknowledging what conservatives have long championed: nuclear energy is the most efficient, clean and sustainable path forward. But will Polis let that happen? Despite past resistance, HB 1040 passed with support from both si...
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Hate or free speech? CMU students react to local Turning Point USA polls
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Hate or free speech? CMU students react to local Turning Point USA polls

By Jen Schumann | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice Few things stir debate on college campuses like politics—and at CMU, a student group’s whiteboard polls have done just that. Turning Point USA’s Colorado Mesa University chapter (TPUSA CMU) has sparked discussion after posting a series of provocative whiteboard poll questions in the university’s cafeteria.  Some students view the questions as open discussion starters, while others see them as hate speech meant to provoke. “Some of the questions pertaining to immigrants and other situations going on, you have to understand a lot of people are going through this personally,” CMU student Welam Agamba told KKCO 11 News. Founded by Charlie Kirk in 2012, TPUSA is known for challenging anti-American perspectives on colle...
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Garbo: Biden’s autopen scandal—who was really running the country?
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Garbo: Biden’s autopen scandal—who was really running the country?

By C. J. Garbo | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice The recent revelation that an autopen was used to affix President Joe Biden's signature on numerous executive orders, pardons, and other documents of national consequence is a scandal of seismic proportions. If proven true, this practice strikes at the very heart of the legitimacy of executive authority and raises grave constitutional concerns that demand immediate and thorough investigation. The use of a machine-generated signature to execute the powers vested solely in the President of the United States by the Constitution is not merely a matter of procedural convenience - it is a fundamental betrayal of the American people and the democratic principles upon which this nation was founded. The Constitution's framers were ...
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