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‘Leave now’: Trump admin repurposes controversial CBP One app to encourage self-deportations
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‘Leave now’: Trump admin repurposes controversial CBP One app to encourage self-deportations

By Adam Shaw , Bill Melugin  | Fox News The Trump administration is rolling out a new app to replace the controversial CBP One app with the new replacement designed to facilitate the self-deportation of illegal immigrants. The Department of Homeland Security is announcing the CBP Home app -- which will launch with a self-deportation reporting feature for those in the country illegally.  It replaces the CBP One app, which was expanded by the Biden administration to allow migrants to schedule appointments at ports of entry to be paroled into the U.S. Hundreds of thousands were paroled into the U.S. as a result. The Trump administration has ended the ability to use the app for that purpose.  READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX NEWS
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Does Denver’s ‘affordable’ housing goal align with today’s market needs? Experts weigh in
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Does Denver’s ‘affordable’ housing goal align with today’s market needs? Experts weigh in

By Noah Festenstein | Denver Gazette As Denver pushes for more "affordable" housing, experts wonder if the city's approach is sustainable and question whether it aligns with today's market needs. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston's goal for 2025 to "preserve" or help in the development of more than 3,000 such units. Denver worked with developers last year to build 1,695 new units, preserve 649 existing ones and create 678 others through rental subsidies “to ensure affordability,” according to Department of Housing Stability (HOST) spokesperson Julia Marvin. “The challenge this year,” Marvin said, “lies in being creative with the funding we have. It’s important that we get creative in our solutions, both for funding and for execution.” READ FULL ARTICLE AT THE DENVER GAZETTE...
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Strip clubs Diamond Cabaret and Rick’s Cabaret sue Denver Labor over wage theft investigation
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Strip clubs Diamond Cabaret and Rick’s Cabaret sue Denver Labor over wage theft investigation

By Christa Swanson | CBS Colorado Two Denver strip clubs accused of widespread wage theft are suing Denver Labor after they were ordered to pay back millions to their employees. Diamond Cabaret Denver and Rick's Cabaret Denver have filed a lawsuit to stop Denver Labor from enforcing its order demanding the businesses pay back more than 200 employees of the strip clubs. They also requested a gag order against Denver Labor due to what they say is the "dissemination of falsehoods against the clubs." READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS COLORADO
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Zelensky sent apology letter to Trump after Oval Office spat
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Zelensky sent apology letter to Trump after Oval Office spat

By Roberto Wakerell-Cruz | The Post Millennial Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky apologized to US President Donald Trump after their explosive Oval Office meeting, special envoy Steve Witkoff said on Monday. “Zelensky sent a letter to the president. He apologized for that whole incident that happened in the Oval Office,” Witkoff told Fox News on Monday. “I think that it was an important step, and there’s been a lot of discussion between our teams and the Ukrainians and the Europeans who are relevant to this discussion as well.” READ THE FULL STORY AT THE POST MILLENNIAL
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Religious slaughter in Syria shows need for US, Europe to ‘keep a close eye’ on Islamist regime
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Religious slaughter in Syria shows need for US, Europe to ‘keep a close eye’ on Islamist regime

By Morgan Phillips | Fox News With hundreds left dead over the weekend under Syria’s new regime, Greek Foreign Minister Giorigios Gerapetritis warned Europe and the U.S. to "keep a close eye" on the ruling Islamist group that is working to gain acceptance by the West.  Syria contains a sizable population of Orthodox Christians, and Gerapetritis insisted the international community demand religious minorities be included in governance, or else leave sanctions in place.  "All ethnic and religious minorities should be included in the governance, rule of law," he told Fox News Digital in an interview conducted last week prior to the weekend's violence. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX NEWS
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HB 1010 an attempt to expand governor’s power, Rep. Hartsook complains
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HB 1010 an attempt to expand governor’s power, Rep. Hartsook complains

By Brian Porter | Rocky Mountain Voice State Rep. Anthony Hartsook is concerned with the tsunami of bills he sees filtering through the legislature. "Numerous bills expanding government control continue to flood the General Assembly, threatening businesses and economic freedom," he wrote in a report to his District 44 constituency. One example, Hartsook says, is Democrat-led House Bill 25-1010, which aims to protect consumers from "price gouging during a declared disaster." Like many bills floating through the legislature, it does more than its title or brief description might indicate. "This legislation hands unbridled power and authority to the governor to declare a disaster, based on an 'imminent threat,'" Hartsook said. "We’ve seen this playbook before — for 16 months, the ...
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‘This is our Alamo!’: Gun owners rallying March 11 against SB 3 in Colorado House committee
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‘This is our Alamo!’: Gun owners rallying March 11 against SB 3 in Colorado House committee

By Brian Porter | Rocky Mountain Voice A bill which some gun advocates say would lead to extinction of their rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution is scheduled for a hearing Tuesday, March 11, in the House's Judiciary Committee. Senate Bill 25-003, led through the upper chamber by Sens. Julie Gonzales and Tom Sullivan, prohibits the transfer, sale and purchase of semiauto firearms with certain exclusions permitted to allow the bill to clear the Colorado Senate on a 19-15 vote, with all Republicans and three Democrats opposed. At issue is whether, in the interest of stemming mass shootings in the state, if Coloradans should sacrifice constitutionally-provided gun ownership rights. Sullivan says the measure works to enforce the "high-capacity magazine ban" from 2014, but othe...
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Colorado bill, removing hunting as priority method for wildlife management, fails in House committee
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Colorado bill, removing hunting as priority method for wildlife management, fails in House committee

By Marianne Goodland | Colorado Politics Animal rights groups lost at the ballot box last November in their efforts to ban big-cat hunting and trapping, but the fight was not over, as some lawmakers pushed to remove hunting, trapping and fishing as "primary" methods for "necessary wildlife harvests." The proposal ultimately died in the House Agriculture, Water and Natural Resources Committee on Thursday. Sponsored by Reps. Tammy Story, D-Evergreen, and Elizabeth Velasco, D-Glenwood Springs, House Bill 1258 would replace replace language in one of the statutes governing Colorado Parks and Wildlife to say the state "may" — instead of "shall" — authorize hunting, trapping and fishing and that decision would be "based on best available wildlife and ecological science to benefit wildli...
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Judge to decide whether Twitter missed rent in spat with Boulder landlord
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Judge to decide whether Twitter missed rent in spat with Boulder landlord

By Amanda Pampuro  | Courthouse News Following five days of trial over a lease dispute between Twitter and a Colorado landlord, a Boulder judge requested the parties provide additional briefing before she determines who breached the agreement with the other. “If the rent was due on Dec. 1st, then Lot 2 prevails. If the rent was not due, X Corp. prevails,” summarized attorney Damien Zumbrennen on behalf of X, formerly known as Twitter. READ THE FULL STORY AT COURTHOUSE NEWS
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Unions introduce ballot measure to require employers prove ‘just cause’ to fire workers
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Unions introduce ballot measure to require employers prove ‘just cause’ to fire workers

By Ed Sealover | The Sum & Substance Colorado’s labor battles escalated significantly on Friday, as the state’s largest unions filed a ballot initiative that would require private-sector employers to prove just cause before they could suspend or fire any workers. The filing of Initiative 43 follows the Feb. 19 decision by Colorado’s title board to approve the wording of a proposed 2026 ballot initiative from the Independence Institute that would ask voters if they would like to make Colorado a right-to-work state. And both are moving while a bill to upend Colorado’s unionization-governing Labor Peace Act has passed the Senate and is scheduled for its first House committee hearing on Thursday. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE SUM & SUBSTANCE
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