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Colorado Department of Revenue still not processing state tax returns
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Colorado Department of Revenue still not processing state tax returns

By Kim Posey | Fox 31 News Tax season started weeks ago, but the state of Colorado still has not started processing tax returns. On a federal level, the IRS began accepting individual tax returns on Jan. 27, but the Colorado Department of Revenue website for e-filing taxes is not up and running yet. The website said 2024 return links are coming soon and to check back in early February, but the month is more than halfway over and residents are wondering when they could receive their state refund if they are getting one. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 NEWS
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Amid ethics investigation and alleged fabricated letter of support, Colorado Sen. Lewis resigns
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Amid ethics investigation and alleged fabricated letter of support, Colorado Sen. Lewis resigns

By Marianne Goodland | Colorado Politics Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, D-Longmont, who is under investigation for violating Senate ethics rules, announced her resignation Tuesday morning. Her resignation comes in the wake of revelations that she "fabricated" at least one letter of support from a former aide in her 17-page response to the ethics committee on Jan. 31. Questions have also been raised about the authenticity of four other letters of support. According to the Senate ethics committee, which met Tuesday morning, her resignation was effective Monday night at 7:15 p.m. READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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King Soopers, 10,000 statewide grocery workers end strike for 100 days to resume bargaining
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King Soopers, 10,000 statewide grocery workers end strike for 100 days to resume bargaining

By Tamara Chuang | The Colorado Sun More than 10,000 supermarket workers involved in a two-week labor walkout will return to their jobs at King Soopers stores Tuesday after the labor union and the Colorado grocery chain reached an agreement late Monday to stop picketing and get back to work.  There’s no new contract yet, but the two sides plan to resume negotiations to work out their differences. They agreed to a “100-day period of labor peace, ensuring negotiations continue in good faith and without further disruptions,” according to King Soopers officials. The strike ended at midnight, two days earlier than the planned two-week walkout. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN
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Colorado bill seeks to create locations on I-70 where private companies can sell and install tire chains
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Colorado bill seeks to create locations on I-70 where private companies can sell and install tire chains

By Gabriela Vidal | CBS Colorado Driving along Interstate 70 during the winter can be a daunting task for Coloradans as much as out-of-state drivers; however, new legislation in the state could help alleviate some of the challenges motorists face, especially when it comes to putting on tire chains. "We see it as being one piece in an overall puzzle towards solving some of the issues on I-70," said Greg Fulton, president of the Colorado Motor Carriers Association. The Motor Carriers Association is among several state groups supporting Senate Bill 69, which would pave the way for the Colorado Department of Transportation to issue permits to private companies to be able to sell and install tire chains along I-70. READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS COLORADO
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The Edge at Lowry complex in Aurora officially closes
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The Edge at Lowry complex in Aurora officially closes

By Jim Hooley | Fox 31 News The notorious apartment complex, The Edge at Lowry in Aurora, officially shut down Tuesday morning. A court order demanded the complex near Dallas Street and East 12th Avenue be closed by 8 a.m. The judge issued the emergency order to close the complex in January, calling the complex an “immediate threat to public safety.” READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 NEWS
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Legislature recognizes contributions of nurses, EMS responders
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Legislature recognizes contributions of nurses, EMS responders

By Brian Porter | Rocky Mountain Voice The role of emergency workers and nurses was recognized Tuesday in the Colorado Senate, with a selection of each seated in the chamber. Adams County Democrat Sen. Kyle Mullica, an emergency room nurse when he's not serving in the state legislature, noted that a nurse is comfort in trying times. "It has been a tough [few] years to be a nurse," he said. "They take care of us in our most difficult times." And before a patient many times reaches the hospital or emergency room, emergency workers care for them, El Paso County Republican Sen. Larry Liston said. Republican Sen. Mark Baisley introduced EMS workers in the chamber. "Every now and then we need a hero," he said. "When that emergency medical situation comes on us or our family, or...
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Trump’s EPA chief: We have found the ‘gold bars’ Biden’s team hid – $20 billion set aside to thwart Trump
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Trump’s EPA chief: We have found the ‘gold bars’ Biden’s team hid – $20 billion set aside to thwart Trump

By Ben Zeisloft | The Western Journal EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin revealed on Wednesday that staffers for former President Joe Biden established a $20 billion slush fund to advance their interests once President Donald Trump took office. Zeldin said in a video posted to X that an “extremely disturbing video” circulated two months ago showing a Biden appointee in the EPA admitting that the team was “tossing gold bars off the Titanic.” According to Zeldin, the “gold bars” were tax dollars moved out of the EPA as the Biden administration drew to a close. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WESTERN JOURNAL
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CBS News anchor claims free speech caused the Holocaust
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CBS News anchor claims free speech caused the Holocaust

By Brianna Lyman | The Federalist CBS News’ Margaret Brennan claimed Sunday that free speech was to blame for the Holocaust. During an interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Brennan spun a wild theory that free speech in Germany paved the way for the Holocaust, arguing that Vice President J.D. Vance’s criticisms of European attacks on free speech were problematic because, according to Brennan, free speech was “weaponized” in Nazi Germany. “Well, [Vance] was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide, and he met with the head of a political party that has far-right views and some historic ties to extreme groups,” Brennan said. “The context of that was changing the tone of it. And you know that, the censorship was specifically about the righ...
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Kirk: Elbridge Colby is the right man to carry out Trump’s America First mandate
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Kirk: Elbridge Colby is the right man to carry out Trump’s America First mandate

By Charlie Kirk | The Federalist, Commentary President Trump was elected with a mandate — a mandate to rethink the core assumptions of Washington, D.C., that have led this country to disaster after disaster. A mandate to put America first instead of last. To fulfill his mandate, the president needs to be able to make the appointments of his choosing without being sabotaged by the members of his own party that he carried to victory in November. Yet right now, a fight has broken out over the nomination of Elbridge Colby to be undersecretary of defense for policy, the top strategy official at the Pentagon. Make no mistake: This is a make-or-break moment for whether Donald Trump’s America First foreign policy will succeed — or even happen. Colby is being attacked precisely because hi...
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Trump, Elon Musk’s DOGE team are doing what Democrats promised ‘for decades,’ press secretary says
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Trump, Elon Musk’s DOGE team are doing what Democrats promised ‘for decades,’ press secretary says

By The Fox News Staff White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed Democrats' hypocritical position ahead of DOGE's Social Security audit. Leavitt defended President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's objectives on "Hannity" Monday, pointing out that former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton championed rooting out waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars. KAROLINE LEAVITT: If you just watched that video, but shut your eyes and listen to the words from those Democrat politicians, you would think you are listening to President Trump, Elon Musk and our entire administration, who are saying the exact same things that Democrat politicians promised the American people they would do for decades. President Trump is just the first president in our lifetimes to actually do it. And no...
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