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Staffing at Reagan Washington National Airport air control tower was ‘not normal’ on night of collision
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Staffing at Reagan Washington National Airport air control tower was ‘not normal’ on night of collision

By Greg Wehner  | Fox News An internal preliminary report from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reportedly showed that the number of staff members working at the air control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in Arlington, Virginia, was "not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic." On Wednesday night, an American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter collided near Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, D.C., and all 67 people onboard both aircraft are presumed to be dead. The Associated Press obtained a report which showed one air traffic controller was working two positions at the time of the crash.  READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX NEWS
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State’s failure to pass through federal funds to firefighting agencies is putting SW Colorado operations at risk
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State’s failure to pass through federal funds to firefighting agencies is putting SW Colorado operations at risk

By Lindy Browning | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice Emergency responders and firefighting agencies in Southwest Colorado are sounding the alarm and calling for immediate resolution to unpaid invoices going back, in some cases, to July 2024, because of, some say, utter incompetence by the State of Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control’s (DFPC) billing processing office. In a Jan. 27 meeting at the Upper Pine Fire District in Bayfield, county emergency management personnel, regional fire district leadership teams, representatives from multiple counties and state and local officials met to discuss the dysfunctions that could lead to an all-out crisis as the 2025 fire season approaches, because of a huge backlog in getting collective invoices for payment processed. ...
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King Soopers workers in Boulder, Broomfield, Denver and Parker authorize strike, more likely
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King Soopers workers in Boulder, Broomfield, Denver and Parker authorize strike, more likely

By Sydney Isenberg , Sam Peña | KMGH-TV Denver 7 News After two days of voting, King Soopers employees across Colorado have authorized a strike, the UFCW Local 7 announced late Thursday night. The vote comes after King Soopers and UFCW Local 7, which represents more than 10,000 King Soopers employees across the state, failed to reach an agreement on a new contract. The original contract expired at 11:59 p.m. on Jan. 16. Prior to the contract expiration, Joe Kelley, the president of King Soopers/ City Market, told Denver7 he was doing everything he could to avoid a strike.' READ THE FULL STORY AT KMGH-TV DENVER 7 NEWS
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Colorado tuberculosis cases hold steady, as a major outbreak rocks Kansas
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Colorado tuberculosis cases hold steady, as a major outbreak rocks Kansas

By John Ingold | The Colorado Sun Colorado is not seeing an unusual uptick in cases of tuberculosis, despite an ongoing outbreak next door in Kansas, the state Health Department says. The Kansas outbreak, focused in the Kansas City area, started last year, and it has since grown to be among the largest in the country since at least the 1950s. (You may have read that it is the largest in U.S. history, but that is erroneous.) Two people are reported to have died. Here in Colorado, cases of tuberculosis are more or less in line with recent historical averages, even though the number of cases reported in Colorado last year exceeded the number of cases reported so far in the Kansas outbreak. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN
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Elementary student argues being required to remove ‘Come and Take It’ hat was 1st Amendment violation
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Elementary student argues being required to remove ‘Come and Take It’ hat was 1st Amendment violation

By Kevin Koeninger | Courthouse News Service Students do not abandon their First Amendment rights when they enter the classroom — and a hat depicting an assault rifle is not threatening or inappropriate, a Michigan father argued Thursday at the Sixth Circuit, seeking to overturn a lower court loss in the lawsuit he filed on behalf of his daughter. Adam Stroub's daughter C.S. was in third grade in February 2022 when her school had "hat day" and encouraged students to wear their favorite hats. She decided on a hat she had given to her father: a black baseball cap with a star above an assault rifle and the phrase "come and take it" in block letters. Administrators at Kerr Elementary School in Durand, Michigan, forced her to take it off. READ THE FULL STORY AT COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVI...
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Air traffic control and the DEI debate in wake of mid-air Reagan Airport collision
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Air traffic control and the DEI debate in wake of mid-air Reagan Airport collision

By Dan McLaughlin | National Review As Charlie notes, even after last night's air disaster culminated a series of near-misses over the past four years, American air travel remains astonishingly safe, and the likelihood is that a full investigation will find that last night's crash of an Army Blackhawk helicopter into a commercial airliner was (1) a total freak accident, (2) the result of a mechanical problem with the helicopter, and/or (3) human error by the helicopter pilot, perhaps compounded by poor air-traffic control. Efforts to blame this on Donald Trump, whose transportation secretary Sean Duffy only took office yesterday morning, say more about the people ... READ THE FULL STORY AT THE NATIONAL REVIEW
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Dems worry Kash Patel could weaponize FBI against political enemies like they did
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Dems worry Kash Patel could weaponize FBI against political enemies like they did

By Beth Brelje | The Federalist In a Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday, feckless Democrat senators grilled Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, trying to paint him as a Trump henchman hellbent on seeking revenge for all the crap the FBI put Trump and American citizens through. It’s no wonder they are worried; the nation has seen how the FBI has been turned into a political weapon, and Democrats don’t want it pointed at them. The Federalist has written extensively about corruption within the FBI under Democrats’ watch, including the Russia collusion hoax that Patel helped disprove; the gun-toting dawn raids on the homes of nonviolent citizens; the overreaching invasion of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home; and the tampering in the federal election by conceali...
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Trump birthright citizenship order leaves loophole allowing ‘birth tourism’ method used by Chinese nationals
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Trump birthright citizenship order leaves loophole allowing ‘birth tourism’ method used by Chinese nationals

By Katelynn Richardson | Daily Caller One loophole in President Donald Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship could permit Chinese nationals, along with other non-citizens, to continue obtaining U.S. citizenship for their children. The order’s language leaves room for the growing international surrogacy industry — which allows intended parents from across the word to hire an American woman to carry their child to term — to continue operating as the newest means of “birth tourism.” According to the most recent data from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), foreign nationals went through 4,713 “gestational carrier cycles” — or attempts to implant an embryo — in 2020, up from 2,758 in 2014. Chinese nationals make up the highest percentage of users, a...
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Devotional: Vision is not just a cliché, but requires action
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Devotional: Vision is not just a cliché, but requires action

By DRAKE HUNTER | Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Vision is not just a buzzword, it's a crucial aspect of effective leadership — here, there, and everywhere. Let’s examine its true meaning and how it can empower us to lead with purpose and meaning. Unfortunately, vision has lost its meaning and purpose today; it has become clichéd. Phrases like “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” “You can't see the forest for the trees,” and the ever-popular “Where there is no vision, the people perish” are overused. People frequently discuss vision, but few truly understand its significance and power. Let's not underestimate the power of vision. It's not just a passive idea or a fleeting dream; it's a force that can empower us to understand and reason our purpose and meaning in life. When a...
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Rep. Cloud, Sen. Lee introduce bill to remove firearm suppressor regulations
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Rep. Cloud, Sen. Lee introduce bill to remove firearm suppressor regulations

By AWR Hawkins | Breitbart Rep. Mike Cloud (R-TX) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) are introducing legislation Friday to eliminate the excessive regulations which make suppressor acquisition so cumbersome. Their legislation seizes on the hearing protection afforded by suppressors and is titled, Silencers Help Us Save Hearing (SHUSH) Act. Suppressors are currently under the purview of the National Firearms Act (NFA) and Cloud and Lee explain that this creates myriad steps for law-abiding citizens to follow/fulfill in order to get an accessory that has no barrel, no trigger, no action, no magazine capacity nor ability to accept a magazine. The steps for acquisition include, but are not limited to, filling out ATF forms, being fingerprinted and provided those prints to an FFL, being photogra...
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