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Ascent Colorado Classical Schools signs agreement with Hillsdale College to become member by 2026
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Ascent Colorado Classical Schools signs agreement with Hillsdale College to become member by 2026

By Rocky Mountain Voice Staff The board of directors of Ascent Colorado Classical Schools, a network of four tuition-free classical public charter schools, has announced an engagement with Hillsdale College as Candidate Member Schools. The Hillsdale College K-12 Education Office will provide curriculum resources and training on governance, school leadership, curriculum, instruction and school culture at no cost to Ascent Colorado Classical Schools, a press announcement reads. The four campuses of Ascent Colorado Classical Schools include: Ascent Classical Academy of Douglas County (Lone Tree), Ascent Classical Academy of Northern Colorado (Windsor), Ascent Classical Academy of Grand Junction, and Ascent Classical Academy of Northern Denver (Brighton). “Although our schools have...
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Can you spell pronouncer? Denver native is the nation’s top word nerd
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Can you spell pronouncer? Denver native is the nation’s top word nerd

By Carol McKinley | The Denver Gazette Jaques Bailly is a spell-ebrity. The former Denver Catholic school prodigy has been the face of the Scripps National Spelling Bee as a most patient pronouncer for 20 years — so beloved, young competitors recognize him with a "Howdy Dr. Bailly!" when they first step up to the microphone.  During Wednesday's fifth round, Bailly repeated the word “lenticillate” three times for Nyarah Garver, a nervous 7th-grader  from Wyndham, New York. She wrongly sounded out “L-E-N-T-I-C-E-L-L-E-T,” and exited the National Scripps Spelling Bee stage with a limp high-five for the next competitor. “It was that final ‘e,’” said pronouncer Bailly, who is in many ways the face of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, and appears to feel every kid’s disapp...
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Sloan: The unhinged morality of the international community
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Sloan: The unhinged morality of the international community

By Kelly Sloan | Contributing Columnist, Rocky Mountain Voice If anyone still harbored any illusions that the International Criminal Court at The Hague was a serious institution with a shred of legitimacy and a moral mandate, those illusions have surely been put to rest. ICC prosecutor Karim Khan issued arrest warrants in late May for Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu, and the Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, in what may be the finest demonstration of absurdity in international affairs so far this century. And given the continued omnipresence of the UN, that’s saying a lot. Granted, Khan and his team of charlatans also issued warrants for a handful of Hamas bosses, but the ludicrous equivalence only seems to lend an even greater sense of incredulity to the episode; it...
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Colorado ranks third in lightning-related deaths, with 25 since 2006. Here’s how to stay safe
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Colorado ranks third in lightning-related deaths, with 25 since 2006. Here’s how to stay safe

By Jennifer Brown | The Colorado Sun A thunderstorm that turned roads into rivers and basements into swimming pools lit up the sky over Greeley on Tuesday night with flashes of light as bright as daytime. Three days earlier, a single lightning strike killed a Jackson County rancher and more than 30 of his cattle. Last week, a storm that raged over Yuma, rumbling like a freight train, buried the plains town in knee-deep hail. It’s been an intense week, even for Colorado in the spring.  The state, known for its wild electrical storms that seem to come out of nowhere, is third-highest in the nation for lightning deaths. The fatal strike Saturday that killed a cattle rancher outside of Rand in northern Colorado was the 25th lightning death in Colorado since 2006, according to dat...
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Manhattan jury finds President Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts in show trial
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Manhattan jury finds President Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts in show trial

By Tom Howell Jr.  | The Washington Times NEW YORK — A Manhattan jury found former President Donald Trump guilty on all counts in his hush money trial​ and made him the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime. The verdict on 34 charges, reached after ​deliberating for ​1​1 hours over two days, means Mr. Trump will campaign against President Biden as a convicted felon. Mr. Trump, who faces up to four years in jail for each count, is sure to appeal the verdict. He says the case is a charade to thwart his run for president, noting prosecutors sat on the case for years before procuring an indictment. The appeal would likely forestall jail time or other penalties. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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Rep. Boebert announces mobile office hours in 3rd District during June
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Rep. Boebert announces mobile office hours in 3rd District during June

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice There will be a number of opportunities in June for those in the 3rd District to connect with the staff of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Silt. This week, the Congresswoman announced a series of mobile office locations and hours in the district during the month of June. “If any citizen in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District is having issues with a federal agency, or want your voice to be heard, please come to one of our mobile office hours, and a member of my team will be happy to assist you," Boebert said. Residents in the 3rd District have gained considerable value from prior mobile office hours, with 270 hours logged in every county in the district, assisting 3,026 residents and returning $6.3 million to constituents, a press statement f...
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El Paso County commissioner candidate accused of violating fair campaign practices
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El Paso County commissioner candidate accused of violating fair campaign practices

By Breeanna Jent | Colorado Springs Gazette El Paso County commissioner candidate David Leinweber faces accusations he has violated Colorado fair campaign practices in his bid for county office. Colorado Springs-based resident group Integrity Matters filed two complaints in under two weeks with Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s office, alleging Leinweber has used his current position as an at-large Colorado Springs councilman to campaign for his election as the county’s District 3 commissioner. The group filed the complaints on May 21 and on Wednesday. In its complaint filed Wednesday, Integrity Matters stated there have been numerous times when Leinweber has promoted city events on the Facebook page dedicated to his county commissioner campaign while serving in his capacity as a...
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Overbeck: How to stop biological boys from dominating girls’ sports in Colorado 
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Overbeck: How to stop biological boys from dominating girls’ sports in Colorado 

By Joy Overbeck  | Guest Columnist With the Colorado legislature’s huge Democrat majority passing a flood of bills pushing radical gender-switching dogma for children, the only way to fight back is with ballot initiatives. Let’s let the electorate vote on the legislature’s wacky woke agenda. Should boys who think they are girls be allowed on girls’ sports teams, where their stronger male physiques make injuring girls a real danger, and those same male advantages win them trophies and scholarships that should rightfully go to females? Should schools be required to tell parents if their child tells the teacher that she now “identifies” as the opposite sex and wants to be called Bill, and not Jill? These are two of the issues voters should have an opportunity to decide. If yo...
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Supreme Court unanimously rules for NRA in free speech fight against NYC regulator
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Supreme Court unanimously rules for NRA in free speech fight against NYC regulator

By ZACH SCHONFELD AND ELLA LEE | The Hill The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that the National Rifle Association (NRA) can move forward in its free speech fight against a former New York regulator. Authored by liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the ruling revives the gun-rights group’s First Amendment claim against Maria Vullo, who formerly ran the New York Department of Financial Services. Vullo began investigating the NRA in 2017, and the probe led her to encourage insurers and banks she regulated to sever ties with the gun-rights group after the Parkland, Fla., school shooting that killed 17 students and staff and reignited a national debate surrounding gun control measures. The NRA contended Vullo’s steps went beyond permissible advocacy and crossed into unconstitut...
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Stossel: You can flip burgers in California for $20 an hour
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Stossel: You can flip burgers in California for $20 an hour

By John Stossel  | The Daily Signal California now leads the nation in imposing dumb wage laws. The state just raised the hourly minimum wage for fast food workers to $20. Gov. Gavin Newsom said, “We saw the inequities … we had a responsibility to do more.” Unions pushed for the higher minimum, and in Democrat-run states, unions usually get what they want. CNN announced, “Half a million California fast food workers will now earn $20 per hour!” Gullible leftists at the Center for American Progress claim, “A higher minimum wage would boost millions of families out of poverty and further stimulate the economy.”   READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DAILY SIGNAL Editor's note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those of the autho...
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