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Ethics complaint filed against state Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis over aide allegations
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Ethics complaint filed against state Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis over aide allegations

By Jesse Paul | The Colorado Sun A constituent of embattled state Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis lodged an ethics complaint against the Longmont Democrat last week, alleging that Jaquez Lewis has failed to uphold her office with integrity and the public interest by mistreating her Capitol aides.  The complaint could lead to the most serious consequences yet for Jaquez Lewis, who has already been stripped of her committee assignments and barred from having state-paid staffers at the Capitol in light of the aide allegations. If leadership in the Senate agrees to advance the ethics complaint — as they’ve indicated they will do — it would initiate a committee investigation that could lead to a recommendation Jaquez Lewis be expelled from the chamber. It takes a two-thirds vote of t...
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After swearing in new mayor, Parker needs to fill vacant seat on City Council
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After swearing in new mayor, Parker needs to fill vacant seat on City Council

By Noah Festenstein | Colorado Politics, vis Denver Gazette The Town of Parker plans to appoint a new councilmember after new Mayor Joshua Rivero vacated the seat for his new role, according to town officials. Rivero was sworn in as mayor of Parker on Monday. Rivero is a self-identified independent who, in the middle of his term as a councilmember, vacated his seat after defeating former Mayor Jeff Toborg in the November election. “What we need at this level is nonpartisan representation,” Rivero previously told The Denver Gazette. “What we need is somebody that listens to all of Parker and not just one party." READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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Fed cuts interest rates by quarter point despite firmer inflation
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Fed cuts interest rates by quarter point despite firmer inflation

By Tobias Burns | The Hill The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point Wednesday, in line with market expectations, even as inflation has reaccelerated over the past two months. Fed officials have been trying to find the right tempo for rate cuts since starting them in September with a sizable half-point reduction, and Wednesday’s cut — the third in a row — shows them pressing ahead with their strategy despite some underlying strength in labor and price data. The Fed is now projecting two cuts for next year as opposed to four.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE HILL
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Congress sneaks pay raise for itself into spending bill as Americans struggle to make ends meet
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Congress sneaks pay raise for itself into spending bill as Americans struggle to make ends meet

by Adam Pack | Daily Caller Members of Congress are slated to receive a pay raise for the first time in 15 years if the massive spending bill released by House leaders Tuesday evening passes both chambers and is signed into law. The 1,574 page bill, known as a continuing resolution (CR), contains language allowing for a cost of living adjustment (COLA), which would give members of Congress a pay raise for the first time since 2009. This pay increase for Congress comes as many lawmakers’ constituents are struggling to make ends meet as inflation has skyrocketed under President Joe Biden’s administration. Lawmakers currently earn a base salary of $174,000 annually with members in leadership receiving a higher salary. If Biden signs the CR into law, members of Congress are set to rec...
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American Airlines ends DEI hiring practices after facing discrimination charges by conservative watchdog
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American Airlines ends DEI hiring practices after facing discrimination charges by conservative watchdog

By Yael Halon  | Fox Business American Airlines has reportedly agreed to end diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) hiring and employment practices, joining a growing list of major corporations to halt the controversial "woke" initiative. America First Legal (AFL), a conservative watchdog organization, announced Tuesday that American Airlines has agreed to "abandon discriminatory employment practices" after AFL filed a complaint against the carrier.  "The airline acknowledged that recruiting and hiring based on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) violates federal laws and equal employment opportunities," AFL said in a statement. READ THE FULL STORY ON FOX BUSINESS
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Sloan: CEO killing is case study in Left’s anarchical view of law
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Sloan: CEO killing is case study in Left’s anarchical view of law

By Kelly Sloan | Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice The political diagnosticians poking around at the remains of the last election, on behalf of the Democratic Party, are compiling a gestating list of items seeking to explain why what happened on Nov. 7. The lists get pretty long, but close to the top of nearly all of them is the general sense that the streets are manifestly less safe than were even four years ago; that the decay in respect for law and order has made our erstwhile civil society far less civil and far more dangerous.  This sort of post-mortem is a normal and healthy exercise in democratic hygiene, undertaken by both parties periodically, the point of which is to identify what motivates the voters and to adjust approaches to self-government accordingly. One would...
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House Republicans refer Liz Cheney for federal criminal investigation
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House Republicans refer Liz Cheney for federal criminal investigation

By Tristan Justice | The Federalist House Republicans recommended disgraced ex-Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney face a criminal investigation related to “witness tampering” as vice chair of the illegally established and since disbanded Select Committee on Jan. 6. Previous documents released by congressional investigators reviewing the Jan. 6 panel’s work revealed Cheney coordinated with the Select Committee’s star witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, using the encrypted Signal app. The pair communicated to circumvent Hutchinson’s own attorney, Stefan Passantino, whom the Jan. 6 Committee ultimately targeted with an operation intended to strip him of his law license. Passantino was cleared of any misconduct following multiple investigations from ethics watchdogs. In the House interim repo...
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Walcher: Federal agencies should look in the mirror
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Walcher: Federal agencies should look in the mirror

By Greg Walcher | Guest Commentary, GregWalcher.com In the 1950 movie version of Grimm’s Fairy Tale, the cruel stepmother scolds Cinderella, “You clumsy little fool – clean that up!” But, of course, it was the stepmother, not Cinderella, who made the mess. Sometimes it seems like the world is full of people who expect others to clean up their messes. It is a recurring theme among critics of federal agencies, which often regulate and even fine others for environmental damage, but rarely admit the role they themselves played in creating the problem. A lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), filed by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), has again focused attention on an agency blaming everyone but itself. Th...
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Spending bill subsidizes State Department’s conservative censorship slush fund
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Spending bill subsidizes State Department’s conservative censorship slush fund

By Bradley Jaye | Breitbart The government funding bill includes a one-year extension of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), an agency that funds organizations that censor conservative media including Breitbart News. The provision extending funding for the program is on page 139 of the 1,537-page continuing resolution, which was unveiled Tuesday night just hours before the House will vote on the short-term spending bill. The Washington Examiner’s Gabe Kaminsky posted on Twitter that the bill “includes a one-year extension on the State Department’s Global Engagement Center — the agency me and Matt Taibbi reported has funded speech suppression efforts and is being sued by the Federalist and Daily Wire.” READ THE FULL STORY AT BREITBART
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Supreme Court to weigh case on possible TikTok ban
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Supreme Court to weigh case on possible TikTok ban

By Newsmax The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear arguments next month over the constitutionality of the federal law that could ban TikTok in the United States if its Chinese parent company doesn't sell it. The justices will hear arguments Jan. 10 about whether the law impermissibly restricts speech in violation of the First Amendment. The law, enacted in April, set a Jan. 19 deadline for TikTok to be sold or else face a ban in the U.S. The popular social media platform has more than 170 million users in the U.S. READ THE FULL STORY ON NEWSMAX
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