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Have you received an election blue book in the mail? Here’s what it cost Coloradans
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Have you received an election blue book in the mail? Here’s what it cost Coloradans

By Samantha Jarpe | Fox 31 News Voters across Colorado have recently been sent a State Ballot Information Booklet, which includes information on measures that will appear on the ballot for the 2024 General Election on Nov. 5. These booklets are sent to every household with a registered voter in it and this year, around 2 million were sent out. The Colorado Legislative Staff Council, which creates and sends out the booklets for statewide elections, told FOX31 that the booklets for the 2024 election cost around $3.65 million to produce. This does not include the staff costs for creating the material in the booklets. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 NEWS
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Maly: Donald Trump Is Jewish Americans’ best option for President in 2024
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Maly: Donald Trump Is Jewish Americans’ best option for President in 2024

By Brandon Maly | Newsweek My great-grandfather was a Holocaust survivor. Many of us believed that the kinds of atrocities he lived through in Eastern Europe couldn't happen again, a history that we vowed never to forget. That was just 79 years ago. On Oct. 7, 2023, the world changed for the Jewish community. Israel experienced the most deadly attack in its history, and it marked the most Jews killed on any one day since the Holocaust. At that moment in time (and since), every Jewish person in the United States who feels any connection to Israel became a single-issue voter. This doesn't mean that Jewish voters will vote exclusively on the most pro-Israel candidate (if both are pro-Israel), but it does mean that Jewish voters will look at insufficiently pro-Israel politicians and si...
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‘Yes to parks & rec’: Englewood city staff use taxpayer dollars for yard signs to pass $41.5M bond
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‘Yes to parks & rec’: Englewood city staff use taxpayer dollars for yard signs to pass $41.5M bond

By Ashley Portillo | CBS Colorado The City of Englewood is finding itself in the middle of possible campaign violations after the city used taxpayer dollars to pay for yard signs promoting a ballot measure to fund parks. Now, residents are being asked to return the yard signs that say, "Yes to Parks and Recreation - Support Englewood's Parks and Recreation Bond."  If the signs are not returned, the city asks those residents to pay for the cost of the signs. Englewood's city manager called it an "honest mistake," but there is still concern that city staff came too close to breaking the law when it paid for the signs encouraging voters to vote yes on the city's $41.5 million parks bond. READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS COLORADO
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Securing Colorado’s elections: United Sovereign Americans to champion integrity in ’24
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Securing Colorado’s elections: United Sovereign Americans to champion integrity in ’24

By Jen Schumann | Contributor, Rocky Mountain Voice By law, if there are more than 21 errors in an election, the results aren’t reliable enough to certify. The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) sets this threshold: one error per 125,000 ballots. Yet, grassroots volunteers with United Sovereign Americans (USA) claim to have discovered 100,693 improperly counted votes and 1,467,380 facially ineligible or uncertain registrations from Colorado’s 2022 election.  USA members discovered this by investigating the Colorado Secretary of State's official voter registration data and voting history records, they say. The analysis was conducted using SQL database queries that revealed thousands of apparent voter registration and voting errors. This data was presented in their Colorado 2022 Gene...
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Jacobs: If Harris can ‘eliminate the filibuster for Roe,’ what else can she nuke it for?
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Jacobs: If Harris can ‘eliminate the filibuster for Roe,’ what else can she nuke it for?

By Christopher Jacobs | Commentary, The Federalist Democrats will use abortion as a ‘wedge’ issue to nuke the filibuster, allowing them to enact many other bad policies. What does abortion have to do with the future of fracking in the United States? Much more than one might expect. Kamala Harris’ announcement that she supports an “exception” to the filibuster underscores the stakes in November’s election. If Democrats gain unified control of both houses of Congress and the White House in January, Harris’ statement makes clear that they would undoubtedly use their power to pass radical legislation — not just on abortion but on energy and many other topics. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT THE FEDERALIST Editor’s note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those...
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Commentary: Kamala Harris’s holistic failure is reason voters want a change in direction
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Commentary: Kamala Harris’s holistic failure is reason voters want a change in direction

By Washington Examiner | Commentary Vice President Kamala Harris got one thing right in her speech to the Economic Club of Pittsburgh on Wednesday. “The American economy is the most powerful force for innovation and wealth creation in the world,” Harris said. “We just need to move past the failed policies that we have proven don’t work.” True enough. We need to move past the proven failure of the past four years’ economic policies. Harris is the presidential candidate who has been in power during those years, and there is a reason voters want a change in direction. MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle, who supports Harris for president, touched on this problem in a follow-up interview with Harris, asking the vice president what she would tell the majo...
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‘We have deepened our ties with China,’ Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says of U.S.
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‘We have deepened our ties with China,’ Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says of U.S.

By Ian Hanchett | Fox Business During an interview with CNBC on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that the relationship between the U.S. and China has “gotten closer. I think we have deepened our ties with China.” CNBC Senior Economics Reporter Steve Liesman asked, “You mentioned in your speech the risk of China and the importance of having a positive relationship with China or at least building on that relationship. Yet, over the course of this administration, you have kept the tariffs put in place by former President Trump and you’ve actually added to them. Do you believe that that relationship has gotten closer?” READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX BUSINESS
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China expert sounds alarm over ‘war signals’: ‘Xi Jinping is about to do something truly horrendous’
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China expert sounds alarm over ‘war signals’: ‘Xi Jinping is about to do something truly horrendous’

By Alicia Warren | Fox Business Chinese President Xi Jinping may be on the verge of doing something "horrendous" after sending two "war signals" within 10 days of each other, says one expert. Gordon Chang, senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute and author of ‘Plan Red: China’s Project to Destroy America,’ joined FOX Business' "Mornings with Maria" on Thursday to discuss the U.S. adversary’s rising aggression.  His comments come after the Ministry of Defense of the People's Republic of China announced that its military had launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Wednesday morning. The missile, which carried a dummy warhead and was not targeting any particular nation, fell into the ocean without incident. The People's Liberation Army's...
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Harris heads to southern border looking to flip script on immigration criticisms
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Harris heads to southern border looking to flip script on immigration criticisms

By Paul Steinhauser  | Fox News Vice President Harris stops in battleground Arizona on Friday to hold a campaign event along the U.S. southern border with Mexico as the Democrat presidential nominee works to turn the issue of immigration and border security from a liability into a strength. Harris has faced frequent attacks from her Republican opponent, former President Trump, and his allies who argue she's weak on border security, an issue that many Republicans see as the vice president's political Achilles' heel. Harris has faced intense criticism over the surge of migrants across the nation's southern border during the first three years of President Biden's administration. The Trump campaign, on the eve of Harris' first border visit as a presidential nominee, called i...
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El Paso County Board of Health takes a stance on recreational marijuana ballot measures
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El Paso County Board of Health takes a stance on recreational marijuana ballot measures

By Savannah Eller | The Gazette The El Paso County Board of Public Health has officially come out against a ballot question that will ask Colorado Springs citizens to vote on allowing existing medical marijuana shops to sell recreational marijuana in city limits.  "This is a public health issue, and I think this is a stance we should be taking," said El Paso County Commissioner and Board of Health member Longinos Gonzalez.  The Board of Health oversees the county's public health department and is in charge of developing public health policies.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE GAZETTE
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