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Big money filtering into 5th District Republican race for Congress
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Approved, State, The Colorado Sun

Big money filtering into 5th District Republican race for Congress

By Sandra Fish | The Colorado Sun The Republican primary in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District is becoming a battle for the soul of the GOP, with conservative groups spending $1.3 million and counting to beat state party chairman Dave Williams, who has been endorsed by Donald Trump. Williams is running against conservative commentator and activist Jeff Crank, who has been endorsed by U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, in the El Paso County district where U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs, is retiring at the end of his ninth term. Whoever wins the primary is almost certain to win the general election in the highly Republican district.  That’s why the 5th District spending by outside political groups, more than what’s spent by outside groups in any of the state’s othe...
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Community input sought ahead of possible Denver Public Schools closures
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Community input sought ahead of possible Denver Public Schools closures

By Anna Alejo | CBS Colorado Despite a surge in the enrollment of migrant students this year, Denver Public Schools continues to experience a drop in the size of its student population. The school board is asking for community input as it plans how to consolidate and close schools. The school board says it's necessary to close schools to keep the district financially viable and to re-allocate limited resources. As proposed "guardrails", the board wants the Superintendent to consider schools of any size and not to use standardized test scores or school performance ratings as a condition for consolidation. READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS COLORADO
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Colorado Republicans call Biden’s asylum order ‘too little, too late,’ Dems say it’s ‘people over politics’
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Approved, Colorado Springs Gazette, State

Colorado Republicans call Biden’s asylum order ‘too little, too late,’ Dems say it’s ‘people over politics’

By By Nicole C. Brambila | Colorado Springs Gazette President Joe Biden’s sweeping executive action Tuesday to ban asylum seekers when illegal border crossings reach a certain threshold expectedly divided Colorado leaders along partisan lines, with Republicans calling the action “too little, too late” and Democrats describing the move as putting “people over politics.” Meanwhile, in Denver, a spokesperson for the city’s human services agency, which is in charge of the response to the crisis, said officials will closely monitor any impacts the executive order might have. “In the meantime, we will stay focused on what we are able to control, including our recent pivot away from emergency operations to a more sustainable programmatic approach,” Jon Ewing, a Denver Human Services spok...
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Coloradans have standing to sue over open meetings violations — no matter where they live, court finds
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Coloradans have standing to sue over open meetings violations — no matter where they live, court finds

By Jeffrey A. Roberts | Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition A Pagosa Springs attorney who has filed nearly 100 open-government lawsuits in the past several years has standing to sue the Elizabeth school board for alleged open meetings law violations even though he lives 300 miles away, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. Shutting down arguments made by the school district, the Colorado Association of School Boards and the Colorado Rural Schools Alliance, the state’s second-highest court concluded that the Colorado Open Meetings Law “creates a legally protected interest in favor of at least every natural person in Colorado — including the plaintiff here — in having public bodies conduct public business in compliance with the OML.” The school district had accused Mat...
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Voices of D-Day: Veterans describe the heroism and horror
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Voices of D-Day: Veterans describe the heroism and horror

Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2024-05-06/dday-veterans-memories-13767185.htmlSource - Stars and Stripes By Stars and Stripes June 6 is the 80th anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings, when Allied forces launched a naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France.  To commemorate the occasion, Stars and Stripes is sharing a series of interviews conducted by the World War II Foundation. The footage was part of the 2014 documentary “Day of Days: June 6, 1944.” SEE THE INTERVIEWS AT STARS AND STRIPES
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‘Laptop from hell’ among evidence facing Hunter Biden in gun trial
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‘Laptop from hell’ among evidence facing Hunter Biden in gun trial

By Anders Hagstrom, Kyle Morris, Brianna Herlihy, Michael Lee and Emma Colton | Fox News Prosecutors presented evidence that Hunter Biden attempted to buy and smoked crack in the days after he purchased the gun. Prosecutors shared a text message exchange from October 13, 2018 that featured Biden sending a message to Hallie Biden indicating that he was "waiting for a dealer named Mookie." The next day, two days after the gun purchase, prosecutors presented evidence that Biden sent another text message to Hallie Biden that said he was recently sleeping on a car while smoking crack. READ MORE UPDATES AT FOXNEWS.COM
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Broncos: Oklahoma WR Marvin Mims Jr. feels ‘night and day’ difference from rookie year to Year 2
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Broncos: Oklahoma WR Marvin Mims Jr. feels ‘night and day’ difference from rookie year to Year 2

By Aric DiLalla | DenverBroncos.com Shortly after the Broncos drafted Marvin Mims Jr. in 2023, Head Coach Sean Payton compared the Oklahoma product's speed to driving on an open highway. During Thursday's OTA practice, the second-year player again ran away from all the traffic. Mims caught a deep ball from Jarrett Stidham — one of the highlight plays of Thursday's practice — and demonstrated his playmaking ability. "It was a good play call," Mims said. "We ended up getting matched with the right coverage. Incredible ball. [It was] just me running. Didn't have to break stride. Caught it. Touchdown." READ THE FULL STORY AT DENVERBRONCOS.COM
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Biden’s edict on Southern Border is an Election Year stunt, Republicans say
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Biden’s edict on Southern Border is an Election Year stunt, Republicans say

By Virginia Allen  | The Daily Signal President Joe Biden signed an executive order Tuesday giving himself the authority to close the border when the seven-day average of daily border crossings between ports of entry exceeds 2,500.  The order is set to take effect immediately, since the daily threshold has already been met. The border will only reopen if crossings between ports fall to a seven-day daily average of 1,500 or less.  Biden is drawing on the authority in Title 8 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to temporarily close the border.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DAILY SIGNAL
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Stratford: What does human trafficking look like in Colorado?
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Stratford: What does human trafficking look like in Colorado?

By Sabrina Stratford | Guest Columnist There are more than 49.6 million people in modern slavery today. What does that look like in Colorado? Human trafficking is the exploitation of another person involving force, fraud, or coercion for labor or sex. Human trafficking is a crime against a person, not a border. Anyone can become a victim, no matter a person’s background or identity, but the more vulnerable a person is the more likely they are to become a victim. At risk individuals include those living on the streets or homeless, individuals with addictions, sex workers, the LGBTQIA+ community, runaways and immigrants. At risk people are trafficked more frequently than safe and stable community members. Sex trafficking Involves the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provis...
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No veterans living on Denver streets? That’s Mayor Mike Johnston’s goal.
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No veterans living on Denver streets? That’s Mayor Mike Johnston’s goal.

By Austen Erblat | CBS Colorado Denver Mayor Mike Johnston said he wants to make Denver the largest city in the country to have no veterans living on the streets. Johnston says that by tracking people experiencing homelessness in the Mile High City and partnering with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Denver Department of Housing Stability, the city identified and plans to provide housing for the 52 homeless veterans. "We think this puts us in a position to, before the end of this year, house all 52 of those veterans who we know are still experiencing unsheltered homelessness," he said at a news conference on Monday. "We will be the largest American city to make sure that no veteran who has served this country sleeps outside in the streets of Denver." RE...
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