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At CU Boulder, professor becomes a butterfly to cope with climate anxiety
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At CU Boulder, professor becomes a butterfly to cope with climate anxiety

BY Molly Cruse | COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO Sporting an emerald-green morph suit and carrying a suitcase overflowing with colorful costumes and props, Beth Osnes certainly turned heads as she walked into the Colorado Public Radio newsroom.  Moments after her arrival, Osnes had transformed the newsroom’s largest conference room into a tropical, butterfly oasis. With the tables and chairs pushed to one side, in their place was a human-sized, leaf-shaped rug, laminated placards of a butterfly’s life cycle, and a giant, green hammock in one corner. A speaker in the middle of the room cemented the transformation by playing a soundtrack complete with bird song, music and the sound of trickling water. Osnes, who teaches theatre and environmental studies at the University of Colorado o...
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Colorado Springs officials: ‘We will not be designated as a sanctuary county’
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Colorado Springs officials: ‘We will not be designated as a sanctuary county’

By Savannah Eller | COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE On Wednesday a group of local officials, including the El Paso County board of commissioners and City Council member Dave Donelson, called a press conference to respond to the news of migrants arriving in Colorado Springs. The officials presented a united front against El Paso becoming a sanctuary county, admonishing state and federal government for lack of action in stemming illegal immigration.  "Allow me to state unequivocally that we will not be designated as a sanctuary county. All five El Paso County commissioners are united in our position," said board chair Cami Bremer.  Bremer and vice chair commissioner Carrie Geitner led the conference, coming out strong against the harboring of migrants in El Paso County. Commissio...
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Define the term carpetbagger: Rep. Mike Lynch Challenges Lauren Boebert on ‘Seat Shopping’
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Define the term carpetbagger: Rep. Mike Lynch Challenges Lauren Boebert on ‘Seat Shopping’

By The Lobby Rep. Mike Lynch's direct questioning of Rep. Lauren Boebert during a recent Republican primary debate continues to draw national attention and spark discussions about Boebert's ‘seat shopping’ controversy. Lynch's no-nonsense approach has garnered support from voters, who see it as a testament to his straight talk nature. On the crowded debate stage in Fort Lupton, Lynch posed a pointed question to Boebert, asking her to define the term "carpetbagger." The audience reacted with gasps and murmurs, highlighting the significance of the question in the race for Colorado's 4th Congressional District seat. Rep. Mike Lynch didn't sugarcoat the question to Rep. Lauren Boebert, “Could you give the definition of ‘carpetbagger?'" Boebert claimed that leaving her old di...
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Bill requiring Colorado employers to display suicide prevention education passes through committee
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Bill requiring Colorado employers to display suicide prevention education passes through committee

By Marissa Ventrelli | COLORADO POLITICS A bill that would require Colorado employers to display posters and provide suicide prevention information in the workplace passed through the House Committee on Business Affairs and Labor this week.  HB 1015 would require workplaces to display posters created by the Division of Labor and Statistics that would provide information on suicide prevention training programs and educational materials. The posters will also include a QR code that links to a website to be created by the Office of Suicide Prevention. Employees will also be required to sign a handbook or manual that includes a notice about suicide prevention. All of these resources will be provided to employers for free. Ronald Dietz, a Littleton resident and survivor of...
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Caldara: Talk radio’s not dead, but is showing its age
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Caldara: Talk radio’s not dead, but is showing its age

By Jon Caldara | Complete Colorado (You can listen to this column, read by the author, here.) I must have hit that age. Nostalgia keeps overtaking me. I remember a Colorado that had thriving, competitive newspapers in every city, along with equally thriving local radio to keep them in check. There was a time when local radio was big. Colorado, and the Front Range in particular, had some of the most competitive radio wars in the country due to more stations than similarly sized metro areas. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allocated radio frequencies very miserly, so one station’s broadcast wouldn’t bleed into another’s. And since the Front Range market was so far away from other big urban markets, we had more radio real estate available. Hard to have lo...
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Colorado could be first to protect biological data from Big Tech
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Colorado could be first to protect biological data from Big Tech

By Marissa Ventrelli | COLORADO POLITICS A panel of lawmakers approved legislation that would make Colorado the first in the nation to protect people's biological data from technology companies, raising worries that new machines could be come so powerful they could read thoughts.  The House Judiciary Committee advanced House Bill 1058, which expands upon the Colorado Privacy Act's definition of "sensitive data" to include biological and neural data.  Under the measure, biological data means information that provides a "characterization of the biological, genetic, biochemical, or physiological properties, compositions, or activities of an individual's body or bodily functions." It includes neural data, which the bill defines as "information that c...
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El Paso official to Denver Mayor Mike Johnston: Keep asking for federal funds | Border Crossroads
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El Paso official to Denver Mayor Mike Johnston: Keep asking for federal funds | Border Crossroads

By Nicole C. Brambila | SOURCE: COLORADO POLITICS Editor's note: Welcome to Border Crossroads, a series of dispatches from America's southern border, where reporter Nico Brambila and multimedia producer Tom Hellauer are chronicling the crisis that is spilling over into Denver and other interior cities.     EL PASO, TEXAS — El Paso Deputy City Manager Mario D’Agostino offered some advice to Denver Mayor Mike Johnston: Keep pushing for federal money to address the crisis brought on by surges of immigrants crossing the border. El Paso Deputy City Manager, Mario D'Agostino, discusses how his city obtained federal funds to address the immigration surges in recent yearsPlay Video “Don’t give up on the funding requests,” D’Agostino said. "Continuing to push for the fund...
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Fankhauser remembered as fierce advocate for beef industry
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Fankhauser remembered as fierce advocate for beef industry

Terry Fankhauser, among the state’s greatest advocates for the cattle industry, is being remembered by cattle raisers and dignitaries in Colorado for his unwavering devotion. Fankhauser died Monday, Jan. 29, following complications from a heart surgery. For more than two decades, he served as the executive vice president of the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association, retiring in 2022 to return to the family’s farm in Kansas. Terry Fankhauser served for 22 years as the executive vice president of the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association, retiring in 2022 to return to the family’s farm in Kansas. (Photo Courtesy Colorado Cattlemen’s Association) “We have lost a truly great man; a loving husband, dad, and friend,” said Robert Farnam of Brush, president of the Colorado Cattle Association. “H...
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2 Colorado counties and RTD use taxpayer dollars on political consultants to generate more tax dollars
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2 Colorado counties and RTD use taxpayer dollars on political consultants to generate more tax dollars

By Shaun Boyd | SOURCE: CBS News As Coloradans brace for massive property tax spikes, some local governments are quietly laying the groundwork for ballot measures that would hike taxes even further, and a loophole in Colorado state law allows them to use your tax dollars to figure out how to get more of your tax dollars. Under state law, a government entity can't spend more than $50 to support a measure after it's on the ballot, but there's no limit on what they can spend before it makes the ballot. Natalie Menten, founder of Colorado Engaged, says the Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners is among those using the loophole to run political campaigns on the public's dime. A political activist, government watchdog and chief nemesis of the commissioners, Menten says they're ...
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While Boebert’s fundraising has slowed, she still holds big cash lead in new district
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While Boebert’s fundraising has slowed, she still holds big cash lead in new district

By Sandra Fish | The Colorado Sun Lauren Boebert started the year with a large campaign cash advantage over her Republican primary opponents in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, even as the congresswoman’s fundraising slowed in the last three months of 2023, according to federal campaign finance reports filed Wednesday. Some of Boebert’s opponents in the 4th District, which includes the Eastern Plains and sweeps into Loveland and Douglas County, received financial help from big-name GOP donors, while others injected money into their own campaigns.  The reports, covering federal campaign fundraising and spending from Oct. 1 through the end of the year, are the first filed since U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, a Windsor Republican who represents the 4th District, announced in November...
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