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Colorado Environmental Group Challenges Army Corps of Engineers Over $2B River Diversion Plan
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Colorado Environmental Group Challenges Army Corps of Engineers Over $2B River Diversion Plan

SOURCE: THELOBBY-CO.COM A Colorado environmental group has taken legal action against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, seeking to overturn a $2 billion project that aims to redirect river water to the state's expanding northern communities. Save the Poudre, a nonprofit organization, filed a lawsuit in a federal district court in Denver, arguing that the permit issued by the Army Corps for the Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP) should be invalidated. The NISP, spearheaded by Northern Water, involves the construction of two new reservoirs and the piping of an additional 40,000 acre-feet of water to 15 providers in Northern Colorado. With the region's population expected to double by 2050, Northern Water emphasizes the need to enhance the water supply to maintain a ...
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Polis plans to fool ranchers again with radical appointees to Parks and Wildlife
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Polis plans to fool ranchers again with radical appointees to Parks and Wildlife

SOURCE: COLORADO PEAK POLITICS Gov. Polis’s cronies at Parks and Wildlife have apologized for being so secretive and deceitful with ranchers and locals about releasing dangerous wolves into their backyard and promises to be more cooperative and transparent in the future. We suspect it’s a trap. And so it is, confirms Rachel Gabel, assistant editor of The Fence Post Magazine, and a member of one of the state’s 12,000 cattle-raising families. Writing in Colorado Politics, Gabel reveals we’re just all being lulled into complacency long enough for Polis to screw us yet again when it comes to his new appointments to lead the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission (CPW). Apologies and assurances mean nothing so long as no one is willing to stand against Gov. Jared Polis’s ex...
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Colorado may become the 3rd state to drop its medical aid-in-dying residency requirement
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Colorado may become the 3rd state to drop its medical aid-in-dying residency requirement

Senate Bill 68 would also shorten the mandatory waiting period for people seeking to end their lives to 48 hours from 15 days. Additionally, it would let advanced practice registered nurses prescribe aid-in-dying medication. By Jesse Paul | SOURCE: THE COLORADO SUN Colorado may become the third state to allow out-of-state residents to receive medical aid in dying through a bill that would also shorten the mandatory waiting period for people seeking to end their lives. Senate Bill 68, which was introduced in the legislature on Jan. 22, would shrink the waiting period to 48 hours from 15 days and also let advanced practice registered nurses, in addition to doctors, prescribe aid-in-dying medication.  The bill comes eight years after Colorado voters overwhelmingly approv...
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Migrants cost Sanctuary City schools $17.5 million, Colo taxpayers stuck with bill
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Migrants cost Sanctuary City schools $17.5 million, Colo taxpayers stuck with bill

SOURCE: COLORADO PEAK POLITICS Sanctuary City has thousands of new students this school year who are projected to cost Denver Public Schools an additional $17.5 million. Hang onto your wallets PeakNation™  because state taxpayers are being asked to foot the bill for the additional costs above Denver school’s $1.3 billion annual budget this year. Thanks to President Biden’s open asylum policy, the influx of migrant students in Denver has risen to almost 3,000 and continues to grow weekly. Denver Public Schools is asking the state for a one-time adjustment in increased funding, which must be approved and funded by the state legislature, reports the Denver Post. Denver schools are currently juggling some money already in the coffers, and the dip in enrollment from past yea...
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Caraveo challenger Gabe Evans announces $170K haul for 4th quarter in Colorado’s 8th CD
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Caraveo challenger Gabe Evans announces $170K haul for 4th quarter in Colorado’s 8th CD

By Ernest Luning | SOURCE: COLORADO POLITICS Colorado state Rep. Gabe Evans, one of four Republicans hoping to challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo in the battleground 8th Congressional District, raised more than $170,000 in the last three months of 2023, his campaign said Monday. The Fort Lupton Republican's campaign plans to report starting the year with just over $186,000 in the bank. His campaign said Evans, who entered the primary in September, tallied contributions from nearly 2,000 unique donors last year, for an average donation of just under $95. Caraveo, a Thornton pediatrician and former state lawmaker, is seeking a second term representing the state's newest congressional seat, which covers parts of Adams, Weld and Larimer counties north of the Denver metro ar...
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Elisabeth Epps’ primary challenger outraises incumbent, secures endorsements from legislators
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Elisabeth Epps’ primary challenger outraises incumbent, secures endorsements from legislators

Meanwhile, Rep. Tim Hernandez trails his chief primary opponent, Cecelia Espenoza, in fundraising By Marianne Goodland | SOURCE: COLORADO POLITICS Rep. Elisabeth Epp's primary challenger has outraised the incumbent House legislator, securing key endorsements from colleagues and maximum contributions from several current Democratic legislators. Sean Camacho raked in the top dollars, pulling over $58,000 between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2023, the most recent campaign finance reporting period showed.  His campaign chest counted contributions from fellow Democratic lawmakers, and, more notably, from leadership funds, which are set up to raise money to help Democrats keep their legislative seats and try and win others. All told, 17 current state lawmakers — including 11 of E...
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Lauren Boebert’s ex-husband charged after 2 domestic incidents
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Lauren Boebert’s ex-husband charged after 2 domestic incidents

Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s ex-husband, Jayson Boebert, has been charged with assault and other counts in connection with two domestic altercations ASSOCIATED PRESS | SOURCE: COLORADO POLITICS Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert 's ex-husband, Jayson Boebert, has been charged with assault and other counts in connection with two domestic altercations, including an argument with the congresswoman in a restaurant that spiraled out of control, and a fight with the former couple's son, authorities said. The altercations have drawn further attention to Lauren Boebert, a far-right politician with a combative political style. After the argument at the restaurant on Jan. 6, Jayson Boebert was uncooperative with police and had to be forcibly removed from the...
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Colorado Democrats Aim to Regulate Popular Food Additive Due to New Suicide Trend
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Colorado Democrats Aim to Regulate Popular Food Additive Due to New Suicide Trend

SOURCE: THELOBBY-CO.COM A bill is making its way through the Colorado state legislature, sparking debate and some criticism from those who argue that it is an example of unnecessary overregulation and needless laws. The proposed legislation, HB24-1081, seeks to regulate the sale and transfer of highly concentrated sodium nitrite, a popular food additive that has been used in Colorado suicides 25 times in five years. PRIME SPONSORS Rep. Judy Amabile Rep. Marc Catlin Sen. Dylan Roberts Sen. Byron Pelton State Representative Judy Amabile, a Boulder Democrat and one of the prime sponsors of the bill, says the bill aims to restrict the access to highly concentrated sodium nitrite unless individuals have a legitimate business purpose for purchasing these products. ...
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Judge questions DOJ leniency in Trump tax leaker case, gives five-year prison sentence
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Judge questions DOJ leniency in Trump tax leaker case, gives five-year prison sentence

By Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE A judge grilled a Department of Justice prosecutor on Monday over why the government charged Charles Littlejohn with just one count of unauthorized disclosure of taxes after Littlejohn leaked the private information of more than a thousand taxpayers to media in 2020. "The fact that he is facing one felony count, I have no words for," Judge Ana Reyes said during Littlejohn's sentencing hearing. Littlejohn, a former Internal Revenue Service contractor, is set to be sentenced Monday for the single charge, and the DOJ has asked Reyes to give him five years in prison, which is the maximum sentence for it. Littlejohn admitted to prosecutors last fall that he carried out a plot that involved carefully work...
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Armstrong: Colorado’s brush with the eugenics movement
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Armstrong: Colorado’s brush with the eugenics movement

 By Ari Armstrong | SOURCE: COMPLETE COLORADO PAGE TWO POLITICS “Build the wall,” Trump says, for immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of our country. Many Americans agree. A CBS/YouGov poll asked, “Do you agree or disagree with the statement that immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are ‘poisoning the blood’ of the country?” 45% agreed, 55% disagreed. Among Republican registered voters, 72% agreed, and 82% did when the language was attributed to Trump. We like to think that the eugenics movement is far behind us and a campaign only of Nazis. Not so. Rhetoric about immigrants “poisoning our blood” harks back to America’s extremely popular eugenics movement of the early 1900s. The Nazis based their own sterilization law partly on those passed by a majority of U.S. states, partl...
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