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The Real “Trick or Treat” in D38
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The Real “Trick or Treat” in D38

By Amy Stephens | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice In Lewis-Palmer District 38, voters are being asked to choose between transparency and trickery — between a school board candidate who respects parents and one who shuts them out if they dare disagree. That’s not hyperbole. It’s the documented history of union-backed activist Jackie Burhans. Burhans markets herself as a champion of “parental rights.” But look closer and a pattern emerges: she defends rights only when parents share her ideology. When they don’t, she dehumanizes them — mocking, marginalizing, and labeling them, often accusing them of the very tactics she uses to silence dissent. We saw this in the now-infamous images from La Burla Bee, a downtown nightclub in Colorado Springs. There stands Burhans — holding ra...
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Safety, Discipline, and Learning at Heart of Denver School Board Races
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Safety, Discipline, and Learning at Heart of Denver School Board Races

By Olivia Young | CBS Colorado Voters will elect four members of the Denver School Board next week. That will determine a majority on the seven member board and the future direction of the district, including the tenure of Superintendent Dr. Alex Marrero. DPS parents who are stressing the importance of casting ballots talked with CBS News Colorado. Chanele Simmons is a business owner and mom to three DPS students attending schools in far northeast Denver. She says her children's well-being is on her mind every day they're in classes. "That they're good and safe, that they're learning and that they're emotionally great," she said. Simmons would like to see the next Denver Board of Education focus on bringing down class size. She fears with the current class sizes are making i...
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Durango’s School Board Debacle: Radical Rot, Predator Blind Spots, and a Herald Hug
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Durango’s School Board Debacle: Radical Rot, Predator Blind Spots, and a Herald Hug

By Heidi Ganahl | Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Durango used to be the kind of place where families felt good about sending their kids to school. But things shifted over the years —and not in a good way. With a critical school board election just days away, parents are speaking out. And what they’re saying is hard to ignore. What I learned from the families who helped shape the Durango Dirty Dozen series was both heartbreaking and hopeful. They painted a clear picture of a district losing touch with its mission—and of a community ready to fight back.  They told me about confusing bathroom rules, lavish DEI spending, and a media outlet more interested in enabling coverups than accountability. Their message was clear: kids are being left behind. Let’s start with bathrooms...
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Beloved ‘Dog Heaven’ in Colorado Springs Closed Over Water Concerns
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Beloved ‘Dog Heaven’ in Colorado Springs Closed Over Water Concerns

By Seth Boster | The Gazette One recent afternoon near his Colorado Springs home, Sean Paige was hiking with Nellie the golden retriever en route to a favorite spot in Stratton Open Space: South Suburban Reservoir.  “She’s still anxious to get there, because she thinks it’s gonna be full of water,” Paige said.  But Colorado Springs Utilities announced the draining of South Suburban Reservoir in April 2024 for repairs to the dam. Nellie has been among dogs splashing in the water over the years — the place Paige has called “dog heaven” under the gaze of Cheyenne Mountain — but not the past couple of summers during the closure.  And not for summers to come, following an announcement by Utilities.  “Now it’s off-limits,” Paige lamented. “Try explaining that t...
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DPS Board Hopefuls Outline Competing Visions for District’s Future
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DPS Board Hopefuls Outline Competing Visions for District’s Future

By: Colette Bordelon , Shannon Ogden | Denver7 Denver7 invited all 11 candidates to give a final, two-minute pitch to voters before Election Day on Nov. 4. DENVER — With less than a week until election day, Denver7 asked all of the candidates for the Denver Public Schools Board of Education to give a final pitch to voters. We gave each candidate two minutes to say anything they would like voters to hear before filling out their ballots. Here's what they said. At-large Amy Klein Molk “I'm Amy Klein Molk, and I am running for the Denver School Board At-large seat. My opponents are spreading lies about my record, and it is fueled by millions of dollars. Denver voters deserve the truth. The truth is I am the only candidate in this race that is endorsed by the Denver Cla...
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CU Boulder TPUSA Leader Attacked After Antifa “Hit List” Circulates Online
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CU Boulder TPUSA Leader Attacked After Antifa “Hit List” Circulates Online

By Jonathan Turley | JonathanTurley.org As Democratic leaders like Rep. Dan Goldman (D, N.Y.) insist that Antifa does not exist as a group, two Antifa groups — Front Range Antifa and Colorado Springs Antifa — put out a hit list poster on a University of Colorado sophomore and leader in Turning Point USA. He was promptly attacked by a person in the signature Antifa black outfit on roller blades who used a hockey stick to mete out the punishment. According to a press release, Boulder Police are looking for a suspect accused of attacking a 19-year-old Turning Point USA student leader near the University of Colorado, Boulder on Thursday evening. The attacker is suspected to be an Antifa member and to have followed the victim in the premeditate...
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Faith and Free Speech Prevail in Colorado Student’s Parking Space Battle
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Faith and Free Speech Prevail in Colorado Student’s Parking Space Battle

By: Kristine Parks | Fox News Sophia Shumaker's shepherd and sheep design initially rejected under religious imagery ban A Colorado high school student who challenged her school's ban on religious designs for senior parking spaces will now be allowed to repaint her space to reflect her Christian faith. In August, Sophia Shumaker, a senior at Rampart High School in Colorado Springs' Academy School District 20, requested permission to decorate her paid parking space with a design illustrating Jesus’ parable of the lost sheep. The school has a tradition of allowing seniors to reserve and pay for their own parking space and decorate it with school-approved artwork. Shumaker’s design featured a shepherd, a staff and sheep, along with a reference to the Bible verse 1 Cor...
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Telluride Voters Weigh New Lift Ticket Tax to Fund ‘Free’ Gondola
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Telluride Voters Weigh New Lift Ticket Tax to Fund ‘Free’ Gondola

By: Sherrie Peif | Complete Colorado SAN MIGUEL COUNTY—Voters in Telluride are deciding several tax and debt related measures on the November ballot, including a lift ticket excise tax to fund gondola transit, a debt package to subsidize housing, and a hotly debated citizen-initiated charter amendment mandating voter approval for big-ticket town projects. Telluride is a ski town of around 2,600 year-round residents in San Miguel County, located in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado. A lofty lift ticket tax If approved by voters, Ballot Issue 2A slaps a 5% excise tax on Telluride Ski & Golf Resort lift ticket purchases. The revenue will go to improvements, maintenance, and rebuilding of the town’s year-round public gondola system by pledging the reven...
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CU Boulder Conservative Student Says Hockey Stick Attack Was Politically Motivated
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CU Boulder Conservative Student Says Hockey Stick Attack Was Politically Motivated

By Olivia Doak | Boulder Daily Camera Turning Point USA chapter member says person followed him from Thursday night meeting, struck him over head A University of Colorado Boulder student says he was the victim of a politically motivated attack when he was hit over the head with a hockey stick by a man on in-line skates Thursday evening. Nathaniel Ellis, a CU Boulder sophomore who is the secretary of CU Boulder’s Turning Point USA chapter, said he was leaving a meeting on his bike when he was followed by someone on in-line skates with a hockey stick. Turning Point USA is a group that advocates for conservative politics on high school, college and university campuses. It was founded by Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed at Utah Valley University in September. Ellis...
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