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Aurora authorities ‘declined’ to help search for 2 illegal aliens who escaped Colorado detention facility: ICE
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Aurora authorities ‘declined’ to help search for 2 illegal aliens who escaped Colorado detention facility: ICE

By Christina Shaw | Fox News Authorities in Aurora, Colorado, are allegedly declining to help U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) locate two illegal immigrants who escaped from the Denver Contract Detention Facility on Tuesday, the agency said. Illegal immigrants Joel Jose Gonzalez-Gonzalez, 32, and Geilond Vido-Romero, 24, escaped from the facility at some point on Tuesday after they were accounted for during a 2 p.m. facility-wide count. The Aurora Police Department shared a document with Fox News Digital that said staff at the facility became aware of the escapees at approximately 12:35 a.m. on Wednesday. It also said that an Aurora police officer responded to an "outside agency assist" at 5:13 a.m. on Wednesday. Aurora Police Public Information Officer ...
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Burke: Colorado leaders cheer women’s soccer while leaving girls vulnerable
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Burke: Colorado leaders cheer women’s soccer while leaving girls vulnerable

By Megan Burke | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Have you heard that Denver is welcoming a women’s professional soccer team and is hoping to build a new women’s soccer stadium? Wow, Colorado must be very supportive of women’s sports, right?  Unfortunately, our leaders will try to sell you on this notion while they have done nothing in this state to protect women’s sports.  In recent years, the inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports has become a highly debated issue across the United States, and Denver is no exception. While the city champions itself as progressive and inclusive, it does nothing to protect the integrity and fairness of women’s sports.  In the name of inclusion, we are excluding women and girls from their very own category. Colo...
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Denver mayor, staff used encrypted app on migrant crisis; messages auto-deleted, citing Trump-era policy
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Denver mayor, staff used encrypted app on migrant crisis; messages auto-deleted, citing Trump-era policy

By Brian Maass | CBS Colorado Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and 14 of his top advisors, appointees and lawyers nicknamed themselves "Strike Force" and communicated about the city's migrant crisis through an end-to end encryption app, CBS News Colorado has learned. The app, Signal, proceeded to automatically delete their initial conversations. A spokesperson for Johnston said the Signal messaging was prompted by President Trump and how his administration "could have significant impacts on how Denver operates." The use of such messaging apps by government officials has been controversial and viewed as a way to avoid public disclosure of government decision making. In Michigan, after state police leaders were found in 2021 to be using Signal on state-issued...
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Overbeck: DougCo school board Conservative leadership delivers results – academic gains and parent power
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Overbeck: DougCo school board Conservative leadership delivers results – academic gains and parent power

By Joy Overbeck | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice As soon as they were elected in 2021, the four new Conservative Douglas County School District (DCSD) directors were faced with the major issues of the time: the Covid pandemic, and the twisted woke movement to reduce parents’ influence by infecting students with leftist political ideologies.     They began honoring their campaign promises on day one by keeping the Douglas County schools open, knowing that in-person classes instead of ineffective online lessons would lead to solid improvements in student achievement.  They also ended the useless Covid masking and vaccines dictated by the previous leftist board, who had sued the health department to keep kids masked and schools closed.   ...
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More than a hat: How Bernie Lake’s fight for health became a political battleground
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More than a hat: How Bernie Lake’s fight for health became a political battleground

By Jen Schumann | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice After fighting a cancer battle, Bernie Lake reclaimed her life while sporting her Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) hat. After breast cancer surgery, she returned to the Durango Community Recreation Center for her first post-treatment workout, determined to rebuild her strength.  Lake had been wearing her MAHA hat since July. "After the first assassination attempt on Trump, I was outraged that our political differences had gotten to such a level," Lake said. "People need to see different political views where they live. I don’t care if you like Trump or not—we should be able to coexist." Silent disapproval was common. "Not one person had said a word to my face before. Plenty of snickers, plenty of side-eyes, but neve...
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Pueblo police chief blames ‘soft-on-crime legislation’ for shootout that left three officers injured
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Pueblo police chief blames ‘soft-on-crime legislation’ for shootout that left three officers injured

By Sydney Isenberg | Denver7 PUEBLO, Colo. — The chief of the Pueblo Police Department blamed Colorado's "soft-on-crime legislation" for a shootout that left three of his officers injured and a suspect dead on Tuesday. Pueblo Police Chief Chris Noeller said his officers were searching for Billy Soto, 34, who was wanted for attempted murder in connection with a shooting at the Pueblo Village Apartments on Feb. 3. Noeller called Soto a "self-admitted MS-13 gang member" with an extensive criminal history, including 14 felony arrests. The police chief said most of those felony arrests were pleaded down to misdemeanors. READ THE FULL STORY AT DENVER7
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Mayor Mobolade asks White House to work with Colorado Springs during D.C. trip
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Mayor Mobolade asks White House to work with Colorado Springs during D.C. trip

By Brennen Kauffman  | Colorado Politics Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade met with White House staff earlier this month to make the case for Colorado Springs' strategic value to the administration. Mobolade was in Washington March 8-12 for the National League of Cities' annual Congressional City Conference, an event where thousands of city officials meet with federal staff and members of Congress. During the trip, Mobolade met with the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, the liaisons between President Donald Trump's White House staff and local governments nationwide. Mobolade had talked to the office in February and, while there last week, said he offered to have Colorado Springs serve as a sounding board and testing ground for national policies. READ THE FULL STORY A...
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Denver school district asks judge to dismiss lawsuit challenging school closures
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Denver school district asks judge to dismiss lawsuit challenging school closures

By Nicole C. Brambila | Denver Gazette Denver Public Schools has asked a district court judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the parent group Mamas de DPS, which is seeking a temporary restraining order to halt the closures of seven schools at the end of the academic year. The district's attorneys have argued the parent group lacks standing. Mamas de DPS filed the lawsuit in Denver District Court in December. If the group prevails on its temporary restraining order, it would bar the district from shuttering any campuses while the lawsuit makes its way through the legal system. The district argument rests on whether, as taxpayers, the parents were directly and clearly harmed - thus having a standing to bring the case. READ FULL ARTICLE AT DENVERGAZETTE.COM
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Air Force Academy graduate pilots SpaceX mission to International Space Station, known as ‘focused’
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Air Force Academy graduate pilots SpaceX mission to International Space Station, known as ‘focused’

By O'Dell Isaac | Colorado Springs Gazette A Woodland Park High School and Air Force Academy alum is currently representing the Pikes Peak region in space. Air Force Maj. Nichole “Vapor” Ayers, a 2011 academy graduate, served as the pilot on a SpaceX capsule that launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, bound for the International Space Station. The capsule, which carried Ayers and three other astronauts, successfully docked into the ISS on Sunday. The mission was part of a NASA crew swap that allowed astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who had been on the orbiting space lab for nine months, to return home. Williams and Wilmore, both retired Navy test pilots, were scheduled to depart the ISS on Wednesday along with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russi...
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Hate or free speech? CMU students react to local Turning Point USA polls
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Hate or free speech? CMU students react to local Turning Point USA polls

By Jen Schumann | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice Few things stir debate on college campuses like politics—and at CMU, a student group’s whiteboard polls have done just that. Turning Point USA’s Colorado Mesa University chapter (TPUSA CMU) has sparked discussion after posting a series of provocative whiteboard poll questions in the university’s cafeteria.  Some students view the questions as open discussion starters, while others see them as hate speech meant to provoke. “Some of the questions pertaining to immigrants and other situations going on, you have to understand a lot of people are going through this personally,” CMU student Welam Agamba told KKCO 11 News. Founded by Charlie Kirk in 2012, TPUSA is known for challenging anti-American perspectives on colle...
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