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Feds capture migrant with Tren de Aragua ties who escaped from Colorado ICE detention center

After two weeks on the run, an illegal migrant believed to have ties to the violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua who escaped from an federal immigration detention center in Colorado has been captured, the US Marshals said Tuesday.

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Second scandal, same party: staff mistreatment allegations mount for Colorado Democrats

It’s only been a few weeks since Sonya Jaquez Lewis resigned from the Colorado Senate amidst accusations that she mistreated her young employees.

Now we learn that House Democrats were also investigating state Rep. Regina English for some bizarre treatment of her aides but kept that unfolding scandal hush hush.

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Proctor: Colorado’s conservative comeback starts at the ballot box

One of the greatest challenges facing conservatives in Colorado is voter turnout. We have seen this time and time again. While progressive groups have successfully mobilized their base, many conservatives fail to vote regularly, leaving elections decided by a mobilized opposition. 

As of February, of this year, Colorado has approximately 942,766 active registered Republican voters which shows that we continue to face an uphill battle in statewide elections. Meanwhile, Democrats continue to hold the registration advantage and additionally there are 1.9 million active registered independent voters.

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Phil Weiser puts politics over Constitution in legal war against President Trump

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is once again putting his progressive ideology ahead of the Constitution, launching a string of lawsuits aimed at blocking President Donald Trump’s executive orders—orders designed to restore law and order, secure the border, and protect minors from irreversible medical harm.

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Perspectives on water after 30 years of talking about it in the Arkansas River Basin

Water in the Arkansas River Basin is in high demand. Farmers, rafters, and fishermen use it. So do cities and towns far from the river, where hundreds of thousands of people live and work. Like elsewhere in the West, the region’s water resources are stretched by drought and growth, along with downstream obligations to Kansas.

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Gazette editorial board: CO drivers footing the bill for transit dreams amounts to highway robbery

A lot of motorists aren’t crazy about driving our crumbling and congested traffic corridors. But only a handful actually hates motor vehicles.

Unfortunately, that unrepresentative handful is overrepresented in our state legislature and the Governor’s Office. In some city halls, too. And they’d like nothing more than for the rest of us to quit driving and ride a bus or light rail, instead. Or ride a bike.

Which explains those empty bike lanes you see squeezing cars and trucks aside on busy transportation thoroughfares and neighborhood streets.

It also helps to explain the abysmal condition of Colorado’s highways, bridges and other basic transportation infrastructure. It’s getting worse by the day.

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