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Fort Collins Charter School Secures $1.8M Federal Grant for Expansion
The Coloradoan, Approved, Local

Fort Collins Charter School Secures $1.8M Federal Grant for Expansion

By: Kelly Lyell | The Coloradoan Liberty Common School has been awarded a federal grant of nearly $1.8 million in support of the continued construction of its new junior high school campus, a school spokesperson said in a news release. Liberty Common opened the new junior high school for seventh and eighth graders this fall in one of two adjacent commercial buildings at 1825 Sharp Point Drive in east Fort Collins. The junior high school will expand into the second building and new facilities connecting the two for the 2026-27 school year, co-founder and Headmaster Bob Schaffer said in August while leading a Coloradoan reporter in a tour of the first of two phases of planned renovations. The second phase is underway and will include a gymnasium, locker rooms...
Denver Takes Trump Administration to Court Over Alleged Funding Restrictions
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Denver Takes Trump Administration to Court Over Alleged Funding Restrictions

By: Heather Willard | KDVR FOX31 DENVER (KDVR) — The city and county of Denver has joined Chicago, New York, Boston and more in a lawsuit against the Trump administration for allegedly imposing illegal conditions for grant funding. Denver said that the new lawsuit aims to prevent the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency from requiring compliance with the current administration’s stance on diversity, equity and inclusion to get grant funding. “President Trump is threatening to strip cities of critical funding for everything from fighting fires to protecting concertgoers at Red Rocks from serious threats,” said Denver Mayor Mike Johnston in a release. “These grants have nothing to do with diversity, equity, and inclusion and everything to ...
Colorado Faces Deep Cuts to Federal Clean-Energy Funds
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Colorado Faces Deep Cuts to Federal Clean-Energy Funds

By Gabrielle Franklin | KDVR Fox31 DENVER (KDVR) — Day two of the federal shutdown is winding down. While members of Congress are not set to vote on another proposal until Friday, President Donald Trump and his budget director are working on a plan to cut federal funding and jobs in blue states. Colorado is set to see cuts. The president’s budget director warned that since Wednesday, Colorado may lose some federal funding for clean energy programs. There is now a better idea of exactly what could be cut. Russell Vought is the U.S. Director of the Office of Management and Budget. He also helped write Project 2025. He met with President Trump on Thursday to determine which agencies he should cut. The president said on social media that the two of them would determine if the cu...
Colorado veterans gain support as $21M in federal grants awarded
Fox31, Approved, State

Colorado veterans gain support as $21M in federal grants awarded

By: Parker Gordon | FOX31 Denver DENVER (KDVR) —  The Department of Veterans Affairs announced over $21 million in grants will be awarded to two Colorado organizations to help veterans in the state “who are homeless or at-risk of becoming homeless.” The department said Thursday that the recipients of the grants are Rocky Mountain Human Services, awarded over $9 million, and the Volunteers of America Colorado Branch, awarded over $11 million. According to the VA, the grants will fund the two organizations throughout the 2026 fiscal year as they provide supportive services to veterans, including housing and housing counseling, health care, financial planning services, childcare and transportation. “Supportive services like childcare, housing counseling and financia...
Democrats call EPA rollback of $7B solar grants illegal, but the new law says cancel it
The Daily Signal, Approved, National

Democrats call EPA rollback of $7B solar grants illegal, but the new law says cancel it

By Thérèse Boudreaux | Daily Signal THE CENTER SQUARE—The Environmental Protection Agency has announced it will claw back $7 billion in already earmarked funds from the Solar for All community grants and then eliminate the program, a move that Democrats claim is against the law. “This money was intended for our constituents and communities to help lower energy bills,” Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, D-N.J., stated Friday. “Clawing these funds back isn’t just brazenly illegal—it’s a betrayal by this administration of working families who will now pay higher energy bills just so Republicans can grind their axe against clean energy.” The repeal of the program, however, directly implements orders from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, whic...
DEI grants under fire: AFL targets NIH-funded “junk science” in $30M purge
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DEI grants under fire: AFL targets NIH-funded “junk science” in $30M purge

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice America First Legal (AFL) has brought renewed attention to the termination of 18 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants in 2025, sharing a detailed report in a thread posted on X on July 16. The group’s findings highlight a series of projects it characterizes as race-based and ideologically driven—grants funded during the Biden Administration and later canceled under new Trump Administration directives. https://twitter.com/america1stlegal/status/1945302705427099843?s=61 The AFL thread meticulously documents many of the terminated grants, spotlighting specific examples that have drawn significant scrutiny.  Among them is a $740,000 grant awarded to New York University to assess diversity effects in medical sch...

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