Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Navajo Nation’s request for federal assistance in assessing the tribe’s water needs and potentially whether those needs should be met with Colorado River water, rather than reservation groundwater that is often salty and polluted. The 5-4 decision resonated Monday night in Steamboat Springs, when guest speakers with Seminars at Steamboat dipped their toes into the Colorado River Basin, and viewed the region’s complicated history, hydrology, and politics through the eyes of the water-poor Navajo Nation.
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Welcome to the Log Cabin
During this Saturday’s Log Cabin Republicans “Summer BBQ” event, former gubernatorial candidate turned podcaster Heidi Ganahl was asked how Republicans can get more young people into the party.
John Eastman, a ‘Co-Conspirator’ in Trump Indictment, Is No Stranger to Controversy in Colorado
Former visiting scholar at the University of Colorado’s Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization John Eastman hit the national media spotlight again yesterday when it was revealed that he’s a “co-conspirator” in the Justice Department’s indictment of former President Donald Trump. Eastman began working as a Trump lawyer when he was at CU from 2020 to 2021. Later, he became active in the Colorado Republican Party, most recently being hired — with KNUS radio host Randy Corporon — by the Republican Party to file a lawsuit aiming to boot unaffiliated voters from participating in the Republican primary election in Colorado.
INDICTED: Trump Charged with Seeking To Overturn 2020 Election
WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., indicted Donald Trump on Tuesday, alleging that Trump and co-conspirators attempted to subvert the 2020 election to keep the former president in power through a series of illegal actions that culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Lauren Boebert Wants to Gut Medicare, Letter From Advocates Says
Coloradans represented in Congress by Rep. Lauren Boebert left letters at her Durango, Grand Junction, and Pueblo offices Monday, asking her to stop backing a Republican push to gut Medicare and Social Security.
ACLU Sues Colorado Springs Over Protest Arrests
The ACLU of Colorado has filed a lawsuit against the City of Colorado Springs over the arrest and search of activist Jacqueline Armendariz Unzueta during a July 31, 2021 protest. The Chinook Center, a nonprofit organization in Southeast Colorado Springs, is also a plaintiff. The lawsuit alleges the City of Colorado Springs and its officers obtained unjustified search warrants for the private Facebook messages of the Chinook Center and all of Ms. Armendariz Unzueta’s personal devices, including her cell phone, laptop, and external hard drives. According to the ACLU, the warrants failed to comply with foundational constitutional requirements intended to safeguard privacy.
Regulation of Abortion ‘Reversal’ Pill Should Be Based on the Guidance of the Most Relevant Professional Groups, Say Abortion Advocates
This Friday, the Colorado Medical Board, Board of Nursing, and Board of Pharmacy is meeting again to get stakeholder feedback on their draft rule in response to SB23-190, the legislation which addresses deceptive trade practices of anti-abortion centers, particularly their use of “abortion pill reversal.”
Co Springs Mayor Speaks at ‘Fire and Glory’ Tent Revival
MAGA pastors Mario Murillo, who gained media attention for calling Big Bird “demonic,” and Lance Wallnau, one of the most vocal proponents of the “Seven Mountain Mandate,” which posits that the Christian church should control the seven spheres of influence in society, came to Colorado Springs this month to host the “Fire and Glory” tent revival. Murillo’s “Living Proof” tour came through Colorado Springs last year, but this year it included Wallnau and Christian authors Bill Federer and Floyd Brown, who claimed that meeting Ronald Reagan in a Masonic Temple in 1976 got him into politics and went on to introduce the infamously racist “Willie Horton” campaign ad in 1988. There was also a surprise guest — Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade.
Drilled Dry: Boebert Pushes Gas Projects, Which Suck Millions of Gallons of Water From Her District
“When people ask what my top three issues are, I say water, water, water.”
Colorado GOP Blames Financial Woes on Alleged Bonuses
In May, the Colorado Sun reported on the Colorado Republican Party’s financial woes — they failed to pay any employees in April and only had about $1,500 in cash at the end of March. During an appearance on the Chuck and Julie Show on Monday, Ashe Epp, a former host of Joe Oltmann’s Conservative Daily podcast and a current columnist with the Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle, claimed that the GOP’s financial problems stemmed from bonuses taken by former members of party leadership.