Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News Last August, as part of the federal government’s crackdown on people in the country illegally, the Trump administration sent states the names of hundreds of thousands of Medicaid enrollees with orders to determine whether they were ineligible based on immigration status.
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How a Stealth Conservative News Service, Called Center Square, Infects Local Media Across America
Late last year, after a right-wing influencer released a dramatic video laden with false allegations about Somali-run day care centers in Minnesota, right-wing news outlets and activists descended on Somali workers at day care providers across the country, demanding to see the children in their care.
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Good News About News: How High Country News is Helping Fill a Growing Need
CTR Editor’s Note: As a small nonprofit news outlet, we here at the Colorado Times Recorder often supplement our own reporting with stories from other independent news sources, including the Paonia-based High Country News. We’re thrilled to see that they’re expanding their reporting capacity in Colorado as well as other Western states.
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Common Dollars & Common Sense: Inside the Persuasion Machine Shaping Colorado Elections
The year is 2024 and your Colorado ballot has just arrived in the mail. The envelope is thick, another year’s ballot loaded not just with candidates, but with state and local initiatives. You fill in the bubbles next to the candidates you like, take a deep breath, then turn to the page where the initiatives start.
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Republicans Applaud Immigrant Detention — Until It’s in Their Backyards
by Ariana Figueroa, Colorado Newsline, April 6, 2026
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Activists, Attorneys, Legislators Respond to Conversion Therapy Decision
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors likely violates the First Amendment rights of counselors by restricting “viewpoint-based” talk therapy. The case was brought by Kaley Chiles, a Colorado Springs-based Christian counselor who was represented by conservative legal advocacy organization Alliance Defending Freedom.
Opinions
What’s at Stake Is Our Existence, Not Whether AI Uses Too Much Electricity or Water
Is it too late to bring Artificial Intelligence (AI) to a screeching halt, before we are all unemployed or are wiped out by our new masters?
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USDA Plan to Cut Forest Service, Move HQ to Utah, Sows Confusion, Concern
by Christine Peterson, High Country News
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‘We’re Running on Fumes’ — Trump Tariffs Tanking State Economies
On the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs — a set of tariffs imposed on U.S. trading partners worldwide — state treasurers, including Colorado’s Dave Young (D), held a zoom press conference to discuss the negative impacts of the tariffs on their states.