El Paso and Douglas County Commissioners, along with their respective sheriffs, Joseph Roybal and Darren Weekly, joined with an anti-immigration hate group last month to push for the repeal of Colorado laws that protect immigrants from unjustified harm from the federal government and state and local government contractors.
Tensions mounted during a recent Falcon School District 49 board meeting when January 6 insurrectionist Thomas Hamner accused Superintendent Peter Hilts and attorney Brad Miller of failing the district’s students and continued to disrupt the meeting after returning to his seat.
Republican candidates vying for spots on Colorado’s House, Senate, County Commissioner, and U.S. House district primary ballots this June invoked prayer, politics, and patriotism to rile up El Paso County’s Republican delegates during their March 23 assembly at Vista Ridge High School in Colorado Springs.
While discussing the request, two members cited a recent Times Recorder article Colorado’s Board of Education voted 6-3 earlier this month to deny the Elizabeth School District’s substitute teacher licensure waiver request. Two board members cited a “concerning” Colorado Times Recorder article as part of the reason.
Elizabeth School District Superintendent Dan Snowberger submitted a request last November asking Colorado’s Board of Education to waive the state’s licensure requirement for substitute teachers serving in the district’s public school classrooms.
Earlier this month, the Woodland Park School District issued a press release thanking the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for “recognizing the value and merit of the American Birthright standards implemented at Woodland Park High School.”
Colorado 4th congressional candidates from left, Jerry Sonnenberg, Ted Harvey, Rhonda Brandt (representing House Rep. Richard Holtorf), Deborah Flora, Chris Phelen, and Rep. Lauren Boebert Fresh from their congressional candidate debate in Weld County Thursday night, five of the 10 Colorado Fourth District hopefuls arrived bright and early at a Douglas County Republican breakfast to keep the debate going over who should earn the nod of GOP primary voters.
Douglas County Republican Commissioner Lora Thomas is set on winning a new political office this year. Term-limited in her current role, Thomas is the first and only candidate to date to throw her hat in the ring for House District 43, which includes Highlands Ranch.
U.S. District Judge Nina Wang dismissed a civil case Tuesday brought by the parents of two Poudre School District middle schoolers who alleged the district violated their parental rights, guaranteed under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, to direct the upbringing of their children.
Situated 45 miles southeast of Denver, Elizabeth School District has just 2,474 students, fewer than many high schools in Denver, Cherry Creek and Aurora. As a result, it’s easy to overlook the day-to-day workings of the small district in favor of the attention-grabbing antics of its larger neighbors.
