The La Plata County Public Health Department is in a period of transition.
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Anti-Trans Ballot Initiatives Fail to Collect Enough Signatures; Cannot Appear on 2024 Ballot
This morning, activists from Protect Kids Colorado and partnered organizations announced that their two ballot initiatives, both targeting the rights of transgender youths in Colorado, had failed to collect enough signatures to be eligible for the 2024 ballot.
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Former CO GOP Leader: Republican Infighting Is an ‘Absolute Unadulterated Shit Show,’ Risks Statehouse Races
After more than a decade of public service, Colorado Springs Republican Mark Waller has not been an elected official for over three years, and given his party’s current state of chaos, that suits him just fine. The former house minority leader served in the Statehouse and more recently as an El Paso County commissioner before leaving office in 2020 after losing a primary for District Attorney.
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Proponents Say Anti-Trans Ballot Initiatives ‘Doing Great’ on Path to Signature Goal; Will Announce Results at Capitol Monday
While the deadline to submit signatures is on Monday, Protect Kids Colorado set an internal deadline of Wednesday, July 31st.
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Conservatives Attack Olympian as Part of Anti-Transgender Crusade
Conservative anti-transgender activists in Colorado are using recent Olympic controversies to promote their political agenda and ballot initiatives, despite the fact that the athletes involved are not transgender.
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After Numerous Delays, Trial of Conspiracist CO Clerk Begins This Week
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to halt the thrice-delayed trial of Tina Peters, the former Colorado county clerk who became a national celebrity of the election denial movement, claimed God was on her side and rallied the enthusiastic support of churches and conservative Christian groups.
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DAVIS: A Gaggle of Weirdos
The gravitational pull of political discourse shifted last week with the use of one word: weird. As in “Republicans are weird,” or “J.D. Vance is a weird guy,” or “Donald Trump? Kind of weird.” It’s not clear who used the line first – whether it was Minnesota Governor and current contender to become Kamala Harris’s VP pick, Tim Walz, or Vice President Harris herself – but it has since taken off like wildfire. Currently, a Google search for the word “weird” turns up headlines from The New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, and a dozen other outlets, all covering what is arguably the most concise and devastating hit on an opponent American politics has seen in at least two decades.
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30 Environmental Groups Ask Gov. Polis to Oppose Drilling Proposal
Thirty Colorado environmental groups wrote an open letter to Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) this week, asking him to publicly oppose a plan to drill 166 oil and gas wells near Aurora communities. Energy company Civitas Resources wants to use hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” to extract oil and gas from underground shale formations beneath 32,000 acres of State Land Board property.
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CO Clerk Peters: Boebert Ate With Her & Other Conspiracists After They Copied Vote Data
When former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters’ trial begins tomorrow, she will face multiple felony charges related to her alleged role in copying secure voter data from county servers back in 2021. Two years ago, she claimed that Congresswoman Lauren Boebert dined with her and other election fraud conspiracists the day after the illegal copying occurred. Peters says she, Boebert’s former campaign manager Sherronna Bishop, an unnamed Mesa County Commissioner candidate, and ex-surfer turned election fraud conspiracist Conan Hayes, dined together on a Monday evening, following the Sunday afternoon breach of the voting data server.
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Christian Right Split on Climate Change: Some Say It’s Fake, Others Say It’s Punishment for Sins Like Abortion
The scientific consensus is that human-caused greenhouse gases make these problems worse, but conservative Christian groups deny this consensus, claim it’s not really that hot, and suggest weather woes may be signs of God’s divine wrath or the second coming of Christ.