Students at Woodland Park High School are getting their sex education instruction from Choices, an anti-abortion “pregnancy resource center” with ties to Andrew Wommack’s ministry.
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DAVIS: Colorado-Based Christian Nationalists are Rewriting Recent History
The “least credible history book in print.” That’s the honor voters bestowed on David Barton’s 2012 book about Thomas Jefferson, which rewrote the third president as a modern God & Country evangelical and distanced him from that whole slavery mess. The book was ultimately withdrawn from publication by Christian publishing house Thomas Nelson, but neither the withdrawal nor the spate of scathing reviews slowed Barton down. If anything, his star has risen even further: today, Barton is constantly found onstage alongside the biggest names in the Christian nationalist movement.
Biden Pardons His Son Hunter
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden Sunday night announced he has pardoned his son Hunter, a reversal in his long-standing pledge that he would not exert his executive authority to clear his son of gun-related charges and tax crimes.
Dobson, Who Founded Focus on the Family in CO Springs, Is ‘Euphoric’ Over Trump Win
“Pro-family” activists worked hard to elect Donald Trump and other GOP candidates this fall. The nonprofit Family Policy Alliance, which partners with Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family, says it mobilized voters through 12 million emails in swing states and brought 850,000 new Christian voters to the polls.
How the Western Slope’s Helium Supply is Impacting Public Land Management
by Zoë Rom, High Country News
Questions surround Tulsi Gabbard’s ties to politicized Hindu ‘cult’
By Steve Rabey of Baptist News Global
New Trump budget chief wrote Project 2025’s agenda for empowering the presidency
By Jennifer Shutt of Colorado Newsline
DAVIS: Giving Thanks in Dark Times
Despite being a holiday rooted in a stone-cold historical myth constructed to provide an alibi for early settler treatment of indigenous Americans, I have always enjoyed Thanksgiving. As a child, I enjoyed it more than Christmas – which was typically dreary and gray in my native Nashville – but my enjoyment of Thanksgiving has grown as an adult. Now that I am rarely required to participate in dubious reenactments of the holiday’s self-serving origin myth, I can enjoy it for what it is: America’s only proper feast day, and it even comes with football.
Hickenlooper Visits College That Offers Federally Funded Apprenticeship Program
Yesterday, the Western States College of Construction (WSCC) welcomed Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) to their campus in Northern Denver. The institution was awarded the 2024 Community Project Fund/Congressionally Directed Spending for its apprenticeship program that works with the local chapter of the Pipefitters Union.
How RFK Jr. Could Boost Colorado’s Budding Psychedelic Movement
If confirmed to lead the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a unique chance to advance major drug reforms, say some advocates, adding that he has previously endorsed expanding access to psychedelic therapies for military veterans and creating a pathway toward legalizing the use of psilocybin and ibogaine.