Pundits and politicos across the country have heralded the victory of Yemi Mobolade over Republican Wayne Williams in the Colorado Springs mayoral race as a great win for progressive Democrats in Colorado Springs, despite the fact that Mobolade is not a Democrat and has a history of union-busting and wage theft as a business owner.
A report released last week revealed that the Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA), Colorado’s pension fund for state workers, voted against 61% of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) resolutions proposed by companies it was invested in during the 2022 proxy season.
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-CO) joined many of her Freedom Caucus colleagues in a full-blown “globalist” conspiracy press conference yesterday.
El Paso County Commissioner Longinos Gonzalez and Colorado Springs City Councilor Dave Donelson appeared Monday on the Richard Randall Show (KVOR-AM) to discuss their commitment to keeping immigrants out of southern Colorado.
Now workers at 10 Starbucks stores in CO have voted for union representation. By a vote of 15-1 this month, employees at the 144th and I-25 Starbucks in Westminister join with 311 unionized stores across the nation. In other labor news, the Colorado Legislature established the Direct Care Workforce Stabilization Board, which gives care workers, care receivers, care employers, and the state government a role in defining how the state can address inadequate pay, lack of benefits and the exodus of care workers, leaving care receivers in the lurch.
Editor’s note: With LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers in town to battle the Denver Nuggets in the NBA playoffs, we’re looking back at a moment from three years ago when the basketball legend took note of Colorado. Below is an article, reposted from 2020, about LeBron James’ criticism of the news media’s coverage of Black Lives Matter protests.
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Academy School District 20 in Colorado Springs has removed three books from school libraries after receiving a letter from members of a conservative activist group that claims the books meet the legal definition of obscenity, according to emails obtained by a Colorado Open Records Act Request.
Some say Coloradans need to start thinking outside of the doctors-office box if they want to maximize the healing potential of natural psychedelic medicines.
