After being injured in the Iraq War 15 years ago, U.S. Army Sergeant First Class William Montgomery was finally honored with the Purple Heart at a Veterans Day ceremony in Grand Junction on Saturday.
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DAVIS: A Split Decision in School Districts Statewide
The floor of the Ute Pass Cultural Center quaked in time with the bass drum on Tuesday night as hundreds of Woodland Park citizens crowded into the room to await election results. By 6pm, an hour before polls closed, the venue was packed, the sounds of laughter and conversation competing only with the soulful voice of the band’s singer – who I finally realized was Erin O’Connell, the local parent-turned-activist who has led much of the charge against the town’s controversial school board. The anxiety and anticipation which grips the first hour of so many election night parties was absent, replaced by the palpable relief the community felt at having finally made it to this point.
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Conservative Radio Host Deborah Flora Announces Another Congressional Run
Conservative radio host Deborah Flora has launched a campaign for Rep. Ken Buck’s soon-to-be vacant House seat in eastern Colorado.
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Leader of Anti-LGBTQ Group Admits to Posing As a 9-Year-Old Girl on Crisis Hotline
Lori Gimelshteyn, the leader of a right-wing organization targeting school diversity policies, admitted in a radio interview and on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday that she posed as a nine-year-old Cherry Creek student questioning her gender identity in a text to a crisis line.
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Voters Reject Democrat-Backed Measure To Cut Property Taxes, Reform TABOR, & Preserve School Funding
A proposal backed by Colorado Democrats to cut property tax rates while allowing the state to retain more excess tax revenue in the long term appeared to be decisively rejected by voters on Tuesday.
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Long-Term School Funding Threatened if Proposition HH Is Defeated
If you’ve been tracking today’s election, you may not think there’s a measure to increase education spending on the ballot.
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Protesters Oppose Aid to Israel, Urge Cease-fire
Approximately 30 protesters gathered outside of U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper’s (D-CO) Colorado Springs office Monday afternoon to oppose military aid funding to Israel and urge Hickenlooper to support a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.
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Christian Groups Target Pueblo’s School Board Election But Dems Take Up the Challenge
Where a Puebloan went to high school is often brought up with pride in conversation. But Puebloans’ enthusiasm for their high schools is not matched with great fervor when it’s time to vote for school board members for local school districts 60 and 70.
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Your Vote Counts if You Mail in Your Ballot and Then You Die
Hundreds of thousands of people in Colorado have already voted in this year’s election, which ends on Tuesday. This raises the question: If an individual votes, and dies before election day, would their vote still count?
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New House Speaker Mike Johnson Thanked Boebert For Helping Him Claim Top Post
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA), considered the most conservative leader of the U.S. House of Representatives of the past century, owes his newfound status at least in part to his colleague from Colorado, Lauren Boebert.