Hot Sheet Cartoon, March 25, 2016
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State money diversion scheme the unsurprising downfall of ERBOCES scam | Paula Noonan
Paula Noonan
paula-noonan@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 14 hours ago
Falcon School District 49, aka El Paso County School District 49, has finally cut bait, thrown the fishing pole into the lake and sunk the canoe. The longtime enabler of the Education Reenvisioned BOCES’ (ERBOCES) schemes to fund private Christian...
10th Circuit grants immunity to officers for fatal Manitou Springs shooting
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 14 hours ago
The Denver-based federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that responding officers from Manitou Springs and El Paso County cannot be held constitutionally liable for shooting and killing a man after a 20-minute standoff. Wilford Deweese allegedly pulled out a gun...
10th Circuit rejects invitation for full-court review of tax-avoidance case
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 11 hours ago
The Denver-based federal appeals court declined to reconsider the standards for holding entities liable for their tax-avoidance schemes, with a majority of judges voting against full-court review on Monday. In April, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals...
GOP gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx pushes aggressive water-storage expansion at Colorado Water Congress
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 14 hours ago
Victor Marx, the Republican nominee for governor, took the spotlight Wednesday during the opening day of the Colorado Water Congress, laying out how he says the state should approach its water future. Marx told the standing-room-only audience in Steamboat Springs...
Colorado AG sues GEO Group over noncompliance with tuberculosis investigation
Kyla Pearce
kyla.pearce@gazette.com
Updated 13 hours ago
The Colorado Attorney General’s Office on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against GEO Group, which operates the Aurora ICE Processing Center, alleging the company failed to comply with a state tuberculosis investigation. Weiser’s lawsuit demands that GEO provide “critical information” needed...
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert stresses storage, forest health and Upper Basin rights at Colorado Water Congress
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 14 hours ago
Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert used her brief Wednesday appearance at Colorado Water Congress to tout her record on delivering water projects for the state and her district. Boebert, who is running for her second term representing Colorado’s 4th Congressional...
Trump has a 96% endorsement success rate. Here are the Republicans he’s backed who have lost
Mabinty Quarshie
mabinty-quarshie@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 17 hours ago
President Donald Trump’s 2026 primary endorsement success rate remains staggeringly high, but the president has seen a growing number of losses stack up in recent weeks. According to Ballotpedia, Trump has endorsed in 313 U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and state...
Colorado judge blasts state forensics lab in dismissing child sex case
Jenny Deam
jenny.deam@gazette.com
Updated 11 hours ago
In a potentially widely consequential action, a Weld County district judge dismissed a child sexual assault case, citing the ongoing scandal at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s forensic lab that “has left a dark mark on the history of Colorado...
Steve Schuck on the ‘magic’ of school choice | The OpEdge Podcast
Tony Olivero
tony.olivero@gazette.com
Updated 15 hours ago
Parents Challenge co-founder and longtime school choice advocate Steve Schuck joins The OpEdge to discuss expanding educational opportunities and ensuring parents are in charge of their kids’ education. Schuck tells investigative columnist and host Jimmy Sengenberger why he believes Colorado...
Colorado officials urge stronger water safety after 8 drownings and multiple Front Range rescues
Elizabeth Pond
elizabeth.pond@denvergazette.com
Updated 47 minutes ago
At least eight people have drowned in Front Range waters since mid-March, including two at Eleven Mile Reservoir, three at Cherry Creek Reservoir, one at Rockbridge Lake and two at Lake Pueblo State Park. In the wake of these deaths,...