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Colorado school district to pay $11.5M to sex crime victims
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AURORA – The Cherry Creek School District has agreed to an $11.5 million settlement after a middle school teacher acknowledged having inappropriate sexual contact with several students, district officials said Monday. The settlement involving the district in the southern Denver suburbs was approved by the school board Monday morning and will be evenly split five…
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Plastics and career development entrepreneur Noel Ginsburg, a Democratic candidate for governor, has a dream
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When Noel Ginsburg was 5 years old, he began spending time working the manufacturing line at his father’s pickle business in Arvada and says he fell in love with it. By the time he was in college at the University of Denver in the late 1970s, his father had sold the business he’d thought might…
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A distinct honor for Wayne Williams: He’s an FOM (friend of Madison)
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One of Colorado’s more promising young artists is a fifth-grader at Cherry Creek School District’s Black Forest Hills Elementary School, in Aurora. Madison Lee was in fact just a fourth-grader when she was named Colorado’s winner in the national Doodle4Google competition, in which youths from across the country vie annually to have a logo of…
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Now, that’s what you call sweat equity
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While Republicans were busy this week defending their new tax plan and the impact it will have on the middle class, Pueblo County is offering seniors and the disabled a deal in paying off their property tax. The county is promoting a program that allows those over 60 years old or who are disabled to…
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Teacher back on the job following a timeout over her choice of a guest speaker
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A teacher at an Aurora middle school faced more than a month of administrative leave after complaints that a guest speaker in her social justice class was politically motivated, according to the Aurora Sentinel. Some parents thought a guest speaker whom teacher Asia Lyons brought into her Sky Vista Middle School class focused on topics…
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A teacher gets sent to the principal’s office over politics in class
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Prayer and politics are two taboos in public schoolrooms. Prayer was dismissed from class long ago, but politics finds its way in every once in a while. And when it does, some parents are sure to object. The latest breach of the wall of separation between school and, well, the outside world allegedly occurred in…
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What to do when there’s no competition in an upcoming election?
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…You cancel it, of course. And that’s just what metro Denver’s Cherry Creek School District as well as Littleton Public Schools have done. So has tiny Peetz Plateau School District RE-5, near the Nebraska border in Logan County. Reports The Villager newspaper, which covers the southern reaches of the metro area: The boards of education for both Cherry…
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Democratic county commissioners endorse Jason Crow in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District primary
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Four Democratic county commissioners from Arapahoe and Adams counties have endorsed Jason Crow in his run for the 6th Congressional District seat held by Republican Mike Coffman, Crow’s campaign announced Friday. The county officials throwing their support behind Crow are Adams County Commissioners Eva Henry, Steve O’Dorisio and Chaz Tedesco, and Arapahoe County Commissioner Bill…
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Mike Coffman draws second Democratic challenger as Aurora attorney David Aarestad announces run
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Saying he was moved to run when U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman endorsed the GOP replacement to Obamacare, Democrat David Aarestad announced Thursday he’s challenging the five-term Republican in next year’s election. The Aurora attorney is the second Democrat to launch a campaign in the 6th Congressional District, joining Army combat veteran Jason Crow, a Denver…
