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Mediation canceled for trans woman alleging civil rights violation by Mesa University
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Two days before a mediation was scheduled, Tammy Powers, a transgender woman who filed a Title IX complaint after allegedly being denied entry into a Colorado Mesa University Tech class, was told the mediation had been canceled. Powers found out about the cancellation in an email from her Greeley-based attorney, Richard Blundell. Powers had been admitted to…
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Appeals court warns against questioning service animals’ status based on ‘suspicions’
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Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday warned that public entities may not ask a disabled person to provide more information about their service animal than what federal regulations allow, regardless of whether they harbor “legitimate suspicions” about the animal’s status. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals determined it was a “close call” whether Dustin…
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Some Colorado colleges enroll more first-generation students. Should they get more money?
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Colorado colleges and universities would get a special designation if they enroll a high number of students who are the first in their families to go to college, under a bill proposed this year. The largely symbolic bill has fed a bigger debate about how Colorado funds its public colleges. It also spurred a conversation…
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Ex-Colorado Mesa University lacrosse coach may proceed with discrimination lawsuit
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The former head coach of Colorado Mesa University’s women’s lacrosse team may proceed with her claim of discrimination against the school, after a federal judge found Shanta Loecker plausibly alleged her termination stemmed from her gender or race. The Colorado Attorney General’s Office, representing CMU, argued that if the university intended to discriminate against Loecker,…
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Governor’s Citizenship Medal: Tim Foster honored for leadership, public service
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Tim Foster believes there is no better way to lead than by effective communication and interaction. When he was president of Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, it wasn’t uncommon for him to stop and say hello to faculty members or ask students how classes were going. “When you walk across campus with him, I’ll…
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Business booster Thea Chase launches unaffiliated bid for open House District 54 seat
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Palisade Town Trustee Thea Chase announced Monday she’s running as an unaffiliated candidate for the House District 54 seat represented by Mesa County Republican Yeulin Willett, who isn’t seeking reelection. She’ll have the backing of Unite Colorado, formerly known as the Centrist Project, an organization that’s working to elect independent lawmakers. Chase, the director of the…
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Colorado nursing education bill runs into roadblock with Hickenlooper administration
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A Colorado bill that would allow community colleges to offer four-year nursing degrees has run into problems of the gubernatorial type. House Bill 1086 cleared the Senate Health & Human Services Committee on a 3-2 vote Wednesday, with two Republicans in favor, Sens. Larry Crowder of Alamosa and bill sponsor Jim Smallwood of Parker, along…
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It’s Penry vs. Brophy — not at the Capitol but on the court …
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… and it’s actually their kids we’re talking about, not the dads; the dads remain birds of a political feather. Thanks are in order (yet again) to Secretary of State’s Office messenger in chief Lynn Bartels for keeping us apprised of some truly fun tangents off of Colorado politics. Like the fact that the sons…
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Q&A with Christian Reece: She cranks up the volume for the ‘Voice of the Western Slope’
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The West Slope’s diverse economy and people are scattered across a vast region that dwarfs Colorado’s population center along the Front Range. So, it’s hard to imagine any one person or entity speaking for West Slope interests. Yet, if anything comes close to a unifying voice, it’s CLUB 20, the venerable advocacy arm of that…