neo-nazis

OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Idaho moves ahead with grizzly hunting season; judge weighs if neo-Nazi ‘troll storm’ is protected

Apr 13, 2018

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Associated Press

Idaho State moves ahead with possible grizzly bear hunting season BOISE – Idaho officials have started the process of opening a grizzly bear hunting season this fall that would allow the killing of one male grizzly. The Fish and Game Commission in a 7-0 vote last week directed the Department of Fish and Game to…
Out West Roundup: Idaho lands nation’s first International Dark Sky Reserve designation

Jan 12, 2018

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Associated Press

Idaho Idaho lands nation’s first International Dark Sky Reserve BOISE – A giant chunk of central Idaho with a dazzling night sky has become the nation’s first International Dark Sky Reserve. The International Dark-Sky Association designated the 1,400-square-mile Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve. The sparsely populated area’s night skies are so pristine that interstellar dust…
Colorado GOP declines to apologize for tweets slamming Southern Poverty Law Center

Sep 9, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A coalition of civil rights groups and left-leaning organizations on Friday demanded an apology from the Colorado Republican Party for “viciously attacking” the Southern Poverty Law Center on Twitter, but the state GOP’s chairman called the request ridiculous and doubled down on the party’s criticism of the watchdog group. The dispute centers around what the…
Bennet, Democratic senators press Trump administration over down-playing ‘far-right extremism’

Aug 22, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is among two dozen Democrats pressing the Trump administration over its response to domestic terrorism, including what the lawmakers called an apparent de-emphasis on “far-right extremism.” A vehicle assault associated with a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left one woman dead and more than a dozen people injured “was seemingly…
Colorado Democrats hail Trump advisor Steve Bannon’s exit from White House, but say it isn’t enough

Aug 19, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado Democrats on Friday celebrated news President Trump had fired chief strategist Steve Bannon but questioned whether the ouster resolves complaints the president sympathizes with white nationalists and other extremist groups. “Removing Mr. Bannon’s divisive, nationalist influence from the White House was long overdue; he should never have worked there in the first place,” said…
Colorado’s congressional delegation rips Trump’s latest ‘both sides’ remarks about white supremacists

Aug 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Members of Colorado’s congressional delegation from both sides of the aisle came down hard on President Donald Trump’s latest comments defiantly blaming “both sides” for the weekend violence between white supremacists and counter-demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va. U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Colorado Springs Republican, tweeted scathing criticism Wednesday of the president’s remarks, calling them “unacceptable and…
Colorado’s Rep. Doug Lamborn tweets blistering criticism of Trump’s Charlottesville response

Aug 16, 2017

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ERIN PRATER

U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado Springs tweeted a scathing criticism Wednesday of the president’s remarks about the weekend’s racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia – the Republican congressman’s strongest statement yet on the topic. “The KKK, Neo-Nazis, and White Supremacists and Nationalists are abhorrent,” Lamborn posted to Facebook and Twitter. “Statements that provide even…
Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner renews Trump criticism at town hall: ‘There is no moral equivalent to the hatred we saw’

Aug 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner kept his cool even as hundreds of constituents lost theirs time and again Tuesday afternoon at a town hall meeting in Lakewood. After more than a year without holding a traditional town hall – Gardner has held several tele-town halls and numerous roundtable discussions with small groups – the Colorado Republican…
Colorado officials, politicians react to violence surrounding white nationalist rally in Virginia

Aug 13, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado officials, candidates and organizations reacted with anger, derision and sadness to the violence that occurred Saturday in Charlottesville, Va., where white nationalists, neo-Nazis, skinheads, members of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups gathered to protest the removal of a Confederate statue. One woman was dead and dozens injured after a car plowed…
Republican Sen. Cory Gardner demands Trump ‘lay blame on white nationalists and on hatred’

Aug 13, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, a Colorado Republican, turned up the heat on President Donald Trump Sunday, demanding the president explicitly condemn white supremacists and white nationalists for the violence that left one dead and dozens injured in Charlottesville, Va., this weekend. “This is not a time for vagaries, this isn’t a time for innuendo or…