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Wyoming cuts wolf hunt in half to buoy region’s disease-depleted population | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
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WYOMING Wolf hunt cut in half Wyoming wildlife managers plan to reduce how many wolves can be hunted by 50% following a canine distemper outbreak that has cut the state’s wolf numbers to the lowest level in two decades. A 22-wolf cap is the fewest number of wolves available to licensed Wyoming hunters since the…
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Denver mayor says city police will detain ICE officers using ‘excessive force’
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Denver Mayor Mike Johnston on Thursday outlined his city’s response to immigration enforcement operations, including intervening to stop federal officers when local police observe them using “excessive” force. Johnston also said the city will not allow federal authorities to “stand in our way” in situations where emergency responders must render first aid, presumably in cases…
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Democrats Michael Bennet, Phil Weiser make their cases to be Colorado’s next governor ahead of primary
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Nearly eight months before ballots will be counted in Colorado’s race for the its open gubernatorial seat, voters are lining up behind two of the state’s leading Democrats, who are facing off in a primary that will likely determine which of them will serve as the state’s top executive officer for the rest of the…
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Trump administration plans to hold back grant money from Colorado, 3 other states
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The Trump’s administration is planning to withhold some public health and transportation money from a group of Democratic-led states, including Colorado. The other states are California, Illinois and Minnesota. Full details have not been released, including whether the states could take any steps to avoid losing the funding. Colorado has sued the White House or…
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Denver backs Minnesota’s legal action to end ICE deployment
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The City of Denver has joined dozens of U.S. cities and counties in filing an amicus brief backing Minnesota’s legal action seeking to end “Operation Metro Surge” and the deployment of thousands of federal immigration agents to Minnesota. The brief supports Minnesota v. Noem, filed by the State of Minnesota in federal court on Jan.…
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Trump freezes child care funding for Colorado, 3 other states
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Colorado was swept up in a $10 billion federal child care funding freeze announced on Monday by the Trump administration, a move state officials said they learned about through media reports. The Trump administration said it would freeze child care funding for four states, including Colorado, citing reports of widespread fraud at child care centers…
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U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert: On representing Colorado, working with Trump and releasing the Epstein files
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For years, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s name has become a shorthand for controversy in her home state and in the nation’s capital. Recently, the outspoken Colorado Republican has drawn rare praise from some of her fiercest critics, particularly after breaking expectations during a key vote. Boebert insisted the moment isn’t a departure from her values…
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Seed corn stupidity from the Trump administration | BIDLACK
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No one knows the exact dates when various ancient civilizations figured out the importance of seed corn. The idea that you do not eat the entire crop of a food plant, but rather save some to plant in the spring, was discovered over the centuries by many cultures. In the Americas, evidence of saving seed…
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Colorado immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra released from detention, advocates say
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A prominent Colorado activist was released Monday after spending nine months in immigration detention, supporters said. Jeanette Vizguerra left an immigration detention center in suburban Denver a day after a judge ruled she could post a $5,000 bond, according to the American Friends Service Committee, which has been working with Vizguerra’s lawyers and her family.…
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Trump administration moves to shutter national climate lab in Colorado
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Democrats slam decision as ‘deeply dangerous’ as White House calls facility a source of ‘climate alarmism’ The Trump administration is moving to dismantle one of the world’s leading climate and weather research institutions, citing what a White House official termed the Colorado-based facility’s “climate alarmism” in a decision state Democratic elected officials denounced as “deeply…