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Hiring freeze, service reductions among proposed $45M cuts to Denver’s budget to pay for illegals

A panel of councilmembers has unanimously advanced Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s proposed $45 million in budget cuts — dollars the administration intends to use to pay for its response to the city’s illegal immigration crisis.

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Do only four frontrunners remain in 4th District race? It appeared that way in Kit Carson County.

BURLINGTON — A handful of candidates vying to become Eastern Colorado’s next representative to Congress didn’t make one of the state’s bright, bright red counties a destination here Friday for the Kit Carson County Republican Party’s Lincoln Dinner.

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Supreme Court grapples with obstruction charge lobbed at 350 Jan. 6 defendants, Trump

The Supreme Court struggled Tuesday with the government’s case against 350 Jan. 6 defendants from the 2021 protest at the Capitol, with justices pondering how a law written in the wake of the Enron document-shredding scandal can be applied to those who brought the 2020 election certification to a halt.

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Denver schools’ Super Alex Marrero uses NDAs to prevent employees from speaking out

Denver Public Schools — under Superintendent Alex Marrero — has offered severance packages to employees only if they are willing to sign a confidentiality agreement that prohibits them from speaking about their experiences in the district for three years after their employment.

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Pavlich: Your hard-earned dollars shouldn’t go to Leftist media outlets

Each year, more than $500 million of your hard-earned tax dollars get funneled through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and into the bank account of National Public Radio (NPR), a far-left media outlet dedicated to tearing down America and the values you believe in.

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Rosen: The left’s assault on American patriotism

The conventional definition of patriotism is love for and loyalty to one’s country. A 2023 survey published in the Wall Street Journal found that only 38% of respondents thought patriotism was very important to them, down sharply from 70% when that question was first asked in 1998.While 59% of seniors 65 and older feel that way today, only 23% of adults under 30 do.

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Martinez: Court sends a reminder; tax hikes require voter consent

In a major victory for taxpayers, a unanimous panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals agreed with the National Taxpayers Union Foundation’s Taxpayer Defense Center (NTUF) that an overnight doubling of the property taxes in a few Northern Colorado counties violated the Colorado Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR).

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