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Boebert announces mobile office hours, locations in July
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State

Boebert announces mobile office hours, locations in July

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice Residents in the 3rd District will have seven opportunities in July to take advantage of mobile office hours being offered by U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert. The program has been one of the more successful in Congress, with Boebert's office citing assistance for 3,098 residents and the return of $6.36 million to constituents. “If you are a citizen in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District having issues with a federal agency, or you want your voice to be heard, please come to one of our mobile office hours, and a member of my team will be happy to assist you," Boebert said. Staff is available to help constituents with a variety of concerns, a press release reads. The concerns staff is prepared to assist constituents with include for those who aren...
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Residents celebrate with trip to Wyoming for fireworks illegal to possess in Colorado
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Residents celebrate with trip to Wyoming for fireworks illegal to possess in Colorado

By Nicole Fierro | Fox 31 News Many Coloradans are kicking off their Fourth of July with a road trip to Wyoming. It’s legal to buy and own fireworks there, but not in Colorado. In Colorado, the average person can’t possess, launch or transport most fireworks — and yes, this includes legally buying them in another state and bringing them to Colorado. It’s illegal to launch — or even have — fireworks, except for “permissible fireworks,” according to Colorado Revised Statute 24-33.5-2002. According to Colorado Revised Statute 24-33.5-2005, the law makes it a petty offense to bring fireworks from a different state. FOX31 caught up with several Coloradans taking the liberty to drive across state lines, despite the laws and rules. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 NEWS...
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Rural communities face critical firefighter shortage, in some cases, outlook is ‘bleak’
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Rural communities face critical firefighter shortage, in some cases, outlook is ‘bleak’

By Deborah Grigsby | Colorado Politics When Elizabeth Fire Chief T.J. Steck first entered the fire service more than 30 years ago, he was one of more than 2,000 applicants for just six full-time positions with Denver Fire. Competition was intense. That’s not the case now, Steck told members of the Colorado Wildfire Matters Review Committee on Tuesday.  “Now, fire departments across the Front Range are actually fighting each other for applicants and trying to poach from each other — because we don't have the number of applicants anymore,” he said. READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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Analysis: Those candidates who raised the most won their state legislative races
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Analysis: Those candidates who raised the most won their state legislative races

By Luige Del Puerto  | Colorado Politics With a few exceptions, Colorado's candidates for the state legislature who raised the most money won their races. Longtime political observers also noted something unique from this year's primary elections — a concerted effort, they said, to pull politics back to the "center."     An analysis of the fundraising of dozens candidates largely confirmed an axiomatic presumption in campaigns — the person with the most money wins. That was true for both state Senate and House candidates, the results of last Tuesday's primary elections showed. “Money will always be the mother’s milk of politics. The more you raise and spend, the better chance of winning," Michael Dino, a political expert who served as campaign manager for fo...
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Independence Day: Some cite Reagan, Trump, but Gardner goes way back to Adams in Twitter greetings
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State

Independence Day: Some cite Reagan, Trump, but Gardner goes way back to Adams in Twitter greetings

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice While Coloradans were enjoying parades, rodeos and cookouts in celebration Thursday of Independence Day, elected Republican officials past, present and possibly future turned to Twitter. For those not binge-watching Yellowstone re-runs, Twitter was filled with their personal thoughts and quotations, as could be expected, by Presidents Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump, and unexpectedly by novelist William Faulkner. The occasion drew former U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner to get more creative, citing the country's co-drafter of the Declaration of Independence, the first vice president, first occupant of the White House and the country's only Federalist president: John Adams. Gardner encouraged Coloradans and Americans to, as Adams had said in 1776, "Ce...
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Survey: Colorado business leaders’ confidence ‘tempered but positive’
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State, The Center Square

Survey: Colorado business leaders’ confidence ‘tempered but positive’

By Joe Mueller | The Center Square A survey of Colorado’s business leaders revealed their confidence is “tempered but positive” going into the third quarter of the year. The Leeds Business Confidence Index, a report from the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business, found all measured components posted year-over-year gains heading into the second half of the year, but all components slipped from the second quarter of this year heading into the upcoming third quarter. The index examines the national and state economy, industry sales, profits, hiring plans and capital expenditures. “Across the array of reasons given to explain their outlook, interest rates, election uncertainty, and sentiment were commonly cited as the most pressing factors,” according to the report. REA...
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Moose on Northern Plains? Three have been spotted in Nunn
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CBS Colorado, State

Moose on Northern Plains? Three have been spotted in Nunn

By Dillon Thomas | CBS Colorado Three moose have wandered away from the foothills along the Front Range and are now navigating their way through the plains of Northern Colorado. Two cows and one bull moose have been spotted recently making their way through the small town of Nunn, east of I-25.  According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the three moose have been spotted in the area in the last two days. It is believed they followed rivers and creeks east, ultimately bringing them into Weld County.  Viewers Aidan and Abi Holsten shared the video with CBS News Colorado's Dillon Thomas showing the moose trotting around through rural yards. The video was taken from a distance and from indoors.  CPW encouraged humans to not try and approach the moose, noting that they are ...
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Democrat Yadira Caraveo hauls in nearly $1.8M for quarter in Colorado’s toss-up 8th CD
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Democrat Yadira Caraveo hauls in nearly $1.8M for quarter in Colorado’s toss-up 8th CD

By Ernest Luning | Colorado Politics Democratic U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo plans to report raising nearly $1.8 million in the most recent fundraising quarter in a bid to defend Colorado's battleground 8th Congressional District, her campaign told Colorado Politics. The first-term lawmaker heads into the general election with an eye-popping $3.3 million in the bank for a race that could determine which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives once ballots are counted in November. A spokesman for Caraveo's campaign said she raised more than $1,769,000 for the three-month period from April 1 to June 30, including more than $1.2 million in receipts since the pre-primary reporting period ended on June 5. The quarterly figure pushes Caraveo's total fundraising this cycle...
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Colorado health officials identify another human case of bird flu in the state
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State, The Colorado Sun

Colorado health officials identify another human case of bird flu in the state

By John Ingold | The Colorado Sun Colorado health officials on Wednesday announced that a dairy worker in northeastern Colorado contracted bird flu after having close contact with sick cattle. The worker, an adult man, had a mild eye infection. He has since recovered. The human case is the first to be identified in Colorado related to the ongoing outbreak of avian influenza among dairy cattle. The outbreak among Colorado’s dairy herds is now the worst in the nation, with 27 cases having been identified in dairy herds, all in northeastern Colorado. Nationwide, four dairy workers have now tested positive for bird flu after working closely with infected cattle. Eye infections were most common among those workers, possibly due to contact with infected milk during milking operations...
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It was hot in June, second-hottest June on record in fact
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CBS Colorado, State

It was hot in June, second-hottest June on record in fact

By Joe Ruch | CBS Colorado If you thought it was abnormally warm last month, you were right. June 2024 will go down as the second-warmest June on record in Denver.    It was a hot month with 28 days featuring above average high temperatures, and only two days with highs below average. When you crunch the numbers, the typical high is 83.4 degrees. This past June saw an average high of 90.1 degrees, or 6.7 degrees above average.  Two temperature records were broken during the month according to the National Weather Service:   READ MORE AT CBS COLORADO
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