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Speaking with a Minnesota man suing Colorado, hoping to change medical-aid-in-dying law
KOAA News 5 - Colorado
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June 30, 2025
DENVER — Minnesota man Jeff McComas and two Colorado physicians filed a lawsuit against state leaders in May, challenging the residency requirement of Colorado’s medical-aid-in-dying law. In January 2023, McComas was diagnosed with stage four...
Denver7 Everyday Hero organizes an inclusive space for families at Denver Pride
Denver 7 - Colorado
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June 30, 2025
DENVER — At Denver’s Pride festival, the colors are bright, the music is loud, and thanks to Sheila Romero, even the youngest attendees have a space to feel right at home. Romero, who has volunteered for Denver Pride for the past eight years,...
Colorado River states inch toward deal as Trump administration signals it may intervene
Environmental Health News
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June 30, 2025
As negotiations over the future of the Colorado River near a critical deadline, the Trump administration has urged the seven basin states to reach a deal on their own but warned it is ready to step in if they fail. Sharon Udasin reports for The...
Medicaid could be in for big changes in Colorado. Here are 14 charts explaining who would be affected.
The Colorado Sun
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June 30, 2025
Medicaid is a massive part of the state’s health care infrastructure that is now poised for massive changes. You may think of Medicaid as the government’s health insurance program for people who are impoverished, which it is. But it also provides...
Has private sector hiring, after months of weakness, finally fired up in Colorado?
Denver Post - Colorado
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June 30, 2025
Colorado’s economy, like a spacecraft revving its engines to escape a dangerous gravitational field, appears to have transitioned in the second quarter, going from having some of the weakest job growth in the country to some of the strongest....
With age comes … stuff. Here’s how experts help older Coloradans downsize their posessions.
The Colorado Sun
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June 30, 2025
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Your Five-Day Itinerary to a Summer Visit in Denver
303 Magazine - Colorado
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June 30, 2025
To our traveling friend, A little birdie told us that you finally booked that Denver trip, and we’re so excited to have you here. As we eagerly wait for your arrival, we took the liberty in putting together your ultimate five-day Denver itinerary...
What we saw at Red Feather Lakes — Colorado’s ‘best-kept secret’
Colorado Public Radio
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Ask real estate agent David W. Birks about the community where he sells homes and campground plots, and he’ll tell you: “Red Feather Lakes is probably Colorado's best-kept secret, and most of us kind of like that about it.” The quaint and...
Latest U.S. budget bill even worse for Colorado clean energy despite pushback, advocates say
The Colorado Sun
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June 30, 2025
U.S. Senate negotiators working late over the weekend added a devastating tax on foreign solar parts on top of the House’s elimination of all personal and utility-scale clean energy credits, in a combo that Colorado’s governor, trade groups and...
City worker morale plunges in Denver as layoffs loom
Denverite - Colorado
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June 30, 2025
In a month, Denver city workers will likely start receiving layoff notices. And they still don’t know the criteria their bosses will use to determine who has to go. On Tuesday at 9 a.m., the Career Service Board will continue its already...
GM wins legal victory as court decertifies class-action lawsuit
CBT News - Georgia
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June 30, 2025
General Motors (GM) won a major legal victory Friday when a federal appeals court voted to decertify a class action lawsuit accusing the automaker of knowingly selling about 800,000 vehicles with defective transmissions. In a 9–7 ruling, the 6th...
Make way for e-bikes on some Colorado Springs trails this summer
Colorado Public Radio
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Electric bicycles will be joining the trails of Colorado Springs this summer. The city's parks department is beginning a phased rollout for the use of e-bikes on trails, which starts Tuesday, July 1. The first phase includes the opening of...
Tug Collision: American Airlines Airbus A321 Damaged In Denver
Simple Flying
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June 30, 2025
Flight AAL790D landed in Tulsa International Airport (TUL) on Saturday, but hasn’t been able to take off since a tug collided with the Airbus A321 shortly before it departed Denver International Airport (DEN). The jet was operating for American...
Donegal quartet to make history competing at International Barbershop Contest
DonegalLive
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June 30, 2025
A quartet of young Irish singers is making history as they prepare to represent Ireland on the global barbershop stage. Ceoltóirí Canóla, a youth barbershop ensemble from Letterkenny and Milford, have arrived in the US, where they will soon...
Familiar faces applying for government positions in RFV
The Aspen Daily News - Colorado
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Carbondale’s Board of Trustees has chosen former Silverthorne Town Manager Ryan Hyland for the role of town manager because of his experience managing projects in Silverthorne that are similar to Carbondale’s future projects. Aspen Daily News file...
What happens if the Colorado River states miss their 2026 deadline for a new deal?
KUER - Utah
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June 30, 2025
The clock is ticking on the Colorado River. The seven states that use its water are nearing a 2026 deadline to come up with new rules for sharing its shrinking supplies. After more than a year of deadlock, there are rumblings of a new plan, but...
Defund movement faces 'absolute rejection' as murders drop and police budgets climb: law enforcement group
Fox News
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One law enforcement group says that Americans are giving an "absolute rejection" to the "defund the police movement" as cities are increasing funding to police departments, and murder rates are dropping. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!...
IN students weigh politics, mental health factors for college choices
Public News Service
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University officials in Indiana are rewriting guidelines for on-campus protests to address a tense political backdrop. More students are watching and listening to see which institution shares their values. Last month, a court blocked parts of...
Lane splitting and lane filtering to become legal for Minnesota bikers Tuesday
KTTC - Minnesota
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June 30, 2025
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KTTC) – After passing legislation in May of 2024, a new law will officially go into effect on Tuesday, allowing motorcyclists to split and filter lanes. Lane splitting is allowed when two or more lanes of traffic are moving in the...
Glasscock County ranks fourth in Texas for reliance on government transfers for 5.4% of income in 2022
Petroplex News - Texas
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June 30, 2025
In 2022, Glasscock County ranked as the fourth least government transfer-dependent county in Texas, with 5.4% of total income coming from programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and income maintenance, according to information from...