The retailers want us to believe they are victims of circumstance; that when they raise prices, it’s because their costs are going up; that when wages stagnate or hours get cut, it’s because the math no longer works; that caving to the Right on diversity issues is just the cost of doing business under the second Trump administration. We shouldn’t buy their excuses anymore.| Colorado Times Recorder
Garfield Re-2 is like a lot of other school districts. It has sports rivalries, budget issues, and plenty of local pride. And, like a lot of other districts, Garfield Re-2 has spent much of the last few years embroiled in politics, controversy, and culture war.| Colorado Times Recorder
As most elk hunters know firsthand, keeping healthy elk herds on public lands requires ample secure habitat.| Colorado Times Recorder
On Saturday, tens of thousands of Coloradans turned out for more than 50 local “No Kings” protests against the Trump administration. Colorado Times Recorder columnist Logan M. Davis was a featured speaker at the event in Colorado Springs, where an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 people showed up for the demonstration. Below, we have published a video and transcript of his remarks.| Colorado Times Recorder
Tens of thousands rallied at the Colorado Capitol before marching through downtown on Saturday. The protest was one of more than 50 “No Kings” rallies across the state.| Colorado Times Recorder
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William J. Schultz’s Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City tells a story that “brings together conservative religion, conservative politics, laissez-faire economics and the role of the military,” said Schultz, an assistant professor of American religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School.| Colorado Times Recorder
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Over the past twenty-five years, I’ve observed an indiscriminate pattern: prejudice against Muslims has grown from isolated acts into an institutionalized mechanism — embedded across communities, workplaces, government agencies, and the media.| Colorado Times Recorder
The phone call came through around 9 p.m. while Cyndi Eldredge was watching television with her husband. On the other end of the line was her boss, Montezuma-Cortez School District...| Colorado Times Recorder
by John Daley, Colorado Public Radio, via KFF Health News As Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dismantling of federal vaccine policy continues to roil the Centers...| Colorado Times Recorder
Thousands marched and rallied around the Colorado Capitol and surrounding areas on Saturday -- aligned with "No Kings" rallies across the country and state. The event occurred during a military...| Colorado Times Recorder
Below are protest and political events scheduled across Colorado over the next week. If you know of any upcoming events that are open to the public in Colorado, please let...| Colorado Times Recorder
If you thought Medicaid cuts wouldn’t affect you because you’re not on Medicaid, you couldn’t be more wrong. In Colorado, health care of all types is so tightly wound up...| Colorado Times Recorder
On Wednesday, a panel of top Colorado healthcare executives warned that federal cuts to Medicaid, under the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, will affect not only Medicaid recipients but Colorado's wider...| Colorado Times Recorder
Weiser Header image by Meg on Unsplash. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser last week joined AGs from seventeen other states in sending a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)...| Colorado Times Recorder
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A lot of ink has been spilled about the unusual happenings in the Woodland Park School District over the last four years. The dramatic conservative takeover in 2021, the immediate...| Colorado Times Recorder
Abortion was nearly the perfect wedge issue. Politically, it worked because it hijacked our psychology. Frame it around cute babies — not women, not healthcare, not bodily autonomy — and...| Colorado Times Recorder
In the midst of rising vitriol aimed at the transgender community by conservative media figures and government officials, One Colorado, the state’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization, is launching a new...| Colorado Times Recorder
Mesa County says it has the backup files claimed to be lost Approximately 250 people attended a Dec. 1 rally outside the Mesa County Old Courthouse to show support for...| Colorado Times Recorder
Members of a QAnon-linked election fraud conspiracy group -- some of whom are armed -- are knocking on doors of voters across Colorado, attempting to find evidence of voter fraud....| Colorado Times Recorder
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Colorado’s hunting seasons are in full swing, and while many of us are chasing bugles, glassing high basins, or scouting drainages, the work to protect wild places doesn’t stop. Although...| Colorado Times Recorder
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"You know the story about the Navajo Windtalkers in World War Two? Imagine if I was a German and I just happened to know Navajo, right? Then maybe I could...| Colorado Times Recorder
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Prominent Colorado election fraud conspiracist Joe Oltmann promised to endorse state Rep. Ron Hanks (R-Cañon City) for U.S. Senate yesterday during Hanks’ appearance on Oltmann’s podcast, Conservative Daily. “You'll get...| Colorado Times Recorder
During a meeting last night at Fervent Church in Colorado Springs, Joe Oltmann, who leads the election-conspiracy group FEC United, attempted to walk back statements he made in the past...| Colorado Times Recorder
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Lauren Boebert, the newly-elected Colorado Congresswoman who is facing calls to resign today over allegations that she helped incite the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, has a history...| Colorado Times Recorder
Colorado congressional candidate Lauren Boebert continues to downplay the seriousness of her history of arrests, saying they resulted in minor fines and charges. That's true, but it's the circumstances around...| Colorado Times Recorder
Colorado congressional candidate Lauren Boebert is claiming that Black Lives Matter protesters in her hometown of Rifle, Colorado, were "paid and bussed in," despite a complete lack of evidence to...| Colorado Times Recorder
As national intelligence reports and indictments show a dangerous increase in right-wing militia activity, gun rights activist turned Republican congressional candidate Lauren Boebert is embracing elements of the militia movement,...| Colorado Times Recorder
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When Colorado Republicans elected two first-time party leaders last month, Chairman Dave Williams made the biggest headlines with his brazen election denialism, but he isn’t the most extreme new party...| Colorado Times Recorder
Election deniers from across the country are gathering in Missouri this weekend to attend MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's election fraud conspiracy conference. Lindell says his Moment of Truth conference will...| Colorado Times Recorder
Flanked by the Gadsden flag and a patriotic balloon display, Rep. Dave Williams (R-Colorado Springs), Rep. Ron Hanks (R-Canon City), Todd Watkins, and Peter Lupia indulged in conspiracy theories about...| Colorado Times Recorder
At about midnight four years ago, restauranteur Lauren Boebert, in her words, "turned too sharp," and rolled her truck into a ditch near her home in Rifle, Colorado. She faced...| Colorado Times Recorder
As former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters' trial on multiple election fraud-related felonies continues, a handful of supporters have gathered each day, both inside and outside the courtroom, to support...| Colorado Times Recorder