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Your Democratic Primary Guide. Vote by June 30th
Boulder Progressives
KEYWORD SCORE: 147.92. affordable housing, black, boulder, boulder county, boulder progressives, boulderprogressives.org, budget, child care, city council, clean energy, colorado, election, gender-affirming, housing, joe neguse, junie joseph, landmark, michael bennet, phil weiser, progressive, public education, racial equity, renter, students, tabor, transit, voting rights, lgbtq
[image: Your Democratic Primary Guide. Vote by June 30th] The Democratic Primary is fast approaching! The are progressives running for every office on your ballot — statewide all the way down to county and local offices. They need your vote by June 30th, Election Day! As of today, ballots must be dropped off or filled out in person (no longer mailed). Check out our vote guide if you have any questions! Boulder Progressives Voting Information ------------------------------ Play The Boulder Progressives Election Game! If you know anything about Boulder Progressives, you know we live and breathe
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ICE detains one person in Denver; Thunderstorms delay 600+ flights at DIA; Energy Office awards second round of grant money
KGNU News
KEYWORD SCORE: 108.83. air quality, black, boulder, boulder city council, boulder county, boulder valley school district, bvsd, city council, civil rights, colorado, denver international airport, energy efficiency, housing, kgnu news, land-use, morning magazine, students, sundance film festival, transportation, lgbtq
Listeners: Top listeners: KGNU Broadcast Live On-Air 9:00 am - 9:30 am 9:30 am - 12:00 pm 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm ICE detains one person in Denver; Thunderstorms delay 600+ flights at DIA; Energy Office awards second round of grant money KGNU News The Colorado Rapid Response Network reports that ICE detained one person in Denver on Friday morning. CORRN confirmed that around 8 a.m., near W Cedar Ave & S Broadway, three unmarked black SUVs blocked in a truck and federal immigration agents quickly detained one individual.CORRN is a coalition of organizations working together and with volunteers to ve
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Bike to Work Day caps off a month of car-free celebration in Boulder
KGNU News
KEYWORD SCORE: 74.45. bike, bike to work, boulder, cars, kgnu news, morning magazine
Listeners: Top listeners: KGNU Broadcast Live On-Air 9:30 am - 12:00 pm 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Bike to Work Day caps off a month of car-free celebration in Boulder KGNU News Walk and Bike to Work month in Boulder will culminate in one big, car-free day of celebration this Wednesday, June 24th.Presented by the nonprofit Community Cycles, Boulder celebrates Walk and Bike to Work Month every June with community events designed to make biking more fun, accessible, and social. From group rides to neighborhood breakfast stations to evening happy hours, the goal is to get more people tr
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States are changing fire codes to make housing cheaper. Some safety experts are worried.
Colorado Newsline
KEYWORD SCORE: 55.77. accessory dwelling unit, affordable housing, apartment, colorado, development, housing, housing and urban development, housing policy, infill, land use, multi-family
[image: A construction worker balances atop a roof. States and cities are loosening building code requirements in an effort to lower construction costs and boost affordable housing. (Photo by Robbie Sequeira/Stateline)] A construction worker balances atop a roof. States and cities are loosening building code requirements in an effort to lower construction costs and boost affordable housing. (Photo by Robbie Sequeira/Stateline) States and cities are loosening building code requirements in an effort to lower construction costs and boost affordable housing. Some of these changes include allowing
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How to screw up universal childcare
Vox - Policy
KEYWORD SCORE: 48.83. budget, child care, commission, development, infrastructure, landmark, low-income, petition, public education, public works, zoning
[image: an illustration of dozens of children in a spiral formation playing musical chairs, with only five available chairs] After decades of families performing small miracles to afford childcare and sitting for years on waitlists, politicians are finally treating early childhood education like the essential economic infrastructure it is. | Celia Jacobs for Vox After decades of families performing small miracles to afford childcare and sitting for years on waitlists, politicians are finally treating early childhood education like the essential economic infrastructure it is. Around the country
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Boulder’s quantum incubator gets state funding for test facility
BizWest
KEYWORD SCORE: 43.67. boulder, colorado, development, infrastructure
The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade recently approved a $500,000... BOULDER — The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade recently approved a $500,000 grant for the Colorado Quantum Incubator, a collaborative facility in Boulder’s Flatiron Park corporate campus.The funding is a Collaborative Infrastructure Grant provided through OEDIT’s through the Advanced Industries Accelerator (AIA) Program.“This funding will establish the Photonic Integrated Circuits Assembly Characterization and Test Facility (PICACTs), an open-access facility design
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Why coal will lead to more deaths in Colorado
Colorado Newsline
KEYWORD SCORE: 43.41. air quality, budget, child care, clean energy, co-op, colorado, commission, development, infrastructure, low-income, public health, transportation
Xcel Energy's coal-fired Comanche Generating Station in Pueblo is shown in 2019. (Photo by Mike Sweeney/Special to Colorado Newsline) *This story was originally published by Capital & Main.* Colorado Springs resident Jane Ard-Smith told Colorado state lawmakers in April that granting a request by her municipal utility to keep its coal-fired power plant running three years past its planned 2029 retirement date would exacerbate her respiratory health problems. “Folks with breathing-related ailments like me — we looked forward to breathing a little bit easier,” Ard-Smith testified before the Sena
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AG: Landlord LivCor to pay settlement, cooperate in RealPage antitrust case
BizWest
KEYWORD SCORE: 42.58. apartment, boulder, colorado, housing, lawsuit, occupancy, phil weiser, renter, tenant
Colorado has reached a $7 million settlement with landlord and property manager LivCor LLC over its... DENVER — Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said last week that his office, along with a coalition of eight other attorneys general, had reached a $7 million settlement with landlord and property manager LivCor LLC over its use of RealPage software. “The settlement resolves allegations that LivCor used RealPage’s revenue management system to fix rental prices with competing landlords by illegally sharing and gathering confidential pricing information,” Weiser’s office said in a news releas
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A new wave of election cases
SCOTUS Blog
KEYWORD SCORE: 34.64. campaign finance, covid-19, election, lawsuit, pandemic, petition, police, students, voting rights
Welcome to what will likely be a busy week at the Supreme Court. We’re expecting 17 more opinions by early July, and we know that there will be at least two opinion announcement days this week. Reminder: If you’d like to attend our July 8 term-in-review event at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, register your interest here. The event will feature a fireside chat with the ACLU’s Cecillia Wang, who argued the birthright citizenship case before the Supreme Court; a live taping of the Advisory Opinions podcast; and a discussion of the historical framework of birthright citizenship from Jo
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Author says universal child care should be as American as apple pie. And here’s why.
Colorado Public Radio
KEYWORD SCORE: 32.19. child care, colorado, covid-19, development, police, public education
This is part of Raising Colorado , a CPR News series examining how families are navigating a child care system many say is broken — and why it matters to everyone. While many supporters of universal child care focus on the economic benefits, Elliot Haspel argues that the stronger case may be an emotional and values-based one. In his new book “ Raising a Nation ,” Haspel lays out 10 reasons Americans from across the political spectrum might support a universal birth-to-5 child care system, connecting the issue to ideas like family, community, patriotism, opportunity, and the American Dream. For
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Infleqtion, CU among America’s Quantum Space Initiative founders
BizWest
KEYWORD SCORE: 31.69. boulder, colorado
Local quantum-technology firm Infleqtion Inc. (NYSE: INFQ) and the University of Colorado have... Local quantum-technology firm Infleqtion Inc. (NYSE: INFQ) and the University of Colorado have joined forces to help launch America's Quantum Space Initiative. THIS ARTICLE IS FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Continue reading for less than $3 per week! Get a month of award-winning local business news, trends and insights Access award-winning content today! Login Processing your subscription now!If you canceled your payment, click here to close this window.If you processed a payment and this page does not relo
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Should Residents Be Allowed To Ticket Trucks That Pollute The Air?
Streetsblog Net
KEYWORD SCORE: 30.81. buses, cars, city council, commission, election, electric vehicle, enforcement, mayor, transportation
Idle (enforce) no more. New Yorkers would no longer be able to collect a portion of the fine paid by violators of the city’s half-century-old anti-idling law under legislation proposed by U.S. Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Nick Langworthy (R-Elmira) in what one critic dubbed classic “pay-to-play” corruption. Gottheimer, who proposed similar legislation to try to kill congestion pricing, analogized the two during a press conference on Tuesday in Manhattan — referring to clean-air enforcement as an “idling tax,” much like he called congestion pricing a “congestion tax.” “Under current New Y
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Trump ‘trampled’ voter privacy by feeding info into Homeland Security system, judge says
Colorado Newsline
KEYWORD SCORE: 29.98. colorado, election, infrastructure, lawsuit, voting rights
[image: Voting at the Portland Expo in Maine’s June 9, 2026 primary election. (Photo by Jim Neuger/Maine Morning Star)] Voting at the Portland Expo in Maine’s June 9, 2026 primary election. (Photo by Jim Neuger/Maine Morning Star) The Trump administration illegally overhauled a U.S. Department of Homeland Security computer program in its hunt for noncitizen voters, a judge ruled Monday in a stinging decision that laid into federal officials for violating the privacy of millions of Americans. The ruling struck at the core of President Donald Trump’s project to assert authority over state-run el
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Target aims for July opening in Firestone
BizWest
KEYWORD SCORE: 29.48. boulder, colorado, development, election
FIRESTONE — The 128,000-square-foot Target store just west of Home Depot in the City Centre... FIRESTONE — The 128,000-square-foot Target store just west of Home Depot in the City Centre development in Firestone is expected to open next month.Target expects to hire about 200 workers to staff the store at 4358 City Centre Road, which will be led by store director Shawn Stratton.“The store features our newest food-forward selection of fresh and affordable produce, meat and dairy,” according to Target, along with CVS Pharmacy and a Starbucks Café.“Our continued commitment to opening new stores is
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When teens drive less, they don’t register to vote. Here’s how civic groups are adapting.
Colorado Newsline
KEYWORD SCORE: 29.02. colorado, election, off year, students, voting rights
[image: Open Democracy, a New Hampshire voting rights group, has spent several years working to improve the registration rate among 18-year-olds. Shown are New Hampshire voters. (Photo by Will Steinfeld/New Hampshire Bulletin)] Open Democracy, a New Hampshire voting rights group, has spent several years working to improve the registration rate among 18-year-olds. Shown are New Hampshire voters. (Photo by Will Steinfeld/New Hampshire Bulletin) American teens are driving less than in previous decades, prompting civic advocates to warn that fewer young people may register to vote. Yet at least on
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Supreme Court declines to hear several important cases, including on voting rights and the environment
SCOTUS Blog
KEYWORD SCORE: 27.78. diversity, election, petition, shelter, transit, voting rights
The Supreme Court on Monday morning denied review in several notable cases, including cases involving voting rights, the environment, and a trademark dispute involving a company founded by NBA superstar LeBron James. It also asked for the federal government’s views in challenges to a state bar association’s allocation of leadership positions and an Oregon reporting requirement for prescription drug makers. The announcements came as part of a list of orders released from the justices’ June 18 conference. The justices will meet for another conference – the final regularly scheduled conference be
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Showing the mayor just how much it sucks to walk on Federal Boulevard
Denverite
KEYWORD SCORE: 27.09. bus rapid transit, bus stop, cars, housing, infrastructure, mayor, traffic, transit, transportation, vision zero
As the intense June heat radiated off Federal Boulevard’s asphalt, a group of elderly and disabled residents found themselves in the middle of a crosswalk as the light turned green. “We don’t have a chance to get across,” said Cleo Johnson, a resident of Denver Housing Authority’s Mountain View complex at Federal and Louisiana Avenue. “The walk light only lasts about three seconds and people on a walker or a wheelchair do not have time to cross the road.” As the group struggled to cross the street on time, Mayor Mike Johnston and his Department of Transportation and Infrastructure appointee, A
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Weld OKs new justice center as unified project
BizWest
KEYWORD SCORE: 25.09. boulder, colorado, traffic
Weld County’s new justice center in downtown Greeley will be built as one unified project instead... Weld County’s new justice center in downtown Greeley will be built as one unified project instead of being divided into three parts. THIS ARTICLE IS FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Continue reading for less than $3 per week! Get a month of award-winning local business news, trends and insights Access award-winning content today! Login Processing your subscription now!If you canceled your payment, click here to close this window.If you processed a payment and this page does not reload in 10 seconds, please
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Fifty for 150: Gang of 19 in 1978 makes Colorado a center of disability rights activism
Colorado Newsline
KEYWORD SCORE: 23.17. buses, city council, civil rights, colorado, landmark, regional transportation district, segregation, students, traffic, transit, transportation
A group of protesters known as the Gang of 19 stops traffic in Denver in July 1978 as part of their demand for more accessible transportation. (Donated to the Denver Public Library by the Rocky Mountain News/Dick Davis) Not long ago American society relegated people with disabilities to broad forms of segregation. It wasn’t until the 1960s that U.S. universities began to admit students with significant disabilities. The first federal program for people with disabilities was enacted less than 100 years ago, with the Social Security Act, and many were institutionalized well into the mid-20th cen
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Aurora City Council approves $264 million Build Up Aurora bond measure questions for November ballot
Denver 7 News
KEYWORD SCORE: 22.73. ballot measure, city council, infrastructure, police, public works, sales tax, traffic, transportation
Aurora City Council has approved three bond measure questions worth $264 million as part of the Build Up Aurora initiative, sending the measures to voters on Nov. 3. The initiative includes funding for 65 capital improvement projects. The measures would authorize bonds and a 0.325% sales tax increase about 3 cents on a $10 purchase. *Adria Iraheta, Denver7's Aurora reporter, listened to the meeting to hear what the community thought of the initiative. Watch her report below.* Aurora City Council passes 3 new bond measures, part of Build Up Aurora project The city told Denver7 it has not implem
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Justices issue orders on murder-for-hire case involving social media influencer, the role of race in seizing persons, and the execution of a Texas man claiming to be intellectually disabled
SCOTUS Blog
KEYWORD SCORE: 22.73. black, enforcement, mayor, petition, police
Over a dissent by Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court on Monday sent the case of a Texas woman convicted of hiring someone to commit murder back to the lower court for another look. And its denial of review in two other criminal cases drew written dissents – one from Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, in a case involving the role of race in whether someone has been “seized” for purposes of the Fourth Amendment, and another by the court’s three Democratic appointees in the case of a Texas man who – with the state’s support – was seeking a new proceeding to determine whether he is int
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Denver celebrates Juneteenth with health, music and community
KGNU News
KEYWORD SCORE: 22.36. kgnu news, morning magazine
Listeners: Top listeners: KGNU Broadcast Live On-Air 9:30 am - 12:00 pm 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Denver celebrates Juneteenth with health, music and community KGNU News This weekend, Five Points, Denver, came alive with its annual Juneteenth Celebration on Welton Street.While the Juneteenth Music Festival has been reduced from two days to one, Mo’ Betta Green’s Juneteenth Freedom Celebration, just around the corner next to the Blair Caldwell Library, brought people together on Saturday and Sunday in the name of health, eating and active living at the Rising Star stage.KGNU’s Verity
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Why U.S. Territories Have a Voice — but No Vote — in Congress
Governing
KEYWORD SCORE: 22.34. black, commission, election
As the U.S. celebrates its 250th anniversary, millions of Americans who live outside the 50 states are excluded from full participation in its democracy. Roughly 3.6 million residents of U.S. territories — including Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands — have no senators and only nonvoting representation in the House. These Americans, who can vote in presidential primaries but not the general election, are excluded because of where they live. This year marks the 125th anniversary of the Insular Cases, a notorious series of Supreme Court de
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New arrest report reveals Barry Morphew was using a fake name in Arizona before 2025 re-arrest
Denver 7 News
KEYWORD SCORE: 21.80. bike, cars, civil rights, colorado, development, lawsuit, police, traffic
Barry Morphew, a Colorado man charged with murdering his wife Suzanne in 2020 after she was reported missing in Chaffee County, was living with a woman in Arizona and using a fake name when he was re-arrested in the summer of 2025. An arrest report from the Arizona Department of Public Safety also states that the Colorado Bureau of Investigation asked the department to keep track of Barry Morphews movements in the months leading up to his arrest. *Watch Jennifer Kovaleski's report about this new development, and what is next, in the video below.* New arrest report reveals Barry Morphew was usi
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Longmont gene-analysis firm Kromatid elevates new leader
BizWest
KEYWORD SCORE: 21.50. boulder, city council, colorado, petition
Longmont-based gene-analysis company Kromatid Inc. recently promoted Matthew Hemstreet to CEO, a... LONGMONT — Longmont-based gene-analysis company Kromatid Inc. recently promoted Matthew Hemstreet to CEO, a role he takes over from interim chief Terry Opgenorth.“Terry was instrumental in helping position Kromatid for its next stage of growth,” Kromatid board president David Brunel said in a prepared statement. “His leadership strengthened our strategic direction, commercial execution, and organizational focus, leaving the company well-positioned for the future.”Hemstreet joined Kromatid in 202
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Strengthening Collaborative Governance in New York City
Local Progress
KEYWORD SCORE: 21.47. budget, city council, civil rights, enforcement, housing, immigration enforcement, infrastructure
Over six months, from September 2025 to March 2026, Local Progress Impact Lab’s Collaborative Governance Lab (CGL) successfully convened New York City Council Members, staff, and partners to strengthen relationships, deepen governing skills, and strengthen the infrastructure necessary for collaborative and effective governance. The cohort included a mix of five returning and five new Council Members. This mix of experiences created a powerful group dynamic in which returning members helped ground newer colleagues in how City Hall functions in practice, sharing lessons from prior legislative cy
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