Yellow Scene Magazine
KEYWORD SCORE: 99.91. affordable housing, black, boulder, boulder county, colorado, development, election, enforcement, housing, jena griswold, mayor, michael bennet, pearl street, petition, phil weiser, progressive, racial profiling, refugee, single-family, small business, tenant
*Editorial endorsements are a longstanding function of journalism. Yet as media has consolidated and nonprofit restrictions have reshaped the industry, fewer newsrooms continue the practice.* *Yellow Scene believes election endorsements remain an important public service. Our editorial board debates the issues, examines policy and records in depth, and does not lightly arrive at endorsement decisions, particularly in closely contested races. This guide focuses on races within Yellow Scene’s Boulder County and North Metro coverage region rather than attempting to cover every contest statewide.
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KGNU News
KEYWORD SCORE: 98.78. boulder, boulder county, colorado, cu-boulder, election, jena griswold, michael bennet, morning magazine, police, students, lgbtq
Headlines Tuesday, June 2, 2026 Polis signs conversion therapy law Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill yesterday allowing Coloradans to sue for damages from “conversion therapy.” Starting in July, HB 26-1322, Civil Actions for Conversion Therapy Survivors, will provide Coloradans who have been subject to harmful conversion therapy with legal pathways under current medical malpractice laws. Polis also signed an Executive Order directing all state agencies to ensure no state funding goes towards conversion therapy. Mental health and medical organizations, including the American Psychological Associat
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Colorado Sun
KEYWORD SCORE: 76.56. accessory dwelling unit, adus, budget, clean energy, collective bargain, colorado, development, election, electric vehicle, enforcement, housing, mayor, michael bennet, multimodal, parking minimum, phil weiser, police, public health, rent control, rent-control, renter, tabor, transit, transit-oriented, transportation, zoning, zoning code
Two Democrats are facing off in Colorado’s Democratic primary for governor on June 30: U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and Attorney General Phil Weiser. *Michael Bennet, 61, *was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 2009 by then-Gov. Bill Ritter. He was reelected in 2010, 2016 and 2022. He briefly ran for president in 2020. Before his appointment to the Senate, Bennet was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, chief of staff to then-Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and worked on investments for the billionaire Anschutz family. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Yale Law School. *Phil Weiser, 58,*
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Boulder Colorado Release
KEYWORD SCORE: 54.84. boulder, boulder county, city of boulder, colorado, penfield tate, social justice, taishya adams
City of Boulder's 2026 Juneteenth Celebration to Feature Flag Raising, Community Remarks, and Downtown Events Colorful Grunge Juneteenth Instagram Post (Facebook Ad).png cipletj@boulde… Tue, 06/02/2026 - 14:43 Jun 02, 2026 *Event marks beginning of week-long Juneteenth festivities featuring "13 Fires" theater production and community panels.* The City of Boulder invites residents to join its Annual Juneteenth Flag Raising and Commemoration on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Penfield Tate II Municipal Building, located at 1777 Broadway. The free celebration will feature
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Denverite
KEYWORD SCORE: 50.09. apartment, colorado, development, duplex, enforcement, eviction, homelessness, housing, housing policy, mayor, petition, police, progressive, rent control, renter, single-family
Two candidates aiming to replace state Sen. Julie Gonzales debated rent stabilization and political experience at a community forum Monday night. Chela Garcia Irlando is a mom and executive director for an environmental nonprofit. Andres Carrera has worked for several Denver politicians, including Mayor Mike Johnston. They both want to represent Colorado Senate District 34, which covers downtown Denver and about 166,000 people. The forum at Hearthstone Cohousing was attended by about 50 people, with a focus on housing policy. The two diverged on one issue: rent stabilization. Carrera said he o
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Colorado Sun
KEYWORD SCORE: 49.89. air quality, ballot measure, black, boulder, boulder county, city council, clean energy, colorado, commission, development, housing, land use, lawsuit, mayor, moratorium, petition, public health, traffic, transportation
[image: Silhouetted oil pump jacks against a sunset sky, with hills in the background.] Colorado’s oil and gas wars broke more than two decades ago as the industry and local communities found themselves at loggerheads over the race to pull fossil fuels from lands stretching from the Utah border to the Kansas state line. Twenty years on it looks like the battle still has legs. The most recent skirmish broke out in March when Conservation Colorado filed four ballot measures aimed at tightening oil and gas operators’ liability for damages and cleanup of contaminated groundwater. The volley was in
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9 News Denver
KEYWORD SCORE: 45.33. boulder, boulder county, colorado, pearl street, pearl street mall, students
Boulder Students for Justice in Palestine, which CU stripped of its recognized status, called the Pearl Street Mall attack a case of "chickens coming home to roost." To stream 9NEWS on your phone, you need the 9NEWS app.Next up in 5Example video title will go here for this videoNext up in 5Example video title will go here for this videoBOULDER, Colo. — Exactly one year after the antisemitic firebombing attack on Boulder's Pearl Street Mall that killed 82-year-old Karen Diamond and injured more than a dozen others, a group claiming to be made up of Boulder college students put out a social medi
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Boulder Reporting Lab
KEYWORD SCORE: 40.41. boulder, colorado, gender-affirming, pearl street, pearl street mall, transgender, lgbtq
Boulder officials and community members gathered this week on the Pearl Street Mall to raise a Pride flag on the first day of Pride Month, using the occasion partially as a call to action against threats to LGBTQ rights at the ballot box and in the courts. The celebration came as two Colorado measures are set to appear on the ballot this year that would restrict the rights of transgender children. One would prevent them from receiving gender-affirming surgeries and the other would prohibit them from playing in school sports. Additionally, Mardi Moore, CEO of Rocky Mountain Equality, flagged an
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Streetsblog Net
KEYWORD SCORE: 38.20. abolition, cars, development, housing, infrastructure, safe streets, traffic, transit, transportation
On April 20, the Federal Highway Administration launched its “Freedom to Drive” initiative, asking governors to nominate their worst traffic bottlenecks for federal capacity expansion. On May 17, House transportation leaders released the draft BUILD America 250 Act — a $580 billion, five-year surface transportation reauthorization, which the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee marked up on May 21. Taken together, the two announcements amount to the largest federal sprawl subsidy in a generation, proposed at exactly the moment American households can least afford it. There is a re
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Boulder Reporting Lab
KEYWORD SCORE: 37.80. black, boulder, boulder county, colorado
After one of Colorado’s driest winters on record, Boulder County farmers spent months preparing for what many feared would be a devastating growing season. Recent rains have brought some relief, but much of the region remains in severe drought, and many local growers say the moisture came too late to fundamentally change their plans for the summer. Across Boulder County, farms are shrinking CSA programs, cutting staff, reducing acreage and shifting toward crops that require less water. Farmers say shoppers will still find local produce at markets this summer, but less of it — and with fewer of
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Denver Westword
KEYWORD SCORE: 36.27. cars, cdot, city council, colorado, development, enforcement, homelessness, housing, housing and urban development, mayor, point in time count, point-in-time count, police, shelter, unhoused
[image: A homeless encampment sweep in denver] Locals are skeptical of the Point in Time count's accuracy. The post Denver says homelessness is down historically… Some disagree appeared first on Denver Westword. June is bustin’ out all over: A dozen things to do in Denver (and beyond) this weekBennito L. KeltyAudio By CarbonatixMayor Mike Johnston recently claimed that Denver experienced the “largest drop in any city in American history” in homelessness. But some people who work directly with those living on the street disagree.The annual Point-In-Time Count — a regional headcount of all homel
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Vox - Policy
KEYWORD SCORE: 36.16. abolition, ballot measure, budget, collective bargain, election, lawsuit, mayor, moratorium, progressive
[image: Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ] The business climate is a major factor in a huge fight currently splitting Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger from progressives — data centers. | Mike Kropf/Richmond Times-Dispatch via Getty After Abigail Spanberger’s landslide election win in Virginia last November, she’d hoped to govern as she’d campaigned — rising above the partisan fray and focused on affordability. It hasn’t worked out that way. Key takeaways - Abigail Spanberger won Virginia’s governorship in a landslide, but the right turned on her quickly due to redistricting, and now the left i
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BOLTSmag
KEYWORD SCORE: 34.59. black, civil rights, election, lawsuit, special election, voting rights
*This story was produced in a collaboration between Bolts and The Marshall Project – Jackson, a nonprofit news team covering Mississippi’s criminal justice systems. Sign up for Bolts‘ newsletter and The Marshall Project’s.* In 2022, Dyamone White, then in her late 20s, filed a lawsuit in federal court arguing that Black voters like her didn’t have a fair chance to elect justices to the Mississippi Supreme Court. Three years later, she won a significant victory. A federal judge ruled that Mississippi Supreme Court election districts violated the Voting Rights Act and that Black candidates who w
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Colorado Sun
KEYWORD SCORE: 33.45. boulder, child care, colorado, commission, development, housing, infrastructure
Teacher Appreciation Week wrapped up last month, and Colorado educators got the usual thank-you cards, gift bags and schoolwide breakfasts. Here is what would actually make a Colorado early-childhood teacher feel appreciated: A paycheck that covers rent every week of the year. Colorado has already invested heavily in early childhood. In 2020, voters passed Proposition EE, dedicating nicotine-tax revenue to early-childhood programs. In 2022, lawmakers created a cabinet-level Department of Early Childhood. In 2023, Universal Preschool launched, giving tens of thousands of 4-year-olds a no-cost s
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Colorado Sun
KEYWORD SCORE: 33.23. boulder, budget, colorado, election, lawsuit, phil weiser
A federal judge in Denver on Monday blocked federal officials from breaking up Boulder’s National Center for Atmospheric Research by handing over a renowned supercomputing center to the University of Wyoming, in a 38-page injunction raking the Trump administration for enacting political revenge on Colorado. Senior U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson issued an injunction because the National Science Foundation divesting the supercomputing center was “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law,” according to the ruling. Jackson said his injunction wa
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Denver Westword
KEYWORD SCORE: 30.94. city council, colorado, landmark, lawsuit, pearl street, police, racial discrimination, lgbtq
[image: stained glass art of a naked woman] All of Denver’s lesbian bars are gone. But their roots endure, as does the city's sapphic community. The post Inside Denver’s lost lesbian bars appeared first on Denver Westword . June is bustin’ out all over: A dozen things to do in Denver (and beyond) this weekThe Center on ColfaxAudio By CarbonatixAt one point, Denver had five bars central to queer women. Since the late ‘90s, that number has shriveled to a heartbreaking zero, with Denver’s last lesbian bar, The Pearl, shutting its doors in April.Though quieter now, Denver’s gay bar scene used to b
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Colorado Public Radio
KEYWORD SCORE: 28.48. colorado, enforcement, housing, housing crisis, housing policy, immigration enforcement, michael bennet, single family, unhoused
Before the Memorial Day recess, the U.S. House passed a housing reform package — again. “I think this is a meaningful step forward in making it easier to build homes, increasing the inventory and supply of housing and lowering the cost for hardworking families,” said GOP Rep. Jeff Hurd. The bipartisan package has more than four dozen housing bills — from speeding up the process to build new homes and updating rules for manufactured houses to streamlining duplicative federal housing requirements and loosening up restrictions on community banking to increase lending for home construction. There
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9 News Denver
KEYWORD SCORE: 27.75. budget, colorado, commission, election, enforcement, immigration enforcement, michael bennet, phil weiser, students, transgender
On June 30, Republican primary voters will choose between state Rep. Scott Bottoms, state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer and ministry leader Victor Marx. To stream 9NEWS on your phone, you need the 9NEWS app.Next up in 5Example video title will go here for this videoNext up in 5Example video title will go here for this videoDENVER — For the first and only time, all three Republican candidates running for governor — state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer, state Rep. Scott Bottoms, and ministry leader Victor Marx — participated in a televised debate Tuesday night. Marx is the frontrunner and a first-time candidate. Thi
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SCOTUS Blog
KEYWORD SCORE: 26.69. budget, covid-19, election, mayor, pandemic, petition, transgender
Reminder: Each Wednesday, SCOTUSblog’s Amy Howe answers your questions about the court in a section called Ask Amy. Send your queries to scotu...@thedispatch.com. At the Court On Monday, the court added a new case on the First Step Act to its oral argument docket for the 2026-27 term, sent a death-row inmate’s case back to the lower courts for additional proceedings, and turned down a request from Florida to file an original action against California challenging the constitutionality of a California corporate tax rule. For more on Monday’s order list, see the On Site section below. Alabama h Share via:
Next City
KEYWORD SCORE: 26.27. black, budget, commission, development, inequality, public works, traffic
Ronnie Jefferies paints the parking lot at Science, Arts and Entrepreneurship School to help cool it by making it more reflective, Sept. 4, 2024, in Mableton, Georgia. (File photo by Mike Stewart / AP) At the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission headquarters in Virginia, staff knew their crumbling asphalt parking lot was in desperate need of repair. But instead of replacing the lot with more dark blacktop, the group chose an alternative. The new parking lot, completed last year, includes porous concrete panels and areas with native plants and recycled materials to make the lot cooler and
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Yellow Scene Magazine
KEYWORD SCORE: 26.03. colorado, development, homelessness, human services
*Press releases are provided to Yellow Scene Magazine. In an effort to keep our community informed, we publish some press releases in whole.* *MEDIA CONTACT:* *Julie Popp* *Colorado Department of Human Services* *julie...@state.co.us* *720-788-1307* *Colorado Celebrates National Reunification Month with Nearly 1,400 Children Reunited in 2025* *“Hope, Healing and Home” Event to Honor Families at Elitch Gardens on June 5, 2026* *DENVER, CO [June 1, 2026]—* June is National Reunification Month, a time to recognize the families that have overcome significant obstacles to safely bring their child Share via:
Colorado Sun
KEYWORD SCORE: 25.70. colorado, colorado supreme court, election, jena griswold, michael bennet, phil weiser, prison reform
*PUEBLO —* Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk convicted of orchestrating a security breach of her county’s election system, was released Monday morning from a state prison, Colorado corrections officials said. Alondra Gonzalez, a state Department of Corrections spokesperson, said officials won’t say when she was released or provide details about her whereabouts or plans upon release. But conditions of her parole, obtained by The Colorado Sun through a records request, show that Peters must seek her parole officer’s permission before leaving the state. The conditions don’t state what typ
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9 News Denver
KEYWORD SCORE: 21.31. black, city council, election, human services, mayor, petition, tabor, tenant
Click here for the latest results as political parties in six states select U.S. Senate, House and governor candidates. WASHINGTON — Six states are holding primary elections Tuesday, June 2.Here are key races to watch in California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota, including live election results starting Tuesday evening and which candidates have been endorsed by President Donald Trump.If you can't see any of the maps below, click here. Refresh often for the latest numbers. These results are compiled by the Associated Press. More in Politics Voters in California will nar
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