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Citizens suing Boulder police over Flock cameras; Governor’s office lays off 100+ IT staff; Polis signs abortion medication on college campuses bill
KGNU News
KEYWORD SCORE: 85.78. boulder, boulder police department, city of boulder, colorado, denver and boulder, employment, enforcement, infrastructure, lawsuit, morning magazine, police, students, transportation
Headlines Friday, May 29, 2026 *Citizens suing Boulder police over Flock cameras* Yesterday, two citizens filed a class-action lawsuit against the Boulder Police Department, alleging BPD uses Flock license plate cameras to illegally surveil people without probable cause. The plaintiffs, Gwen Steel and William Freeman, argue the department’s use of its 31 Flock cameras violates the state constitution’s provision against searches and seizures without a warrant. Freeman says he requested all Flock records of his own vehicle and was denied the records by police records specialist Dawn VanAckeren.
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KGNU begins a new chapter
KGNU News
KEYWORD SCORE: 66.04. boulder, downtown boulder, kgnu news, morning magazine
Listeners: Top listeners: KGNU Broadcast Live On-Air 8:30 am - 9:30 am 9:30 am - 12:00 pm 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm KGNU begins a new chapter KGNU News It’s been one week since KGNU cut the ribbon on its “Gnu” Community Media and Cultural Center in downtown Boulder.More than 700 community members gathered to celebrate KGNU’s 48th birthday, cut the ribbon on the new building, and reflect on how far KGNU has come since its first broadcast in 1978.The new move comes at a time when many public media organizations, including ours, are dealing with the impacts of federal funding cuts. But with support from
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New journalism foundation launches on Colorado's Western Slope to bolster local news
Inside the News in Colorado
KEYWORD SCORE: 65.70. amicus brief, boulder, boulder county, budget, city council, city manager, colorado, development, election, homelessness, housing, pandemic, petition, police, progressive, students
A group of veteran journalists and their advocates on Colorado’s Western Slope has banded together to launch a nonprofit foundation they hope will lead to more robust journalism in the region. “We believe that unbiased news should be the standard — not the exception,” reads a blurb on the home page for the Western Colorado Journalism Foundation. The new 501(c)(3) organization, which launched this week, states: “We directly fund reporting that serves the public interest: delivering facts, context, and accountability that strengthen communities, and democracy, from the ground up.” One of the fou
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The Weekly Wrap: Seattle Social Housing Developer Is Making Its First Acquisition
Next City
KEYWORD SCORE: 61.98. affordable housing, apartment, co-op, covid-19, enforcement, fares, homelessness, housing, immigration enforcement, land use, mayor, social justice, tenant, transit
[image: The Weekly Wrap] The Seattle Social Housing Developer's board unanimously approved its purchase of the Elara at the Market apartment complex, which is situated across the street from Seattle’s iconic Pike Place Market. (Photo by Jason Leung / Unsplash) *Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap, our Friday roundup of stories that explain the problems oppressing people in cities and elevate the solutions that bring us closer to economic, environmental, and social justice. If you enjoy this newsletter, share it with a friend or colleague and tell them to subscribe.* ------------------------------
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The NYPD Has Final Say on Civilian Oversight. Will That Change Under Mamdani?
BOLTSmag
KEYWORD SCORE: 60.52. black, budget, buses, city council, commission, development, enforcement, latino, lawsuit, mayor, police, police reform, tenant, traffic
New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, the watchdog agency that oversees the New York Police Department, consistently touts its independence—“independent agency” is the first descriptor on all of the board’s official communications. The board, which investigates instances of alleged misconduct by officers and votes on whether to recommend discipline, is led by 15 civilian members who, in theory, represent democratic control over the police. But in practice, the department retains control over virtually every step of the civilian review process, even right up to the final one, where t
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Governor Polis Sides With Billionaires Over Workers
Yellow Scene Magazine
KEYWORD SCORE: 58.64. boulder, colorado, election, housing, michael bennet, phil weiser, progressive, unionize
*Press releases are provided to Yellow Scene Magazine. In an effort to keep our community informed, we publish some press releases in whole.* *MEDIA RELEASE* *May 29, 2026* *Contact: Jenny Davies, 720-296-9545, je...@progressive-promotions.com* *Governor Polis Sides with Billionaires Over Workers* *Confirms he will veto Worker Protection Act* *DENVER* – Today, Governor Jared Polis confirmed he will veto the Worker Protection Act (HB26-1005), siding with billionaire CEOs and corporate lobbyists over Colorado’s working families. The bill would have removed an unnecessary and harmful second elect
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Local Progress
KEYWORD SCORE: 55.52. black, budget, city council, development, election, enforcement, homelessness, housing, immigration enforcement, infrastructure, mayor, police, progressive, public education, public health, voting rights
[image: Local Progress + Local Progress Impact Lab Network Download] *[image: ������] Make your Voice Heard: Not One More Dollar for ICE! * *Congress went home last week without passing the reconciliation bill that would have given an additional $70 billion to support the Trump Administration’s mass deportation agenda. We have now until June 1 to build momentum to **ensure not one more dollar** goes to terrorizing our communities. *NOW is the time to make your voice and the voices of your community heard. We need to be loud and clear about the way ICE is abusing our neighbors, ripping our families
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The Week Observed: May 29, 2026
City Observatory
KEYWORD SCORE: 51.16. affordable housing, commission, farebox, housing, housing policy, pandemic, traffic, transit, transportation, zoning
What City Observatory Did This Week Investment Grade Analyses still overstate traffic and revenue on tolled roadways. The Interstate Bridge Replacement (IBR) project’s newly released Investment Grade Analysis (IGA) reveals that the proposed $15 billion project is a massive waste of public funds. Despite the IBR public relations team’s efforts to spin these results as a “fiscally conservative, worst-case scenario,” the sophisticated, government-required Level 3 data paints a bleak picture of the project’s utility: with a proposed $4.60 toll on I-5, daily traffic will crater from 127,000 vehicle
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SAVE THE MERC: A fight for community
KGNU News
KEYWORD SCORE: 49.56. colorado, kgnu news, morning magazine, transit
- [image: cover] *play_arrow* SAVE THE MERC: A fight for community KGNU News By Lily Sharp The Jamestown Mercantile has been a staple of Jamestown, Colorado, for over a century. KGNU’s Lily Sharp sat down with Rainbow Schultz, owner and manager at the Merc, to learn more about the fight to save this community space. Right now, the fate of The Merc is in the hands of its community. The building’s owner has plans to sell the space for $1.5 million. Schultz has created a nonprofit under the name SAVE THE MERC to come up with the money needed to purchase the building and keep The Merc running. The
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Gov. Polis vetoes first bills of the Colorado session
Colorado Public Radio
KEYWORD SCORE: 40.36. boulder, budget, colorado, enforcement, students, tabor, the hop
Gov. Jared Polis has vetoed his first round of bills from the 2026 legislative session, including a measure that would require social media companies to work more closely with law enforcement regarding content that violates a platform’s policies. It was among four vetoes Polis issued on Thursday. House Bill 1255 was sponsored in the wake of last year’s Evergreen High School shooting, after Jefferson County officials learned that the shooter had posted disturbing and credible warning signs on TikTok months before the attack. The bill would have required social media platforms to notify law enfo
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SAVE THE MERC: A fight for community
KGNU News
KEYWORD SCORE: 36.70. colorado, kgnu news, morning magazine, transit
Listeners: Top listeners: KGNU Broadcast Live On-Air 8:30 am - 9:30 am 9:30 am - 12:00 pm 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm SAVE THE MERC: A fight for community KGNU News By Lily SharpThe Jamestown Mercantile has been a staple of Jamestown, Colorado, for over a century. KGNU’s Lily Sharp sat down with Rainbow Schultz, owner and manager at the Merc, to learn more about the fight to save this community space.Right now, the fate of The Merc is in the hands of its community. The building’s owner has plans to sell the space for $1.5 million. Schultz has created a nonprofit under the name SAVE THE MERC to come up
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Jury duty for a justice
SCOTUS Blog
KEYWORD SCORE: 35.09. black, colorado, election, enforcement, infrastructure, landmark, lawsuit, mayor, petition, police, racial discrimination
Believe it or not, Supreme Court justices sometimes have jury duty. Justice Sonia Sotomayor “was among the nearly 250 city residents who reported for jury duty at the D.C. Superior Court” on Tuesday, according to The New York Times. “By noon, the jury office had notified the justice that she would not be needed,” but she stuck around “to have lunch with some of the judges.” At the Court On Thursday, the court released its opinions in *Fernandez v. United States*, *Rutherford v. United States*, *Pitchford v. Cain*, and *Flowers Foods v. Brock*. - In *Fernandez*, which was decided 8-1, the court
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Boulder Antiwar Activists Return to BAE Systems to Protest War Profiteering
Yellow Scene Magazine
KEYWORD SCORE: 34.94. boulder, colorado, housing, infrastructure
*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* *Lisa Kunkel, Boulder Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Anti-Imperialism Committee* *Email: lisagkun...@gmail.com* *For Immediate Release* *May 28, 2026* *Boulder Antiwar Activists Return to BAE Systems to Protest War Profiteering* *On May 29th, Boulder DSA is calling on community members to protest BAE Systems at 1600 Commerce Street in Boulder to draw attention to its role in the War in Iran and Lebanon* This Friday, May 29,
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Jared Polis once again vetoes bill that would make it easier for Colorado unions to organize
Colorado Sun
KEYWORD SCORE: 34.38. civil rights, collective bargain, colorado, election, michael bennet, phil weiser, unionize
[image: The Unaffiliated — All politics, no agenda.] ------------------------------ Gov. Jared Polis on Friday vetoed — for the second year in a row — a bill that would have made it easier for unions to organize in Colorado. House Bill 1005 would have abolished a requirement in the Colorado Labor Peace Act, a decades-old law unique to the state, that 75% of workers at a company sign off before unions can negotiate with businesses over union security. That’s after a majority of workers vote to unionize. Union security is the term for when workers are forced to pay fees for collective bargaining
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Federal prosecutors still weighing death penalty for Boulder firebomber
Colorado Public Radio
KEYWORD SCORE: 34.08. boulder, pearl street, pearl street mall
Federal prosecutors on Friday told a judge that they were continuing to weigh pursuing the death penalty for the man convicted of firebombing peaceful pro-Israeli demonstrators last year on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall – and were working to delay his family’s deportation so they could participate in the criminal justice process. Last June, Mohamed Soliman, 46, threw makeshift Molotov cocktails towards a group of peaceful demonstrators on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall, killing a woman and injuring more than a dozen others. Soliman pleaded guilty earlier this month to state charges and was sentence
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Jared Polis once again vetoes bill that would make it easier for Colorado unions to organize
Colorado Public Radio
KEYWORD SCORE: 30.64. collective bargain, colorado, election, michael bennet, phil weiser, unionize
This story was produced as part of the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. It first appeared at coloradosun.com . By Jesse Paul Gov. Jared Polis on Friday vetoed — for the second year in a row — a bill that would have made it easier for unions to organize in Colorado. House Bill 1005 would have abolished a requirement in the Colorado Labor Peace Act , a decades-old law unique to the state, that 75% of workers at a company sign off before unions can negotiate with businesses over union security . That’s after a majority of workers vote to unionize. Union security is the term for when workers are fo
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How to grow chiles on the Front Range
KGNU News
KEYWORD SCORE: 28.74. kgnu news, morning magazine
Listeners: Top listeners: KGNU Broadcast Live On-Air 8:30 am - 9:30 am 9:30 am - 12:00 pm 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm How to grow chiles on the Front Range KGNU News Rich Pecoraro of MASA Seed Foundation brings us this advice on growing chiles:Chiles like fertile, well-balanced soil. If they lack in nutrients, the plant will not start off strong. And if it doesn’t get off to a good, strong start, oftentimes it’s hard to bring it back around. So make sure you have a good balanced potting soil when you start and get those plants started early enough inside. Keep them warm — somewhere between 75 and 80 de
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Climate scientists drop worst-case warming scenario, but say it's not entirely good news
Denver 7 News
KEYWORD SCORE: 28.08. boulder, colorado
Climate scientists are retiring a worst-case global warming scenario that has guided research and policy for more than a decade, saying modest gains in the fight against climate change have made the most catastrophic outcome implausible but experts warn the picture is still far from rosy. A new report shows that increasing use of renewable energy has lowered the ceiling on future carbon pollution projections, making the most extreme warming scenario no longer plausible. However, scientists say the gains have not come fast enough to meet the international climate goal set in 2015. Dr. Max Boyko
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Judge asserts authority to stop deportation of Pearl Street Mall attacker’s family
Denver 7 News
KEYWORD SCORE: 28.06. boulder, pearl street, pearl street mall
A federal judge Friday gave attorneys more time before making a final ruling on a motion to block the deportation of the Boulder Pearl Street Mall attackers family, but told prosecutors he had jurisdiction to step in if the family was detained. Mohamed Soliman, 46, the man charged in federal court with multiple hate crimes for the June 1, 2025 attack on a group of peaceful protesters demanding the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza, filed a motion on May 3 to block his familys deportation. *Watch the latest on this story in the video below:* Judge asserts authority to stop deportation of Pear
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From San Luis Valley to Vail, Latino labor powers Colorado’s economy
Denver Westword
KEYWORD SCORE: 26.27. cars, colorado, development, diversity, hispanic, latino, public education, racial discrimination, small business
[image: Mexican migrant workers harvest crops in an Arizona field] Latinos have always been a part of Colorado's story. Here's how they helped drive the economy and contributed to its lifestyle. The post From San Luis Valley to Vail, Latino labor powers Colorado’s economy appeared first on Denver Westword. Get outside: Raise the roof at Stellar Jay, and more things to do in Denver todayFlickr/Peter HadenAudio By CarbonatixIn Colorado, a national debate about the role of Latinos in American society has deep roots in the state’s history, current identity — and future.I’m a professor of ethnic st
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Gov. Polis vetoes 4 bills passed by Colorado Legislature
Colorado Newsline
KEYWORD SCORE: 24.19. budget, colorado, election, enforcement, students, sustainability, traffic
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks at the Colorado Capitol on March 13, 2025. (Photo by Sara Wilson/Colorado Newsline) Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday vetoed four bills the Colorado Legislature passed this year, including one that was part of the Joint Budget Committee’s efforts to cut down the state’s budget. They were his first vetoes from the 2026 legislative session. House Bill 26-1355 would have cut in half the state’s allocation for the final year of a grant program that funds out-of-school programs for K-12 students like the Boys and Girls Club. It’s one of many programs that faced
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Massive 300-foot U.S. flag draped over Hoover Dam for America's 250th anniversary
9 News Denver
KEYWORD SCORE: 23.66. boulder, infrastructure, public works
The Hoover Dam, built during the Great Depression, is one of the nation's biggest infrastructure achievements. WASHINGTON — A massive 300-foot-wide, 150-foot-tall American flag has been draped over the Hoover Dam in Nevada as part of the celebration for America's 250th anniversary. The installation went up on Memorial Day to honor the men and women who gave their lives in service to the country, and will light up each night until July 4. The display uses more than 550 automated LED lights and is completely powered by the dam's hydroelectricity. More in Nation world According to officials, the
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Colorado's drought isn't over: What a record-bad winter means for rivers, agriculture and wildfire risk
Denver 7 News
KEYWORD SCORE: 23.47. boulder, colorado
DENVER Despite recent rainfall, severe drought is persisting across Colorado, and the state climatologist is warning that "the stage is set" for a dangerous wildfire season and a difficult year for agriculture and river flow. After a wet week for much of the state, Denver7 spoke with Colorado State Climatologist Russ Schumacher, also a Colorado State University professor to learn more. *WATCH: Our full interview with the Colorado state climatologist below.* Full interview: What a record-bad winter means for rivers, agriculture and wildfire risk People tend to focus on recent memory and what th
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