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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 08/10/2026

Know before you vote. See what’s on your ballot. Then explore what some of those choices could mean for Colorado. Build-your-own-ballot: coloradonewsline.com/2026/08/31/s... Colorado Tradeoffs: coloradonewsline.com/2026/08/30/c... Voter guide: coloradonewsline.com/voter-guides...

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Chris Bianchi @bianchiweather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is both Colorado’s and Denver’s hottest start to a year on record (Jan-Sept), and it’s not even close. Statewide temps so far in 2026 are 1.6° warmer than 2012, a blowout for warmest year-to-date on record. The influence of a warming climate is clear on the chart below.

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

All the attention Marx gets for other wild aspects of his run for governor has obscured an essential quality of his campaign, the one that could be the most disastrous were he to become the chief executive of Colorado: his extreme faith.

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Do you mean the build-your-own-ballot tool? I am interested to hear if it's not working properly for you, if you care to email me at quentin@coloradonewsline.com.

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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 05/10/2026

The Newsline voter guide gives you everything you need to cast a ballot in the 2026 general election. It also contains two special features: Build-your-own-ballot (just enter your address) and Colorado Tradeoffs (test your choices, see the implications).

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Voter Guide: 2026 Colorado general election • Colorado

From Colorado Newsline | Start with the truth

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The ICE detention center in Aurora will remain a stain on the state for a very long time. That's why last year I called it the Bastille of Colorado. It's "an intolerable trespass on the people’s conscience." coloradonewsline.com/2025/04/24/i...

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Government investigators released a report that found the Department of Homeland Security wasted more than $20 million in federal funding in its rapid expansion of immigration detention, including warehouse purchases strongly opposed in numerous U.S. communities. By @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social

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Millions of dollars of waste found in Trump administration push for immigration detention | Colorado Newsline

The Trump administration wasted more than $20 million in its rapid expansion of immigration detention, a new report says.

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A Colorado SOS press release today seeks to "assure" voters that mail ballots will be fine this year. But amid relentless MAGA attacks on mail ballots and Trump meddling, like private "security guards" deployed to a huge Denver mail facility, she says nothing specific to substantiate the assurances.

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Piper Hutchinson @piperhutch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Come apply to be my coworker and help us cover the most interesting state politics in the nation!

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Reporter, Louisiana Illuminator • States Newsroom

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 18/09/2026

Commentary: Advance Colorado, a "dark money" group, has warped an expression of direct democracy into an oligarchic veto on democracy, and it threatens to do lasting damage in the state.

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This secretive group warps democracy in Colorado | Colorado Newsline

In Colorado, "citizen" too often means a secretive group of rich conservatives out to reshape state law in their image.

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Colorado has a supreme court that will unilaterally exempt itself from a transparency law enacted by a legislature that exempted itself from the state opening meetings law.

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Nope. Low snowpack, wildfires and drought (climate change) are to blame, according to CPW. Read the piece.

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"... and then explain why it's relevant."

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Say what you're really trying to say, and then explain why it's relevant.

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In light of two more Colorado bear attacks in recent days amid an extraordinary number of bear encounters this year, re-posting this commentary from earlier this month: Bear attacks in Colorado are climate attacks.

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Bear attacks in Colorado are climate attacks | Colorado Newsline

Colorado wildlife managers have failed to be forthright in citing a key reason for adverse conditions for bears: global warming.

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I had to look that one up. It was Rep. Dave Schultheis, quite a character who once compared Obama to the Flight 93 hijackers.

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Voters in 30 municipalities along the planned route of the CoCo rail service between Pueblo and Fort Collins will decide the question of funding for the train. Colorado hasn’t had regular intercity passenger rail service since the early 1970s.

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Gov. Jared Polis orders flags to fly at half staff in Colorado to honor Dolly Parton on the day of her memorial service. "When I was first elected to Congress and drove to DC, we played Dolly Parton songs the whole way and spent the night in Dollywood, a truly amazing place," he said in a statement.

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This on-the-ground reporting from the Western Slope really brings home the severity of the water crisis in the Southwest. "Being in this area all my life, this has been the worst that I’ve seen," Philip Rossi, a Routt County rancher, told Newsline.

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A multistate tax escrow is just one form of “soft secession” Colorado can pursue in resistance to an enemy federal government. The alternative is for Coloradans to do nothing while the administration retaliates against them with their own tax dollars.

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You could make a strong argument that the origin of the term "jamgrass" is in Colorado (Leftover, Yonder)

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Michael Karlik @michaelkarlik.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Colorado responds to the DOJ motion to stay by apologizing to Judge Jackson for the "waste" of time, and complains the govt. has missed deadlines & withheld information: "These endless delays need to stop. Defendants should be promptly complying with the unchallenged portions of this Court’s order."

Plaintiff apologizes that this Court needs to waste its time on a motion that clearly ought
to have been resolved between the parties. When Defendants decided to forgo any further
briefing or reconsideration this afternoon (after repeatedly switching positions), they demanded a
position on their motion in less than two hours.
Plaintiff agrees—and has been clear with Defendants from the outset—that Defendants’
objections with respect to EOP should be resolved in an orderly manner.1
Plaintiff has repeatedly
assured Defendants that it will not attempt to enforce any discovery obligations with respect to
EOP until there is a final resolution of this issue. That should have been the end of the matter,
and there was no reason to waste Court resources on a stay motion.

Plaintiff does not make this request lightly. Defendants have repeatedly missed discovery
deadlines, provided incomplete responses, and withheld information without basis. These delays
have made completing discovery by the original deadline impossible. Plaintiff is still waiting for
complete responses to discovery served in early May. With respect to the portions of the
discovery order that this Court entered which Defendants are not challenging, Defendants have
not supplemented any responses or produced any additional documents, nor have they even been
willing to provide a date certain by which they will do so. These endless delays need to stop.
Defendants should be promptly complying with the unchallenged portions of this Court’s order

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Thanks for your perspective. As I tried to argue in the piece, Rutinel's positions have changed beyond what I would call an evolution, and if his opponent has committed worse offenses that doesn't excuse Rutinel from accountability.

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

No context news: You better watch out for Harry J. Nicholas, "a notrious fraud, liar, swindler, drunkard and impostor," reported the Rocky Mountain News on Aug. 1, 1876.

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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 05/08/2026

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit from the Trump administration on Monday that sought to compel Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold to hand over sensitive voter information to the federal government. via @coloradonewsline.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/%E2%...

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Trump administration’s attempt to obtain Colorado voter data shut down by federal judge

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit from the Trump administration on Monday that sought to compel Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold to hand over sensitive voter information to the federal…

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Origin story: "The timing of Colorado’s admission into the union in 1876, weeks after the celebration of the nation’s centenary and just ahead of that year’s pivotal presidential election, was an overtly partisan maneuver by the GOP, which felt assured of the new state’s three electoral votes."

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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 30/07/2026

On Saturday, a major overhaul of how some gun sales work in Colorado will take effect. Customers will need to undergo a multi-step process to buy many popular semiautomatic firearms. Reporter @sarawilson.bsky.social explained how the new law works earlier this month.

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Colorado prepares overhaul of semiautomatic gun sales | Colorado Newsline

Coloradans who want to buy some of the most popular types of semiautomatic guns will soon need to complete safety training.

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Today's Fifty for 150 story, by @sarawilson.bsky.social, is about the beginnings of the Colorado State Fair, which was incorporated in Pueblo in 1886. coloradonewsline.com/2026/07/28/f...

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

There is a lot of nuance to the questions of who was first, but Colorado was the first state (not territory) to grant suffrage by popular vote (not executive or legislative action). Great article from History Colorado explains more: www.historycolorado.org/story/womens...

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Which State Had Women’s Suffrage First? | History Colorado

Which State Had Women’s Suffrage First? - This year, many are celebrating the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which extended suffrage by preventing states fro...

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The teacher who complained about the column, which addressed the "genocide" in Gaza, is faculty advisor for the school’s Young Conservatives club. In school emails he said the piece contained “outright racism,” “bigotry” and “Nazi propaganda."

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is, and I am not even joking, going to fuck up so many hyperlexic kids. I got accused of plagiarism because I used the word “porous” in a sixth grade paper and that shit sticks with you, if not on the permanent record, then in the childhood.

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Days before the June 30 primary, after GOP governor candidate Victor Marx made Colorado a laughingstock, Rep. Lauren Boebert started to qualify her endorsement of him. Then he won. Now she says she's "never been prouder of an endorsement in my life."

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The Newsline staff has put tons of work into this project, and the way I know it's worth it is that I learn something new about Colorado history every day we publish a new Fifty for 150 story. Amazing effort by @chasewoodruff.bsky.social @sarawilson.bsky.social and @lindseytoomer.bsky.social

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Bodycam footage shows a Wheat Ridge police officer, now terminated, pressing his gun to an already-restrained person's head and threatening, "I'll put a f***ing bullet in your head." The footage was obtained by @bluesurveillance.bsky.social bluesurveillance.org/reporting/wh...

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

checking in on the ICE detention center in Aurora today coloradonewsline.com

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Communities around the country have demonstrated that public pressure, legal challenges and municipal obstruction can be highly effective means of blocking new ICE detention facilities.

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

And the factors I said made Hick vulnerable track many of those that fueled Gonzales' strength: fury at DC, Hick's poor performance, his "misalignment with the electorate," his age and "the hazards of politicians overextending their service."

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lots of hand-wringing among Colorado journalists for not foreseeing how close Gonzales came to beating Hickenlooper. I could have done more to highlight the race. But in early 2025 I was saying Hick was "supremely vulnerable to a primary challenge." Few took it seriously then, not even candidates.

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Hickenlooper could be vulnerable to a strong primary challenge in 2026 | Colorado Newsline

Last week, as the U.S. Senate voted to approve President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Food and Drug Administration, Colorado’s junior senator “agonized” over what to do, he told a reporter. He vote...

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Stroud was denied funds to travel to the 1928 Olympic trials, almost certainly due to racism. So he walked, ran and hitchhiked from Colorado to Boston. He arrived with six hours to spare before his race started, but he collapsed from exhaustion on the sixth lap.

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Here's Domenico's letter as printed in the @dailycamera.com on March 11, 1992: coloradonewsline.com/wp-content/u...

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

In 1992, Domenico on 1A grounds defended CU football coach Bill McCartney after McCartney caused an uproar with a speech in which he said homosexuality is “an abomination against almighty God.” Domenico was notably silent on what he thought of McCartney’s bigotry.

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John Wenzel @johnwenzel.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Denver musicians! I'm writing for @denverpost.com about making ends meet as an artist, and wondering if anyone would let me shadow them at their dayjob(s) to show how hard folks have to work to get gigs and stage time and etc.? DM or email me (jwenzel@denverpost.com)

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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Today someone can walk into a gun shop and buy the guns covered by the new Colorado law without any training. That changes at the end of this month.

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Ashley Murray @ashleymurray.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Dozens of Patriot Front members just boarded metro minutes ago at the Eastern Market station in Washington, D.C. I asked one National Guard member who they were and they responded "protesters." A July 4th community parade is about to begin just outside the Eastern Market station.

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