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TexasTowelie's JournalPueblo rescue mission ceasing homeless services
As of midnight tonight, Pueblo once again will be without services for the homeless.
Jackie Jaramillo, president and CEO of The Pueblo Rescue Mission, confirmed that with the exception of regular office activities, the shelter located in the former Salvation Army headquarters on West 13th Street is ceasing operations.
"The only thing we will be able to do is offer bottled water and use of the rest rooms," Jaramillo said. "No more daily meal or showers or clothing handouts."
While the mission's warming shelter closed for good at the end of April, Jaramillo was in talks to purchase the building from the Salvation Army and establish a multi-faceted transitional homeless shelter later this year.
Read more: https://www.chieftain.com/news/pueblo/pueblo-rescue-mission-ceasing-homeless-services/article_e376f7b8-8056-524f-bcc9-7c5537867756.html
Southwest Airlines agent in Denver asked for proof that woman's biracial son was hers, coach says
LOS ANGELES — Southwest Airlines apologized Tuesday to the Cal women's basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb after she claimed an airline employee stopped her from boarding because the worker didn't believe her 1-year-old biracial son was hers.
A desk agent questioned Gottlieb ahead of a flight from Denver to Oakland Sunday, saying she "had to 'prove' that he was my son, despite having his passport," Gottlieb said in a series of tweets.
"She said because we have different last name. My guess is because he has a different skin color," Gottlieb tweeted Monday. The head coach from the University of California, Berkeley was traveling with her fiance, Patrick Martin, the boy's father, who is black.
Airlines aren't required to match the last name of a child and guardian for domestic flights.
Read more: http://gazette.com/southwest-airlines-agent-in-denver-asked-for-proof-that-womans-biracial-son-was-hers-coach-says/article/1626817
Incumbent Doug Lamborn skipping only debate in 5th Congressional District
A five-way race in the GOP primary in Congressional District 5 will have a four-way debate Thursday night at Woodland Park High School.
The name not on the roster is perhaps the best known: incumbent Doug Lamborn.
Why? It's not clear. Lamborn's camp "declined to participate," according to Erik Stone, chairman of the Teller County Republicans.
The debate, presented by the school's speech and debate team, is the only one scheduled before the June 26 primary.
Stone said he didn't know and couldn't speculate as to why Lamborn decided to skip it.
Read more: http://gazette.com/incumbent-doug-lamborn-skipping-only-debate-in-5th-congressional-district/article/1626864
Officials slam impact of legalized pot on Colorado Springs area
In the second announcement in two days, officials again made a case for how legalized marijuana has negatively impacted El Paso County.
Positioned in front of a pile of burlap sacks containing seized pot plants and sophisticated growing equipment, Sheriff Bill Elder, Colorado Springs Police Chief Pete Carey, 4th Judicial District Attorney Dan May and Drug Enforcement Administration Southeast Division Supervisor Tim Scott agreed that marijuana "is one of the biggest public safety challenges our region is facing today."
Elder made similar claims a day earlier when announcing sheriff's deputies have served more warrants so far this year - 64 - on illegal pot grows than all other crimes combined. Fifteen of those warrants were served in May, he said, and 11 in the last week.
"This is unprecedented," Elder said. "Marijuana has sidelined a lot of our (other) work."
Read more: http://gazette.com/officials-slam-impact-of-legalized-pot-on-colorado-springs-area/article/1626871
Needless to say, if you are targeting illegal grow operations then you are going to get more arrests. Perhaps the sheriff should concentrate on other criminal activities in the county.
Man arrested in hate-related stabbings of two gay men outside Denver nightclub
Denver police have arrested a 24-year-old man for investigation of first-degree assault in the attack on two gay men who were stabbed with a folding knife outside a nightclub early Sunday morning.
Dylan Payne is being held in the stabbings of 19-year-old Christopher Huizar and his 23-year-old boyfriend, according to police and online descriptions of the assault.
The Denver Police Department is investigating whether the attack was bias-motivated.
The men told investigators they were holding hands as they walked home from The Church nightclub, 1160 Lincoln St., when they were attacked, Denver police spokesman Sgt. John White said. The men ran and officers were called around 1 a.m. Sunday to help them at West 11th Avenue and Santa Fe Drive.
Read more: https://www.denverpost.com/2018/05/29/gay-men-stabbed-denver-church-nightclub/
"Why jeopardize her victory?": Gov. Hickenlooper says he's "really ... disappointed" by pro-Cary Kenne
“Why jeopardize her victory?”: Gov. Hickenlooper says he’s “really … disappointed” by pro-Cary Kennedy attack adGov. John Hickenlooper expressed disappointment Wednesday at an attack ad purchased on behalf of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cary Kennedy that blasts two of her opponents, saying it could jeopardize what looks to be a clear path to victory for her.
“Most polls I’d seen, it looked like Cary Kennedy was going to win anyway,” Hickenlooper said. “Why jeopardize her victory by turning this into a mudfest? I was disappointed.”
The ad goes after Kennedy’s rivals — Jared Polis and Mike Johnston — over their records on education. It accuses Polis, a Democratic congressman, of taking “money out of public schools” because he once supported a voucher program, and Johnston, a former state senator, of pushing “conservative anti-teacher laws” because he championed a bill that tied teacher evaluations to student progress (including testing).
The ad, purchased by the group Teachers for Kennedy, is a break from what otherwise has been a fairly positive battle for the Democratic nomination. It’s scheduled to run through the June 26 primary at a cost of more than $1.1 million, according to media trackers.
Read more: https://www.denverpost.com/2018/05/30/hickenlooper-on-cary-kennedy-attack-ad/
These Colorado Republicans Are Pushing the Limits of Anti-Immigrant and Race-Baiting Rhetoric
Walker Stapleton endorser Tom Tancredo has partnered with State Sen. Tim Neville (R-Littleton) and his son Joe Neville to promote political messaging that reflects the anti-immigrant rhetoric of President Trump and pushes the limits of limits of inflammatory and race-baiting statements.
The new Tancredo-fronted group, Citizens for Secure Borders, claims to be “dedicated to providing the public with information regarding key issues related to preserving and promoting the safety and security of the public.” The group’s 501(c)4 articles of incorporation lists the home of Sen. Neville as its “principal office street address.” Its three board members are Joe Neville and two of his employees at consulting firm Rearden Strategic. Both Aaron Yates and Brandon Wark, like Joe Neville himself, are former employees of Dudley Brown’s right-wing gun rights advocacy groups, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners & National Association of Gun Rights.
On May 22, Joe Neville shared a Citizens For Secure Borders post using an uncredited AFP news photograph of an MS-13 gang member. The image is the first result returned by a Google image search of “MS 13.” By crudely superimposing it on a fence with the sign “Please Do NOT Feed the Animals,” the meme embraces the degrading insult “animals” in reference to other human beings. The post’s text reinforces that concept with a tagline about “a trip to the zoo.” From there it’s a small leap to the commenter, (who identifies himself as the father of Rearden ally and state treasurer hopeful State Rep. Justin Everett (R-Littleton) who implies these people should be shot like rabid dogs.
Rearden Strategic is also responsible for another 501(c)4, Advancing Colorado, which has repeatedly created and promoted personal attacks as part of its own aggressive Facebook images, from pro-gun memes to the attack ads on fellow Republicans, including state treasurer contender Polly Lawrence and attorney general candidate George Brauchler.
Read more: http://www.coloradopols.com/diary/108545/these-colorado-republicans-are-pushing-the-limits-of-anti-immigrant-and-race-baiting-rhetoric#sthash.iciCHDw7.dpbs
Where's Walker? Colorado Treasurer MIA in Recent PERA Action
Colorado Treasurer Walker Stapleton-(R) has for years made headlines demanding changes to the Public Employees Retirement Association — but that doesn’t mean he has always bothered to show up to his job helping oversee the retirement system.
As treasurer, Stapleton is paid by taxpayers to serve on PERA’s board — yet between 2011 and 2016, he “attended only 53 percent of the PERA board meetings, and even when he was present, he often didn’t stay for the whole meeting,” according to the retiree group Secure PERA, which scoured the records. He even skipped PERA’s May 3 meeting to review the final pension reform legislation.
Stapleton is no stranger to questions about his attendance records — back in 2014, Democratic challenger Betsy Markey aired a television ad alleging that key-card records showed that he “only bothers showing up at his office around ten days a month.”
Now, as a gubernatorial candidate, Stapleton has flipped the script, citing his own absenteeism as a political defense. When asked by Colorado Public Radio if he’d urged Republicans to kill the pension reform bill that finally passed right before midnight on May 9, just before the close of the legislative session, Stapleton declared, “I was not physically even at the legislature. I think I was asleep by the time they finally passed the deal.”
Read more: http://www.westword.com/news/colorado-treasurer-walker-stapleton-is-mia-in-the-land-of-the-fee-10354062
Legislature Slashes Pension Benefits for Government Workers
Colorado lawmakers passed landmark legislation late Wednesday, May 9, reducing pension benefits for thousands of teachers and other government workers. But the measure also included language designed to give lawmakers more information about controversial investments that have delivered hundreds of millions of dollars in fees to Wall Street firms.
With the threat of such cuts looming, last month Senator Michael Bennet said that Colorado must consider a ballot measure to better fund the state's education system.
The narrow disclosure language in the pension bill — which still keeps fee details hidden from the general public — was added following our investigation showing that in recent years, Colorado's Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) has paid more than $1 billion in such fees even as the pension fund has delivered returns that have significantly trailed a low-fee stock index fund.
The bill slashes cost-of-living increases and requires higher pension contributions from educators, firefighters, cops and other public-sector workers covered by PERA. The changes — opposed by the state’s largest teachers' union and approved after recent teacher protests at the Colorado State Capitol — were designed to shore up the finances of PERA, which faces a $32 billion gap between what it has promised retirees and what it has in the bank.
Read more: http://www.westword.com/news/colorado-legislature-slashes-pension-benefits-for-government-workers-10300999
Yes, they're nurses. Yes, they're men.
Male nurses face the same kind of judgment, even discrimination, females seem to face in just about every other profession.
When Justin Tuell, Josh Lamarr and RW Collett went through nursing school, they had professors pull them aside, remind them Florence Nightingale didn't approve of male nurses and tell them they didn't have what it takes. When they enter a room, on the job, patients assume they're the doctors, or people wonder openly why they couldn't finish medical school. Many times, they're asked to move the heavier patients or quell the more combative ones.
But they have an answer for all this angst. They call it the Bro Row.
Even the name is inherently sexist. Imagine, said Lamarr, 31, if they said they worked with a bunch of chicks.
But they've embraced the name. They love the fact they have other male nurses in the Intensive Care Unit at North Colorado Medical Center, where they work 12-hour shifts that start at either 7 a.m. or 7 p.m. They hunt together, laugh with (and at) each other and support each other's hobbies, such as Collett's beer brewing that grew into him just opening the Tilted Barrel Brew Pub in Loveland. The two bet Collett, 37, they couldn't bring 100 employees of Banner Health to his opener. When he gladly lost that bet, Collett had to shave his beard.
Read more: https://www.greeleytribune.com/news/local/yes-theyre-nurses-yes-theyre-men/
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