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Education News for Friday, June 6, 2025
Texarkana Gazette - Arkansas
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June 6, 2025
HONORS Pleasant Grove ISD announces its A Honor Roll for the 4th nine weeks for the 2024-2025 school year. Fifth Grade Sarah Bailey, Gia Bao Pham, Kennedy Barkley, Trenity Beyard, Duke Bokan, Avery Browning, Caleb Calhoun, Ava Campbell, Lilly...
'No margin in making enemies': Joe Neguse lauded by Colorado nonprofit for bridging divides | TRAIL MIX
Colorado Politics
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Colorado-based Keystone Policy Center and U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, a Lafayette Democrat and the House assistant minority leader, could have been made for each other. Founded 50 years ago in its namesake mountain resort in Summit County, the...
Hiring Ryan Gomes as assistant coach is a boost to PC's hoops culture
Newport Daily News - Rhode Island
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Providence College hired Ryan Gomes, their all-time leading scorer, as an assistant basketball coach in a strategic "culture" move. URI basketball added much-needed size with the commitment of 6-foot-9 Mouhamed Sow from St. Peter’s. Former...
Things to do in Denver this weekend, June 6-8
Denverite - Colorado
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June 6, 2025
By Cassidy Ritter, Special to Denverite Denver sure loves summer festivals. This week, there’s a music festival called Indiewood Street Festival in Englewood, the Denver Chalk Art Festival in the Golden Triangle Creative District and a Denver...
Denver police officer disciplined for missing hidden gun during search
Miami Mirror
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June 4, 2025
A Denver police officer will serve a 14-day suspension after she failed to realize a suspect she was arresting was armed with a gun, allowing the handcuffed man to later shoot another officer in the neck from the backseat of a police vehicle two...
$9 Billion in Costs to States, Local Governments in 2023 Due to Immigration Surge
Pagosa Daily Post - Colorado
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June 6, 2025
This story by Ariana Figueroa appeared on Colorado Newsline on June 6, 2025. The unprecedented increase in immigration starting in 2021 brought extra revenue to states and local governments, but the cost of services for those newly arrived...
Colorado consolidates mental health crisis services under 988 Colorado
Steamboat Pilot & Today - Colorado
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June 5, 2025
Starting July 1, calls and texts to the Colorado Crisis Services will be connected to 988 Colorado. With this switch — prompted by the legislature’s passage of Senate Bill 236 this year — 988 will become the state’s primary crisis and mental...
Israeli hostage solidarity movement Run for Their Lives presses on after Colorado attack
The Times of Israel
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June 6, 2025
JTA — The firebombing in Boulder on Sunday targeted Run for Their Lives, a group that stages weekly public runs and walks around the world to raise awareness about Israeli hostages being held in Gaza. After initially calling for a pause to the...
Immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra's daughters accept RFK award
CBS 4 - Colorado
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Denver immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra was honored with a Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award on Thursday. Two of her children traveled to the nation's capital to accept the award on her behalf. Vizguerra's detention by ICE is approaching...
Things to do in the Loveland area Friday: Ryan Bingham, Second Chance Comedy, Colorado Medieval Festival
Reporter Herald - Colorado
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June 6, 2025
Today Ryan Bingham’s All Night Long Tour: 8 p.m., Blue Arena, 5290 Arena Circle, Loveland. The Oscar and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and “Yellowstone” star combines folk, blues, country, and rock ’n’ roll. $49.95-$99.95., 877-544-8499,...
Immigration surge cost state, local governments $9 billion in 2023, nonpartisan CBO says
Idaho Capital Sun
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June 5, 2025
WASHINGTON — The unprecedented increase in immigration starting in 2021 brought extra revenue to states and local governments, but the cost of services for those newly arrived migrants was greater, leading to a net cost of $9.2 billion in 2023,...
Colorado offering free fishing statewide this weekend
Steamboat Pilot & Today - Colorado
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June 5, 2025
Colorado Parks and Wildlife is implementing a statewide free fishing weekend for resident and nonresident anglers of all ages this weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, anyone in the state can fish for free, with fishing licenses and Habitat Stamp...
Two local teachers among 22 Colorado Teacher of the Year semifinalists
The Longmont Times Call - Colorado
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June 6, 2025
Two local charter school teachers, one from Boulder Valley and the other from St. Vrain Valley, are among this year’s 22 Colorado Teacher of the Year semifinalists. In St. Vrain, Julie Ahrens is a kindergarten teacher at Longmont’s Twin Peaks...
Colorado Betting Culture Expands into Everyday Sports Talk
Easy Reader News - California
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June 4, 2025
Colorado sports betting sites like ColoradoBettingHub.com are driving a cultural shift in sports conversations across the state. DENVER, June 4, 2025 – In Colorado, sports conversations are evolving. What used to be simple debates over team...
LGBTQ+ activist reflects on her same sex marriage that made Illinois history
NBC 5 Chicago - Illinois
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A longtime LGBTQ+ rights activist from Chicago is celebrating Pride Month by reflecting and looking back on a monumental moment that changed the course of history in Illinois- her marriage. Pat Ewert and her late wife Vernita Gray became the first...
Is Indiana a good place to live for LGBTQ+ people? What a new report says
Evansville Courier & Press - Indiana
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Indiana is among the least welcoming states for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans, according to a recent national study. Advocacy group Out Leadership this week released its seventh annual Business Climate Index Report, which...
Safeway workers in southern Colorado vote to authorize strike
KOAA News 5 - Colorado
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June 6, 2025
PUEBLO, Colo. (KOAA) — Safeway and Albertsons workers in southern Colorado voted to authorize a strike on Thursday evening. Union members at Safeway stores in Pueblo, Fountain, and other areas of Colorado have voted to authorize a strike,...
Nuggets Mailbag: Denver’s GM search, Michael Porter Jr.’s trade value and Carmelo Anthony’s number
Denver Post - Colorado
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June 6, 2025
Denver Post beat writer Bennett Durando opens up the Nuggets Mailbag periodically during the season and offseason. You can submit a Nuggets- or NBA-related question here. What’s the latest on the GM search? Are they just waiting to announce Ben...
Colorado law requiring people buying guns to be 21 or older can stand, federal judge rules
The Colorado Sun
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June 5, 2025
Colorado’s law requiring people to be at least 21 years old to buy a gun can stand, a federal judge in Colorado ruled Thursday. The ruling is a definitive win for gun control advocates and a blow to the group Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and two...
Suspect in Colorado attack on pro-Israel rally faces 118 counts
The New Arab
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June 6, 2025
Prosecutors now say 15 people -- eight women and seven men -- were hurt in the attack in the city of Boulder [Getty] The suspect in a Molotov cocktail attack on a pro-Israel march in Colorado appeared in court Thursday facing more than 100 charges...