WEEK OF JUNE 6, 2024
VOLUME 23 | ISSUE 14
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GOP hopefuls jockey for position
County calls off plan for probation office Commissioners halt Lone Tree proposal BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
the 2020 election was stolen. It’s one of the few deviations between the six candidates who largely agree on everything from immigration to the economy. The most recognizable name on the ballot is U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, who currently represents the 3rd Congressional District on the Western Slope. Also vying for the job
Amid loud opposition from Lone Tree residents, Douglas County commissioners halted a plan to place near a neighborhood an office that monitors people after they are convicted of crimes. At a community meeting, a man in the crowd asked county leaders whether it’s more important to give people who committed crimes easy access to a nearby light rail station or to keep them “away from our schools and children.” Some people on probation and other court-related services out of Douglas County have been receiving service in Arapahoe County because of a lack of public transportation to the justice center in Castle Rock, according to county officials. “We have a transportation problem where it is very difficult for a lot of our clients to get from where they live, north Douglas County, (to) Castle Rock,” Judge Ryan Stuart told the crowd at the May 30 meeting. Some may have a driving under the influence, or DUI, charge and rely on public transit. In front of a frustrated crowd of more than 200, Commissioner Abe Laydon convinced Commissioner George Teal, who chairs the board, to back off the Lone Tree-area spot. Teal told county staff to “stop work on this location,” eliciting a standing ovation. The county has three other unspecified locations in mind, Teal said: one west of Lone Tree, one east of Lone Tree, and an option that
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The six Republican candidates running for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District are, from top left, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, Deborah Flora, state Rep. Richard Holtorf, state Rep. Mike Lynch, former state Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg and Peter Yu. COURTESY PHOTO
Primary season is here and 4th District candidates make their cases BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
With little ideologically separating the large group of Republicans who
want to fill the seat in Congress recently vacated by Ken Buck, the candidates have spent months on the campaign trail touting their resumes and, sometimes, their personalities in hopes of wooing voters. But there are some differences. For instance, every one of the GOP hopefuls for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District said they will vote for Donald Trump for president in November. Yet not all of them believe
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