Tag: speech
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Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade marks halftime of his term in office during State of the City speech
After a stormy month of economic news in Colorado Springs, Mayor Yemi Mobolade took the stage for his State of the City speech Thursday morning with a much more upbeat tone. About 900 people filled a hall at The Broadmoor to listen to this year’s presentation, which marked the halfway point of Mobolade’s four-year term…
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SCOTUS stalking decision does not apply to non-speech behavior, appeals court rules
Colorado’s second-highest court clarified on Thursday that a U.S. Supreme Court decision recognizing First Amendment protections for alleged stalkers does not apply to prosecutions where the defendant’s stalking is based on something other than their speech. By 7-2, the Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Counterman v. Colorado in 2023, a case out of Arapahoe County…
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Federal judge rejects Aurora’s plea to reconsider excessive force decision in light of SCOTUS precedent
A federal judge on Monday rejected the city of Aurora’s attempt to invoke a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision about government employees’ personal conduct, and instead stood by her prior ruling that city policies allegedly motivated an officer to attack a woman while he was on administrative leave. Wyoma Martinez filed suit against Officer Douglas…
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Colorado justices explore limits of anti-discrimination law in Masterpiece Cakeshop appeal
Members of the Colorado Supreme Court explored on Tuesday the tension between LGBTQ customers’ ability to be free from discrimination in the marketplace and business owners’ competing right not to be forced to express messages that violate their conscience. During oral arguments, some justices noted the difficulty of disentangling customers’ protected characteristics, like race or…
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BEST & BRIGHTEST: Community connections help build a leader
Keaton Morrison has not had an ideal life. After being abandoned by his father as a toddler, Keaton was raised in a single parent household with limited resources — but an abundance of love. Instead of being fixated on the lack of a positive male figure in the home, Morrison has leveraged the support of the…
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Nuggets championship parade draws crowd of hundreds of thousands to downtown Denver
The Nuggets championship parade on Thursday drew a crowd some estimated to be half a million through downtown Denver. The parade started at Ball Arena, worked towards Union Station and then finished off with speeches at Civic Center Park; where DJ’s played for the excited crowd earlier. During the parade, thousands of fans jumped or…