By Quentin Young | editor
“Sports can be one of the most meaningful parts of a student's journey ... Kids should not have to go through invasive and humiliating processes just to participate, belong and be part of a team.”
– Tee MacDonald, a retired Denver Public Schools teacher
Supporters of the Families Not Politics campaign, which opposes two anti-trans ballot measures, Propositions 134 and 135, stand at a rally outside of the Colorado Capitol on Sept. 15, 2026. (Photo by Lindsey Toomer/Colorado Newsline)
By Lindsey Toomer
She started playing basketball in Colorado in fourth grade. Basketball was her whole life, her mother said. She made all of her friends through the teams she played on throughout her childhood. She spent her high school career on the girl’s basketball team, an average player, who played just for her love of the sport. “She was not setting any records. She was not being recruited, scouted,” her mother said. “She just played because she loved to play.” But if a measure on Colorado’s ballot in November passes, students like the daughter will never have the chance to play.
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COMMENTARY
By Sunny Linnebur
Some Coloradans have a drug problem: old prescription medications clogging their medicine cabinets. Disposing of unused prescription and over-the-counter drugs is important to protect children and teens from accidental or unintentional exposure. Eliminating medications properly is also important to prevent contamination of vegetation, aquatic life and water supplies. At-home disposal products are one way to accomplish this, especially in rural areas where drug take-back programs are not readily accessible.
Grizzly bears in the lower 48 states are federally protected as a threatened species. A new memo from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Brian Nesvik says that endangered animals may be killed as long as the action was not “intentionally directed at a particular animal or animals.” (Photo courtesy of Terry Tollefsbol/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
By Alex Brown
The Trump administration’s top wildlife official issued a directive last week that expands a recent rollback of endangered species protections much further than the feds had told the public. Individuals and industries may kill endangered animals in the course of logging projects, developments and other activities, it said — so long as the activity’s purpose isn’t killing species. The memo issued by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Brian Nesvik is the most drastic move yet in the Trump administration’s campaign to limit the scope of the Endangered Species Act.
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