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Good morning and happy Tuesday!

I just moved house for the third time in two years and just like every time I have to pack up all my worldly possessions, I have developed an allergy to anything taking up more space than it needs. The donation bins in my neighborhood have been getting a workout, let’s just say.

One thing — and maybe the only thing — that I enjoyed about the process is seeing the evolution of Colorado Sun merchandise, from stacks of the very first sticker I designed for us back in 2018 to the classic gray dad cap that has been our most enduring accessory.

But if there was a merchandise MVP for the last two weeks of packing, cleaning and unpacking, it’s the newest member of the merch family: Our brand new “Nautical Red” hat!

I’ll always choose a bright color if the option is available, and this one is the best of both worlds. Bright enough to be noticed, but not a neon that makes you feel like you’re on the way to a rave. Bonus: I can personally attest that it’s great at absorbing the kind of sweat that happens when you haul boxes after Memorial Day.

Note: I’ve been informed there are only a few of the new color left in stock before we order our next batch, so get ‘em while they’re hot!

Now that you have your fashion figured out for the summer, let’s open up this closet full of news and pick out a few nice things, shall we?

Eric Lubbers

CTO & Newsletter Wrangler

THE NEWS

HEALTH

RFK Jr. fires all members of a prominent vaccine advisory committee — including a Colorado doctor

A sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, on Oct. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

A Colorado doctor was among the 17 members of an advisory committee on vaccines under the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fired Monday by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. John Ingold has more on the controversial termination.

More measles cases reported in Colorado — and people who went to 3 hospitals may have been exposed. Two more measles cases were reported in Colorado, including one in a child and another case tied to a Turkish Airlines flight.

HOUSING

As A Special Place shutters, a new operator plans to reopen in outraged Grand Junction neighborhood

This house in the 400 block of Bookcliff Avenue sits in the middle of a quiet Grand Junction neighborhood that adjoins St. Mary’s Medical Center’s campus. (Gretel Daugherty/Special to the Sun)

A nonprofit operating three homes in Grand Junction for a few dozen adults with criminal backgrounds and struggling with mental health issues closed its doors after less than six months. The organization had been experimenting with ways to provide housing for people coming out of the criminal justice system — but the experiment took a controversial turn in a neighborhood where residents reported men berating neighbors and liquor bottles littering streets. Nancy Lofholm writes about the problems and a solution promised by a for-profit mental health provider stepping in.

Jared Polis agrees to hold off on complying with ICE subpoena until June 23 as whistleblower lawsuit plays out

In this March 12, 2008, photo, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents patrol for undocumented immigrants in Utah County Jail in Spanish Fork, Utah. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

Colorado law prohibits state agencies from releasing personal information to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in most cases. But the director of the state’s Division of Labor Standards and Statistics says the governor ordered him and his team to send ICE information of people known as sponsors, those who care for immigrant children. Taylor Dolven has the details.

Top Republican in Colorado Senate resigns to take private sector job. Senate Minority Leader Paul Lundeen, R-Monument, is resigning effective Monday to become president and CEO of the American Excellence Foundation. Mike Lindell sticks by false 2020 claims in Colorado defamation trial. Taking the stand for the first time during the trial, Lindell denied making any statements he knew to be false about Eric Coomer, the former product strategy and security director for Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems.

ENERGY

Colorado towns take new approach to force oil and gas company to plug old wells

The gate in a heavy iron fence around a pump jack in the Cosslett A lease battery No. 1, a few hundred feet east of the Legacy Park neighborhood in Dacono, is broken, allowing access to the pumping equipment. (Dana Coffield, The Colorado Sun)

Fast-growing communities in Weld County are using revised state rules to petition K.P. Kauffman to plug wells the towns see as threats to the safety of their homes. Mark Jaffe reports they have identified 45 wells as no longer being “used or useful” and say they pose a threat to public health and welfare.

Wild bison crossing into Colorado from Utah gain protection under new law

A white bison roams the Badger Basin State Wildlife Area in 2022 near Hartsel. One out of 10 million bison are born with white fur, according to the National Bison Association. (Hugh Carey, The Colorado Sun)

Bison that wander into Colorado from Utah are on much safer ground now, thanks to a bill signed by Gov. Jared Polis that classifies bison as big game animals and outlaws shooting them. Michael Booth reports on the new protections, which will require Colorado Parks and Wildlife to create a licensing and hunting protocol for bison.

MORE NEWS

Colorado must redo its $826.5 million broadband plan to adhere to new federal rules. The change came after the federal BEAD program was criticized for high costs of building fast fiber service. A likely beneficiary is Starlink, founded by Elon Musk. Music is making a comeback at this Colorado middle school. Vikan Middle School in Brighton had no band program a few years ago. Now almost half the school’s students participate.

Section by Erica Breunlin | Education Reporter

THE COLORADO REPORT

Denver settles George Floyd protest case for $398K with YouTubers, journalists and activists. The settlement brought the list of payouts by the city of Denver related to the 2020 demonstrations to $18.6 million. — Denverite Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz takes questions from investors for first time since returning. The newly returned CEO faced analysts as Vail Resorts detailed its third-quarter earnings results.— Steamboat Pilot & Today Focus on the Family responds after SPLC adds it to hate group list. The Southern Poverty Law Center’s move to list the Colorado Springs-based nonprofit as a “hate and anti-government extremist” group was “dangerous and reckless,” Focus on the Family’s president said. — Colorado Springs Gazette ? UCHealth’s private practice of suing patients gets national attention following 9NEWS Investigates report. A major study has corroborated a 9NEWS/Colorado Sun investigation that publicly revealed UCHealth’s yearslong practice of quietly suing thousands of its patients.— 9News $71 million gondola construction underway in Idaho Springs. The Mighty Argo Cable Car will extend 1.2 miles up the mountain, above the historic Argo Mill, with a vertical rise of 1,300 feet.— The Denver Post ?

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Section by Lance Benzel | Team Editor

THE OPINION PAGE

COMMUNITY

Colorado’s national parks and monuments are in jeopardy as Trump administration slashes agency. Cuts to the National Parks Service will hurt the people who maintain our revered spaces, the nearby communities and the history of the lands.— Madison Sankovitz, doctorate of entomology at University of Colorado

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REVIEW

“Captain Kidd” navigates shifting allegiances on the high seas

Alliances changed swiftly but word traveled slowly in the 17th century. Those shifting political winds drive the narrative in “Captain Kidd: A True Story of Treasure and Betrayal,” the biography by Samuel Marquis of the reputed pirate who happens to be his distant relative. The treachery in this excerpt launches a detailed look at Kidd’s reputation, which turns out to be something of a mixed bag — but still filled with adventure that followed a privateer who the author describes as closer to a U.S. Navy SEAL.

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Interview with the author. With Kidd being his ninth-great-grandfather, the familial tug of history certainly captivated Marquis, who recalls the swashbuckling figure of tales he heard while growing up. But the author, who earlier wrote a biography of the pirate Blackbeard, dug deep into the archives to produce what he considers “first and foremost a scholarly work.” Listen to a podcast with Samuel Marquis.

Section by Kevin Simpson | Writer

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