Obama/Fauci, flags, fraud, flesh-eating parasites, Iran, Trump 118-1, bypassed voters, drug rings, dark Cuba, and election fraud, did we leave anything out this week?
Your Tax Dollars. Their Agenda. Coloradans Speak.
This week, HCA readers drew battle lines. A Colorado grandmother filed a DOJ complaint against the state over transgender procedures on minors. A veterans’ commander asks why Chaffee County’s public buildings have no American flag on the nation’s 250th birthday. And a constituent who has testified on 290 bills exposes a taxpayer-subsidized nonprofit coalition that excluded a top Republican gubernatorial candidate from a “civic” forum.
Flag, Heroes, and the Art of Unintended Consequences
Entertainers boycotted America’s 250th birthday and handed Trump the stage alone. Protesters picked Flag Day for their big moment. Pueblo, Colorado produced five Medal of Honor recipients across four wars — and it had nothing to do with the water. Plus: what aspartame actually does, and a royal decree from Chaffee County. All in this week’s High Country Advocate.
Counties Win 4 Bills — but lost the state parks grant they wanted.
Three mountain communities slammed the door on data centers, Pitkin overrode its own Planning Commission on a $17.9M affordable housing project, and a Basalt drug ring packaged ketamine as artisan chocolates distributed nationwide. It’s all in this week’s High Country Advocate.
Government Finance & Voter Bypass
Colorado counties are building jails, fire stations, and police facilities without a single voter saying yes — and they’ve been doing it for decades. This week we follow the money, the legal loophole, and the silent repeal nobody announced.
Colorado’s Election Safeguards Are Weaker Than Officials Claim
Colorado officials call it “layered security.” Vince Phillips spent four installments pulling that claim apart — and the layers don’t hold up. Meanwhile, a High Country candidate for state house says he’s done watching Denver make decisions for people it doesn’t understand. Both stories are in this week’s High Country Advocate.
118 Wins, a Flesh-Eating Parasite, and a Fight at the White House
Trump went 118-1 in Republican primaries, signed an AI directive that already killed Anthropic’s Pentagon contract, and hosted the first UFC card at the White House — all while a flesh-eating parasite spread 400 miles across Texas, Congress voted to keep funding a car surveillance mandate with no working technology behind it, and nine people were charged in a $42 million Medicaid fraud ring operating out of a single Columbus office building. It was that kind of week. Read all of it at the High Country Advocate.
Iran Won’t Sign. Cuba Is Collapsing. The Biolabs Were Real.
The U.S.-Iran peace deal fell apart on the day it was supposed to be signed. Gabbard’s declassified slides confirmed what Washington called disinformation — 120 American-funded biolabs, Fauci named directly. Cuba hit 20-hour blackouts as a fourth round of sanctions landed. Gold is down 25% from its high. This week’s world roundup at High Country Advocate.
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