Tag: elections
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2025 Voter Guide: proposed tax hikes could upgrade four area school districts
Along with new representatives on their boards of education, voters in the Pikes Peak region will decide on potential tax increases for four of its school districts. Widefield D-3, Manitou Springs D-14, Cripple Creek-Victor RE-1 and Peyton 23-JT will all ask voters to approve new bonds to renovate or replace aging infrastructure or mill levy…
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize
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Woodland Park Voter Guide
Here’s your voter guide for the November, 2025 election. It starts with the six candidates for the Woodland Park School District Board presented in alphabetical order. We had them answer some basic questions. These answers are presented here in their entirety. They have not been edited or altered except that we removed boldface type within…
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Macron to name new prime minister within 48 hours after deepening political crisis
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to name a new prime minister within 48 hours
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Voting underway in California on new maps that could swing U.S. House control
LOS ANGELES — The midterm elections might be a year away, but the fight for control of the U.S. House is underway in California. Voting opened statewide this week on whether to dramatically reshape California’s congressional districts to add as many as five Democrat-held seats in Congress — a possible offset to President Donald Trump’s moves in Texas and elsewhere…
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ICC makes the first conviction over past atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur
The International Criminal Court has convicted a leader of the feared Janjaweed militia of playing a leading role in atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region over 20 years ago
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This election tests Coloradans’ willingness to act on class envy | CALDARA
Everyone knows there’s no such thing as a free lunch. All the same Colorado voters will be tested this fall if they know that. Expectations are that modern, middle-class Coloradans will deny the “no such thing as a free lunch” truism. They will likely double-down on buying their kids “free school lunch,” with other people’s…
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Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš wins Czech parliamentary election, official results show
Populist Czech billionaire Andrej Babiš has won a parliamentary election, marking a political comeback
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Buc-ee’s developers push for ballot question ahead of Palmer Lake decision
Amid controversy over an annexation request to build Colorado’s second Buc-ee’s location, the residents of Palmer Lake approved an ordinance last month that would require any increase to the town be put to a vote. The prior process left the final decision with the town’s Board of Trustees, which is still scheduled to vote on…
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A raptor with no qualms about eating its opponents wins New Zealand’s annual bird election
New Zealand’s annual bird election has crowned the kārearea, or New Zealand falcon, as Bird of the Year