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Boasting that child poverty in Colorado would soon be cut nearly in half, Gov. Jared Polis on Friday signed a large new tax credit for low-income families into law. The ceremony put an underline on a legislative session that featured state policymakers looking again and again to the state surplus to flatten inequalities.

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. After the House of Representatives passed legislation that would allow mining companies more legal rights to federal lands by a bipartisan vote of 216-195 earlier this month, a bipartisan group of Senate sponsors are moving it through their chamber. “With the passage of the Mining Regulatory Clarity Act, we’re codifying existing precedent and unlocking our rich domestic mineral resources,” said Bruce Westerman (R-AK), the chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, after the House passed the bill on May 8. Nine Democrats joined with Republicans to pass the legislation, including co-sponsor Mary Peltola (D-AK). Western legislators are leading the effort to pass the Mining Regulatory Clarity Act with the explicit goal of erasing the new legal precedent the 2022 Rosemont decision created.

Hell yes!

Democracy. Justice. Freedom. Fairness. To the twisted Democrat mind, those are merely rhetorical banners to be waved or dismissed, depending upon the needs of the moment.

From the moment RFK Jr. announced his run for the presidency, I had an old D. C. political observer’s hunch that he might actually win.

We will not be swayed by sham trials, or manipulated by political games.