Tuesday's Morning Email:

To her Fort Collins family, 5-year-old Aurora Rae Masters shone like a beacon of light. Aurora Masters, 5, of Fort Collins, died May 13, 2024, five days after a tragic backyard accident. (Photo provided by Masters family) “She came along when I was at a really bad mental health place,” Tom Masters, Aurora’s father, told The Denver Post in an interview Monday, explaining how Aurora had reignited his passion for life.

Let’s turn out some lights in the city too Re: “Residents are darkening the skies to aid millions of migratory birds,” and “Grand Lake selected for DarkSky Colorado mentorship program,” May 12 news stories I live in the city and love it, but I am ever aware that people in other parts of the state are working to preserve the wondrous experience of looking up into a starry sky.

These last final weeks of this year’s legislative session have been incredibly demanding. The last-minute rush to pass bills and finish our work means many long days and late nights. Every legislator has been feeling the strain. But for myself and my daughter — who also serves as my legislative aide — the last few weeks have been particularly taxing as we’ve also contended with making our way through more than 20,000 emails I’ve gotten from both sides of the gun issue.

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and DANICA KIRKA (Associated Press) JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli officials seized a camera and broadcasting equipment belonging to The Associated Press in southern Israel on Tuesday, accusing the news organization of violating a new media law by providing images to Al Jazeera. The U. S. privately urged the Israeli government to reverse the decision, two senior U.

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The Republican Party of Wisconsin had their state convention this weekend and what a shitshow it was! About the only thing they managed to do was showcase how deep their disarray really is. During the entire thing, party leaders repeatedly called for unity on all the different areas where there are internal riffs.