The Mountain Minute: 6/3/2025

🎧 Mountain Minute – June 3, 2025
Terrorism in Boulder. Wolves in Pitkin County. And creeping bureaucracy statewide. Here’s your sharp, unfiltered roundup from Team RMV.

Colorado News:
🔹 Boulder attack wasn’t a clash—it was terrorism – A 45-year-old Egyptian national confessed to planning a violent attack on a peaceful pro-Israel rally in Boulder, telling police his intent was to “kill all Zionists.” Despite clear ideological motives, state leaders and national outlets downplayed the act. Columnists C. J. Garbo and Jeffrey Herf call it what it is: radicalized terrorism disguised as activism.
Read more:
Denver Gazette - https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/06/boulder-terrorist-planned-attack-for-a-year-told-police-his-goal-kill-all-zionists/ 
C. J. Garbo - https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/06/garbo-boulder-wasnt-a-clash-it-was-terrorism/
Jeffrey Herf - https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/06/herf-when-free-palestine-becomes-a-pretext-for-terrorism/

🔹 Federal Title IX probe launched in Jeffco Schools – After an 11-year-old girl was forced to sleep next to a biological boy on a school trip, the U.S. Department of Education is investigating. Secretary Linda McMahon says June is “Title IX Month,” underscoring the Biden administration’s renewed focus on protecting women’s rights.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/06/two-investigations-signal-education-departments-pivot-from-pride-month-to-title-ix-enforcement/

🔹 CPW kills ‘Wolf 2405’ after fourth livestock attack – Colorado Parks and Wildlife exterminated an aggressive wolf responsible for four livestock deaths in eight days on Western Slope ranches. Ranchers say it’s too little, too late, accusing CPW of mishandling the reintroduction program.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/05/cpw-exterminates-wolf-2405-after-four-attacks-in-eight-days-killing-livestock-in-pitkin-county/

🔹 COVID death counts inflated? – RMV’s COVID Chronicles reveals how Colorado health officials redefined COVID deaths in 2020 to include anyone who died with a positive test—regardless of cause. The numbers shifted. The narrative didn’t.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/05/the-covid-chronicles-may-16-23-2020-deaths-dipped-but-the-definition-got-slippery/

🔹 State jobs surge as bureaucracy grows – One in every 20 Colorado workers is now a state employee, and nearly half of new jobs this year came from government. Contributor Mike O’Donnell warns it’s a recipe for higher costs and less freedom.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/06/odonnell-one-in-20-workers-is-a-state-employee-whos-footing-the-bill/

National News:
🔹 DOGE delivers billions in savings – Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has cut $175B in waste. In her latest op-ed, Heidi Ganahl calls DOGE a model for the conservative movement—and a blueprint for 2026.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/06/ganahl-congress-must-back-doge-to-cut-waste-and-energize-gop-voters-for-2026/

🔹 Rubio takes on foreign censors – Senator Marco Rubio is pushing legislation to blacklist companies that censor Americans on behalf of foreign governments, protecting U.S. free speech from overseas influence and Big Tech collusion.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/06/turley-rubio-declares-war-on-foreign-censors-targeting-u-s-speech/


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