The Mountain Minute: 10/2/2025

🎧 Mountain Minute – October 2
Colorado is making headlines — from billion-dollar boondoggles and school battles to a tow truck theft ring and major federal job shifts. Nationally, the stakes climb higher with a shutdown, a military shake-up, and questions of war and truth.

Colorado News:
🔹 Castle Rock crime crackdown – A tow truck driver was sentenced to 16 years for running a massive auto theft scheme, stealing and reselling cars with forged documents.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/10/01/castle-tow-truck-driver-receives-16-year-prison-sentence-for-auto-theft-scheme/

🔹 Denver schools debt debate – DPS is floating another bond proposal less than a year after voters approved nearly $1 billion, raising taxpayer concerns.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/10/01/denver-schools-eye-another-bond-despite-975-million-passed-by-voters-in-2024/

🔹 CU fined over anti-Mormon chants – The Big 12 hit CU Boulder with a $50,000 penalty after offensive chants at a BYU football game, sparking calls for accountability.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/10/01/colorado-hit-with-50000-fine-after-anti-lds-chants/

🔹 RTD asks for billions more – The transit agency wants an additional $1.6 billion for rail expansion, pushing total costs beyond $7 billion.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/10/01/rtd-requests-additional-1-6-billion-in-funding-for-rail-expansion-project/

🔹 USDA move could bring jobs – A proposed relocation to Fort Collins could create 6,000 jobs and add $1 billion in economic impact.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/10/01/usda-move-to-fort-collins-could-add-6000-jobs-and-1b-in-output-study-finds/

🔹 School board stakes rise – Commentary warns that schools and unions are abandoning objective truth, framing November’s Douglas County race as a pivotal showdown.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/10/01/beyond-the-rhetoric-schools-unions-and-the-battle-for-objective-truth-in-education/

National News:
🔹 Government shutdown begins – With talks collapsing, thousands face furloughs and delayed paychecks as the funding fight drags on.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/10/01/congress-gridlock-forces-government-shutdown-as-spending-talks-collapse/

🔹 Military reset promised – Secretary of War Pete Hegseth vows to end “wokeness” and restore strength and standards to U.S. forces.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/10/01/secretary-of-war-vows-to-restore-strength-and-standards-to-u-s-forces/

🔹 The war for the West? – A powerful reflection argues America is already in a spiritual and ideological battle over truth itself.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/10/01/is-this-the-war-for-the-west/

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