The Mountain Minute: 12/17/2025

🎧 Mountain Minute – December 17, 2025
Colorado heads into the holiday stretch with major questions about leadership, accountability, public safety, and the cost of policy decisions — from the Tina Peters case to school layoffs, energy reliability, and rising crime concerns. Nationally, the stakes continue to rise.

Colorado News:
🔹 Tina Peters case escalates
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/12/16/trump-blasts-polis-as-weak-and-pathetic-over-continued-imprisonment-of-tina-peters/

🔹 Xcel Energy shutoff warnings raise transparency concerns
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/12/16/what-xcel-promised-regulators-and-what-customers-were-told-before-dec-17-shutoff-warnings/

🔹 Jeffco Schools warn of major job cuts
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/12/16/jeffco-schools-warns-staff-of-major-job-cuts-as-budget-strain-deepens/

🔹 Denver traffic signs hacked
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/12/16/hacked-denver-signs-flash-anti-car-messages-as-transportation-debate-heats-up/

🔹 Women sue Hinge after rape conviction
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/12/16/women-sue-hinge-dating-app-after-colorado-cardiologist-convicted-in-drugging-rape-case/

🔹 RMV commentary: disarming the innocent
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/12/16/when-the-state-disarms-the-innocent-violence-gets-time-to-work/

🔹 RMV analysis: climate policy driving Colorado government
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/12/16/how-climate-policy-became-the-steering-wheel-of-colorado-government/

National News:
🔹 Trump escalates war on fentanyl
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/12/16/trump-escalates-war-on-cartels-with-fentanyl-wmd-designation/

🔹 Commentary: a generation of men sidelined
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/12/16/how-a-generation-of-men-lost-their-place-in-americas-institutions/

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