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To the editor: Our local state representative, Pat Proctor, has been bragging on Facebook that he is touring Germany as part of the “Homeland Security Task Force of the American Legislative Exchange Council.” Now keep in mind, this is not part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This is an ultra-conservative group of state legislators who get together in back rooms to plot and connive to bring their own personal agendas back to their home states to control your lives. They simply cloned the name and call themselves “Homeland Security” to confuse constituents into thinking they are something important. Important isn’t the right word. Dangerous is.

For the Biden White House, a quartet of four female judges in Colorado encapsulates its mission when it comes to the federal judiciary. Charlotte Sweeney is the first openly LGBT woman to serve on the federal bench west of the Mississippi River and has a background in workers’ rights.

Almost 1,000 cities, towns and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas on Thursday as the U.S.