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VOLUME 119
Issue 17
WEEK OF APRIL 28, 2022
TOUGH KINDNESS
County clerks reassure voters while watching for cyberattacks Officials push back against fraud claims, stay alert BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
While local counties’ clerks and recorders say they are still taking steps to unravel false claims of widespread election fraud two years after the 2020 presidential election and ahead of the June primaries, they are also on the lookout for potential
cyberattacks after warnings from President Joe Biden that such attacks are increasingly likely. “It’s definitely nervewracking, but something that we are starting to get used to,” Adams County Clerk and Recorder Josh Zygielbaum said. “It’s the world we live in now, and SEE ATTACKS, P5
Bird Scooters get final Brighton approval Councilor Pollack dismayed that colleagues approved the agreement
Riverdale Ridge’s Meriah Gonzales, left and Severance’s Lauren Mahugh are in a serious tussle for the loose ball during the teams’ 4A/3A Longs Peak League game in Thornton April 19. RRHS scored three goals on its first three shots and won the match 9-0. It also was the Ravens’ annual kindness night. Players put pen to paper and explained what kindness means to them. Their thoughts were posted on a fence behind the team’s bench during the game. More on each facet of the game is available online at www. PHOTO BY STEVE SMITH thebrightonblade.com.
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City Councilor Mary Ellen Pollack still can’t figure out why her colleagues are okay with letting Bird let their scooters loose Brighton. “Well, you all never fail to surprise me,” Pollack told her council colleagues as they prepared for a second reading vote on the scooter ordinance. Pollack and Councilor Jan Pawlowski – who voiced her own lack of
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comfort with the idea at the April 5 first reading – where the sole no votes as the Brighton City Council approved Bird scooters for the city on second reading April 19. With Councilor Matt Johnston absent, the measure passed by a vote of 6-2. Pollack was the only councilor to speak on the matter at the April 19 meeting. “They may be fun, but I think it’s going to be very dangerous and I suspect within a year someone is going to say ‘Wait a minute. This just doesn’t work’,” she said. Public Works Engineer Manager Christopher Montoya said the scooters will be allowed to ride SEE BIRD, P3
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