May 28, 2015 10:06 AM UTC

Get More Smarter on Thursday (May 28)

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Is this week still happening? It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example).

TOP OF MIND TODAY…

► The ugliness just doesn’t stop when it comes to the right-wing Jefferson County School Board. Here’s video of School Board President Ken Witt refusing to allow a student to speak about LGBT rights at a public board meeting.

► The EPA has finalized a new clean water rule intended to help crack down on polluters.

Get even more smarter after the jump…

IN CASE YOU ARE STANDING NEAR A WATER COOLER…

► Governor John Hickenlooper and Senator Cory Gardner shared a stage in Denver to talk about fracking and other forms of oil and gas drilling.

► Well, that was…quick. Max Potter, a former editor at 5280 magazine who was virtually invisible as Hickenlooper’s “Senior Media Advisor” (minus some legal trouble and promoting his book about wine) is leaving the office after about 18 months on the job in order to write a book about Hickenlooper. The Governors memoir, titled “The Opposite of Woe,” is scheduled to be released in May 2016. No, Hickenlooper is not running for President.

► Nebraska has officially abolished the death penalty.

► Say hello to Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-The Broadmoor).

► Former New York Governor George Pataki has decided to climb into the clown car that is the 2016 Republican field for President. Yeah, George Pataki. No kidding.

► Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James spoke to graduating cadets on Thursday in Colorado Springs.

OTHER LINKS YOU SHOULD CLICK

► Conservation Colorado takes a look at why it is absurd for legislators to attempt to sell public lands.

► Colorado added 4,200 new jobs in April. 

► Republican Senator Ted Cruz wants the federal government to provide flood relief in his home state of Texas. This is the same Sen. Cruz who once voted against federal relief for Hurricane Sandy. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post thinks Cruz is a bit of a charlatan.

ICYMI

► The parents of a woman killed in the Aurora Theater Shootings will have to pay $220,000 to the gun retailers who sold weapons to alleged shooter James Holmes. 

► Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker plans to sign legislation that would create a 20-week abortion ban with no exemptions for rape or incest. And thus ends Walker’s 2016 Presidential hopes.

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