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MorningMagazine_2025-03-12 Gabrielle Mendoza
Slain CU Student’s Purse Found
The purse of deceased University of Colorado student Megan Trussell was found off a bike path along U.S. 36. An anonymous source told The Daily Camera that the bag was found last Wednesday. The bag has been turned over to the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office.
Trussell was last seen at 9 p.m. on Sunday, February 9 leaving her dorm Hallett Hall. She was found dead six days later on “hard to reach” terrain near the 40-mile marker of Boulder Canyon Drive.
A Sheriff’s office spokesperson said they have no reason to believe the case is a threat to public safety. He added that it was too early to know whether foul play was involved. Trussell’s final autopsy report has not yet been completed.
Cedar Run Tenants Sue Landlord
Tenants of Cedar Run Apartments in Denver have filed a lawsuit against their landlord, alleging unsafe conditions.
A dozen tenants’ union members and legal representatives gathered outside of the property Monday to announce the complaint filed against Cedar Run Apartments and Apartment Management Consultants LLC that will be taken to the Denver County Court. The complex at 888 S. Oneida St. is owned by Gelt Venture Partners.
Back in February, the complex was the center of a highly-publicized ICE raid.
The lawsuit alleges problems like vandalism, human waste, and trespassers in common areas, due to unsecured exterior doors to the complex’s residential buildings. According to the director of the Denver Metro Tenants Union, residents even discovered a “dead body in an elevator” at one point.
Plaintiffs say that the apartments aren’t unsafe because of the race, language, or immigration status of its residents – but because of the “systematic failures by its landlord to maintain the premises in safe, habitable condition.”
The complex was already issued a notice of violation by the Denver Department of Health and Environment in September for “unsafe and unsanitary conditions.”
Lauren Boebert Alleged Racist Remarks
A Democratic congresswoman from Pennsylvania is pushing to censure Colorado U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert.
Pennsylvania Rep. Chrissy Houlahan alleges that Boebert made “racist and derogatory” remarks about a Black colleague on television.
Boebert appeared on Real America’s Voice News, a conservative cable outlet, to comment on Texas Rep. Al Green’s behavior at President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress on March 4. During her interview, she commented that Green had multiple opportunities to “sit down and behave.” She added “for him to go and shake his pimp cane at President Trump was absolutely abhorrent.”
Boebert’s office has not commented on the censure, but Boebert herself took to X to address the situation, saying “@RepHoulahan has been getting torn apart by her fellow Democrats for voting to censure Rep. Al Green. Now she’s trying to deflect by introducing a resolution to censure ME because I mocked Green for shaking his PIMP CANE at President Trump.”
Boebert was referring to Houlahan’s initial vote to censure Green. However, after learning that Speaker Mike Johnson told me he’d have to censure half the members if he actually enforced the rules of Congress, she changed course and focused her efforts on censuring Boebert.
A censure is a formal statement of disapproval that is proposed through a resolution and requires a majority vote to pass. Although a censure does not remove a representative from office, they would be required to stand in the well of the House while the speaker reads the resolution aloud “as a form of public rebuke.”
The Denver Post reports that it’s unlikely the resolution targeted at Boebert will pass, since Republicans hold a majority of seats in the House.
ICE Expansion
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, is looking to expand its detention capacity by adding nearly a thousand more beds to a facility in either Colorado or Wyoming.
ICE is actively looking for what the agency calls “available detention facilities for single adult populations.” The Denver Post cites a document that says ICE wants a facility capable of holding low, medium, and high-security “adult noncitizens.”
A Denver ICE spokesperson said in a statement yesterday that daily operations enhanced under the Trump administration have resulted in a significant number of arrests of “criminal aliens,” which requires expanded detention capacity.
ICE currently uses a processing center in Aurora that can hold over 1,500 people.
The Trump administration has been making moves to expand ICE’s detention capacity across the country.
Judge Rules Teacher Training Grants Can Continue
A U.S. District Court Judge has sided with Colorado and seven other states to stop the federal government from ending grants to train teachers.
The judge issued a temporary restraining order for 14 days, giving the states time to continue working on keeping the grant programs intact.
The Teacher Quality Partnership and Supporting Effective Educator Development federal grant programs total $600 million, and support teacher training at higher ed institutions and nonprofits across Colorado and the country.
The ruling comes after the eight states sued the U.S. Department of Education last Thursday for abruptly ending the grants. In the lawsuit, they argued that the immediate end to the grants violated the Administrative Procedure Act, since the decision came with no advance notice or any explanation from the feds.
Federal law requires that agencies inform people about their decisions, as well as the reasoning for those decisions, and that they be open to feedback from the public.
Higher ed institutions and nonprofits that prepare future educators for classrooms will still receive the funding – at least, for now.