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MorningMagazine_2025-04-09 Gabrielle Mendoza
Third Colorado Measles Case
A new case of measles has been confirmed in Colorado – the third new case since last week.
Public health officials say this newest case is in an adult in Archuleta County in Southwest Colorado, according to The Denver Post.
The person’s vaccination history isn’t known, but health officials have said the person has not been in contact with the other two new Colorado cases. One of those is in an unvaccinated adult in Pueblo, and the other is in a Denver infant.
They say that since there hasn’t been contact between the three, it could mean that measles cases are spreading undetected across the state, according to a state epidemiologist.
The Post says that as of last Friday, there have already been twice as many measles cases in the United States this year than there were all of last year. Most of those have been in Texas, where 481 people have caught the measles virus and fifty-six have required hospitalization.
More Colorado Student Visa Revocations
The Trump Administration has now revoked the visas of at least 22 international students attending colleges in Colorado. This more than doubles the number of students who had reportedly had their visas revoked last week.
As of yesterday, 10 students at Colorado State University in Fort Collins and 12 students across the University of Colorado’s four campuses have had their visas revoked by the federal government. That’s according to updated counts provided by CSU and CU. Neither university has identified the students, said what countries they are from, or told the public if the feds provided any explanation behind the revocations.
The Trump administration has been targeting students across the country involved in pro-Palestine activism and speech. But as the feds’ deportation efforts ramp up, students with no known connection to protests are getting their visas revoked, too. Some have been ordered to leave the country over misdemeanor crimes or traffic infractions.
Outside of Colorado schools, students from Harvard, Stanford, Michigan, UCLA, Ohio State University, and potentially other universities have also lost their visas.
College officials are worrying this might prevent students from wanting to study in the U.S.
That’s all according to The Denver Post.
Colorado Lawmakers Ready Defense Fund Against Trump
State lawmakers are working on quickly building a four million dollar fund to help Governor Jared Polis defend Colorado against actions by the Trump administration.
House Bill 1321 would establish a fund to be used for legal purposes, like hiring staff or contractors to defend against threats to federal funding. It would use state money already set aside to match federal dollars that may not end up coming down the pipeline from the federal government.
The bill, if it becomes law, would also allow the governor’s office to add to the fund through donations, gifts, and other means. The Denver Post explains this as a sort of crowdfunding by the state in order to defend itself and its funding streams.
HB-1321 comes as hundreds of millions of federal dollars already earmarked for Colorado have been frozen since Donald Trump took office. However, The Post says that in many instances, those funds have also been unfrozen via court orders.
State House Speaker Julie McCluskie said that with the Trump administration’s approach to funding freezes, alterations, and cancellations of federal dollars, Colorado must increase its ability to defend the interests of its citizens.
Colorado Involved In 25 Cases Against Trump Administration
Funds from House Bill 1321 could also be used to reimburse the Colorado Attorney General’s office.
The office has already joined or led twenty-five legal actions against the Trump Administration.
The latest of these came on Monday, when State Attorney General Phil Weiser filed a brief in a case urging the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the creation of a publicly funded religious charter school, which would be a first in the United States.
AG Weiser told 9News that the most dangerous claim he’s heard from Trump is his assertion that he won’t spend money mandated by Congress that’s been earmarked for Colorado – which adds up to about $220 million in federal funding.
Weiser told Fox31 that he will continue filing suits against the government whenever he sees it violating the law in a way that harms Colorado.
In at least one of the cases involving Colorado, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration was engaged in a covert effort to withhold money from Democrat-led states, according to The Denver Post.
