Stephanie Wolf

@stephrwolf.bsky.social

Journalist and audio producer in Colorado. Now making podcasts for @cprnews.bsky.social, including Purplish. Formerly Louisville Public Media. Ex-ballerina. 2021 Arthur F. Burns Fellow. 🔗 stephaniewolfwrites.com

Private schools that take public voucher money often reject children with disabilities — the very kids who were used to help sell early voucher programs to lawmakers and the public — for having needs that are too costly, complex or disruptive. / Reporting by @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social

Vouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the Reality.

To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education. But those students’ families often have the hardest ...

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Germany's populist, far-right Alternative for Germany party has declared victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt after more than doubling its share of the vote in the first of several regional elections this fall. n.pr/4xf7x0G

Germany's far-right achieves an electoral breakthrough in key state election

Germany's populist, far-right Alternative for Germany party has declared victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt after more than doubling its share of the vote in the first of several regional elections this fall.

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"According to tax and electoral filings, Jericho has earned 100s of thousands of dolllars as Marx’s campaign manager, as a paid director of ATP, as the director of the initiative funneling money and volunteer manpower to police..." via @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Colorado’s Republican governor nominee linked to controversial anti-sex-trafficking ministry

Marx’s All Things Possible Florida model uses private funds for cop pay and surveillance tools without public oversight

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1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇

Screenshot of the top of a whistleblower disclosure titled "USPS Rushed Implementation of New and Untested IT Systems Threatens U.S. Ballot Mail Delivery." Addressed to Senator Blumenthal, the first point details how the whistleblower has "significant concerns about the USPS's secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" intended for the 2026 midterms.

NEW: At least 19 police and sheriff's employees were arrested, fired, placed on leave or investigated for possible Flock misuse after a USA TODAY analysis of 75 million Flock searches. Now, Flock has made future similar analyses virtually impossible. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Frequent Flockers. Repeat searches prompt officer firings, arrests

USA TODAY exposed troubling Flock camera search patterns across the country. Flock now blocks release of the data that made it possible.

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Suzanne Garcia remembers her jail intake inspection: Remove Clothing. Bend over. Cough. But she didn't know that her search was recorded. She found out years later, when a jail official was accused of watching the videos of 117 women. Outraged, Garcia and other alleged victims changed the law.

117 women learned their jail strip searches were recorded. Their outrage changed the law.

Survivors hope their advocacy for a bill passed in Colorado can be a model for other states after a jail official was accused of viewing strip-search videos more than 3,000 times.

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Flash floods have killed more than 270 people and some 1,500 are still unaccounted for as search efforts continue. At least 700 foreign tourists are among the missing in the catastrophe near Nepal's border with China's Tibet. Follow our live coverage ➡️ reut.rs/4qCaExO

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“The fight is absolutely not over,” Secretary of State Jena Griswold said. “And when the Trump administration tries to implement the executive order, Colorado and other states across the country will fight back.” New reporting from @bentebirkeland.bsky.social www.cpr.org/2026/08/25/t...

Colorado’s top election official said fight over mail ballots not over

Colorado election officials say legal uncertainty shrouds the potential impact of Trump’s executive order on mail ballots.

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Meta reached a landmark settlement of up to $17.1 billion with 47 states, D.C. and U.S. territories and has to make major changes to its products over claims it endangered children with addictive social media platforms. nyti.ms/4gwjgkP

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Some Americans have already lost Medicaid as new requirements from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act have taken effect. While most states won’t remove people from health insurance until Jan. 1, the first terminations have already taken affect in Nebraska — where ~200 people lost Medicaid on Aug. 1.

Roughly 200 people in Nebraska lost Medicaid on Aug. 1

It’s the first wave of terminations under new federal work requirements. And it may portend what’s to come for the rest of the country.

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An attorney for Colorado called the email a “smoking gun”: In the days that followed, agencies summoned to the meeting announced adverse actions against the state, canceling hundreds of millions in funding and moving to close Boulder's renowned NCAR lab, @sethklamann.bsky.social reports

‘Smoking gun’ email shows White House summoned agencies to Colorado-focused meeting amid Tina Peters furor

A Trump assistant asked officials from five agencies to join a call “prepared to discuss immediate actions that your department or agency can take with respect to Colorado.”

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