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Welcome to Briefly, Colorado Politics' daily news briefing. Here's what's happening today: U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet sends nine bills to president's desk Nine bills sponsored by Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet are headed to President Joe Biden's desk for signature, including measures to create more affordable housing, increase access to outdoor recreation, and stop the spread of invasive species in Colorado's rivers and reservoirs. The legislation includes provisions from the Stop the Spread of Invasive Mussels Act, which extends federal programs to prevent the spread of invasive zebra mussels in bodies of water like the Colorado River, the Women's Suffrage National Monument Location Act, which ensures the Women's Suffrage National Monument is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and the Colorado River Salinity Control Fix Act, which provides support for Colorado River Basin water users and local governments working to reduce the salt load in the Colorado River. State Disability Opportunity Office launches $2 million grant opportunity The Colorado Disability Opportunity Office (CDOO) has announced $2 million in available funding through its Disability Benefit Application Assistance Grants , a 300% increase from last year's funding, which is made available through the Colorado Disability Funding Committee. "We recognize that our community needs and deserves more funding, so we’ve raised the bar to create more pathways to opportunity," said CDOO Director, Danny Combs. "The leadership of the CDFC has created a wonderful funding pathway for our community to have the liquidity to fund their programs and resources for the entire disability community." Applications for the grant are now open until Jan. 31 at 11:59 p.m. The Disability Opportunity Office will be holding virtual office hours on Dec. 27 from 1-2 p.m. and Jan. 2 from 12-1 p.m. The grants are funded through fees collected from the purchase of Colorado historic license plate designs.'I'm doing it for her': Tatum's US family visit Hawks coach for ChristmasBest Beginnings families automatically eligible for more public benefitsNew York City FC will have the privilege of hosting the first-ever playoff Hudson River Derby against the New York Red Bulls in Saturday's Eastern Conference semifinal. Sixth-seeded NYCFC outlasted FC Cincinnati in a best-of-three Round 1 series despite losing the opening game. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings. The aging of the Baby Boomer generation (those born between 1946 and 1964) has significantly increased the share of the U.S. population aged 55+ during the past decade: from 24.9% in 2010, to 30.2% in 2023. And a growing number of these Americans are opting to age in place or downsize—creati... Click for more. American Cities With the Oldest Homebuyersmega most winning numbers 。

NoneAbortion has become slightly more common despite bans or deep restrictions in most Republican-controlled states, and the legal and political fights over its future are not over yet. It’s now been two and a half years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and opened the door for states to implement bans. The policies and their impact have been in flux ever since the ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Here’s a look at data on where things stand: Abortions slightly more common now The overturning of Roe and the enforcement of abortion bans have changed how woman obtain abortions in the United States. But they haven’t put a dent in the number of abortions being obtained. There have been slightly more monthly abortions across the country recently than there were in the months leading up to the June 2022 ruling, even as the number in states with bans dropped to near zero. “Abortion bans don’t actually prevent abortions from happening,” said Ushma Upadhyay, a public health social scientist at the University of California San Francisco. But, she said, they do change care. For women in some states, there are major obstacles to getting abortions — and advocates say that low-income, minority and immigrant women are least likely to be able to get them when they want. For those living in states with bans, the ways to access abortion are through travel or abortion pills. Pills and legal questions As the bans swept in, abortion pills became a bigger part of the equation. They were involved in about half the abortions before Dobbs. More recently, it’s been closer to two-thirds of them, according to research by the Guttmacher Institute. The uptick of that kind of abortion, usually involving a combination of two drugs, was underway before the ruling. But now, it’s become more common for pill prescriptions to be made by telehealth. By the summer of 2024, about 1 in 10 abortions was via pills prescribed via telehealth to patients in states where abortion is banned. As a result, the pills are now at the center of battles over abortion access. This month, Texas sued a New York doctor for prescribing pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine. There’s also an effort by Idaho, Kansas and Missouri to roll back their federal approvals and treat them as “controlled dangerous substances,” and a push for the federal government to start enforcing a 19th-century federal law to ban mailing them. Travel increases Clinics have closed or halted abortions in states with bans. But a network of efforts to get women seeking abortions to places where they’re legal has strengthened, and travel for abortion is now common. The Guttmacher Institute found that more than twice as many Texas residents obtained abortion in 2023 in New Mexico as New Mexico residents did. And as many Texans received them in Kansas as Kansans. Abortion funds, which benefitted from “rage giving” in 2022, have helped pay the costs for many abortion-seekers. But some funds have had to cap how much they can give. Since the downfall of Roe, the actions of lawmakers and courts have kept shifting where abortion is legal and under what conditions. Florida, the nation’s third-most-populous state, began enforcing a ban on abortions after the first six weeks of pregnancy on May 1. That immediately changed the state from one that was a refuge for other Southerners seeking abortions to an exporter of people looking for them. There were about 30 percent fewer abortions there in May compared with the average for the first three months of the year. And in June, there were 35 percent fewer. While the ban is not unique, the impact is especially large. The average driving time from Florida to a facility in North Carolina where abortion is available for the first 12 weeks of pregnancy is more than nine hours, according to data maintained by Caitlin Myers, a Middlebury College economics professor. Clinics The bans have meant clinics closed or stopped offering abortions in some states. But some states where abortion remains legal until viability — generally considered to be sometime past 21 weeks of pregnancy, though there’s no fixed time for it — have seen clinics open and expand. Illinois, Kansas and New Mexico are among the states with new clinics. There were 799 publicly identifiable abortion providers in the United States in May 2022, the month before the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade. By this November, it was 792, according to a tally by Myers, who is collecting data on abortion providers. But Myers said some hospitals that always provided some abortions have begun advertising it. So they’re now in the count of clinics — even though they might provide few of the procedures. Emergencies How hospitals handle pregnancy complications, especially those that threaten the lives of the women, has emerged as a major issue since Roe was overturned. President Joe Biden’s administration says hospitals must offer abortions when they’re needed to prevent organ loss, hemorrhage or deadly infections, even in states with bans. Texas is challenging the administration’s policy, and the U.S. Supreme Court this year declined to take it up after the Biden administration sued Idaho. More than 100 pregnant women seeking help in emergency rooms have been turned away or left unstable since 2022, The Associated Press found in an analysis of federal hospital investigative records. Among the complaints were a woman who miscarried in the lobby restroom of Texas emergency room after staff refused to see her and a woman who gave birth in a car after a North Carolina hospital couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died. “It is increasingly less safe to be pregnant and seeking emergency care in an emergency department,” Dara Kass, an emergency medicine doctor and former U.S. Health and Human Services official, told the AP earlier this year.

Premium Brands Holdings Co. ( TSE:PBH – Get Free Report ) declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 6th, Zacks Dividends reports. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, December 31st will be given a dividend of 0.85 per share on Wednesday, January 15th. This represents a $3.40 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.27%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, December 31st. Premium Brands Trading Up 0.0 % Shares of Premium Brands stock opened at C$79.61 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 161.28, a quick ratio of 1.16 and a current ratio of 1.56. The stock has a market capitalization of C$3.54 billion, a P/E ratio of 31.34, a P/E/G ratio of 1.10 and a beta of 0.98. Premium Brands has a 52-week low of C$75.67 and a 52-week high of C$97.10. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is C$82.87 and its 200 day simple moving average is C$88.28. Premium Brands ( TSE:PBH – Get Free Report ) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November 6th. The company reported C$1.11 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of C$1.36 by C($0.25). Premium Brands had a net margin of 1.78% and a return on equity of 6.43%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $1.27 EPS. As a group, research analysts anticipate that Premium Brands will post 6.039823 EPS for the current year. Insider Activity at Premium Brands Analysts Set New Price Targets PBH has been the subject of several recent research reports. TD Securities reduced their price target on Premium Brands from C$129.00 to C$120.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, November 7th. Stifel Nicolaus decreased their price target on Premium Brands from C$106.00 to C$101.00 in a research report on Thursday, November 7th. CIBC cut their price objective on shares of Premium Brands from C$103.00 to C$90.00 in a research report on Thursday, November 7th. Royal Bank of Canada decreased their target price on shares of Premium Brands from C$100.00 to C$96.00 in a report on Thursday, November 7th. Finally, Raymond James set a C$100.00 price target on shares of Premium Brands and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 19th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and five have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of C$103.11. Get Our Latest Stock Report on Premium Brands About Premium Brands ( Get Free Report ) Premium Brands Holdings Corporation, through its subsidiaries, manufactures and distributes food products primarily in Canada and the United States. It operates in two segments, Specialty Foods and Premium Food Distribution. The company provides processed meat, deli products, meat snacks, beef jerky and halal, sandwiches, pastries, specialty and gourmet products, entrees, panini, wraps, subs, hamburgers, burgers, salads and kettle products, muffins, breads, pastas, pizza, and baking and sushi products. See Also Receive News & Ratings for Premium Brands Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Premium Brands and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .

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NEW YORK (AP) — Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is headed back to the World Blitz Championship on Monday after its governing body agreed to loosen a dress code that got him fined and denied a late-round game in another tournament for refusing to change out of jeans . Lamenting the contretemps, International Chess Federation President Arkady Dvorkovich said in a statement Sunday that he'd let World Blitz Championship tournament officials consider allowing “appropriate jeans” with a jacket, and other “elegant minor deviations” from the dress code. He said Carlsen's stand — which culminated in his quitting the tournament Friday — highlighted a need for more discussion “to ensure that our rules and their application reflect the evolving nature of chess as a global and accessible sport.” Carlsen, meanwhile, said in a video posted Sunday on social media that he would play — and wear jeans — in the World Blitz Championship when it begins Monday. “I think the situation was badly mishandled on their side,” the 34-year-old Norwegian grandmaster said. But he added that he loves playing blitz — a fast-paced form of chess — and wanted fans to be able to watch, and that he was encouraged by his discussions with the federation after Friday's showdown. “I think we sort of all want the same thing,” he suggested in the video on his Take Take Take chess app’s YouTube channel. “We want the players to be comfortable, sure, but also relatively presentable.” The events began when Carlsen wore jeans and a sportcoat Friday to the Rapid World Championship, which is separate from but held in conjunction with the blitz event. The chess federation said Friday that longstanding rules prohibit jeans at those tournaments, and players are lodged nearby to make sartorial switch-ups easy if needed. An official fined Carlsen $200 and asked him to change pants, but he refused and wasn't paired for a ninth-round game, the federation said at the time. The organization noted that another grandmaster, Ian Nepomniachtchi, was fined earlier in the day for wearing sports shoes, changed and continued to play. Carlsen has said that he offered to wear something else the next day, but officials were unyielding. He said “it became a bit of a matter of principle,” so he quit the rapid and blitz championships. In the video posted Sunday, he questioned whether he had indeed broken a rule and said changing clothes would have needlessly interrupted his concentration between games. He called the punishment “unbelievably harsh.” “Of course, I could have changed. Obviously, I didn’t want to,” he said, and “I stand by that.”None

Canadiens' Mike Matheson out against Utah with lower-body injuryKyle Fellers, one of the Bow parents suing the school district over its handling of a silent protest against transgender girls in sports, described gender inclusion policies that infringe on female protections in educational settings as an effort to “appease a mentally ill cult.” “A cult in my mind is a group of individuals who quash any type of dissent on their beliefs,” Fellers said in court on Thursday. “I have the right to believe they are biological males.” His comments came during testimony in federal court in Concord Thursday in a case that centers on First Amendment rights to free speech and expression. Fellers, along with Anthony and Nicole Foote, and Eldon Rash, a family member of Fellers, filed the lawsuit after a protest at a Bow High School girls’ soccer game against Plymouth Regional High School on Sept. 17. During the game, the group wore pink armbands marked with “XX,” a reference to the chromosomes associated with biological females, to signal their opposition to transgender athletes competing in girls’ sports. A transgender girl was playing for the Plymouth team that day. Bow police confronted the demonstrators and after the game, Fellers and Foote were issued no trespass orders, accusing them of violating district policies against bullying and harassment. Fellers in court said his concerns are limited to transgender participation in sports and do not extend to broader issues involving transgender individuals. Brian Cullen, the school district’s attorney, presented emails in court to argue that wearing the pink armbands was not just about supporting women’s sports but also carried an anti-transgender message. “No one other than the United States transgender mob supports boys playing on girls’ sports teams,” Foote wrote in another email, dated Aug. 23, to Jay Vogt, the Bow girls’ varsity soccer coach. While the no-trespass orders have been lifted, the group of Bow parents said they want to be able to wear the pink armbands at all school and athletic events — not just girls’ soccer games — to show support for women’s sports, without facing penalties from the Bow School District. The Bow School District maintains that wearing those armbands violates its policy and is considered harassment of transgender students, including transgender girls who participate in girls’ sports. “Wearing XX wristbands, we believe it violates school policy and doesn’t comply with Title IX,” said Cullen, an attorney for the school district. “The school’s position is if they come to games with the bands, we will ask them to take off.” Del Kolde, an attorney from the Institute of Free Speech Attorneys representing the parents pushed back. “They call what my clients did as harassment,” said Kolde “We don’t call it harassment. We call this legal passive speech.”

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OTTAWA -- Carter George is heading to the World Junior Hockey Championship The 18-year-old goaltender from Thunder Bay has been named to Canada's national under-20 team for this year's tournament, which begins on Boxing Day in Ottawa. George, who plays in the Ontario Hockey League for the Owen Sound Attack, officially made the squad on Friday afternoon following the conclusion of Hockey Canada's selection camp. The Los Angeles Kings prospect one of three goaltenders on the roster . The other two are Carson Bjarnason of the Western Hockey League's Brandon Wheat Kings and Jack Ivankovic of the Ontario Hockey League's Brampton Steelheads. Bjarnason is a signed prospect of the Philadelphia Flyers and Ivankovic is eligible to be selected at the 2026 National Hockey League draft. George is the first player from Thunder Bay to play for Canada at the World Juniors since goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood in 2016. This marks the third time that George has represented his country on the international stage. He won a gold medal at the 2023 Hlinka Gretzky Cup and the 2024 World Under-18 Hockey Championship. Canada's first action will be during a pre-tournament game against Switzerland on Dec. 19 in Ottawa. They also have exhibition contests with Sweden and Czechia on Dec. 21 and 23 respectively. The team's first round-robin matchup is against Finland on Boxing Day.The price to get a car or truck could once again be on the rise as President-elect Donald Trump is promising to impose tariffs on several countries. In a post to Truth Social, Trump said he plans to place tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada in an effort to pressure those nations to slow the flow of drugs and illegal immigrants into the United States.

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