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@vinniechant.bsky.social

Journalist | “These American Crossroads” | 📸🍃✊🏼🛹 🏳️‍🌈| opinions my own 🫡 Tips: vincechandler@yellowscene.com

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yellowscenemag
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For the second time in his first year, Erie’s mayor attempted to fire Town Manager Malcolm Fleming. What was slated for executive session was forced into public view. The 360 review describes a strong performer, and notes staff heard the mayor yelling behind closed doors. tinyurl.com/4wv6akrj

yellowscene.comErie Mayor's Attempts to Fire Town Manager Made Public - Yellow Scene MagazineIn a mostly empty town hall chamber, after a lone person offered public comment calling on the town to pledge protection for constituents from ICE and CBP

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The BIPOC Alliance is hosting a round table to discuss the challenges that people of color face in predominately white organizing spaces. The long term goal of the meeting is to diversify organizing spaces, foster anti-racist ideals, and empower BIPOC organizers.

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Colorado Newsline
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Moderate Democratic state lawmakers joined Republicans Monday night to defeat a bill that would have strengthened local Colorado governments’ authority to tax vacant residential properties. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

coloradonewsline.comColorado lawmakers reject bill to allow resort towns to tax vacant homes | Colorado NewslineSupporters of the measure said vacancy taxes can disincentivize empty homes while helping to fund local affordability programs.
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Boulder-sized boulders and dollars-for-diggities, Colorado really does have the best units for weights and measurements.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social

Rep Lauren Boebert's now-explained campaign expenses at a Kid Rock concert were tied to her $12,000/person fundraiser in a suite at the Kid Rock show. That's about $521 for every diggy-diggy-diggy in Bawitdaba, or $173 on a per diggy basis.

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"For those with few route options, the inability to drive to a park and ride, or who have to carry cumbersome equipment, the program allows for autonomy for the disabled with low barriers through proximity to transportation." yellowscene.com/2025/12/10/d...

yellowscene.comDisability Activists File Federal Lawsuit Against RTD in Denver - Yellow Scene MagazineHair whipping in the wind, the late morning sun obscured by the towering federal courthouse behind, and a smattering of news teams pointed their cameras

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A Colorado nurse won a $20M verdict after jurors found she was targeted because she’s Black and then wrongfully blamed for a patient’s death. DonQuenick Joppy survived years of harassment and criminal charges. Her warning: “If this happened to me, what about Black patients?” tinyurl.com/2x4zkd69

yellowscene.comThe $20M Verdict That Gave One Nurse JusticeA Colorado nurse wins a $20M racial discrimination verdict against HCA Healthcare, exposing systemic racism inside hospitals.
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Had coffee this morning with a college mentor I hadn’t seen in-person for almost 15 years. To be met as a peer, swapping stories and advice, was a surreally validating experience. Call an old teacher, find a way to catch up with them. Seriously. Especially all you j school grads.

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Truth Be Told, a behind-the-scenes documentary showing local journalists at work in communities across Colorado, airs at 10:30AM today on 9NEWS, followed by a panel discussion with journalists past, present, and future discussing challenges and opportunities in local media.

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"Today’s widespread use of AI-infused job boards makes it too easy for anyone to apply, especially the unqualified. LinkedIn’s job site is getting 9,500 applications per minute." coloradosun.com/2025/11/03/c...

coloradosun.comColorado job hunters are using AI. So are employers, scammers and even the state's labor department.The job market in Colorado and around the country is pitting AI generators against AI filters and leaving real workers and hiring managers feeling trapped in the middle.
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“It’s easy to feel isolated, especially in a world siloed into media bubbles. What we see on our local feeds can feel like the whole truth, while coastal media outlets cut staff and can’t afford reporters on the ground anymore.” yellowscene.com/2025/10/05/b...

yellowscene.com"But What Can I Do?” Vince Chandler on Resistance, Community, and Hope Across the Heartland - Yellow Scene MagazineFascism thrives where there’s no hope. By rekindling the narrative that we, the people, have power — and that there are more of us — we can drive real populism against fascism. In my best scenario, it...
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Five years ago today this truck absolutely saved my life on 225 outside Aurora, Colorado by taking the hit from a Jeep driving through a protest on the highway for Elijah McClain. There’ve been so many close calls, this one still pops in to my mind regularly.

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Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.

n.prGeorgia senators demand answers on more than a dozen deaths in immigration detentionSens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.

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yellowscenemag
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Journalism like this only exists because we are people powered. Vince is on the ground talking to the people everyday. But it is only sustainable with support. fundrazr.com/Crossroads?r...

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My latest for “These American Crossroads” in @yellowscenemag.bsky.social See the full series: yellowscene.com/2025/08/08/t...

yellowscene.comThese American Crossroads - Yellow Scene MagazineThese American Crossroads: Stories of Resistance and Persistence from the United States' Heartland President Trump's federal administration makes no
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“Only hours before, The Free State Advocates had been in the D.C. Municipal Courts. They had travelled across the country to their nation’s capital city to raise a united voice, bringing to the forefront of national politics their crisis in the center of the country.” yellowscene.com/2025/09/21/8...

yellowscene.com8 Kansans Arrested, 3 Days of Protest in D.C. - Yellow Scene MagazineThe room was tense, despite the late hour energies were running high and colliding as voices mixed and ideas flowed. The overlapping noise intermixed

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Jimmy Kimmel and Yellow Scene being boycotted for free speech. The problem with the YS boycott is they are threatening local businesses in their rabid obsession to harm YS.

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“I do not recall any of Jesus’ teachings calling for a white-ethno state.” @yellowscenemag.bsky.social Publisher Shavonne Blades in her latest. yellowscene.com/2025/09/19/e...

yellowscene.comEveryone Should Be Fired Over Charlie Kirk - Yellow Scene MagazineAmerica is on the very slippery side of the slope toward authoritarianism. The POTUS is using the military against citizens; he is illegally snatching people off the street and imprisoning them withou...
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“I do not recall any of Jesus’ teachings calling for a white-ethno state.” @yellowscenemag.bsky.social Publisher Shavonne Blades in her latest. yellowscene.com/2025/09/19/e...

yellowscene.comEveryone Should Be Fired Over Charlie Kirk - Yellow Scene MagazineAmerica is on the very slippery side of the slope toward authoritarianism. The POTUS is using the military against citizens; he is illegally snatching people off the street and imprisoning them withou...
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This story felt like it was built in a lab just for me to write for These American Crossroads. Bram Stroke-Her's birthday bash at No Class benefitting TransOhio in the eastern gateway to the Heartland, Cleveland. yellowscene.com/2025/09/18/p...

yellowscene.comPunk Rock is Political, Cleveland's Gay Metal Bar Won’t Let You Forget - Yellow Scene MagazineThe sun set hours ago. Despite it being a Sunday night, the coffee shop crowd continues to sip their hot beverages, smoke cigarettes, and chat amongst
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“It’s a privilege to be partnering with NoCo community leaders that are actively pushing back against the targeted attacks,” says Savannah Svoboda. “I’m proud to continue to platform such talented and too-often overlooked performers through the lens of our mission.” nocostyle.com/2025/09/13/f...

nocostyle.comFull Expression Hosts NoCo Disability Pride | NOCO Style MagazineLocally owned queer dance collective Full Expression is hosting a day of advocacy, art, community and love at their Fort Collins studio on Sept. 20, 2025.
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Christie P - Kansas@christiep.bsky.social

Apparently I was viewed as a threat? I am 5 foot, 56 years old, and… round. With a knee in a brace. I asked to talk to Moran or a rep of his, they said no one available. I asked to leave some written messages from Kansans, started showing the three receptionists the video of the yellow brick road.