The Mountain Minute: 11/12/2025

🎧 Mountain Minute – November 12, 2025
From rising inflation and record state spending to a failed recall and a call to lead with truth — here’s your sharp, unfiltered roundup from Team RMV.

Colorado News:
🔹 Montrose Recall Falls Flat – The much-hyped recall of Commissioner Scott Mijares drew only 25% turnout. His replacement, Kirstin Copeland, ran unopposed and earned fewer votes than the recall itself — a weak win that one writer calls “a participation trophy in a game most folks didn’t play”.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/11/the-myth-of-the-montrose-mandate-low-turnout-exposes-recall-farce/

🔹 Do Better Denver Steps Into the Spotlight – The anonymous woman behind Do Better Denver, a viral social media account exposing the city’s homeless crisis, gave her first interview. She says she’s “calling out the failures of our elected officials,” not exploiting suffering — and with 150,000 followers, her videos are forcing city leaders to pay attention.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/11/do-better-denver-breaks-cover-says-her-mission-is-calling-out-the-failures-of-our-elected-officials/

🔹 Denver’s Inflation & Budget Chaos – Denver now leads the nation in inflation, up 1% in just two months, even as other metros cool. City Council rejected Mayor Johnston’s $1.66B budget — but under city charter, it still takes effect, frustrating critics who called the process “anything but collaborative”.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/11/denvers-inflation-rate-leads-nation-despite-cooling-elsewhere/
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/11/denver-council-rejects-mayors-budget-but-johnstons-spending-plan-is-alive-and-well/

🔹 Governor Polis’ Record $50.7B Budget – Governor Jared Polis unveiled the largest budget in Colorado history, expanding education, law enforcement, and public safety spending. Analysts warn it will balloon government amid rising Medicaid costs.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/11/governor-polis-pushes-record-50-7-billion-budget-amid-fiscal-concerns/

🔹 A Call to Lead and Write – In The Voice of Colorado, RMV Ambassador Drake Hunter calls on citizens to speak, write, and lead — describing RMV as a “living movement rooted in truth, faith, and free speech”.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/11/the-voice-of-colorado-a-call-to-engage-write-and-lead-together/

🔹 Colorado River Deadline Looms – Western states missed the federal deadline to agree on new water-sharing rules. With Lake Powell only 28% full and down 31 feet from last year, the Bureau of Reclamation may soon step in.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/11/colorado-western-states-face-federal-deadline-to-avert-colorado-river-showdown/

🔹 The Cost of Obedience – Writer Mike O’Donnell says Colorado’s senators weakened the economy by voting against reopening the government, hurting thousands of troops and federal employees while siding with D.C. elites.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/11/the-cost-of-obedience-how-colorados-senators-strengthened-economic-malfeasance/

🔹 Taxpayers Burned by Solar Boondoggle – The $2B Ivanpah solar project, once hailed as green innovation, is shutting down after missing production goals, killing wildlife, and leaving taxpayers on the hook for federal loans.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/11/11/taxpayers-left-holding-the-bag-after-2-billion-solar-project-fails/

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