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El Pentágono prohibió el ingreso de fotógrafos a las ruedas de prensa del secretario de guerra, Pete Hegseth, que tengan relación con el conflicto entre EEUU e Irán. Lo anterior debido a imágenes del político que resultaron “poco favorecedoras” hacia él. El reclamo habría llegado después de una conferencia que Hegseth dio junto al general … Continua leyendo "Pentágono prohíbe los fotógrafos de prensa tras imágenes donde el secretario de guerra se "veía feo"" The post Pentágono prohíbe los fotógrafos de prensa tras imágenes donde el secretario de guerra se "veía feo" appeared first on BioBioChile.
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El Pentágono prohibió el ingreso de fotógrafos a las ruedas de prensa del secretario de guerra, Pete Hegseth, que tengan relación con el conflicto entre EEUU e Irán. Lo anterior debido a imágenes del político que resultaron “poco favorecedoras” hacia él. El reclamo habría llegado después de una conferencia que Hegseth dio junto al general … Continua leyendo "Pentágono prohíbe los fotógrafos de prensa tras imágenes donde el secretario de guerra se "veía feo"" The post Pentágono prohíbe los fotógrafos de prensa tras imágenes donde el secretario de guerra se "veía feo" appeared first on BioBioChile.
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Lo monde es agut content de veire las Fòrças democraticas sirianas, una coalicion militara formada en 2015 pendent la guèrra civila siriana. Activas dins lo nòrd de Siria, las FDS, fòrças armadas de Rojava, an contengut e mai caçat l’Estat islamic dins aquesta zòna de l’estat sirian. Dominadas pels curdes de las Unitats de proteccion del pòble (YPG), los FDS regropan egalament de rebèls arabs pròches de l’Armada siriana liura, de tribus localas coma l’Armada Al-Sanadid e dels crestians assirocaldeans (per çò que ne demòra) del Conselh militar siriac. Continua llegint
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Lo monde es agut content de veire las Fòrças democraticas sirianas, una coalicion militara formada en 2015 pendent la guèrra civila siriana. Activas dins lo nòrd de Siria, las FDS, fòrças armadas de Rojava, an contengut e mai caçat l’Estat islamic dins aquesta zòna de l’estat sirian. Dominadas pels curdes de las Unitats de proteccion del pòble (YPG), los FDS regropan egalament de rebèls arabs pròches de l’Armada siriana liura, de tribus localas coma l’Armada Al-Sanadid e dels crestians assirocaldeans (per çò que ne demòra) del Conselh militar siriac. Continua llegint
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Lo govèrn francés a mes lo ponch final a l’absurda interdicion de la tilda de la letra ”ñ”, pròpria de la lenga bretona per marcar la nasalizacion de la vocala precedenta, après que fòrça parents menèron de batalhas davant los tribunals per poder inscriure lors enfants amb de rèirenoms coma Fañch a l’estat civil. Lo Ministèri de la Justícia a justificat aquel cambiament de doctrina en explicant que voliá «respectar las causidas individualas» dels ciutadans e «non pas engorgar inutilament las juridiccions», çò rapòrta France3. Continua llegint
Lo govèrn francés a mes lo ponch final a l’absurda interdicion de la tilda de la letra ”ñ”, pròpria de la lenga bretona per marcar la nasalizacion de la vocala precedenta, après que fòrça parents menèron de batalhas davant los tribunals per poder inscriure lors enfants amb de rèirenoms coma Fañch a l’estat civil. Lo Ministèri de la Justícia a justificat aquel cambiament de doctrina en explicant que voliá «respectar las causidas individualas» dels ciutadans e «non pas engorgar inutilament las juridiccions», çò rapòrta France3. Continua llegint
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KZN transport department has a road maintenance backlog of R20-billion
KZN transport department has a road maintenance backlog of R20-billion
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El nuevo diseño —un círculo azul con una estrella blanca y la frase “Gobierno de Chile”— incorpora además la franja “trabajando para usted”. El lanzamiento no pasó desapercibido en redes sociales, donde miles de usuarios comentaron el aspecto de las gráficas difundidas y otros se cuestionaron si este rebranding tendrá costos asociados. Este artículo “Trabajando para usted”: Gobierno de Kast estrena nueva identidad gráfica en redes sociales fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.

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El nuevo diseño —un círculo azul con una estrella blanca y la frase “Gobierno de Chile”— incorpora además la franja “trabajando para usted”. El lanzamiento no pasó desapercibido en redes sociales, donde miles de usuarios comentaron el aspecto de las gráficas difundidas y otros se cuestionaron si este rebranding tendrá costos asociados. Este artículo “Trabajando para usted”: Gobierno de Kast estrena nueva identidad gráfica en redes sociales fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.
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Jason Lee's nonprofit was tentatively awarded $12.4 million in funding aimed at strengthening California's behavioral health systems. Stockton vice mayor’s nonprofit could receive $12.4 million from state is a story from Stocktonia News, a rigorous and factual newsroom covering Greater Stockton, California. Please consider making a charitable contribution to support our journalism.

Jason Lee's nonprofit was tentatively awarded $12.4 million in funding aimed at strengthening California's behavioral health systems. Stockton vice mayor’s nonprofit could receive $12.4 million from state is a story from Stocktonia News, a rigorous and factual newsroom covering Greater Stockton, California. Please consider making a charitable contribution to support our journalism.
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En su primera jornada como Presidente de la República, José Antonio Kast . Las medidas abarcan desde el control fronterizo en la macrozona norte hasta una auditoría integral de todo el Estado, pasando por la designación de un comisionado con facultades especiales y la reactivación de inversiones. La firma se realizó en el Palacio de … Continua leyendo "Presidente Kast firma primeros decretos: cierre fronterizo y auditoría total marcan inicio de gobierno" The post Presidente Kast firma primeros decretos: cierre fronterizo y auditoría total marcan inicio de gobierno appeared first on BioBioChile.
En su primera jornada como Presidente de la República, José Antonio Kast . Las medidas abarcan desde el control fronterizo en la macrozona norte hasta una auditoría integral de todo el Estado, pasando por la designación de un comisionado con facultades especiales y la reactivación de inversiones. La firma se realizó en el Palacio de … Continua leyendo "Presidente Kast firma primeros decretos: cierre fronterizo y auditoría total marcan inicio de gobierno" The post Presidente Kast firma primeros decretos: cierre fronterizo y auditoría total marcan inicio de gobierno appeared first on BioBioChile.
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El bombardeo que causó la muerte de decenas de estudiantes ha desencadenado un complejo debate sobre responsabilidades; pese a que se vinculan restos del ataque con un misil estadounidense, Washington asegura que mantiene abierta la investigación.

El bombardeo que causó la muerte de decenas de estudiantes ha desencadenado un complejo debate sobre responsabilidades; pese a que se vinculan restos del ataque con un misil estadounidense, Washington asegura que mantiene abierta la investigación.
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From a global clothing brand to our biggest bank, companies that don’t follow the rules on sending marketing spam to Australians have faced hefty fines.
From a global clothing brand to our biggest bank, companies that don’t follow the rules on sending marketing spam to Australians have faced hefty fines.
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The North Carolina Technology in Education Society (NCTIES) held its annual convening from March 4-6 in downtown Raleigh. The gathering brought together 2,161 educators and 308 students from around the state for connection, celebration, and the demonstration of STEM and... The post Student STEM showcase reigned supreme at NCTIES 2026 appeared first on EdNC.

The North Carolina Technology in Education Society (NCTIES) held its annual convening from March 4-6 in downtown Raleigh. The gathering brought together 2,161 educators and 308 students from around the state for connection, celebration, and the demonstration of STEM and... The post Student STEM showcase reigned supreme at NCTIES 2026 appeared first on EdNC.
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Maryland's revenue picture improved by nearly $250 million over two years, buoyed largely by a factor that can't be anticipated — people dying. The numbers from the Board of Revenue Estimates also confirm a sharp drop in the new IT sales tax.

Maryland's revenue picture improved by nearly $250 million over two years, buoyed largely by a factor that can't be anticipated — people dying. The numbers from the Board of Revenue Estimates also confirm a sharp drop in the new IT sales tax.
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ཨ་རིའི་རླུང་འཕྲིན་ཁང་གི་གཟའ་ཟླ་བ་ནས་པ་སངས་བར་གྱི་སྔ་དགོང་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ཀུན་གླེང་བརྙན་འཕྲིན་ནང་གསར་འགྱུར་དང་། དྲ་སྣང་གི་བོད། ཆབ་སྲིད་བཙོན་པ་ངོ་སྤྲོད། དཔེ་ཀློག་སོགས་ཀྱི་ལས་རིམ་དང་། བརྗོད་གཞི་གལ་ཆེན་མང་པོའི་ཐད་དུས་ཐོག་ཏུ་བགྲོ་གླེང་ལྷུག་པོར་གནང་བའི་ལེ་ཚན་བཅས་ཡོད་པས་དུས་ལྟར་གཟིགས་རོགས་གནང་། ཀུན་གླེང་ཐད་གཏོང་གི་དུས་ཚོད་ནི་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་དགོང་མོའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་བདུན་དང་ཕྱེད་ཀ་ནས་བརྒྱད་པའི་བར་དང་། བོད་ནང་གི་དགོང་མོའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་བཅུ་བ་ནས་༡༠ དང་ཕྱེད་ཀའི་བར། དེ་བཞིན་ཨ་རིའི་ཤར་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་ཞོགས་པའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་༡༠ པ་ནས་༡༠...
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ཨ་རིའི་རླུང་འཕྲིན་ཁང་གི་གཟའ་ཟླ་བ་ནས་པ་སངས་བར་གྱི་སྔ་དགོང་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ཀུན་གླེང་བརྙན་འཕྲིན་ནང་གསར་འགྱུར་དང་། དྲ་སྣང་གི་བོད། ཆབ་སྲིད་བཙོན་པ་ངོ་སྤྲོད། དཔེ་ཀློག་སོགས་ཀྱི་ལས་རིམ་དང་། བརྗོད་གཞི་གལ་ཆེན་མང་པོའི་ཐད་དུས་ཐོག་ཏུ་བགྲོ་གླེང་ལྷུག་པོར་གནང་བའི་ལེ་ཚན་བཅས་ཡོད་པས་དུས་ལྟར་གཟིགས་རོགས་གནང་། ཀུན་གླེང་ཐད་གཏོང་གི་དུས་ཚོད་ནི་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་དགོང་མོའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་བདུན་དང་ཕྱེད་ཀ་ནས་བརྒྱད་པའི་བར་དང་། བོད་ནང་གི་དགོང་མོའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་བཅུ་བ་ནས་༡༠ དང་ཕྱེད་ཀའི་བར། དེ་བཞིན་ཨ་རིའི་ཤར་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་ཞོགས་པའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་༡༠ པ་ནས་༡༠...
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The destruction of Gaza did not remain confined there. Predictably, it has become a precedent, shaping the wars in Lebanon and Iran as international law erodes under selective outrage.
The destruction of Gaza did not remain confined there. Predictably, it has become a precedent, shaping the wars in Lebanon and Iran as international law erodes under selective outrage.
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ประมวลข่าวสำคัญล่าสุดของวัน รายงานธุรกิจ บทวิเคราะห์ทางการเมือง รายงานวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีการแพทย์ เรื่องของสตรี การศึกษาและสังคม รายงานการบันเทิงและวัฒนธรรมอเมริกัน รวมทั้งชีวิตคนไทยในอเมริกา
ประมวลข่าวสำคัญล่าสุดของวัน รายงานธุรกิจ บทวิเคราะห์ทางการเมือง รายงานวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีการแพทย์ เรื่องของสตรี การศึกษาและสังคม รายงานการบันเทิงและวัฒนธรรมอเมริกัน รวมทั้งชีวิตคนไทยในอเมริกา
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Dunia memang sedang bergerak menuju energi yang lebih hijau demi kelestarian Bumi. Namun di lain sisi, ada jutaan pekerja yang menggantungkan hidup dari industri ekstraktif, seperti tambang batu bara…
Dunia memang sedang bergerak menuju energi yang lebih hijau demi kelestarian Bumi. Namun di lain sisi, ada jutaan pekerja yang menggantungkan hidup dari industri ekstraktif, seperti tambang batu bara…
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O’Higgis de Rancagua está cayendo por la cuenta mínima ante Deportes Tolima, en Rancagua, en el duelo de vuelta de la fase 3 previa de la Copa Libertadores. El tanto de Junior Hernández, a los 38′, igualó por ahora la serie entre ambos elencos, recordando que en suelo chileno la victoria fue celeste (1-0). De … Continua leyendo "Tolima se adelanta a O’Higgins en Colombia por Libertadores: por ahora se van a los penales" The post Tolima se adelanta a O’Higgins en Colombia por Libertadores: por ahora se van a los penales appeared first on BioBioChile.
O’Higgis de Rancagua está cayendo por la cuenta mínima ante Deportes Tolima, en Rancagua, en el duelo de vuelta de la fase 3 previa de la Copa Libertadores. El tanto de Junior Hernández, a los 38′, igualó por ahora la serie entre ambos elencos, recordando que en suelo chileno la victoria fue celeste (1-0). De … Continua leyendo "Tolima se adelanta a O’Higgins en Colombia por Libertadores: por ahora se van a los penales" The post Tolima se adelanta a O’Higgins en Colombia por Libertadores: por ahora se van a los penales appeared first on BioBioChile.
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El español Carlos Alcaraz arrolló este miércoles al noruego Casper Ruud por 6-1 y 7-6(2) en el Masters 1.000 de Indian Wells y se clasificó para los cuartos de final, donde le espera el británico Cameron Norrie. Alcaraz, número uno del mundo, solo necesitó 1 hora y 30 minutos para someter a Ruud (n.13), en … Continua leyendo "Indian Wells: Carlos Alcaraz superó sin problemas a Casper Ruud y avanza firme a los cuartos de final" The post Indian Wells: Carlos Alcaraz superó sin problemas a Casper Ruud y avanza firme a los cuartos de final appeared first on BioBioChile.
El español Carlos Alcaraz arrolló este miércoles al noruego Casper Ruud por 6-1 y 7-6(2) en el Masters 1.000 de Indian Wells y se clasificó para los cuartos de final, donde le espera el británico Cameron Norrie. Alcaraz, número uno del mundo, solo necesitó 1 hora y 30 minutos para someter a Ruud (n.13), en … Continua leyendo "Indian Wells: Carlos Alcaraz superó sin problemas a Casper Ruud y avanza firme a los cuartos de final" The post Indian Wells: Carlos Alcaraz superó sin problemas a Casper Ruud y avanza firme a los cuartos de final appeared first on BioBioChile.
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en Puerto Varas, región de Los Lagos. En su visita a la zona, donde visitó el Hospital de Puerto Montt, recinto donde se encuentra internado y con muerte cerebral el sargento segundo de Carabineros, Javier Figueroa Manquemilla, la secretaria de Estado confirmó que por ahora no hay detenidos por el caso. “Pero esta causa, esta … Continua leyendo ""Es muy doloroso": Ministra Steinert por carabinero baleado en la cabeza en Puerto Varas" The post "Es muy doloroso": Ministra Steinert por carabinero baleado en la cabeza en Puerto Varas appeared first on BioBioChile.
en Puerto Varas, región de Los Lagos. En su visita a la zona, donde visitó el Hospital de Puerto Montt, recinto donde se encuentra internado y con muerte cerebral el sargento segundo de Carabineros, Javier Figueroa Manquemilla, la secretaria de Estado confirmó que por ahora no hay detenidos por el caso. “Pero esta causa, esta … Continua leyendo ""Es muy doloroso": Ministra Steinert por carabinero baleado en la cabeza en Puerto Varas" The post "Es muy doloroso": Ministra Steinert por carabinero baleado en la cabeza en Puerto Varas appeared first on BioBioChile.
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La periodista Cecilia Gutiérrez, reconocida por destapar varios secretos del mundo de la farándula, aseguró que el cantante Américo retomó su relación con su esposa, de quien estuvo separado por casi dos años. Recordemos que esta reconciliación se da poco después del incidente que puso fin a su relación con Yamila Reyna, quien los denunció … Continua leyendo "Américo pasa las penas de amor con su ex en Bolivia: afirman que volvieron tras quiebre con Yamila" The post Américo pasa las penas de amor con su ex en Bolivia: afirman que volvieron tras quiebre con Yamila appeared first on BioBioChile.
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La periodista Cecilia Gutiérrez, reconocida por destapar varios secretos del mundo de la farándula, aseguró que el cantante Américo retomó su relación con su esposa, de quien estuvo separado por casi dos años. Recordemos que esta reconciliación se da poco después del incidente que puso fin a su relación con Yamila Reyna, quien los denunció … Continua leyendo "Américo pasa las penas de amor con su ex en Bolivia: afirman que volvieron tras quiebre con Yamila" The post Américo pasa las penas de amor con su ex en Bolivia: afirman que volvieron tras quiebre con Yamila appeared first on BioBioChile.
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Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.Four school board candidates, one vacant seat, and a school board president who made the pick on her own. These are the main ingredients of a legal conflict brewing in the Pueblo 70 school district, where a divided board has faced months of simmering tension over the district’s role in the opening of a “public Christian school” called Riverstone Academy. There’s no lawsuit yet. But a lawyer representing the three school board candidates who were passed over for the vacant seat has suggested it’s possible. Board President Ann Bennett appointed Susie Carnes, who has links to the group that operates Riverstone, to the open seat in February.In a Tuesday email, attorney Eric Maxfield told Pueblo 70’s lawyer that his clients’ next steps could include “litigation in state district court” over violations of Colorado’s open meetings law. His clients are Jonathan Lewis, Adolph Vigil, and Tara Stroesenreuther.With district superintendent Ronda Rein preparing to retire, the legal outcome of the board seat dispute could mean a shift to a less conservative school board majority and change the direction of the 12,000-student district. In addition to hiring a new superintendent this summer, the board could decide whether to keep or replace the school district’s law firm, which is headed by attorney Brad Miller. Miller has been at the center of controversy in recent months. He helped create Riverstone last summer at the behest of a conservative Arizona-based law firm seeking a test case on the question of public funding for religious schools, emails obtained by Chalkbeat indicate. The Pueblo 70 school board voted to allow Riverstone, which is authorized by a public education co-op, to locate within the district’s boundaries.In an email exchange with Maxfield on Tuesday, Miller pushed back against Maxfield’s assertion that Bennett broke state law by appointing Carnes to the vacant seat. “I am disappointed that you would feign to believe that her appointment was in error,” Miller wrote, according to a copy of the email provided by Maxfield to Chalkbeat. The board seat came open after a former board member, Anne Ochs, resigned in December after a district parent criticized her for hiding key facts about Riverstone’s creation and failing to disclose a conflict of interest. Four candidates applied to fill the vacancy, but the board deadlocked with repeated 2-2 ties at its Feb. 10 meeting. Then Board Vice President AJ Wilson fell ill and was helped out of the room. That left three board members and the possibility that one of the candidates could be appointed in a 2-1 vote. But Bennett, who had sided with Wilson in the vacancy votes, never returned from the 10-minute recess she’d called or adjourned the meeting. Six days later, she announced that she’d appointed Carnes to the vacant seat. Under Colorado law, school board presidents can appoint a new member if the board can’t agree on a candidate after 60 days.Carnes was sworn in by Bennett on Feb. 25, in what Maxfield characterized in his letter as an “unannounced non-public ceremony.” As of last month, Carnes was listed as an elementary teacher at a school run by Forging Education, a Christian group that also runs Riverstone. Her appointment means that three of the five Pueblo 70 school board members — a majority — have had connections to Forging Education.In a 10-page letter sent to the Pueblo 70 school board on March 4, Maxfield alleged that Bennett circumvented Colorado’s open meetings law when she abruptly “fled” that February school board meeting and later made the vacancy appointment “unilaterally.” He argued that Bennett’s sudden departure on Feb. 10 was meant to prevent the public from witnessing the selection of a new board member in an open public meeting that had been noticed in advance. “Notwithstanding the tragic hardship to Vice President Wilson, after his departure the Board maintained quorum, the business was not concluded, and such business was urgent, under a statutory deadline,” Maxfield said.Quorum refers to the minimum number of members needed for a public body to take votes on public business. For a five-member board, quorum requires three board members to be present. Maxfield asked for 11 remedies in his letter, including that the appointment of Carnes be invalidated and that the board re-do the selection process. (Maxfield referred to Carnes as the “Director-in-Error.”) He also asked that an outside lawyer conduct a “comprehensive governance and conflict-of-interest review.” Miller rebuffed those requests in his Tuesday email to Maxfield and said Carnes’ appointment was “properly completed.”.“The political interplay was anything but smooth and I can agree that it always would be optimal if a majority of the remaining directors could agree on an appointee,” Miller wrote. “However, the tie breaking mechanism is clearly set forth in Colorado statute.”Bennett did not respond to Chalkbeat’s request for comment about the alleged violation. It’s not clear when Maxfield’s three clients will decide whether to file a lawsuit over the alleged open meetings violations. Miller indicated in his Tuesday response to Maxfield that he will discuss the matter with the Pueblo 70 school board on March 17 and will follow up with Maxfield afterwards.Maxfield and Miller’s firm have faced off in recent years in other cases about transparency. In February, a Woodland Park mother who is a client of Maxfield emerged victorious after a district court judge ordered the Woodland Park school district to pay her more than $144,000 in legal costs after she successfully showed the district violated the Colorado Open Meetings Law. Miller’s firm represented the school district in that case. Maxfield told Miller in their Tuesday email exchange that if his three clients decide to sue, they’ll “seek payment by the Board of their reasonable attorney fees and costs.” Ann Schimke is a senior reporter at Chalkbeat covering early childhood issues and early literacy. Contact Ann at aschimke@chalkbeat.org.
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Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.Four school board candidates, one vacant seat, and a school board president who made the pick on her own. These are the main ingredients of a legal conflict brewing in the Pueblo 70 school district, where a divided board has faced months of simmering tension over the district’s role in the opening of a “public Christian school” called Riverstone Academy. There’s no lawsuit yet. But a lawyer representing the three school board candidates who were passed over for the vacant seat has suggested it’s possible. Board President Ann Bennett appointed Susie Carnes, who has links to the group that operates Riverstone, to the open seat in February.In a Tuesday email, attorney Eric Maxfield told Pueblo 70’s lawyer that his clients’ next steps could include “litigation in state district court” over violations of Colorado’s open meetings law. His clients are Jonathan Lewis, Adolph Vigil, and Tara Stroesenreuther.With district superintendent Ronda Rein preparing to retire, the legal outcome of the board seat dispute could mean a shift to a less conservative school board majority and change the direction of the 12,000-student district. In addition to hiring a new superintendent this summer, the board could decide whether to keep or replace the school district’s law firm, which is headed by attorney Brad Miller. Miller has been at the center of controversy in recent months. He helped create Riverstone last summer at the behest of a conservative Arizona-based law firm seeking a test case on the question of public funding for religious schools, emails obtained by Chalkbeat indicate. The Pueblo 70 school board voted to allow Riverstone, which is authorized by a public education co-op, to locate within the district’s boundaries.In an email exchange with Maxfield on Tuesday, Miller pushed back against Maxfield’s assertion that Bennett broke state law by appointing Carnes to the vacant seat. “I am disappointed that you would feign to believe that her appointment was in error,” Miller wrote, according to a copy of the email provided by Maxfield to Chalkbeat. The board seat came open after a former board member, Anne Ochs, resigned in December after a district parent criticized her for hiding key facts about Riverstone’s creation and failing to disclose a conflict of interest. Four candidates applied to fill the vacancy, but the board deadlocked with repeated 2-2 ties at its Feb. 10 meeting. Then Board Vice President AJ Wilson fell ill and was helped out of the room. That left three board members and the possibility that one of the candidates could be appointed in a 2-1 vote. But Bennett, who had sided with Wilson in the vacancy votes, never returned from the 10-minute recess she’d called or adjourned the meeting. Six days later, she announced that she’d appointed Carnes to the vacant seat. Under Colorado law, school board presidents can appoint a new member if the board can’t agree on a candidate after 60 days.Carnes was sworn in by Bennett on Feb. 25, in what Maxfield characterized in his letter as an “unannounced non-public ceremony.” As of last month, Carnes was listed as an elementary teacher at a school run by Forging Education, a Christian group that also runs Riverstone. Her appointment means that three of the five Pueblo 70 school board members — a majority — have had connections to Forging Education.In a 10-page letter sent to the Pueblo 70 school board on March 4, Maxfield alleged that Bennett circumvented Colorado’s open meetings law when she abruptly “fled” that February school board meeting and later made the vacancy appointment “unilaterally.” He argued that Bennett’s sudden departure on Feb. 10 was meant to prevent the public from witnessing the selection of a new board member in an open public meeting that had been noticed in advance. “Notwithstanding the tragic hardship to Vice President Wilson, after his departure the Board maintained quorum, the business was not concluded, and such business was urgent, under a statutory deadline,” Maxfield said.Quorum refers to the minimum number of members needed for a public body to take votes on public business. For a five-member board, quorum requires three board members to be present. Maxfield asked for 11 remedies in his letter, including that the appointment of Carnes be invalidated and that the board re-do the selection process. (Maxfield referred to Carnes as the “Director-in-Error.”) He also asked that an outside lawyer conduct a “comprehensive governance and conflict-of-interest review.” Miller rebuffed those requests in his Tuesday email to Maxfield and said Carnes’ appointment was “properly completed.”.“The political interplay was anything but smooth and I can agree that it always would be optimal if a majority of the remaining directors could agree on an appointee,” Miller wrote. “However, the tie breaking mechanism is clearly set forth in Colorado statute.”Bennett did not respond to Chalkbeat’s request for comment about the alleged violation. It’s not clear when Maxfield’s three clients will decide whether to file a lawsuit over the alleged open meetings violations. Miller indicated in his Tuesday response to Maxfield that he will discuss the matter with the Pueblo 70 school board on March 17 and will follow up with Maxfield afterwards.Maxfield and Miller’s firm have faced off in recent years in other cases about transparency. In February, a Woodland Park mother who is a client of Maxfield emerged victorious after a district court judge ordered the Woodland Park school district to pay her more than $144,000 in legal costs after she successfully showed the district violated the Colorado Open Meetings Law. Miller’s firm represented the school district in that case. Maxfield told Miller in their Tuesday email exchange that if his three clients decide to sue, they’ll “seek payment by the Board of their reasonable attorney fees and costs.” Ann Schimke is a senior reporter at Chalkbeat covering early childhood issues and early literacy. Contact Ann at aschimke@chalkbeat.org.