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As Americans are beyond burned out, Tricia Hersey’s Nap Ministry preaches the right to restNoneENGLEWOOD, Colo. — John Elway says any remorse over bypassing Josh Allen in the 2018 NFL draft is quickly dissipating with rookie Bo Nix's rapid rise, suggesting the Denver Broncos have finally found their next franchise quarterback. Elway said Nix, the sixth passer selected in April's draft, is an ideal fit in Denver with coach Sean Payton navigating his transition to the pros and Vance Joseph's defense serving as a pressure release valve for the former Oregon QB. "We've seen the progression of Bo in continuing to get better and better each week and Sean giving him more each week and trusting him more and more to where last week we saw his best game of the year," Elway said in a nod to Nix's first game with 300 yards and four touchdown throws in a rout of Atlanta. For that performance, Nix earned his second straight NFL Rookie of the Week honor along with the AFC Offensive Player of the Week award. "I think the sky's the limit," Elway said, "and that's just going to continue to get better and better." In a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, Elway also touted former coach Mike Shanahan's Hall of Fame credentials, spoke about the future of University of Colorado star and Heisman favorite Travis Hunter and discussed his ongoing bout with a chronic hand condition. Elway spent the last half of his decade as the Broncos' GM in a futile search for a worthy successor to Peyton Manning, a pursuit that continued as he transitioned into a two-year consultant role that ended after the 2022 season. "You have all these young quarterbacks and you look at the ones that make it and the ones that don't and it's so important to have the right system and a coach that really knows how to tutelage quarterbacks, and Sean's really good at that," Elway said. "I think the combination of Bo's maturity, having started 61 games in college, his athletic ability and his knowledge of the game has been such a tremendous help for him,'" Elway added. "But also Vance Joseph's done a heck of a job on the defensive side to where all that pressure's not being put on Bo and the offense to score all the time." Payton and his staff have methodically expanded Nix's repertoire and incorporated his speed into their blueprints. Elway lauded them for "what they're doing offensively and how they're breaking Bo into the NFL because it's a huge jump and I think patience is something that goes a long way in the NFL when it comes down to quarterbacks." Elway said he hopes to sit down with Nix at some point when things slow down for the rookie. Nix, whose six wins are one more than Elway had as a rookie, said he looks forward to meeting the man who won two Super Bowls during his Hall of Fame playing career and another from the front office. "He's a legend not only here for this organization, but for the entire NFL," Nix said, adding, "most guys, they would love to have a chat with John Elway, just pick his brain. It's just awesome that I'm even in that situation." Orange Crush linebacker Randy Gradishar joined Elway in the Pro Football Hall of Fame this year, something Elway called "way, way overdue." Elway suggested it's also long past time for the Hall to honor Shanahan, who won back-to-back Super Bowls in Denver with Elway at QB and whose footprint you see every weekend in the NFL because of his expansive coaching tree. Elway called University of Colorado stars Travis Hunter and Shedeur Sanders "both great athletes." He said he really hopes Sanders gets drafted by a team that will bring him along like the Broncos have done with Nix, and he sees Hunter being able to play both ways in the pros — but not full time. Elway said he thinks Hunter will be primarily a corner in the NFL but with significant contributions on offense: "He's great at both. He's got great instincts, and that's what you need at corner." It's been five years since Elway announced he was dealing with Dupuytren's contracture, a chronic condition that typically appears after age 40 and causes one or more fingers to permanently bend toward the palm. Elway's ring fingers on both hands were originally affected and he said now the middle finger on his right hand is starting to pull forward. So, he'll get another injection of a drug called Xiaflex, which is the only FDA-approved non-surgical treatment, one that he's endorsing in an awareness campaign for the chronic condition that affects 17 million Americans. The condition can make it difficult to do everyday tasks such as shaking hands or picking up a coffee mug. Elway said what bothered him most was "I couldn't pick up a football and I could not imagine not being able to put my hand around a football." Get local news delivered to your inbox!

Since 2018, Colorado taxpayers have benefited from two reductions to the state income tax that together have brought the rate from 4.63% to 4.4%, for an aggregate reduction of 0.23%. These reductions have been much heralded by state government leaders and have elicited approving comments from a wide range of observers. The applause for these tax cuts, however, has obscured a separate tactic that state leaders increasingly have used to extract revenue from Coloradans in amounts that dwarf the income tax reductions. During the last two decades, Coloradans have seen a steady increase in the fees paid to a wide range of state enterprises. The pattern has accelerated dramatically since 2018. According to a recent Common Sense Institute study, fee-based revenue to enterprises has increased since 2018 by an amount equivalent to a 0.51% increase in the state income tax — so, more than double the recent tax cuts. If Colorado’s fee enterprises, minus higher education, were instead funded by the state income tax, the state income tax would increase to 7.68%, a 75% increase over the current rate of 4.4%. Why the transition to fee-based revenue? In part, because it enables legislators to raise revenue, and spending, without obtaining voter approval. Under Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR), a part of Colorado’s state constitution since 1992, voter approval is required for tax increases and for spending that exceeds population growth plus inflation. Since TABOR was enacted, voters at the county and municipal level have in fact, on hundreds of occasions, approved tax increases and spending that exceeded these limits, and in 2005, voters statewide approved a five-year suspension of TABOR to fund education, health care, and transportation. In these instances, proponents of increased taxing and spending successfully advocated to voters. In other words, TABOR yielded a dialogue between voters and their elected representatives, in which elected representatives earned the trust of citizens to tax and spend in excess of normal constitutional limits. But by collecting revenue via fee-based enterprises, leaders circumvent the requirement for voter approval, and avoid this dialogue. Under TABOR, an “enterprise” is a government–owned business that receives revenue in return for the provision of a good or service. Enterprise fees do not require voter approval. Nor does enterprise fee revenue count toward the TABOR limit calculation. Thus, the revenue can be spent without triggering the requirement for voter approval of spending increases that are in excess of population growth plus inflation — or the requirement for taxpayer refunds if voters say no. To say that fee-based enterprise revenue has increased is a dramatic understatement. The first year after the passage of TABOR, there were four enterprises generating $742 million. As of 2023, there were 27 state enterprises, and their revenue had increased by over 3000%, far beyond population growth plus inflation, to $23.3 billion. Voters’ attempts to limit enterprise growth generally have been unsuccessful. Proposition 117, passed in 2020, required new enterprises projected to generate revenue above $100 million over their first five years to receive voter approval. Undeterred, the Legislature’s response was to establish eight enterprises and expand an existing enterprise. In a seeming attempt to skirt Proposition 117 requirements, four of these enterprises were created in the same 2021 bill, with revenue raised by each enterprise calibrated to fall just short of the $100M threshold that would have triggered the requirement for voter approval. Surprisingly to supporters of Proposition 117, the bill survived judicial challenge. All told, the expansion of enterprises since 2020 cost Coloradans $88.3 million in 2023. The massive growth of fee-based enterprises is of concern for at least two reasons. First, the growth of enterprise fees has occurred in concert with other cost increases impacting Colorado families and businesses. These include substantial increases in the cost of housing, insurance rates, and regulatory costs, as well as a sharp rise in property taxes, each of which are analyzed in Common Sense Institute reports published in 2023 and 2024. Property taxes, which will continue to increase despite a recent legislative compromise, albeit at a slower rate, are particularly onerous because they essentially are a tax on unrealized capital appreciation. Together, these cost-drivers increasingly have helped make Colorado a more expensive place to live and do business. Net inward domestic migration has slowed, as explained in a recent Common Sense Institute report. A 2024 CNBC ranking of America’s top states for business ranked Colorado 46th out of 50 states in cost of living (a grade of F), and 39th out of 50 states in cost of doing business (a grade of D+), both five-year lows. So, while Colorado remains an attractive place to live and work, particularly for well-compensated professionals in sectors such as professional services and technology, the cumulative impact of costly policy choices risks undermining our state’s competitiveness. Second, the growth of fee-based enterprises increasingly has disenfranchised Colorado voters. In 1996, only 46% of state spending was TABOR exempt ($5,027 per Coloradan in 2023 dollars), but in 2023, in large part due to the growth of enterprises, 71% of state spending was exempt, amounting to $8,442 per Coloradan. As increasing percentages of revenue generation and spending circumvent voter approval, citizens are losing an important input into how leaders are raising and spending revenue taken from family and business budgets. Given the chance, voters would perhaps have approved the creation of so many enterprises, the associated fees, and the increased spending. Or perhaps not. But Colorado’s leaders denied voters the opportunity to review these decisions. This disenfranchisement of voters has been exacerbated in recent legislative sessions by another development that reduces TABOR refunds. In the 2024 legislative session, for example, over 100 bills were introduced that would diminish TABOR refunds by redirecting funds toward targeted tax credits, tax incentives, and/or transfer payments. Collectively, the bills that did pass are projected to cut TABOR refunds by $3.5 billion over three years, a 55% cut. Perhaps voters would have approved these transfers as sound policy, if given the opportunity. But we will never know. What is clear is that legislators substituted their judgment for voters’ judgment regarding how to spend substantial sums that would otherwise have been refunded to taxpayers. TABOR refunds were transformed into TABOR redistributions. This stifling of taxpayer input would be less troubling if legislative actions appeared mostly in sync with public opinion on fiscal matters. But that might not be the case. To begin with, TABOR is popular; for example, a 2024 poll by the nonpartisan Colorado Polling Institute found 69% of respondents felt that instituting TABOR, with its revenue limits, refunds, and requirement that voters approve tax increases, was a “good thing.” Further indications that voters are less than satisfied with legislative actions regarding revenue generation and spending include the failure of Proposition CC in 2019; the passage of Proposition 117 in 2020; the strong rejection of Proposition HH in 2023, and the pressure of looming tax-cut ballot measures in driving the legislative compromise on property taxes in 2024. Colorado leaders would be wise to carefully consider the net impact of their actions in driving up costs for Coloradans, and how those costs impact our competitiveness. Colorado voters and interested outside observers, meanwhile, should consider the aggregate impact of our leaders’ policy choices. Income tax cuts are a positive, but in Colorado they do not tell the whole story of government’s impact on family and business budgets. Lang Sias, who represented District 27 in the Colorado state House from 2015 to 2019, is a Mike A. Leprino Fellow with the Common Sense Institute. He has served in the Navy as a fighter pilot and Topgun instructor and holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a law degree from the University of Michigan.Traffic citations against Dolphins' Tyreek Hill dismissed after officers no-show at hearingIncoming Trump border czar fires back at state and local officials who may look to obstruct the new administration's efforts to deport illegal immigrants and secure the border. A Brazilian citizen living in the United States illegally, and wanted in his home country for drug trafficking , was arrested by federal authorities in a Massachusetts sanctuary city near Boston . The unidentified suspect was taken into custody on Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Somerville, which will be voting next week on a resolution to reaffirm its sanctuary status and would even provide taxpayer-funded legal services to illegal immigrants, while its police department commits to not cooperating with ICE in the detention of illegal migrants. The Brazilian crossed into the U.S. through El Paso, Texas, in 2022 and was released into the country despite facing charges back home for drug trafficking. ‘SANCTUARY’ CITY MAYOR VOWS SHE WILL DEFY TRUMP'S MASS DEPORTATION PUSH: ‘CAUSING WIDESPREAD FEAR’ A Brazilian illegal immigrant wanted in his home country for drug trafficking was arrested in Massachusetts, authorities said. (ICE) "This noncitizen is accused of serious crimes in Brazil," said ERO Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde. "Public safety is ERO Boston’s primary mission, and our officers are committed to removing potentially dangerous noncitizens from our streets." He was ordered deported in January, followed by a failed appeal, and a federal immigration judge gave him a final order of removal in June. Also arrested in Massachusetts was a Dominican national who entered the U.S. illegally in July 2021. Belardis Tapia Gonzalez is charged with child molestation/sexual assault in Rhode Island. He was arrested just outside Boston in the city of Lynn on Monday. A Salvadoran MS-13 gang member who entered the U.S. as a gotaway was convicted of assault in the state. ICE placed a detainer on him with Northampton District Court, but he was released into the community without federal immigration authorities being notified. TRUMP CONFIRMS SUPPORT FOR MAJOR STEP IN MASS DEPORTATION PUSH TO ‘REVERSE THE BIDEN INVASION’ Belardis Tapia Gonzalez was arrested in Lynn, Mass., on Monday, according to ICE. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) He was eventually arrested in Northhampton. State Democrats Gov. Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu have been heavily criticized following opposition to President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign promise to conduct mass deportations of illegal immigrants once he returns to the Oval Office in January. Healey vowed that her state police will "absolutely not" cooperate with the expected mass deportation effort by the incoming Trump administration, warning that she will use "every tool in the toolbox" to "protect" residents in the blue state. In a statement to Fox News Digital on Thursday, Healey's office said, "As part of immigration enforcement, the Governor believes individuals who commit violent crimes like those alleged here should be deported." Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu have said they won't comply with President-elect Trump's immigration enforcement efforts when he returns to the White House in January. (Getty Images) Wu also took a stance against Trump during an interview on Sunday, saying her city will not cooperate with the incoming administration's looming mass deportation operation despite the region seeing a number of illegal immigrants with criminal charges getting released back onto the streets. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP On Thursday, the MassGOP slammed Healey and Wu for putting politics over public safety amid the arrests of criminal illegal immigrants. "It’s appalling and disgusting that the Governor of Massachusetts and the Mayor of Boston, the largest city in our state, are prioritizing appeasing the most radical elements of their political base over the safety of Massachusetts residents," MassGOP chairwoman Amy Carnevale said in a news release. "Parents across the Commonwealth are horrified that individuals charged with such serious crimes are allowed to roam free because local authorities refuse to work with ICE to remove these criminals from our streets." Fox News Digital's Greg Wehner and Bill Melugin contributed to this report. Louis Casiano is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to louis.casiano@fox.com .

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