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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO) is seeking potential additional victims after a youth hockey coach who lives in Colorado Springs was arrested for child sex crimes.

The sheriff’s office said Colorado Springs resident 40-year-old Rory Nathaniel Mushlin was arrested Thursday following a tip that he was engaged in inappropriate behavior with minors.

According to deputies, Mushlin is being held on suspicion of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust, unlawful electronic sexual communication – person of trust, obscenity and internet sexual exploitation of a child.

Deputies said he has been employed as a youth hockey coach at South Suburban Sports Complex in Highlands Ranch since January 2023. They said the team he coached would practice at the Parker Field House and the Family Sports Center in Arapahoe County.

DCSO says multiple underage victims have been identified.

“Because of the suspect’s coaching position and regular interaction with youth sports programs, investigators are working to ensure all potential victims are identified and provided with support‚” the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office said.

Mushlin is being held at the Douglas County Detention Facility on a $75,000 bond.

If you have any information about this case or think that a child you know may have had inappropriate contact with the suspect, you are urged to reach out to Douglas County Detective Clay at sclay@dcsheriff.net.

Imagine a world where the gas pump knows your credit score

Re: “Polis vetoes ‘surveillance pricing’ bill,” June 3 news story

Gov. Jared Polis’ veto of the anti-surveillance pricing bill proves once again he’s just a Republican wearing a liberal costume. His excuse? The bill, which would have banned companies from using AI and “big data” to manipulate prices and wages based on your personal circumstances, might “interfere with the free functioning of markets.”

Sure. Because nothing says “free market” like corporate algorithms tracking your every vulnerability to extract maximum blood from your stone. This isn’t capitalism; it’s corporate sharecropping scaled to the state level.

Consider this hypothetical: A software engineer gets laid off but has some savings. On the way to a job interview, he pulls up to a gas pump. Between inserting his card and pumping, the oil company runs an instant “wealth check.” Seeing his healthy savings balance, the algorithm spikes his price per gallon.

He arrives at the interview. Instead of offering a salary based on market value and experience, the employer scrapes data on his time out of work, his dwindling savings, and his chronic illness. They craft an offer just high enough to keep him from drowning, complete with a health plan that conveniently excludes his condition.

Is this the “free functioning of markets?” No. It’s an asymmetric data war where citizens are completely outgunned. But hey, as long as Gov. Polis can keep defending the “freedom” of monopolies to pickpocket your data, who cares about the actual people?

For someone who just moved from Florida in part to escape this nonsense, Polis disappoints.

Tom Gawronski, Evergreen

Climate crisis is front-page news

Re: “U.N.: Next five years could smash temperature records,” May 29 news story

Banging the climate crisis drum: Last Friday, The Denver Post relegated a major U.N. climate report to page 12. Ho-hum, the world scientific community keeps banging that old drum about the climate. No big deal. We haven’t gone off the cliff — yet.

But there is a cliff there. Scientists just don’t know when the edge — the tipping point — will be reached.

Have you noticed all the floods, droughts and temperature records we are experiencing (again) this year? Are you concerned about this being a really bad fire year? Drill, baby drill continues as President Trump says we have to produce more oil, while the report concludes that oil and gas is the major contributor to the issue. Ho-hum.

As a committed climate activist, I plan to keep banging that old drum and supporting the rapid transition away from oil and gas to renewable energy.

Marc Alston, Denver

Sarah Woodson for House District 42

Sarah Woodson is a breath of fresh air for the residents of House District 42. A new voice of reason and common sense for everyday Aurorans stressed out by politicians on the far right and left who only support special agendas, not their constituents.

It was 40 years ago that Aurorans trusted another homegrown centrist political newcomer who went door to door to listen to his neighbors and represent them, not the special interest lobbyists that swarm over our Capitol like the miller moths and locusts of summer.