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News Poetry: Poetry Lesson after the Las Vegas Shooting

Do not write the word heart. Like every overused word, its meaning has bled out, the way snowflake, repeated, dissolves into sound. And thoughts becomes nothing but the tongue thudding against...

Senate’s gun-rights bills shot down by House Democrats

Just one bill to expand gun rights in Colorado is still standing after a state House committee dispatched three pro-gun bills Wednesday. That last remaining...

Fear and loathing at the Tanner Gun Show

Years ago, I had an editor who used to say that there are two types of Americans: those who get nervous at the sight...

WATCH: Colorado’s Perlmutter and DeGette give fiery speeches during House sit-in...

  Two of Colorado's congressional members, Ed Perlmutter and Diana DeGette, spoke out during a 24-hour sit-in by U.S. House Democrats who demanded a vote on measures they believe will help...

Breakdown: How Colorado’s Bennet and Gardner voted on this week’s failed...

In the aftermath of last week's massacre in Orlando, efforts in the U.S. Senate to pass a series of measures tightening up gun legislation were...

What did lawmakers do for Jane Coloradan and her family this...

  Hi, I'm Jane. I'm a 34-year-old married mom of two living in a Denver suburb. Like the typical Colorado family, my husband and I...

Colorado gun culture weighs cannabis carry and constitutional carry

  If you've recently moved to Colorado — or just to a different county in Colorado — there might come a time when an employee...

Does anybody really think Michael Bennet’s dangerous?

The conservative machine is pushing out the message that Michael Bennet's a threat to national security and Coloradans' safety. Democratic brass and political strategies...