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Guns in schools for student safety

Patrick Neville was a sophomore at Columbine High School when two peers, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, murdered 12 students and a teacher before...

#Coleg Notebook: Minimum wage, maximum disagreement

Last year, Colorado lawmakers engaged in a five-hour floor fight about raising the minimum wage. Were they considering hiking it to $15 an hour,...

Colorado gun culture: Oscar Wilde had us pegged in 1882

His story of a trip to Leadville is an absurd recounting of a place where dinners are served at the bottom of mine shafts and where guns! guns! guns! are as common as shirts.

Wiretap: Stagnant class mobility; gun-scared Castle Rock employees

Bad news for the American dream. According to a study by leading economists, mobility hasn't changed over the last 50 years.

Littwin on Tom Tancredo as sympathetic softie

Greg Brophy has done the impossible. After days of attacks on Tom Tancredo, in which Brophy has called Tancredo a "loser" and "unprepared" and a book writer (more on that later), Brophy has very nearly -- well, almost very nearly -- made Tancredo seem sympathetic.

Littwin on a very Hickenlooper State of the State speech

That's the Hickenlooper who drives Republican pols crazy and a few Democratic pols, too. The Hickenlooper who stakes out middle ground and insists everyone join him there.

What did the recalls really mean? Maybe it’s not so clear.

Once it seemed all too obvious what the state Senate recalls mean for those who vote for gun-control legislation. Now, suddenly, how the recalls may affect 2014 election politics seems a little less clear.

Ready, fire, aim: In VA, Dems favored gun control and won

In purple-trending-blue Colorado, gun reform nearly cost Democrats control of the state senate. In purple-trending-blue Virginia, gun reform helped lead Democrats to a sweep. What could it all mean?

Arizona Senate committee passes bill naming Colt the state’s offical gun

When you think things can't get any weirder, they always do. Hard on the heels of a bill to make abortion illegal if it is being done because of the expected race or sex of the fetus, Arizona has now passed a bill out of committee naming the Colt revolver the state's official gun.

It’s not just Mexico smuggling American guns

Last week’s Government Accountability Office report on the trafficking of U.S. guns to Mexico has inspired quite a backlash from gun enthusiasts who contend it’s “being deliberately misinterpreted by gun prohibitionists to push a gun ban agenda,” according to one voice representative of the outcry.