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In presidential run, Colorado’s Hickenlooper pushes compromise in an uncompromising time...

It is a late Friday afternoon in early February and passengers at Gate 12 of Washington’s Reagan National Airport are displeased. “Fucking United,” a lawyer-lobbyist...

How one word bound together a classroom of Denver high school...

This is an excerpt from the new book, “The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom,” by Denver journalist and author...

Hickenlooper, Helen Thorpe on same page at Denver book signing

  PEOPLE filled a fleet of folding chairs, stood against the walls and squatted on the floor and on the stairs in the basement of...

Hickenlooper’s wife Thorpe talks immigration, coffee with Tancredo

Helen Thorpe, critically acclaimed author and the wife of Denver Mayor and gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper, did her best to steer away from politics when she addressed the Lakewood chapter of the American Association of University Women Thursday. She almost pulled it off.

Hickenlooper releases 23 years of tax returns

Candidates for governor John Hickenlooper and Scott MicInnis this week released tax returns to the media. Democrat Hickenlooper released 23 years of returns, which list nearly $3 million in charitable gifts of cash, stocks and real estate.