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Aspen-area school superintendent still on hot seat for banning Obama speech

It’s been more than two weeks since President Obama’s shockingly innocuous speech to schoolchildren urging them to, gasp, stay in school and work hard,...

Text of Obama’s speech: ‘America will emerge stronger than before’

Here's the text of President Barack Obama's speech to Congress on Tuesday night, as prepared for delivery. Read the responses to the speech from Colorado's congressional delegation here. Follow the live Twitter discussion here.

Colorado officials respond to Obama’s not-quite State of the Union speech

Members of the Colorado delegation issued the following statements in response to President Barack Obama's speech before Congress Tuesday night. They'll be updated in the order they're received. So far, we have responses (in this order) from Rep. Jared Polis, Sen. Mark Udall, Reps. John Salazar, Ed Perlmutter, Mike Coffman, GOP state chairman Dick Wadhams, Rep. Betsy Markey, Sen. Michael Bennet and Rep. Doug Lamborn.