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Survey: Race and ethnicity impact Coloradans health and quality of life

DENVER - How much money you make and your ethnic background have a big impact on neighborhood infrastructure and your chances for a healthy...

Wiretap: GOP debates what conservative means

Defining conservative The real debate among those competing in the GOP presidential sweepstakes: What it means to be a conservative. If you watched the Milwaukee...

National Evangelical Association softens death penalty stance

Evangelical Christians are divided on the death penalty, and a new statement from the National Evangelical Association acknowledges it. In years past, the NEA has...

Colorado police killings in four numbers

  The data above came from the U.S. Census, The Guardian and the Officer Down Memorial Page.

Wiretap: Twin Peaks shooting: Race, guns, cops and future shootouts to...

Fair shake? White bikers vs. black thugs. Would the reaction -- by the media, by the police - have been the same if the bikers...

Wiretap: Brutal cops, racial tensions, income inequality sparked Baltimore uprising

Class acts Why Baltimore? Baltimore is not Ferguson, and the story of the riots following Freddie Gray's death at the hands of the police is...

News Poem: ‘To Live in this Cemetery’

is to see the paradox of what we are / the fragile iron of our blood

Proposed mascot ban touches racial nerve at Capitol

On Monday, a lawmaker projected racist mascots on the walls of the Statehouse’s largest committee room to make a point about hate speech. “Would we...

Littwin: We’re having the race conversation

If you believe the polls, or watch cable TV news, you may be halfway convinced that race relations in America have somehow grown worse...

Wiretap: On Ferguson, where are the rest of the Democrats?

  We understood the difficulties Barack Obama faced in addressing race and police in Ferguson, Mo., and how he had to tread carefully. But where...