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The Colorado Sun turns one — and more news from across...

Last summer, when writing about a new kind of local journalism business model in Colorado, I wrote: "In 1833, The New York Sun revolutionized journalism as a pioneer of...

Reader’s view: Sen. Laura Woods flunks Common Core 101

To the Editor: Statements by Sen. Laura Woods in a recent Colorado Independent article prompted me here to address some inaccuracies. She states incorrectly that...

Working the grassroots to gore Common Core

Anita Stapleton is on a mission. She wants to bury the Common Core national education curricula standards, and in the last half year, she has won a lot of support in Colorado.

EPA to regulate disposal of hydraulic fracturing wastewater

Officials for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced plans to draft national standards for the treatment and disposal of tainted wastewater generated during the common oil and gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.