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Wiretap: The Pulitzers, the passenger, and the police

The 2017 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded Monday and among the winners was the Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold “for persistent reporting that created a model...

With Ken Salazar out, here’s a look at the 2018 Democratic...

Late Wednesday evening, former U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado dropped a bomb on the 2018 governor's race. He won't be running, he wrote in a...

Trump budget could impact nearly 14,000 environmental workers in Colorado

The Trump administration released its budget proposal Thursday, after sending clear signals that proposed defense spending will swell and non-defense budgets – particularly of...

Littwin: The bad news for Cory Gardner is that the Trump...

It is very easy to mock Cory Gardner's unwillingness to give a straight answer to a straight question or, in many cases, to give...

Trump calls education ‘the civil rights issue of our time’ —...

“Education is the civil rights issue of our time,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday night. The line inserted a bit of boilerplate — and bipartisan...

Boulder invents its own techy form of Trump-era activism

It was a particularly Boulder chapter to an unfolding national story. More than 50 volunteers from the community came together to save government data from...

Colorado’s transgender students will still get to use the bathrooms they...

Colorado students shouldn’t have to worry about new guidance from the Trump administration that rescinds federal protections for transgender students because of existing state...

How Denver Public Schools is assuring immigrant families that their children...

As fears spread in immigrant communities about enforcement crackdowns, Denver Public Schools officials took extra steps last week to assure families that the district...

Littwin: Trump is not quite so funny if you’ve sought sanctuary...

At least at one point in his unsurprisingly unhinged news conference Thursday, Donald Trump told the truth. This is headline stuff, because generally, as...