Coffman backs move to force feds to respect states’ rights on marijuana
Colorado U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette introduced legislation today that would exempt states from federal laws banning the sale, possession and use of small amounts of marijuana by adults. The bill so far is...
View ArticleChurches in Boulder and around the country called out for political messaging...
In South Saint Paul, Minn., on Election Day, residents showed up at St. John Vianney Catholic Church to vote and were greeted with a banner outside the polling place entrance that read, “Strengthen...
View ArticleDU citizen panel wades into campaign-finance swamplands
DENVER– The University of Denver’s “strategic issues panel of accomplished citizens” tasked with examining campaign finance regulations and making recommendations on how to improve those regulations or...
View ArticleWeld County Vote Against Emergency Contraception Leaves Patients Looking...
A controversial and unreported move by the Board of Weld County Commissioners to stop dispensing emergency contraception has forced low-income county health department patients to seek the drugs at the...
View ArticleCatholic Schooling: Bereft Father Says Catholic Health Has Got to ‘Make Their...
CANON CITY— Jeremy Stodghill isn’t the kind of Christian who believes the Gospels map an earthly alternative to life’s hard knocks. It’s not just that he has worked as a prison guard for most of his...
View ArticleTexas University Releases Regnerus Parenting Study Documents
Shutterstock/Dubova The University of Texas at Austin has begun releasing university records surrounding UT sociology professor Mark Regnerus’ controversial “New Family Structures Study,” following...
View ArticleIdeology Trumped Science in Weld County Contraception Decision
When Weld County commissioners decided to stop providing emergency contraception to county patients, concerns rooted in anti-abortion politics trumped scientific facts and testimony provided by the...
View ArticleColorado’s Death Penalty: Spending Millions to Execute Almost No One
With a bill to repeal the death penalty likely to be introduced in the 2013 Colorado Legislature, there are bound to be philosophical arguments about the merits of capital punishment. One thing that...
View ArticleColorado Open Records Reform Bill Draws Activist Ire
It is a bill good-government activists were supposed to get behind enthusiastically. Freshman Rep. Brittany Pettersen’s House Bill 1041 (pdf) seeks to heighten public accountability by updating the...
View ArticleAppeals Exhausted for Colorado Chuck E. Cheese’s Killer
The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear the appeal of death-row prisoner Nathan Dunlap, the Colorado man convicted of the 1993 murder of four employees at an Aurora Chuck E....
View ArticleAttorneys and Scholars Raise Questions About Constitutionality of Colorado...
Colorado’s death penalty is not only massively expensive, critics say it is also unconstitutional because it is so randomly sought. A study released last year by DU Law Professors Justin Marceau and...
View ArticleFeds Probe Denver for Violating Deaf Prisoner Rights
The federal Justice Department is investigating Denver for failing to provide sign-language interpreters for deaf prisoners. Investigators are seeking to determine whether Denver – which touts itself...
View ArticleUdall Endorses Brennan for CIA Director, Underlines Need for Greater Oversight
In the wake of an historic Senate filibuster over the murky U.S. laws governing drone strikes, Colorado Senator Mark Udall on Thursday urged his colleagues to confirm John Brennan as the new director...
View ArticleWidely Cited Anti-Gay Study Meant to Sway High Court, Docs Show
The conservatives who bankrolled a widely cited but flawed academic study critical of gay parents timed its release to influence “major decisions of the Supreme Court” on gay marriage, documents show....
View ArticleDenver Drug Court Second Chance: From Addict to Magistrate
Alby Zweig knows what it’s like to need a heroin fix so badly you’re willing to pawn your parents’ stereo to score it. He gets what it means to be so strung out on cocaine you’re convinced police are...
View ArticleColorado Death Penalty Repeal Testimony: ‘Flashbacks Still Haunt Me Today’
DENVER— Lawmakers considering a bill that would end capital punishment in Colorado heard 10 hours of emotional testimony here Tuesday, including statements by a former state prisons chief and a former...
View ArticleSlain Colorado Corrections Chief Clements No Friend to Prison Culture Inertia
Prison work is an insular occupation. Corrections officials tend to inhabit a culture unto themselves– tight-lipped, low profile and tough as nails. Tom Clements was an exception. In his two years in...
View ArticleColorado Muslims Disgusted with Biased Clements Murder Coverage
News surrounding the murder Tuesday of Colorado Department of Corrections Chief Tom Clements centers now on white supremacist suspect Evan Ebel, who was captured clinically dead yesterday afternoon in...
View Article‘He Was Freaking’: Friend Says Clements Suspect Flailed from Years of Isolation
DENVER– In the weeks before his death, Evan Ebel, suspected killer of Colorado Department of Corrections Director Tom Clements, had broken ties with white supremacist prison gang 211 Crew and was...
View ArticleObama in Colorado Looks to Bolster Support in Gun Violence Debate
DENVER– President Obama traveled to Colorado Wednesday looking to generate new momentum for the effort in Washington to pass national gun-control laws. The iconic Western state has been the site of...
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