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The Mix

News and analysis pulled from the rush

Colorado GOP condemns Dr. Chaps for calling gay Boy Scouts leaders child molesters

Colorado state lawmaker Gordon Klingenschmitt has a knack for saying just the right thing to outrage nearly everybody. The representative from Colorado Springs who goes by his...

No stinger in sting video aimed at Denver Planned Parenthood – but it still...

Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains is the latest target in a series of undercover videos shot by anti-abortion activists from the Center for Medical Progress. The...

Reader’s view: Denver Public School’s chief schools officer on Cheltenham Elementary

Denver Public School's Chief Schools Officer Susana Cordova wrote the following in response to Nat Stein's article "Parents complain Denver elementary school principal humiliates...

Denver Post loses 393 years of experience in buyout

The final tally is in: 19 Denver Post employees are taking the buyout deal management offered last month. The list includes star political reporter Lynn...

Wiretap: Donald Trump and the breast pump

Pumped up In which Donald Trump is being grilled during a deposition and a lawyer for the other side says she needs a medical break...

StoryCorps animation tells excessive-force survivor Alex Landau’s story

Maybe you've heard Alex Landau's story before. Growing up black in Denver, he had never had a bad interaction with cops until six years ago when...

28 boxes of signatures: Conservative Jeffco Board of Education members face recall

Supporters of the effort to recall three Jefferson County Board of Education members cheered Tuesday as they turned in 28 boxes of petitions to...

Homebrew: State Board of Ed looks to fill vacancy after tumultuous summer

Strange Ed Fellows The Colorado State Board of Education needs to fill a vacancy created by Republican Marcia Neal's June departure amid an exodus of top...
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Investigator: Twin Peaks Academy entitled to “editorial control” over graduation speech

Twin Peaks Charter Academy didn't violate valedictorian Evan Young's legal rights when Principal BJ Buchmann barred the student's graduation speech, an outside investigation found. At the...
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