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The Mix

News and analysis pulled from the rush

DougCo school district meeting erupts in protests

Long-simmering community anger in Douglas County school district hit a boiling point Tuesday night during a meeting about a recent school board investigation. On Monday,...

Transgender students struggle with mental health issues, survey shows

Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Ann Schimke on June 21, 2016 Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth in Colorado are more likely to plan...

Will Bachelor Ben really turn Colorado politics into a reality TV show?

Reality show politics is now officially a thing. First, there was Donald Trump and "The Apprentice." Then came former South Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Thomas Ravenel and...

Parents’ group questions independence of DougCo school board investigation

Parents groups and community members are indignant over a report that has cleared two Douglas County Board of Education members of harassment and bullying...

Breakdown: How Colorado’s Bennet and Gardner voted on this week’s failed gun measures

In the aftermath of last week's massacre in Orlando, efforts in the U.S. Senate to pass a series of measures tightening up gun legislation were...

GUEST COLUMN: Cory Gardner, a Senator for all Coloradans (Just Kidding)

Sadly, many elected leaders today are failing women. They support laws that block access to important reproductive health care, and want to ban all...

What’s on this 80-year-old cancer patient’s bucket list? Helping to pass aid-in-dying.

Patti James has spent her 80 years focusing on her nursing career, responsibilities to her family and foster kids, service to her church and...

Backed by Ted Cruz in Colorado’s Senate race, Darryl Glenn is a Tea Party...

  COLORADO SPRINGS — This week, Ted Cruz was back in Colorado where Republicans overwhelmingly favored him over Donald Trump in April, handing him all the...

Investigation declares DougCo school board members exempt from anti-bullying policy

A costly legal investigation has cleared two Douglas County Board of Education members of harassment and bullying allegations, finding that district anti-bullying policies apply...
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