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DougCo kills latest voucher program

The deeply divided Douglas County Board of Education last week actually voted unanimously on a controversial issue: vouchers. The board, on a 7-0 vote, killed...

DougCo school voucher lawsuit can expect extended Supreme Court delay

The parties involved in Douglas County School District’s private school voucher lawsuit have been waiting since last December to hear whether the U.S. Supreme...

Last-minute firing of Owens’ death penalty judge raises suspicions

Lawyers say Colorado’s judicial branch has unlawfully removed a well-respected judge from presiding over the appeal of an Aurora man’s death sentence. After years on the...

High Court to Planned Parenthood shooting judge: Explain yourself

  The Colorado Supreme Court has ordered a judge to explain why he's keeping certain records in the Planned Parenthood shooting case secret. The High Court gave El Paso District...

Colorado Supreme Court weighs legality of city fracking bans

Anti-fracking activists gathered outside the judicial center to demand that the court allow cities to pass fracking bans and moratoriums without state interference --...

East High School students witness state Supreme Court

Last Thursday, East High School junior McCoy Cantwell asked state Supreme Court justices and attorneys whether Superman was an identity thief. In a 1966 comic,...

Homebrew: Aurora Police Department’s reputation goes up in smoke

Cigar-gate Cigar-gate has erupted – and no, this isn't a throw back to Bill Clinton's scandal. Aurora cops had built a cigar-smoking room in police...

Homebrew: Rand Paul fundraises with marijuana magnates

Smoke this Libertarians, light up. Sen. Rand Paul will be fundraising with marijuana tycoons today at the Cannabis Business Summit in Denver. This is the first...

What you should know about Colorado’s new Supreme Court judge

Gov. John Hickenlooper today named Judge Richard Gabriel of the Colorado Court of Appeals as the newest member of the Colorado Supreme Court. Gabriel, 53,...

Dish Network’s firing of medical marijuana user upheld by state Supreme...

Brandon Coats never sought out to be a lightening rod. All he wanted was a job. Employment doesn’t come easily to the 35-year-old Denverite who...
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