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The Mix

News and analysis pulled from the rush

Recall-prone El Paso County fails in effort to oust embattled sheriff

There was a flash and a bang and then… that was it. Embattled El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa narrowly dodged a recall effort...

Wiretap: Political divisions, millennial confusion

  Barack Obama's second-terms problems don't look much different from George W. Bush's problems and Bill Clinton's problems. The question these days for a president...

Wiretap: Thinking Colorado, voters ponder pot elsewhere

  Alaska and Oregon are the next two states to vote on legalizing marijuana. And the vote, Politico reports, will be a referendum on the...

Wiretap: It’s not just another crisis

  It's not a border crisis. It's not an immigration crisis. It's not a crisis caused by the Dreamers' debate. It's not a crisis that...

Wiretap: Perry shows up for Obama, border talk

  President Obama left the Denver fundraiser, where Mark Udall was a no-show, for Dallas, where the real action was. Conservatives wanted Obama...

Littwin: A day in the park — Obama’s Colorado getaway

Barack Obama gave a non-news speech to a hand-picked audience that applauded at the applause lines and hissed at the hiss lines....

President Obama talks middle class economics, partisanship in Denver

President Barack Obama gave a speech on middle class economics today from a shady grove in Denver’s Cheesman Park. The event, limited to roughly 100 invited members of the public, comes at the end of Obama’s whirlwind tour of Colorado’s capital city ...

Gardner’s awkward scheduling priorities

During the floods and the government shutdown he was hobnobbing with Karl Rove and his money men. During the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe it was lobbyists for British Petroleum.

Wiretap: Obama and Hick go to LoDo

It's not the kind of night the president usually has. It's more in line for Hick, who met Obama at Wynkoop. They played pool.

Waiting for POTUS

HOW many iconic photos of presidents have been taken in front of some generation of Air Force One? How many were taken before the...
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