Dutch DNA duo helps free another innocent man
The Dutch scientists who helped exonerate Tim Masters have done it again. DNA experts Richard and Selma Eikelenboom found the evidence that freed David Camm, who was convicted of killing his wife and two kids in 2000.
Wiretap: What was the shutdown all about, anyway?
Maybe the biggest debate in the post-shutdown Washington world is what the argument was really about. Michael Tomasky looks at the debate over food stamps to find an answer.
No violation: JeffCo ‘duplicate ballot’ was a Delta County special election ballot
In its internet afterlife, the mystery ballot was held up as evidence that recent electoral reforms were opening the state to fraud. In fact, it demonstrated the system is working as well as it ever has done, and maybe better.
Beyond pot: Drug reformers demand end of criminalization
“We are the people that love drugs, we are the people that hate drugs, and we are the people that don’t give a damn about drugs, but every one of us thinks the war on drugs is wrong, wrong, wrong!”
Gardner grills Obamacare contractors: Government hiding ‘true costs’
At the Capitol Hill hearings yesterday, Colorado Republican Cory Gardner leveled a wild accusation against the Department of Health and Human Services. He didn't provide evidence for the theory.
Wiretap: Swing-state Virginia hates the Tea Party
Molly Ball writes that the Tea Party is turning purple Virginia blueish. Why should we care? Because Virginia is a lot like Colorado.
Gardner among House members spearheading investigation of Obamacare glitchiness
So far, the Republicans behind the inquiries are not letting on that they see the dark humor of a move that would see the people most intent on hobbling the law asking with grave intent how it came to be hobbled.
Wiretap: Investigate!
Alert: Republicans finally have a new plan on Obamacare. If they can't delay it, defund it or destroy it, they'll do what Congress always does: they'll investigate it. From Fast and Furious to Slow and Makes Us Furious. This will be productive.
Pot-policy party: International delegation tours dispensaries, talks regulations
Denver, now a leading location in the legal pot trade, is promoting its expertise to a 50-person international delegation this week.
Colorado’s growing Latino community embraces Amendment 66 tax proposal
When Janice Anderson, a fourth-grade teacher at Pennock Elementary school in Brighton, Colorado, stands before the 30 students in her class, she’s teaching a collection of radically different 9 years olds with little to no extra help.