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The Mix

News and analysis pulled from the rush

Wiretap: Just before the next brief, unfruitful gun law debate

The narrative of the Navy Yard shootings, and of the apparently mentally unstable shooter, at the Navy Yard becomes somewhat clearer. So, it seems,...

Caldara vote fraud case under attorney general review

The Colorado recall elections over gun rights, the first-ever state lawmaker recalls in Colorado history, spurred a flurry of lawsuits before Election Day. The legal wrangling shows no sign of ending any time soon.

Wiretap: Water and bullets

As we continue to deal with the devastation from the floods here in Colorado, random mass murder rocks the Navy Yard in Washington.

Get help: Columbine principal to Navy Yard officials in wake of shooting

Columbine High School principal Frank DeAngelis told the Washington Post that officials have to "help themselves" work through trauma if they're going to be any help to others. "It's not something that ever ends."

Sanders bids Summers adieu

The statement is being passed around the Web as a perfect articulation of one (large) school of thought on the Summers nomination.

Looking at the flooded Front Range from the sky

It's a red-water soaked tragedy as far as they eye can see. 'Uh-oh, the brewery's flooded.'

Wiretap: What climate change?

Front Range Colorado floods that have left at least six dead and many thousands homeless. National Geographic explains why the floods have come. You won't be surprised.

How the world ends, not with a bang but a beep

It was my cell phone and it sounded like the heralding of the apocalypse, which it was.

Wiretap: Putin can have Syria

Blogger Andrew Sullivan thinks Russian Prez Vladimir Putin may have checkmated himself with Syria move.

Denver Post Chairman Singleton steps down at Salt Lake Trib

The Tribune announced that approximately 20 percent of its editorial staff will soon be laid off.
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