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NRA Coffman campaign in gun-rattled Aurora could backfire

  If you live in Aurora, chances are you found a glossy mailer on your doorstep last week. (In a Congressional district as tight as...

In debate, Romanoff lashes incumbent Coffman to most-terrible Congress ever

The old joke -- that the worst part of running for Congress is winning -- doesn't get the problem exactly right, not this year at least.

Coffman-Romanoff congressional race takes shape in first two debates

  In their second debate in two days, Sixth District Congressman Mike Coffman, who is seeking reelection, squared off with challenger Andrew Romanoff, former state...

Why the gun safety laws made in Colorado stayed in Colorado

DENVER – Almost unnoticed, something remarkable happened in Colorado over the last month: The common sense gun safety regulations passed in the wake of the Aurora and Newtown massacres survived despite attempts to overturn them.

Hungry for immigration reform

Immigration-policy-reform organizer Rudy Lopez, and local faith, labor and business leaders see an opening with Colo. Rep. Mike Coffman. They may well be disappointed.

Littwin on Tom Tancredo as sympathetic softie

Greg Brophy has done the impossible. After days of attacks on Tom Tancredo, in which Brophy has called Tancredo a "loser" and "unprepared" and a book writer (more on that later), Brophy has very nearly -- well, almost very nearly -- made Tancredo seem sympathetic.

Another tragedy — and the tragic feeling that never goes away

A New York Times reporter tweets that it's hard to find a reporter working in Colorado who hasn't had to rush off to the scene of a shooting. It feels all too familiar. Worse, it's a feeling that never seems to go away.

Littwin on Sandy Hook’s devoted and disturbed Magpul customer

It's basically a footnote to the report issued Monday by the Connecticut State Attorney's office, but the 30-round magazines used in the Sandy Hook massacre were manufactured by Magpul Industries.

Disturbed man, guns, death: Not shocked, beyond shocked

It is too soon to know why it happened or exactly how it happened. But we know this: A man walked into the Navy Yard in Washington D.C. Monday morning and killed at least 12 people and was himself killed.

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

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."
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