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Recalled Sen. Morse joins move to support Colorado ‘gun sense’ candidates
Just over a year ago, state Senate President John Morse was recalled from his Colorado Springs seat for playing a leading role in passing...
Everytown gun control group wins at Chipotle
A weekend of tweets later, Denver-based burrito chain Chipotle asks customers not to bring guns into their restaurants after members of Open Carry Texas entered a Dallas franchise with assault rifles and posted it to Facebook.
Bloomberg-backed gun control movement ‘Everytown’ kicks off in Colorado
If the NRA's line is "They're coming for your guns and only you can stop them," Everytown's rally cry is "Guns are coming for your children and only you can protect them."
Wiretap: The face of the Bloomberg movement
The mega-millionaire has no idea how much of the world views him. That's why he doesn't understand that he can't be the face of the gun-control movement.
Sunlight Foundation tries its hand at hopelessly tangled Colorado recall election...
Today brings more evidence that it is nearly impossible to tally how much money was spent and by whom and where it all went.
Littwin: Don’t need no outsiders, except our outsiders
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg -- the antigun, anti-big-gulp, billionaire nanny stater -- is back, now trying to force the good people of Colorado to give up our God-given right to underfund K-12 education.
Wiretap: Not a rebuild but a redo, a bionic Colorado, better,...
While they're squabbling over a government shutdown in Washington, we have equally pressing priorities here in Colorado.
"Mother Nature has reset the playing field for us," says CSU professor Michael Gooseff.
Watchdog targets mayors: Stop harassing journalists covering Occupy protests
As has been widely reported, police crackdowns on the Occupy movement in cities across the country have extended beyond the protesters to include attacks on journalists as a way to stanch news of police action. Ten reporters were arrested in New York when police cleared Zuccotti Park on Tuesday, including reporters for the AP, NPR, and the New York Daily News, according to watchdog organization Free Press. The organization announced today it has launched a campaign "targeted at mayors around the country to demand they honor the 1st Amendment and drop all charges against journalists."
Huge majority says compromise needed to keep government up and running–further...
A new Bloomberg News poll indicates that nearly 8 in 10 Americans believe that legislators should reach a compromise on the federal budget in order to avert a government shutdown.
Florida coast threatened by oil gusher; BP may now do nothing...
The Florida Independent reports in its daily oil-spill round-up that the Gulf side panhandle is now threatened directly by the British Petroleum oil gusher,...