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A new digital site that's recruiting freelance journalists and looking to become a "national alt-weekly" is co-owned by a former Colorado journalist-turned cannabis PR...
When The Washington Post embarked on a major project to document every instance of gun violence on a single day in America, Colorado wound up the setting for two of...
About the Data
This map was built with data collected by Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit organization that gathers and verifies information about incidents of gun...
Recess becomes a drill,
the schoolyard a parade ground
and the squad—
thirty first graders
in raggedy formation,
their uniforms not
uniformly neat.
The sergeant wears skinny jeans
and Uggs. No one salutes
but...