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A new study shows large literacy gains and other benefits for full-day preschoolers as they enter kindergarten compared with their half-day peers — timely findings...
As we know, ideologically oriented newsrooms with various and murky funding models have popped up over the years offering news with perspectives to help fill gaps...
Everyone knew, and many predicted, that the recall-Polis effort would end not just in failure, but in spectacular failure.
But what I didn’t predict —...
Claudia Valdez, a domestic violence survivor and undocumented single mother of three, helped bring about enormous changes to state immigration law.
Valdez, 40, was arrested...
If you've driven U.S. 50 between Colorado Springs and Cañon City, you may have seen this building.
It's called Centennial South, but was formerly known...
Colorado’s methods of projecting how many inmates will fill its correctional facilities long have been flawed, leading to overcounts that can cost taxpayers and...