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The High Court punted on partisan gerrymandering. Colorado’s new redistricting laws...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Earlier this week, in a Colorado College library computer lab, three students and a math professor hovered over a glowing screen...

Latest redistricting proposal bound to fail, say minority lawmakers

Too little, too late. That’s how several minority lawmakers feel about the latest draft of a ballot measure that purports to outlaw gerrymandering in Colorado. Initiative...

Bennet sponsors bill to strengthen voter protections

In 2013, the Supreme Court gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act — a Civil Rights Era law that ensured minorities would not face discrimination...

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

The movie Selma, which was mostly overlooked by members of the Oscar-awarding academy, is about the 1965 protests in Alabama led by Martin Luther...
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