A majority of students at Cole Middle School never reached "escape velocity," proving education reform has a long way to go. John Hickenlooper was Denver mayor back in 2004, not its school superintendent, so he can hardly be faulted if his dramatic promise to Cole Middle School students that they'd be provided with enough money to go to college failed to ignite a transformational change.
Editorial: Supermax ruling opens door to justice for terrorists It took years and a passel of lawyers, but this week the European Court of Human Rights reached a conclusion about a Colorado federal prison that captured international attention, but frankly seems a no-brainer.
Hubbard: Confirmation bias vs. data Recently, a reader charged that these pages are a "shill for the GOP." The same day another letter-writer accused us of being "in the tank for Obama.
Carroll: Dougco's student-friendly plan The Douglas County school board, the most consistently innovative elected panel in the state, is at it again. A district court judge may have ruled last year against the board's Choice Scholarship Program — aka vouchers — but that hasn't stopped it from finding other targets for reform.
Quillen: The latest in stupid ideas to amend our constitution Our Colorado secretary of state's office has apparently taken a break from suppressing the vote and fabricating figures for "voter fraud," and has found the time to approve the text of yet another proposed ballot issue to amend our state constitution.
Guest Commentary: Flaming Gorge plan sells us down the river Aaron Million and his Wyco Power and Water, Inc., apparently believe that there are billions of dollars to be made by selling water he doesn't own to people in another state that don't need it — all at the public expense.
Yeomans: Trayvon Martin and hate-crime laws The Trayvon Martin tragedy — where an African-American boy, armed with Skittles and an iced tea, was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer, who initially walked away under Florida's expansion of traditional self-defense rules — may force the nation to again understand the need for federal hate crime laws.
The state Economic Development Commission is reviewing six tourism projects competing for up to $50 million in state tax incentives and is expected to make a decision in May.
I want government to leave me alone. I'm sick of it. Whatever happened to personal freedom? Whatever happened to personal responsibility? I want that government should just go away.
My first encounter with gay rights activists was in the early 1980s at the mall in Boulder. I was just leaving when about 20 colorful characters burst through the doors, shouting, "We're here, we're queer, we're in your face!"
The 2011 Medicare Trustee report estimates that the Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund, for inpatient hospital and related care, will go bankrupt in 2024, five years earlier than estimated
In 1964, only half of all Americans over 65 had health insurance coverage. The launching of Medicare fundamentally transformed what it meant to grow older in this country.
