While we seem to finally be gaining ground on the COVID-19 pandemic, there is one public health crisis to which we appear powerless. That is the epidemic of gun violence. Once again, the United States has suffered...
When former Vice President Al Gore "lost" the 2000 presidential election to then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush after the Supreme Court ordered Florida to stop its contentious re-count,  many argued the Electoral College had finally...
Last month, Donald Trump instilled fear in thousands after announcing mass Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and round-ups of undocumented Americans. Then in a classic reality show-style bait and switch to appear bi-partisan, he abruptly...
Some believed, favorably or otherwise, that the landmark Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) case the Supreme Court decided in June would signal the death knell for public sector unions. That fear is not baseless...
While President Trump is vacationing at Mar-a-Lago over the Christmas break, Vice President Mike Pence has been staying in Aspen, Colorado, and just got hit by an ironic twist of karma. Pence is staying at a...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was a controversial pick for his office for a few different reasons. His shady past regarding civil rights was a big one. Sessions' draconian stance on drugs (which many consider to...
Ames Mayfield asking Vicki Marble about gun control and racist comments (screenshot courtesy Lori Mayfield via YouTube)
It's been said that kids can always sniff out someone trying to pull a fast one. One of the most beautiful examples of this in recent memory comes from Broomfield, Colorado; a suburb of Denver....
It's been said we are a nation of laws. In the Trump era, resistance does not only come from protesters marching with signs and slogans. It also comes from the courts. On Wednesday, San Francisco federal judge Elizabeth...
John Kasich, the Republican governor of Ohio, has been a fairly outspoken critic of President Donald Trump. Kasich was the final Republican candidate to fall in the 2016 Republican primary, and he tried to position...
Last week was the two year anniversary of the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case, which legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states. The Supreme Court chose that day to announce that they would hear...
As shocking as it is to hear, up to 60,000 undocumented immigrants claim that they have been forced into unpaid labor in a Colorado private detention center. If true, the practice was in violation of this nation's anti-slavery laws....
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CBS News and the Denver Post report that the Board of Hanover School District No. 28 in rural Colorado voted to allow teachers and other staff to carry guns as volunteer security officers in its two schools. Coincidentally, the...
Denver Health, Michelle Herren's former employer (image courtesy Jeffrey Beall, available under a Creative Commons-BY license)
You may recall that late last week, a Denver-area doctor, Michelle Herren, came under well-deserved fire for an unbelievably racist Facebook tirade against Michelle Obama. She suggested that the First Lady wasn't really speaking with...
Dr. Michelle Herren is an anesthesiologist who works at Denver Health. She is also a very angry and hateful person who decided to go on Facebook and post racist statements about First Lady Michelle Obama. Herren saw...
Heidi Hemmat holding one of her last Emmys (image courtesy Hemmat's Facebook)
Back in August, Heidi Hemmat, the longtime consumer and business fraud reporter at KDVR, Denver's Fox affiliate, abruptly disappeared from the air. Well, on Thanksgiving night, the veteran journalist revealed the reason for her absence....
At least five students have been expelled from high schools in Boulder, Colorado, over a series of Facebook posts that call for black and Jewish people to be executed. The posts were made in a Facebook...
When Nathan Weitzel, 29, of Centennial, Colorado felt as though fatherhood was "too big of a responsibility," he orchestrated a car crash in an attempt to kill his 2-year-old son, Isaiah, according to CBS News. Just before...
Sedgwick County sheriff Tom Hanna in custody (image courtesy RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post)
When you think of out-of-control sheriffs, most of us think about David Clarke or Joe Arpaio. But the sheriff of a county in remote eastern Colorado may have outdone them both by a city mile....
The campaign of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is really amazing. Even as they move on to their third campaign manager in a year, they keep claiming that they are perfectly well organized. Although they are...
After a year of intensive study, NASA concluded this week that a massive, unprecedented build-up of methane in the Four Corners region of south western USA has been largely caused by industrial oil and gas...