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Aurora Theater Shooting Prompts New Mental Health Law

AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 05.17.2013 | Denver

DENVER -- Days after a gunman entered a suburban Denver movie theater, killing 12 moviegoers and injuring 70 others, Gov. John Hickenlooper and Colora...

Hundreds Of Colorado Schools Required To Serve Breakfast

Posted 05.15.2013 | Denver

Hundreds of Colorado schools will be required to start supplying breakfast to students next year after Governor John Hickenlooper signed the bill into...

Colorado Medicaid Expansion Signed Into Law

AP | By IVAN MORENO | Posted 05.14.2013 | Denver

DENVER (AP) — An expansion of Medicaid eligibility that's expected to add 160,000 adults to public health care assistance in Colorado was signed int...

Colorado Employees Get More Legal Remedies In Discrimination Cases

AP | Posted 05.07.2013 | Denver

DENVER (AP) — Employees at smaller Colorado businesses will have more legal remedies for discrimination cases under a bill Gov. John Hickenlooper si...

Gov.: 'I Am Constantly Attacked For Being In The Pocket Of Oil And Gas'

The Boulder Daily Camera | JOE RUBINO | Posted 05.03.2013 | Denver

Gov. John Hickenlooper has been a lightning rod for the controversy surrounding oil and gas production in Colorado, specifically the industry's use of...

Hickenlooper On Boston Marathon: 'Our Hearts Ache'

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 04.16.2013 | Denver

The deadly bombing at the Boston Marathon Monday has left at least three people dead and more than 140 others wounded. And although Boston may seem fa...

Hickenlooper: Suspect In Prison Chief Slaying Had A 'Bad Streak'

Reuters | Posted 03.25.2013 | Denver

March 24 (Reuters) - Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, a longtime family friend of a prime suspect in the shooting death of the state's prisons c...

Task Force Recommends Recreational Weed Purchasing Limits

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 02.26.2013 | Denver

By the time marijuana can be purchased for recreational use in the state, it may be capped off at a much lower amount than the stated limits in Amendm...

Matt Ferner

Hickenlooper In State Of The State: 'Let's Pass Civil Unions!

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Ferner | Posted 01.11.2013 | Denver

During his State of the State address, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper made it abundantly clear how he feels about the fate of a civil unions bill tha...

Matt Ferner

Hickenlooper Jokes He Can't Remember Amendment 64 Passed

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Ferner | Posted 01.10.2013 | Denver

Gov. John Hickenlooper is once again cracking jokes about marijuana policy in Colorado, this time during his State of the State address on Thursday. ...

Matt Ferner

Hick: 'Why Can't We Have Universal Background Checks For All Gun Sales?'

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Ferner | Posted 01.11.2013 | Denver

Gov. John Hickenlooper addressed one of the most talked-about and controversial issues facing the state of Colorado and the nation during his State of...

Weed's Legal, But Task Force Works On How To Regulate It

Posted 01.03.2013 | Denver

Pot is legal in Colorado -- now what? Well, that's just what Gov. John Hickenlooper's marijuana task force is working on, how to best regulate marijua...

Hick: Violence In Media, Video Games Play A Role In Shootings

Posted 12.18.2012 | Denver

The level of violence depicted in video games and in the media may be partially to blame for the wave of mass shootings in 2012, Colorado Gov. John Hi...

Marijuana Legalization Low-Key By Design In Colorado

AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 12.11.2012 | Denver

DENVER -- Colorado gave a lonely reception to marijuana when it became the second state to legalize the drug. Just as state leaders planned. Gov. Joh...

Pot Officially Legal In Colorado Today

AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 02.09.2013 | Denver

DENVER — Marijuana for recreational use became legal in Colorado Monday, when the governor took a purposely low-key procedural step of declaring...

Matt Ferner

Recreational Marijuana Is Officially Legal In Colorado Today

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Ferner | Posted 12.10.2012 | Denver

Marijuana for recreational use is now legal in Colorado. Today, Governor John Hickenlooper signed an Executive Order making an "official declaratio...

Hickenlooper To Create Legal Weed Task Force

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 11.28.2012 | Denver

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper will create a marijuana task force to help iron out the new laws and policy regarding legal marijuana in the state. ...

WATCH: Mason Tvert Talks Legal Weed In Colorado

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 11.12.2012 | Denver

Last week, Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize marijuana for recreational use -- a landmark vote that is without historical pr...

Hick, Suthers 'Should Not Ask For Permission' On Legal Weed

The Colorado Independent | Scot Kersgaard | Posted 11.09.2012 | Denver

From The Colorado Independent's Scot Kersgaard. As Governor John Hickenlooper prepared to speak today with United States Attorney General Eric H...

Rocky Mountain High Could Get Higher With Spaceport

Posted 09.26.2012 | Denver

The Rocky Mountain High is poised to get even higher. Colorado U.S. Sens Michael Bennet and Mark Udall announced Tuesday that the Federal Aviation ...

Friday Talking Points -- Smile, Mitt, You're on Candid Camera!

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.21.2012 | Politics
Chris Weigant

When Mitt is releasing tax returns to change the subject, you just know he's in a bad place politically. It may still be way too early to confidently predict the outcome of the election, but it isn't too early to call Romney's campaign (so far) an unmitigated disaster.

Hickenlooper Questions Use Of Honey In White House Beer

Posted 09.08.2012 | Denver

Democrat John Hickenlooper may be one of the nation's most popular governors, but he's not a very sweet guy... when it comes to beer, that is. On ...

More Speakers Announced For Dem Convention

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 08.20.2012 | Politics

The Democratic National Convention Committee announced Monday more speakers for its 2012 convention, which begins in Charlotte on Sept. 4. Chicago ...

Is American Gun Culture Compatible With a Modern Civil Society?

Zaman Stanizai | Posted 09.25.2012 | Home
Zaman Stanizai

In respect to gun ownership, we fall off the chart in every standard-setting category for a modern society. Our civilians pay the price as our laws empower the criminals. How long must we bury our heads in the sand and deny ourselves the decency of a 21st-century civil society?

Gov. To Sign Wildfire Victim Compensation Bills

Posted 06.04.2012 | Denver

Gov. John Hickenlooper will sign two bills into law on Monday that will help victims of the late-March Lower North Fork wildfire that destroyed 23 hom...