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Magistrates, lawyers discuss youth, guns and responses to school safety
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Adams County Magistrate Michal Lord-Blegen was a school administrator in Aurora when two teenagers killed 13 people and themselves at Columbine High School in 1999. The massacre was a lens through which she viewed her subsequent work as a principal and as a lawyer. “We’ve got a lot of kids with guns,” said Lord-Blegen earlier this…
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State Supreme Court interprets ‘straw purchase’ law to encompass shared use of guns
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The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday interpreted a gun safety law enacted after the Columbine High School massacre, ruling for the first time that the illegal transfer of a firearm to a prohibited person can encompass the shared use of a weapon in a household. The court declined to say whether someone can violate the…
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Columbine High School students get shout-out from Parkland student leader
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg is among those calling for a nationwide student walkout to protest gun violence on Friday, April 20. But he’s also standing in support of Columbine High School students who won’t be walking out Friday, the 19th anniversary of the Columbine massacre. On April 11, Hogg re-tweeted a call for…
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Colorado Senate passes bill to speed response to school shootings
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Colorado, the state who made school shootings a national concern at Columbine High School two decades ago, hopes to lead the way in making them safer, evidenced by Senate Bill 158. The legislation would provide money for technology, equipment and training to connect schools quickly to to first-responders when seconds mean lives. School radios, for…
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Insights: Common ground on guns remains slippery and muddy in Colorado
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Maybe if partisans didn’t go too far. I don’t know. It confounds me why we can’t talk constructively about guns in this state, or this nation, without both sides shutting down. Indecision lives in gridlock. If one side didn’t insinuate the other doesn’t care about dead children, would that be so hard to do for…
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Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg talks equity for women with Democrat Mike Johnston at campaign event
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It’ll take a combination of leadership in business, government and smaller scale, person-to-person relationships to bring about equity for women, said Facebook’s chief operating officer and author Sheryl Sandberg at an appearance Monday with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Johnston in Denver. “We have companies that need to do the right thing – lead by example. We…
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Interoperable radio communications for school safety passes first test in Colorado legislature
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It’s not just about preventing another Columbine-style school shooting. Handheld radios in schools help employees manage difficult parents or help students get to school when the bus breaks down. But it’s the cost of setting up radio communications to first responders that is stopping many school districts from making that happen, and this week, Republican…
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Democrat Ken Toltz suspends campaign in primary for Jared Polis’ 2nd Congressional District seat
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Democrat and gun control activist Ken Toltz on Monday announced he’s suspending his campaign for the congressional seat held by U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, who is running for governor. Toltz said in a release he’s putting the campaign he launched in early October on hold to focus his attention on what he called a serious…
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Nicolais: Who pays when everyone loses?
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The latest chapter in the Aurora theater shooting didn’t include the man who injured and murdered so many innocent people just over four years ago. Instead, it pitted those left behind against one another: the scarred victims and families of his crazed depravity against the company that owned the theater he chose for his crimes.…
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Educators: In Colorado, more school protection helping students learn
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When two students went on a deadly 1999 shooting rampage at Columbine High School, it not only shocked parents, students and teachers, it had a lasting impact on education. Copycat threats across the country have forced lockdowns and orders for teachers and students to shelter in place, and parents, teachers and students have spent a…
