Articles By Kevin Simpson
Sunriser: Un-bear-able behavior, surfing Colorado, a deep dive on STEM School culture, a Princeton pipeline and much, much more
Your guided tour through Colorado news, compiled by your friends at The Sun.
How does a rural Colorado county with three people per square mile send 30 students to an Ivy League institution?
A 19th-century lawyer came to Las Animas County to save his life. He built a fortune and, one generation later, inspired the scholarship that created a pipeline to Princeton University.
Sunriser: Yet another school shooting stuns Colorado, how all of the state’s new laws will impact you, the inspiring story of a teen gymnast and much more
Your guided tour through Colorado news, compiled by your friends at The Sun.
Tiny Branson has plenty of water. But like other small rural delivery systems in Colorado, it must find a way to meet new state standards.
The southern Colorado town, population 55, now looks to another small hamlet for a solution -- and to crowdfunding to pay for it
It’s not just Denver: Rural Colorado feeling housing crunch, with more residents spending half their income on a place to live
In Yuma, like many other small communities in the state, waiting lists are long as many struggle to find an affordable place to live
After nearly a half-century of pasta, historic Denver landmark will serve up … miniature golf
There’s plenty of backstory to how the space that once housed the Old Spaghetti Factory will become an artsy place to putter around
Use of Safe2Tell, created in response to Columbine, is growing as front line tool in school safety
While the anonymous tip program has come into its own as part of the AG’s office, it also faces a statistically small but troubling problem -- kids who use it to target other kids
Colorado cattle rustling’s colorful history helps modern brand inspectors keep up with a changing crime
Hundreds of cattle go missing every year in Colorado, most of them simply lost. But the state’s brand inspectors work to ensure thieves don’t cash in.
A World War II tank gunner with a story to tell rolled into downtown Denver to pay respects to the general he revered
Gen. Maurice Rose, war hero and namesake of a local hospital, was killed weeks before the end of the war. To Cpl. Clarence Smoyer, his memory lives on.
