National Monuments have been political footballs since the Antiquities Act came to be in 1906. But so far court cases haven’t changed the president’s authority to shrink or grow them.
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Wife of Colorado political strategist missing in Florida condo building collapse
The wife of a Democratic political strategist from Colorado is among those missing in the condo building that partially collapsed outside Miami. Michael Stratton told Denver’s KDVR-TV that he was talking on the phone with his wife Cassondra Stratton Thursday around 1:30 a.m. when the building collapsed. “She described that the building was shaking and then…the phone went dead,” […]
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What’d I Miss?: Denver’s El Chapultepec and all that jazz
Myra has missed 30 years of her life, due to a coma, but has found a new friendship with her young neighbor, Ossie. Together, they both are searching for their place in this world. < Previous | Start from the beginning | Next > More cartoons from The Colorado Sun
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Littwin: Day Two of the Democratic National Convention
The second night of the Democratic Convention closed with Jill Biden, Joe Biden’s wife, standing in an empty Delaware high school classroom where she had once been a teacher. “When I taught English here at Brandywine High School,” she said, easing into the speech, certainly not quite as comfortable as Michelle Obama had been the […]
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Opinion: The Trump impeachment inquiry doesn’t begin to compare to the mayhem of the very first one
With impeachment a mainstay of current news cycles, much discussion has focused on both the Nixon and Clinton episodes. The process and politics of Andrew Johnson’s impeachment, however, were far more interesting, especially against the backdrop of post-Civil War Reconstruction and the little-known twist at the end. Starting with the Gettysburg Address and until his […]
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Opinion: National Democrats have thrown a roadblock in the path of Colorado candidates
The Democratic presidential campaign has taken a sharp turn as more than half of the candidates find themselves excluded from the next debate on Sept. 12, including Colorado’s senior U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet. From Lincoln-Douglas to JFK-Nixon and beyond, presidential debates have been the oxygen that fuels primary and general election campaigns. With more than […]
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D-Day’s heroes may be disappearing, but their stories have proved indelible
Even in 1994, as the 50th anniversary of D-Day approached, it had started to dawn on America that the soldiers who helped save the world, the ordinary people who rose to extraordinary circumstances and lived to tell the tale, would not be with us forever. Most had advanced into their 70s, though many of their […]