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Being a teenager can be tough work — you’re in the business of becoming who you are. For some teens, being who they are means being unlike many of their peers. A recent statewide survey shows just how hard growing up can be for Colorado high school students who ...

They know he is home when they hear his whistle. Whittle-WEE! Whether Jose Luis Guerrero’s wife and children will hear his call again, from the doorway of their small Aurora home, will be determined by the U.S. government...

The day after Oscar Juarez publicly announced his immigration status — undocumented, brought to the U.S. at age 7 by parents desperate to escape their impoverished lives in Mexico and eager to promise their children more and better opportunities — he walked into the ...

After returning from a stint in Vietnam, Jack Olsen enrolled at CU where he became, among other things, a journalism major and the night city editor at the Colorado Daily, which was still the campus newspaper back then...

On the day American researchers visited them in the hills of Guatemala, Enrique’s family killed a chicken as a mark of celebration. They hoped that by sharing their story and welcoming the researchers, Enrique might finally get the medical help he needed. It was ...

When the 35 Senators and 65 House members in the Colorado General Assembly start work next month, there will be ample coverage of high-profile issues like physician-assisted suicide and full-strength beer at grocery stores...

In the past year and a half, Flagstaff Academy Charter School in Longmont has undergone some major changes. Changes that have caused some teachers and administrators to quit, some parents to complain and remove their children from the school, and some former ...

Just because we’re on the other side of election season doesn’t mean the advertisements stop. You’ve probably seen it by now: a “Front Range” “organic” farmer telling us that people should support fracking because it helps farmers like her pay for healthcare and ...

At the end of a rough day of work — although at that job, all days were rough — I decided to reward myself with a bag of sugar cookies. They’d come home with me, alongside an equally healthy dinner of macaroni and cheese, a pair of Grey’s Anatomy DVDs and the will to...

I knew there was something strange about John from the first time I met him, but that’s what drew me to him. The black polish on his nails was chipping off and the ebony liner framing his glacial blue eyes was melting in the crushing humidity of East Tennessee in ...

I started getting headaches a couple years ago but the hallucinations didn’t start until I was, relatively, just about dead. My head was literally killing me and I didn’t know it. Doctors didn’t know it, my lovely, wellmeaning mother didn’t know it and WebMD was ...

I think all of us are influenced by a sense of place. Grow up amidst skyscrapers and it’s pretty easy to see humans as life’s central architects. Spend enough time in the wide-open West and you just might feel a bit less important in the overall scheme of things...