Near-record campaign contributions, national media attention and large voter turnouts revealed deeper public interest in education in Colorado this year.
Mostly stagnant graduation rates and the increasingly costly needs of remediation for those students who decide to pursue higher education have spurred a reform movement offering myriad choices for quick change.
Others see the movement as a [...]

Today is supposedly the day when retailers offer their best online deals, with office workers feverishly snatching them up in between spreadsheet reviews and PowerPoint presentations.
In 2010, the Monday after Thanksgiving ranked for the first time as the biggest online shopping day of the year, according to market research firm comScore, lending credence to the [...]

By the time a child gets to Mount St. Vincent Home, he or she has been abused, neglected or witnessed abuse. Some have mental illness, and some have been in several living situations.
Some arrive with only a plastic bag, filled with a few clothes and maybe a favorite toy. They are scared and afraid they [...]

When the sun sets and the temperature dips at Santa’s Workshop, the 55-year-old Christmas village and kiddie amusement park nestled in the mountains northwest of Colorado Springs, the last man on site just happens to be the big man on campus.
Santa Claus​, played this year for the first time by longtime area resident Phil Tracy, [...]

“If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to sleep with a mosquito.” Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop
I believe strongly in the ability of ordinary people to have a profound impact on their community. Not only is that my job as community groups coordinator at the Colorado Children’s Campaign, [...]

No one, neither patient nor doctor, wants to learn firsthand what “exsanguination” means.
But Dianna Cillessen is thankful she stuck around long enough to hear the definition.
It means that when surgeons cut into her skin on a September day when she was as good as dead, no blood came out. There was none left.
The Arvada mom [...]

Just when you thought Congress couldn’t get any wackier, our esteemed elected officials have proposed school lunch guidelines that count French fries and the tomato paste atop slices of greasy pizza as vegetables.
To combat childhood obesity, the USDA had proposed setting limits on the number of fried potato servings children could eat in a [...]

The auteurs are coming! The auteurs are coming! So might go the call throughout the land of multiplexes and art houses, given this holiday season’s movie fare. But you needn’t have a degree in film studies to notice that the weeks ahead are packed with directors who come with a place in the cinema’s firmament.
When [...]

Friday. The holiday season comes to light at downtown Denver’s Grand Illumination. With three locations switching on their lights, fans can pick their favorite shiny spot or do a holiday hustle to watch all three. The wave of illumination starts at Skyline Park with free ice skating and entertainment, plus the lighting of the Holiday [...]

They say we are entering the season of temptation, weight gain and stress. But what if we turn that notion upside down and declare the upcoming feast week the start of something new? What better time to swear off sweets than before the holiday cookie exchanges begin?
If that just sounds like crazy talk, how about [...]