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Last Sunday, I'm sure most Denver Post readers were scratching their heads, as I was, when they saw Donald Trump Jr.'s diatribe against Democrats splashed across the top of the Perspective section.
For the U.S. Olympic Committee, this has been a year of investigations, a devastating court trial, apologies and subsequent changes in top management. The organization remains in the crosshairs of Congress and of attorneys who have filed lawsuits for sexual assaults involving hundreds of athletes.
DENVER – A bill that would establish a permanent federal program that allows fourth graders and their supervisors free entry to national public lands and waters, which has bipartisan support from most of Colorado's congressional delegation, passed the U.S. House of Representatives in a nearly unanimous vote Wednesday.
Although the majority of Americans enjoy clean drinking water, some have for decades grappled with the side effects of water contamination from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, a family of chemicals that comes from waterproofing products and firefighting foam. PFAS contamination has plagued communities across the U.S., including in El Paso County.
A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers wants to patch up holes in hospice and palliative care for seriously ill children.
DENVER (AP) — Congresswoman Diana DeGette is trying again to gain wilderness protection for 740,000 acres (299,467 hectares) of land in Colorado.
For twenty years, Congresswoman Diana DeGette has tried to pass a Colorado wilderness bill. Now she's trying again: Today, July 24, DeGette introduced the Colorado Wilderness Act of 2018, which would provide federal protection for wild spaces in Colorado. If it ever passes.
The first thing that struck us on entering the immigrant processing center in McAllen, Texas was the desperation: hundreds of people, scooped up by U.S. Border Patrol agents after arduous treks from Central American countries, most of them fleeing gang violence and drug cartels.
A Republican and a Democrat from Colorado's congressional delegation traveled separately to the U.S.-Mexico border this weekend to view detention sites and tent camps for children separated from their parents. Both said President Trump's administration needs to work faster to reunite families and called for Congress to tackle broader immigration reform.
DENVER — U.S. Representative Diana DeGette joined a group of lawmakers for a tour of the U.S./Mexico border this past week on a fact-finding mission. More than two dozen lawmakers, mainly from the Democratic Women's Working Group, took part in the visit.