WHAT? Change the theater shooting trial NOW?

April 27, 2015

COMMENTARY, NO BYLINE No. Think again. This afternoon the judge in the #theatershootingtrial denied a last-minute gasp by #James Holmes’ attorneys for a change of venue. Usually reading motions and files on the Colorado Judicial website is tedious, but Judge Carlos Samour has a sense of humor, which actually makes...

Aurora Theater Shooting trial begins Monday

April 23, 2015

The world will be watching Colorado over the next few months as the Aurora Theater Shooting trial begins Monday in Arapahoe County, nearly three years after the July 20, 2012, shooting. In the first minutes of that morning, during a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” at Aurora’s Century...

Aurora Theater Shooting trial buzz starts

April 18, 2015

COMMENTARY, NO BYLINE I heard today that one of the prosecutors working on the #theatershooting trial is so afraid of being recognized once things get heated, that he’s growing a beard. The prospective jurors were really worried about notoriety too. The judge, whose name is Carlos Samour, assured the jury...

Most Colorado teachers feel safe in their classrooms, yet 39 percent might still carry firearms to school

March 20, 2015

In 2009, two teenage boys plotted to shoot the principal of Dove Creek High School and ambush the Dolores County Sheriff. They aimed to do serious damage. Law enforcement recovered seven rifles, some .22-caliber weapons and an M1 carbine from one of the boys’ homes. The teenagers’ plan might have...

CU News Corps survey finds voters to be receptive to fact checking, but debate over merits continues

Jan. 16, 2015

Aiming to make sense of a relentless surge of political advertisements, journalistic fact-checking projects in Colorado reached large numbers of Front Range voters, who found those endeavors to be generally effective in this year’s midterm election season, a CU News Corps/Aspen Research survey found. Despite a one-sided ad-to-fact check ratio,...

Scott Ellis, 43, Lafayette: “By not participating in the process, you don’t imply consent with the outcome”

Dec. 18, 2014

Scott Ellis’ Facebook page looks different than those of a lot of his social media peers. Ellis, 43, is an administrator of the group “Don’t Vote,” one of many such gathering places on Facebook. His own newsfeed is speckled with notes encouraging his friends to join him in his voting...

Media outlets use CU News Corps material

Dec. 14, 2014

This fall students at Colorado University in Boulder analyzed political ad spending during the 2012 election season. The CU News Corps received national coverage in a number of prestigious publications. Below is a list of articles relating to these efforts. The Columbia Journalism Review ran an article detailing the News...

Personhood USA makes a series of false and deceptive claims about previous legislation

Nov. 4, 2014

One of the main supporters of the personhood legislation on Colorado ballots this November is Personhood USA. The group’s website hosts pages about Amendment 67 in Colorado and North Dakota’s Measure 1, another personhood issue up for vote. The Personhood USA page about Amendment 67 makes the following statement: “Last...

Gardner at odds with scientific consensus on Ebola travel ban

Nov. 2, 2014

In his campaign to unseat Senator Mark Udall, Republican challenger Cory Gardner has called for a travel ban from the West African countries hit hardest by the recent Ebola outbreak. In doing so, he’s ignoring a strong consensus among public health experts on how best to deal with outbreaks of...

Gardner’s misleading attack on equal pay illustrates bi-partisan hypocrisy

Oct. 24, 2014

Paying male and female employers the same salary has been a central campaign issue for Democrats up and down the ticket across the country in past years. Sure enough, that discourse also made its appearance in one of the closest Senate races this fall – the contest between Sen. Mark...

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