1+ day, 13+ min ago   (1482+ words) The oral history of more than 100 Romper Room teachers from around the country and Canada draws its title, “Did All My Friends Have Fun at Play?” from a question asked by each television teacher at the end of each program....

1+ day, 18+ min ago   (1185+ words) L. Wayne Hicks is a Denver-based writer who was previously a reporter for the Denver Business Journal and for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and Pensacola News-Journal in Florida. He has written extensively about children’s television for various publications, including stories about “Captain…...

1+ day, 23+ min ago   (596+ words) Each week as part of SunLit — The Sun’s literature section — we feature staff recommendations from book stores across Colorado. This week, the staff from Poor Richard’s Books in Colorado Springs recommends a tale of parthenogenetic birth, a Martian chronicle and…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (403+ words) For the second time in a week, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert urged a judge to show mercy for her eldest son as he was sentenced Thursday. Boebert, a Republican running for re-election in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, asked District Judge Elise Myer…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (342+ words) The city of Denver, Latino advocacy and voting rights groups filed a lawsuit Thursday to try to prevent armed immigration officers from conducting enforcement actions at polling places across the country in November’s election. According to the lawsuit, filed in…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (613+ words) We stopped watering, but now our yards are wilting. What’s next? Join The Colorado Sun’s solutions journalism discussion in Berthoud on Sept. 26, where we'll discuss water-wise landscapes and tour one of the most beautiful low-water gardens in northern Colorado. Colorado…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (625+ words) More than three months after a state-government agency reorganization left 173 workers unemployed, the Governor’s Office of Information Technology has hired 15 back. That’s not great odds for the remaining public servants hoping to get rehired. The state agency had simultaneously announced…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (633+ words) We stopped watering, but now our yards are wilting. What’s next? Join The Colorado Sun’s solutions journalism discussion in Berthoud on Sept. 26, where we'll discuss water-wise landscapes and tour one of the most beautiful low-water gardens in northern Colorado. Officials…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (935+ words) Everything has changed. And nothing has changed. I don’t remember when I first wrote that line about 9/11. It might have been on the first anniversary. Or it might have been in the first month or two when I was still…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (894+ words) In 2014, Colorado’s police and firefighters voted to increase their payroll contributions to improve their retirement benefits. The Fire and Police Pension Association of Colorado was fully funded at the time, but members were told that if they didn’t increase contributions,…...