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...same vision came to Elizabeth Yanish Shwayder, a sculptor from Denver, 11 years ago. Visiting her daughter in Toronto, she learned of that city's annual coat drive, which collects used winterwear and gives it to the needy. In 1982, as Denver suffered through a horrific winter storm, Shwayder brought the concept home. Seven years later, the coat drive had become a Denver institution, and Shwayder decided to go national. Her first target was New York City...
Colorado's infamous anti-gay rights amendment was declared unconstitutional by a Denver judge. The amendment, passed by voters last year, would have barred state and local laws prohibiting discrimination based on an individual's sexual orientation...
...nationwide ban would still leave 67 million handguns in circulation. How hard it would be to reclaim many of those is evident from the few places already trying to spoon them up through gun buybacks or givebacks. Operation Cease-fire in Denver encourages people to turn in guns to the police, no questions asked, for tickets to Nuggets, Broncos and Rockies games or tickets to the Museum of Natural History. But buybacks tend to run out of steam and over budget. Minnesota's Hennepin County, which offered $50 a gun, spent more than $300,000 last year to collect...
...slaughter produced a national shudder, the kind that follows any awful crime that bleeds into unexpected corners -- the toddler caught in cross fire during a trip to the Denver zoo, eight people gunned down in a swanky San Francisco law firm, and now five dead and 18 wounded by the gunman on the commuter train. These are the crimes that seem impossible to prevent, to avoid or to forget. And they have a way of focusing the mind...
Yesterday, a Denver District judge ruled theamendment unconstitutional