Post News: Murders of prison inmates in Sterling, Colo., spur state review

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Today's Local Politics

Colorado Democrats shoot down rule to inform parents of school employees' arrest
Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday shot down a State Board of Education rule requiring school districts to notify parents when a district employee is arrested or charged with certain crimes.  

• Perry Haney enters Colorado's 6th Congressional District race
• Senate rejects 2 balanced budget amendments
• Bennet bill seeks visas for illegal immigrants studying math, science
• Lamborn says Democrat's earmark study that calls him out is a "joke"

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Today's Business

Xcel wants $142 million rate hike in Colorado, but where would the money go?
Xcel Energy wants to raise an extra $142 million next year, with the money coming from another $4 a month on the average family bill and $5 on small businesses. So that's where the money would come from; the question is, where would it go?  

• Italy's rising debt costs, euro's slide drag down Dow
• Hotel seems to have edge in RTD vote on Denver Union Station
• Buyers face cold realities, return hot deals to stores before holidays
• Colorado's Powderhorn resort opens ski season with new deal, new owners
• New limits on bank card fees backfire on shops that thrive on small purchases

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Today's Entertainment

People: Tebowromance? Lindsey Vonn shoots down rumors
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Bullock back to big screen

Paris talks about Michael

 

• Surprising omissions among SAG Awards nominees
• Discover Denver from A to Z: Photography student Kitty Migaki takes the Mile High City in a new, literary direction
• Video: Behind the scenes at Colorado Ballet's "The Nutcracker"

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Today's Opinion

Editorial: Let menorah keep lighting Evergreen
We strolled by Denver's city hall this week to be sure our memory hadn't failed us. And sure enough, there on the east steps was a Nativity scene, just as we'd remembered it.  

• Editorial: For Joe Blake, a successful run as chancellor of CSU
• Littwin: Newt, zany? That's rich
• Rosen: Income inequality is inevitable
• Food for thought: Homelessness and the holidays
• What a sheriff deserves