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Every society has its myths — the stories people tell one another, passing tales down through the ages. Whether it’s Prometheus punished for all eternity for the crime of stealing fire from the gods or Robin Hood snubbing his nose at the crown, stealing from the rich to give to the poor — Britain’s national myth, some say — myths help a group of people make sense of their place in the world and figure out how to behave. Here in Colorado, where the mountains meet the plains and city fo...

Every society has its myths — the stories people tell one another, passing tales down through the ages. Whether it’s Prometheus punished for all eternity for the crime of stealing fire from the gods or Robin Hood snubbing his nose at the crown, stealing from the rich to give to the poor — Britain’s national myth, some say — myths help a group of people make sense of their place in the world and figure out how to behave. Here in Colorado, where the mountains meet the pla...

Former Colorado state Rep. Rob Witner saw the ad for IQOS, an e-cigarette product, pop up on his son's Quizlet app on Friday.

courtesy Lynn Bartels Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb decorated his wooden “U” (for unaffiliated) to look like the city logo. The shoelace was a nod to Webb’s first mayoral campaign, when he ran out of money and walked the city in his tennis shoes to meet voters. The wooden “U” was part of a campaign to educate unaffiliated voters about the 2018 primary election. courtesy of Lynn Bartels photo courtesy of Lynn Bartels courtesy of Lynn Bartels

Andy Cross/The Denver Post The Jefferson County GOP began its annual assemblies in the 1990s by asking all elected Republicans in attendance to say a few words. “It was not uncommon for it to take an hour to get through all of those speeches,” said Rob Fairbank, the former state representative from Littleton. Now, said Rob Witwer, former attorney for the Jefferson County GOP and also a former state lawmaker, “It would take five minutes. You could fit all the elected officials in a phone b...