
Leigh Paterson
Senior Editor & ReporterAs KUNC's Senior Editor and Reporter, my job is to find out what’s important to northern Colorado residents and why. I seek to create a deeper sense of urgency and understanding around these issues through in-depth, character driven daily reporting and series work.
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Following suicides at CU Boulder, friends and family want people to know: this is everyone’s problemAt least four CU Boulder students died by suicide during the first semester this school year. Teachers, students and administrators are stepping up to stop this from happening again.
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As the Trump administration threatens to defund the U.S. Department of Education, KUNC looks at how federal dollars are spent in northern Colorado school districts.
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Lawmakers at the state capitol hope a new bill can reduce the number of deaths by suicide with a firearm. The measure would allow someone who’s concerned about their mental health to put a voluntary freeze on their ability to buy a gun. Today on In The NoCo, we take a deeper look at what the bill would do and why it has bipartisan support.
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Following an hours-long search, a snowboarder’s body was discovered at Winter Park Resort in January.
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An executive order has ended a policy that prevented federal immigration officials from making arrests at so-called “sensitive” locations like schools and churches. Now, some Colorado schools are working to better protect their students from potential immigration raids.
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In Colorado, law enforcement routinely take people to the hospital for court-ordered mental health evaluations. But now, in Boulder County, sheriff’s deputies have stopped putting their hands on people to force them to go.
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Both Amendment J (same-sex marriage) and Amendment 79 (abortion) had wide support, while the closely watched race in Congressional District 8 was still close.
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In the final story in our series, “The Colorado Dream: Ending the Hate State,” we ask Colorado Governor Jared Polis, a police chief and a long-time legislative aide: Where does Colorado stand today with the "Hate State" label?
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A former legislative aid describes how gender identities have become politicized in Colorado, years after undergoing his own gender transition.