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Reggie Bicha, Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Human Services, stands in his office in Denver, Thursday May 16, 2013. After the Denver area movie theater massacre in 2012, the state's governor and health officials began talking about revamping a mental health system that had been devastated by budget cuts. On Thursday, the governor signed into law an expansion of mental health services which Bicha helped shape in hopes of preventing future violence by the mentally ill. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) May 17, 2013

Aurora theater attack prompts new state mental health law

Lawmakers budgeted nearly $20 million for the expansion, which includes more short-term residential services

Weld County Sheriff John Cooke, center, backed by a group of fellow sheriffs, testifies against proposed gun control legislation in the Colorado Legislature, at the State Capitol, in Denver, Monday March 4, 2013. State Senate committees began work Monday on a package of gun-control measures that already have cleared the House which include limits on ammunition magazine sizes and expanded background checks to include private sales and online purchases. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) Mar 5, 2013

Colorado lawmakers advance gun control bills amid cheers and jeers

The commotion at the Capitol underscored the attention the debate has generated nationally from gun rights groups, such as the National Rifle Association, to victims' families and White House officials

EDITORIAL: Aurora does have unmet needs from shooting, but ‘resiliency center’ doesn’t address them Feb 8, 2013

EDITORIAL: Aurora does have unmet needs from shooting, but ‘resiliency center’ doesn’t address them

Like so many Aurora residents, city officials clearly feel the need to do something in regards to the terror inflicted by James Holmes last year. But this center isn’t what Aurora is asking for, nor is it what the community needs.

EDITORIAL: Mental health pitch only a starting point for a safety Dec 20, 2012

EDITORIAL: Mental health pitch only a starting point for a safety

A host of Colorado lawmakers irresponsibly gutted mental health programs during the 1990s in an effort to reduce the size of Colorado’s government.