Aurora

  • The darkness within

    By Bill Coffin  |  February 27, 2013

    As the nation asks what can be done about a recent rash of mass shootings, the health insurance industry is quietly looking the other way.

  • A victor, not a victim

    By Corey Dahl  |  February 19, 2013

    Columbine survivor Patrick Ireland, immortalized as “The Boy in the Window,” has overcome the tragedy to achieve great success in life, including as managing director for a Northwestern Mutual office in Colorado.

  • How can we prevent another Newtown?

    By Bill Coffin  |  January 1, 2013

    It doesn’t seem that long since I wrote an editorial regarding the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, or the Gabby Giffords shooting before that. In the aftermath of the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting, which has left 26 dead—including 18 little kids—trying to imagine how such events can be prevented...

  • After Newtown

    By Bill Coffin  |  December 14, 2012

    Life is beautiful. But all too often, it is defined by loss. Sometimes, by monstrous loss.

  • Exit Wounds

    By Bill Coffin  |  August 1, 2012

    “An incident like Aurora reminds us of the fragility of life not by tapping us on the shoulder, but by punching us in the face, and so we respond in kind, instead of with kindness.”

  • Brain defect miraculously saves Aurora shooting victim (Huffington Post)

    By Staff Writer  |  July 25, 2012

    Visible only on a CAT scan, a tiny channel of fluid guided a shotgun pellet around the vital areas of Petra Anderson's brain.

  • Aurora Theater Attack Survivor Gives Birth, Has No Insurance

    By Colleen Slevin, Associated Press  |  July 24, 2012

    Friends have set up a website that has raised $35,000 for the woman and her severely injured husband.

  • Exit Wounds

    By Bill Coffin  |  July 24, 2012

    Why are we all bleeding from the wounds inflicted in Aurora, Colorado?

  • Death, Fear, Faith, Love

    By Daniel Williams  |  July 23, 2012

    How do we put the pieces back together after a tragedy such as the theater shooting in Aurora, Colo.? One way is going back to doing the things we love.

  • No Fear

    By Corey Dahl  |  July 23, 2012

    We can glean lots of lessons from the Aurora theater shooting. One of the most important? Stop hesitating.

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