Cara DeGette's blog

Focus on the Family announced major layoffs to its Colorado Springs-based ministry yesterday. The cutbacks come just weeks after the group pumped more than half a million dollars into the successful effort to pass a gay-marriage ban in California.

Colorado state Rep. Larry Liston isn't the only elected official in the state to dispense the epithet "slut" against teen parents -- he joins the ranks of two other El Paso County Republicans.