It did not hit me until I headed up I-70 on Thursday that I was driving toward the site of another school shooting. It should have been front of mind since the shooting happened just over a week before and I wrote a column highlighting the tragedy last Sunday. Yet it did not occur to me until I headed up the hill.

Like many Coloradans, though, I can nearly drive to Evergreen on autopilot. Alderfer/Three Sisters Park is among my favorite day hike locations; my family lived along the half-mile between the park entrance and the high school when I was born. I made my first Colorado Supreme Court argument with 600 Evergreen students at my back, part of the court’s annual tour to local schools.The lake, the shops, the restaurants and the vistas have drawn people from Denver to the close-i

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