Homeland (Cyber)Security? – Congress moves toward giving DHS control of Internet security

by Eileen McGuire-Mahony | 10:48 am, February 7, 2012

Since 9/11, this nation is increasingly characterized by foolish overreactions to hysterical flights of fancy.  In the name of preparing for a thousand and one unlikely scenarios, we are spending like drunken sailors and throwing civil liberties out the proverbial window. Case in point: a U.S. House panel approved legislation transferring control of private networks [...]

Radiation may cause cancer. Who knew?

by Eileen McGuire-Mahony | 4:42 pm, February 6, 2012

Under the bogglingly illogical government we have so judiciously elected, there’s no problem in blasting people with radiation so long as it’s not designated to be for medical purposes.  We all know what this means; because airport scanners aren’t rearranging our atoms for a medical benefit, they don’t come under FDA control.  Hence, your guess is as [...]

ICYMI: Do Journalistic Ethics Still Apply?

by admin | 6:09 pm, January 23, 2012

From a piece at Colorado’s new Open Government Institute: If we assume that Univision’s ethics policies are in line with other large media outlets, we can’t help but wonder why [Mario] Carrera recently received a large promotion, instead of a large pink slip. As reported by the Denver Post’s Lynn Bartels, Carrera, previously the vice [...]

2012 Transparency Legislation

by Amy Oliver | 9:59 pm, January 22, 2012

Transparency is still an issue at the state capitol. Early in this 2012 legislative session, three bills could provide taxpayers with additional transparency in government.
HB12-1009 Federal Funds Transparency Act
House Sponsors: Cheri Gerou (R-HD 25)
Senate Sponsors: Kent Lambert (R-SD 9 )
This bill seeks additional information than is currently provided on how each department and agency of [...]

APCD is dangerous to your health

by Amy Oliver | 11:08 pm, January 11, 2012

The column below appeared originally in the Summit Daily on December 22, 2011.
Colorado’s all-payer database poses serious risk, little gain
By Amy Oliver Cooke and Linda Gorman
Colorado state government, and local foundations and health policy elites, have become so ideologically invested in failed health reform policies that they now see nothing wrong with forcing Colorado citizens [...]

Ranking the Top Political Stories in Colorado for 2011

by elpresidente | 6:21 am, December 22, 2011

People’s Press Collective has thrown together a quick, informal, and non-intended-to-be-scientific-but-fun-anyway survey for our readers to rank their Top Political Stories in Colorado for the past year. There have been some doozies, which would be an understatement.

Bombshell: CSU Profs Downgrade Ability To Predict Hurricanes Six Months Out, “Have Not Shown Real-Time Forecast Skill”

by elpresidente | 6:13 am, December 14, 2011

Every year for almost three decades hurricane predictions made by Colorado State University professor William Gray–joined by Philip Klotzbach–have made the news cycle, with people especially vulnerable to the next year’s batch of damaging hurricanes paying particular interest to the number of storms forecasted by reputable research scientists. After 20 years, the CSU profs took [...]

PERA Board: Ego trumps reality

by Amy Oliver | 3:43 pm, December 2, 2011

Colorado State Treasurer Walker Stapleton, a rare voice of reason on Colorado’s Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA) Board of Trustees, told News Talk 1310 KFKA talk show host Amy Oliver in a recent interview that when the Board voted to maintain an unrealistic 8 percent rate of return one Board member provided the following reason, ”We [...]

Stryker siblings not very charitable

by Amy Oliver | 4:58 pm, November 11, 2011

Stryker Corporation announced it “will cut 5% of its global workforce by the end of next year to reduce costs in the face of new fees on device makers required by the U.S. health care law,” reports the Detroit Free Press. According to Stryker, “job cuts will reduce annual pretax operating costs by more than [...]

How "transparent" is your school district?

by Amy Oliver | 4:37 pm, November 8, 2011

Want to know the answer to that question? Then read the new report from the Independence Institute Education Policy Center titled Time to Show the Money.
Co-authors research associate Devan Crean and senior policy analyst Ben DeGrow reviewed 178 K-12 school districts, 16 BOCES, and the Charter School Institute to determine if they were compliant with [...]

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