AP, Fox31 Reporters Join Me

by Jon Caldara | 1:52 pm, September 12, 2011

How much does the state spend on cell phones?

by Amy Oliver | 10:22 pm, March 28, 2011

Want to know how much Colorado taxpayers pay for cell phones for state employees? That’s a good question that no one is able to answer.  Welcome to the opaque world of Colorado spending transparency. The Associated Press sent a Colorado Open Records Act request (CORA) to 19 state agencies and couldn’t get anything more than [...]

Clear The Bench Colorado invites comparison: our Evaluations vs. the ‘Commission on Judicial Performance’ “reviews”

by CTBC Director | 7:27 am, October 7, 2010

Colorado voters are being subjected to a barrage of big-money, special-interest advertising on judicial retention elections this year – as decried in editorials from the New York Times and other media sources across the country, as well as in other news coverage statewide.
Special-interest groups are spending tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars attempting to [...]

Midweek Update – continuing coverage of Clear The Bench Colorado, judicial retention elections in state and national news

by CTBC Director | 8:16 am, October 6, 2010

Clear The Bench Colorado continues to gain coverage in both statewide and national news – since last weekend’s dozen-and-a-half articles (including a New York Times lead editorial and AP/UPI wire stories picked up nationwide) and additional articles earlier last week (including another New York Times editorial and a Wall Street Journal entry), this last weekend [...]

Incumbent Colorado Supreme Court justices face stiff retention opposition – Denver Post notices, breaks “radio silence” on issue

by CTBC Director | 9:12 am, October 3, 2010

The Denver Post breaks “radio silence” in news coverage of Colorado’s judicial retention elections…
Today’s (Sunday) Denver Post joins the Wall Street Journal, along with the New York Times,  Associated Press, United Press International, and countless other media outlets and once again takes notice of the upcoming vote on three incumbent Colorado Supreme Court justices seeking an additional [...]

Week(end) News in Review: Clear The Bench Colorado, judicial “merit” selection & retention nationwide and “CEW round two”

by CTBC Director | 9:28 am, September 28, 2010

Media coverage of Clear The Bench Colorado, the Colorado Supreme Court, and the issue of “merit” selection & retention of judges nationwide came in a veritable torrent over the weekend, instead of trickling in over the course of a week…
Leading off the weekend’s coverage of Clear The Bench Colorado was, somewhat surprisingly, the New York [...]

No more free rides for state employees?

by Amy Oliver | 6:28 pm, February 3, 2010

State Representative and Joint Budget Committee member Kent Lambert wants to put the brakes on state employees using taxpayer funded vehicles for their personal commute to and from work.  The Associated Press quoted Lambert,  ”Nobody else in state government is getting a free ride to work, and they shouldn’t be doing it either.”  
Following up [...]

The “news” and the truth rarely intersect

by David K. Williams, Jr. | 4:35 pm, January 30, 2010

Making Gov look good proves costly to taxpayers

by Amy Oliver | 12:32 pm, January 3, 2010

Governor Bill Ritter spent more than $200,000 on TV, photographs and videos of himself, an Associated Press investigation revealed.   According to AP, “taxpayers paid that amount for photos of the Democratic governor signing bills and attending a lavish production for the state film commission.”
Also revealed in the story, the Bawmann Group, which COST reported on a [...]

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