Monday Media Review: School choice, school funding lawsuits highlight courts’ inappropriately rising role in education policy

by CTBC Director | 8:22 pm, August 22, 2011

Continuing coverage of the pair of lawsuits seeking to have the courts decide educational policy in Colorado (the Douglas County school choice case, and the Lobato statewide educational funding case) over the weekend highlights the increasing role of the courts (as opposed to elected school boards, or the state legislature in whom constitutional authority for [...]

Midweek Update: Governor Hickenlooper, AG Suthers seek dismissal of ‘political’ anti-TABOR lawsuit (Fenster’s Folly)

by CTBC Director | 4:11 pm, August 17, 2011

Predictably (indeed, Clear The Bench Colorado predicted both motion and grounds almost three months ago), Governor Hickenlooper and Attorney General John Suthers filed a Motion to Dismiss the anti-TABOR lawsuit (”Fenster’s Folly“) this week, noting that the lawsuit raises a ”political question” rather than a legal issue and is therefore (as the U. S. Supreme Court [...]

Weekend Wrap-up: Colorado courts ruling o’er state schools

by CTBC Director | 1:11 pm, August 13, 2011

Citizens of Colorado hold elections every year to send representatives to different venues to consider and decide on policy (and allocate resources) for their children’s education: in odd-numbered years, for local school boards; in even-numbered years, for the state legislature, which has the constitutional authority to “provide for the establishment and maintenance of a thorough and [...]

Reapportionment Commission to hear public testimony on state legislative district boundaries

by CTBC Director | 7:57 am, June 6, 2011

Although the drawing of Colorado’s Congressional district boundaries has been sent to the courts (since the state senate failed to consider redistricting legislation, abdicating their constitutional obligations), the Reapportionment Commission (charged with drawing state legislative districts) is meeting over the summer and will hear public testimony both in Denver (initially) and throughout the state (once a [...]

Life in the FASTER lane – updates on the Colorado Car Tax

by CTBC Director | 2:55 pm, May 26, 2011

Surely make you lose your mind…
The Colorado Car Tax (er, “fee”) increase – ironically dubbed ‘FASTER’ – passed in the 2009 legislative session made another lap in media coverage this past week with a broadcast on the ‘Devil’s Advocate‘ television program and publication of a pair of “Issue Backgrounder” papers.
The “Issue Backgrounder” papers each address [...]

Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold discusses Redistricting and Reapportionment on Backbone Radio

by CTBC Director | 9:12 pm, May 11, 2011

Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold discussed the hot topic of Congressional Redistricting and state legislative district Reapportionment in Colorado – explaining the process and highlighting the differences in the process of drawing boundaries for Congressional and state legislative districts – on Backbone Radio (710 AM KNUS) Sunday evening, 8 May 2011.
Listen to the [...]

Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Bender’s “final four” appointments round out Reapportionment Commission

by CTBC Director | 3:03 pm, May 5, 2011

The ongoing legislative battle over Congressional Redistricting remains the “hot” topic in the news – “Public asked, again, to weigh in on Congress maps” – with a final opportunity for Citizens weigh in on competing redistricting maps by publicly testifying at the Congressional Redistricting Committee hearing scheduled for today (Thurs, May 5) at 2:00 p.m. in [...]

More discussion on Colorado Congressional Redistricting and state legislative reapportionment

by CTBC Director | 11:11 am, May 2, 2011

Since publishing an article (”Redistricting versus Reapportionment – the confusion continues“) nearly two weeks ago clarifying the different constitutional constraints and processes for drawing up Colorado’s Congressional and state legislative district boundaries, Clear The Bench Colorado has received renewed interest and feedback from multiple sources concerning the ongoing developments in each area (including gubernatorial and legislative appointments to the [...]

Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold discusses judicial accountability in Colorado on KFTM radio April 27th

by CTBC Director | 4:11 pm, April 30, 2011

Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold discussed the judicial accountability movement in Colorado – from CTBC’s launch in April 2009 through the present – in a wide-ranging interview with Michael Schaus on KFTM Radio on 27 April 2011.
Topics include the formation of Clear The Bench Colorado, examples of how the Colorado Supreme Court violated the [...]

Reapportionment Commission takes shape with Governor’s picks – but Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Bender has last word with upcoming “final four” selections

by CTBC Director | 4:11 pm, April 26, 2011

The ongoing legislative battle over Congressional Redistricting remains the “hot” topic in the news – with an escalating “blame game” as to who “killed the bipartisan redistricting effort” and even disagreement on basic principles (“competitive” districts or communities of interest?).   Hint – only one of those is mandated by law – Colorado Constitution Article [...]

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