Lack of transparency downs another ballot measure

by Amy Oliver | 6:32 am, November 3, 2011

Score one for cupcakes! Bake sale beats the establishment!
Nancy Rumfelt, the one woman army at Liberty Watch, who had to have a “Bake Sale for Transparency” to raise money to pay for an open records request, defeated the education establishment. On Tuesday voters in the Thompson School District in Loveland voted overwhelmingly “no” on a [...]

The kind of state Coloradans want

by Amy Oliver | 8:41 pm, November 1, 2011

Senator Rollie Heath was the chair of the ”Unimaginative Failure” Commission (a.k.a. Long Term Fiscal Stability Commission) on which I sat in 2009. Heath constantly asked “what kind of Colorado do we want?” As if a chosen few have the right to force an answer for more than five million people, but that did not stop [...]

Elephants in taxpayers’ living room

by Amy Oliver | 1:51 pm, November 1, 2011

Did you get a thank note from the Denver Zoo for your donation? You should have because Colorado taxpayers, and likely taxpayers from across the country,”donated” above and beyond the amount that the seven county, Denver Metro area taxpayers approved with their yes vote to fund the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD).
In 2008, the Governor’s [...]

Issue Committee status equals newspaper access

by Amy Oliver | 6:16 pm, October 30, 2011

A local property tax increase in Loveland has attracted all the usual supporters including the teachers union, administration, and other status quo educational-industrial complex advocates. They have an issue committee, volunteers, money (including contributions from the Colorado Education Association and top district administrators), and access to the local newspaper’s guest editorial page, which the opposition [...]

Loveland supports school district transparency

by Amy Oliver | 12:12 pm, October 8, 2011

Loveland taxpayers want to know how the Thompson School District is spending their money. In the first hour of her Bake Sale for Transparency, Nancy Rumfelt of Liberty Watch raised more than $700 (in addition to all the baked goods) to pay the fee that TSD demands to fulfill her open records request.
Considering the school district [...]

Bake sale for transparency

by Amy Oliver | 2:21 pm, October 4, 2011

Citizen activist and founder of Liberty Watch Nancy Rumfelt is so determined to get public information from the Thompson School District (TSD) just ahead of a vote on 3A, a $153 million mill levy override, that she is hosting a bake sale to raise money in order to pay the fee that TSD demands to fulfill [...]

Selling your medical data to fund the APCD?

by Amy Oliver | 6:43 am, October 4, 2011

Could a non-profit sell your private medical data to fund the on-going operational cost of the state’s All Payer Claims Database (APCD)? Maybe.
Last week COST detailed the developments in Colorado’s APCD, a state-mandated data warehouse of all your private healthcare transactions.
The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) spun off the non-profit Center for [...]

GEO needs a dose of sunshine!

by Amy Oliver | 9:06 pm, September 29, 2011

For years the Governor’s Energy Office has operated in the shadows. As an “off budget” agency, it has spent millions of dollars with virtually no transparency or accountability. A newly-released paper titled “Governor’s Energy Office Needs a Dose of Sunshine” from intern Kyle Huwa examines three years worth of GEO expenditures, a time period where [...]

Spotlight on your private medical records

by Amy Oliver | 1:31 pm, September 27, 2011

At least two national media outlets are concerned enough to report that Obamacare allows the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) access to everyone’s private medical records. According to the Washington Examiner: America is learning about the federal government’s plan to collect and aggregate confidential patient records for every one of us. In a [...]

PERA doesn’t trust CO Treasurer, voters

by Amy Oliver | 2:32 pm, September 21, 2011

Colorado’s Public Employee Retirement Association (PERA) told statutory board member State Treasurer Walker Stapleton that it would not release information such as annual benefits, age of retirement, former job and zip code of the top 20 percent of pension recipients to him. In an interview with Amy Oliver on News Talk 1310 KFKA, Stapleton said [...]

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