Jeffco School Board’s Paula Noonan Drives Into Unwelcome Spotlight… Again

by Ben | 10:07 pm, January 21, 2013

Three of the five Board seats for Colorado’s largest school district are up for grabs in 2013. One of them is just inviting a challenge. Jeffco school board director Paula Noonan made local headlines for displaying a serious bout of bad judgment: Jeffco school board member Paula Noonan was arrested during a traffic stop Jan. [...]

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 [...]

CDOT transparency

by Amy Oliver | 7:20 am, May 20, 2011

Believe it or not, there are bills that both respect taxpayers and enjoy enormous bi-partisan support. HB 11-1002 is a great example from the 2011 legislative session. State Rep BJ Nikkel worked with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and drafted legislation to “develop and maintain a publicly accessible, searchable, online database of its revenue [...]

Shining a light on National Popular Vote

by Amy Oliver | 1:48 pm, May 11, 2011

National Popular Vote, a.k.a. “Koza Scheme”, has been working overtime in state legislatures to destroy one of the Founding Fathers’ greatest institutions the Electoral College. As a contributor to Save Our States, a group dedicated to defending and promoting the Electoral College, it is time to expose National Popular Vote for what it is — [...]

A New Way to Contact Elected Officials; A Solution for Grassroots Apathy?

by Ben DeGrow | 11:22 am, March 28, 2011

Efforts to organize constituent groups to contact and lobby their elected officials have grown more sophisticated in recent years. Many of us like the ease of the online petition that automatically directs messages to our representatives based on our input location data — though I frequently prefer to tailor the pre-fab messages with my own [...]

Numbers Show Government Employees Top Private Sector Counterparts in Colorado’s Union Membership

by Ben DeGrow | 2:56 pm, March 8, 2011

It looks very much like Colorado is only one year behind in achieving a labor movement milestone measured at the national level. A little over a year ago I reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) finding that government employees represented a numerical majority of the unionized workforce in the United States. (You can listen [...]

Pinnacol Scandal’s first casualty: Ethics committee chair ousted

by Michael | 7:46 am, February 4, 2011

Earlier this month, COST profiled the excellent investigative reporting conducted by The Denver Channel’s Tony Kovaleski in discovering the profligate spending practices of Pinnacol Assurance’s board of directors, who had spent in excess of $300,000 in posh golf and span junkets.
The subsequent row over the expenses stirred up calls for board resignations, and now COST [...]

Ghosts of Constitutional Debates Past

by Joshua Sharf | 1:56 am, December 23, 2010

I’ve been working my way (slowly) through the Library of America’s Debate on the Constitution, a two-volume set.  While the Federalist is a  – the – American political philosophy, it represents the thoughts of only three authors, and can’t possibly answer all of the concerns that people had about the Constitution at the time.  The [...]

Happy Belated 240th Birthday, Ludwig von Beethoven

by Ben DeGrow | 1:10 pm, December 17, 2010

(H/T Schroeder) Yesterday was the 240th anniversary of the birth of the great and revolutionary musical genius Ludwig von Beethoven. Because it fits my mood for today, here’s the triumphant finale to the legendary Fifth Symphony:

For past reflec…

Stop ‘corruption on steroids’: Become a Citizen Auditor

by Amy Oliver | 11:33 am, September 22, 2010

What happens when government is allowed to operate outside the purview of the public? “Corruption on steroids,” as District Attorney Steve Cooley described the abuse of taxpayers in Bell, CA.  Cooley further described the situation in a news conference announcing the arrest of eight elected officials and government employees from the small town outside of Los [...]

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