I am Still Here!

by Jon Caldara | 9:15 am, January 25, 2012

Since my late night radio show on 850 KOA ended last week, I’ve been bombarded with the most heart warming messages from fans on my blog, on my Facebook wall (both of them), via Twitter, on YouTube, in person, and through email. It’s sometimes difficult for me to fully understand the kind of impact my [...]

VIDEO: Losing Local Voices in Colorado Media

by Jon Caldara | 1:48 pm, January 24, 2012

Independence Institute Writers In The News

by Mike Krause | 11:02 pm, December 26, 2011

A massive medical privacy invasion in Colorado, another lame attempt to control the Internet by Congress, and the case in favor of fracking are all topics of recently published works by Independence Institute writers.
First Independence Institute intern and president of the Denver chapter of Liberty on the Rocks Donovan Schafer explains why hydraulic fracturing (fracking) [...]

Shout Out from the Wall Street Journal!

by Jon Caldara | 2:42 pm, November 3, 2011

Get used to the national attention my fellow Coloradans! It won’t be going away until after next November’s elections. For example, President Obama has “dropped by” what, a half dozen times already? He’s here so frequently I figure I’d ask him to do something useful the next time. Like water my plants or something.
We’ve got [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Opinion is Opinion, News is News

by Jon Caldara | 10:42 am, September 16, 2011

Senior fellow and super-economist Dr. Paul Prentice recently wrote a letter to the editor that was published in the Colorado Springs Gazette. In it, he raises two important points: one, that there is a meaningful difference between opinion and news. Second, that there are more schools of economics out there than just Keynesian and ultra-Keynesian. [...]

Teachers’ union fights transparency…again

by Amy Oliver | 5:12 pm, July 8, 2011

No shock that the Colorado Education Association is fighting new rules designed to bring more transparency to school district. The CEA worked hard to prevent financial transparency in K-12 education; with the passage of HB10-1036, the union ultimately lost that battle. Now, it is fighting to prevent public disclosure of teacher arrests. According to the [...]

MSNBC Loves “MAD Moms”

by Jon Caldara | 1:01 pm, July 1, 2011

Amy Oliver is the founder and director of Mothers Against Debt (MAD), a national organization helping Moms understand the massive debt their children are on the hook for thanks to big government. At the moment, the bill is around $45,000 per child. MAD has received some notoriety lately, making both FOX News’ “Fox and Friends” [...]

More From the Dougco Voucher Suit

by Jon Caldara | 3:20 pm, June 23, 2011

On Tuesday, within an hour of hearing about the ACLU lawsuit challenging the Dougco voucher program, our Education Policy Center sent out this media release. Additionally, Center Director Pam Benigno was quoted in this EdNewsColorado article and on thi…

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