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…

Dave Kopel v. Anti-Gun Thom Hartmann

by Jon Caldara | 11:35 am, June 10, 2011

What happens when an avowed anti-gunny named Thom Hartmann tries to take on Dave Kopel? Well, find out yourself.

Oooooohhhhhh, that must sting a little.

Quick shots from today’s WSJ

by completecolorado | 10:51 am, May 31, 2011

Interesting nuggets from today’s Wall Street Journal:
Lead story, “The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war…”
Germany on Monday said it would close all of its 17 nuclear reactors by 2022.
In 2008, Libya gave Goldman Sachs about $1.3 billion to invest.  GS lost almost all of it. [...]

What’s the Independence Institute All About?

by Jon Caldara | 8:36 am, May 26, 2011

Often I’m asked what the hell it is we do here at the Independence Institute. I’ve been president for over a decade now, and much of that decade was spent trying to figure that out myself. In under 10 minutes, our graphic design Goddess Tracy made this video about the work we do here at [...]

Mike Rosen, May 23rd, ICYMI, Karl Rove

by completecolorado | 2:35 pm, May 23, 2011

Great interview today with Karl Rove on the Mike Rosen Show, 850 KOA, talking presidential politics, Obama’s middle east map and the American-Jewish vote, union politics in Wisconsin, and much more.  Great insight.  CHECK IT OUT.

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