Hickenlooper Proposes Selling Pinnacol

by PerlStalker | 9:53 pm, August 5, 2011

Once again, Colorado officials are considering privatizing the much maligned workers comp insurance company, Pinnacol. This comes after the Colorado-owned company refused to administer state employee claims.

Is there really a valid reason for any gov…

The Pinnacol of Profligate Spending

by Michael | 8:15 am, January 10, 2011

A $318,000 lavish junket to Pebble Beach involving Pinnacol Assurance executives and board members in May 2010 inspired a lawsuit forcing the release of travel receipts, investigations by two local TV stations seeking to expose the profligate spending habits of the quasi-governmental agency, and now calls by Gov. Bill Ritter and other Democrats for the [...]

Listen up: Interviewing Sen. Morgan Carroll on Pinnacol

by Kelly Maher | 2:00 pm, June 10, 2010

Back in January we posted an interview with Colorado state Sen. Morgan Carroll over the need for more transparency in talks involving Gov. Ritter’s office on the fate of Pinnacol Assurance, the quasi-governmental worker’s comp insurer.”Whatever the pro…

LISTEN UP: Interviewing Sen. Morgan Carroll on Pinnacol

by Kelly Maher | 8:00 am, June 10, 2010

Back in January we posted an interview with Colorado state Sen. Morgan Carroll over the need for more transparency in talks involving Gov. Ritter’s office on the fate of Pinnacol Assurance, the quasi-governmental worker’s comp insurer.

“Dread Pirate Ritter” and the Scurvy Senate raid Pinnacol

by Ikonoclast | 12:10 am, April 15, 2009

Piracy has been very much in the news of late, with the much-publicized hijacking of an American-flagged ship (the Maersk Alabama) and subsequent rescue of the heroic captain (who had volunteered to be the sole hostage in order to free his crew) by Navy Special Warfare operators (my most heartfelt and solemn thanks and congratulations [...]

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