The Colorado Independent

Sunday, May 27th, 2012

Government Accountability/Reform

Pot advocates sue to stop planned CU protest clampdown

By | 04.19.12 | 4:09 pm

BOULDER– As Colorado University authorities prepare in earnest for the first time in twenty years to ward off the crowds due to gather here on campus tomorrow for the annual “4/20″ marijuana rally, attorney Rob Corry has filed suit to stop those preparations, calling them unprecedented in the history of U.S. campus protest, dangerous and an embarrassment to the critical thinking and free-exchange of ideas the university is supposed to cultivate.

ALEC continues to lose corporate supporters

By | 04.15.12 | 5:38 am

A campaign launched by several progressive organizations has led eight major corporations to withdraw from the American Legislative Exchange Council, known as ALEC, where state legislators and business representatives meet to draft model legislation.

Polis, Perlmutter among very few who voted for compromise budget plan

By | 04.06.12 | 7:34 am

Colorado Democratic Congressmen Ed Perlmutter and Jared Polis were among only 38 members of the U.S. House of Representatives to vote in favor of a bipartisan compromise budget that would have raised taxes and cut spending.

Colorado ‘religious freedom’ initiative moves step closer to 2012 ballot

By | 04.05.12 | 9:26 am

The Colorado Secretary of State’s title board on Wednesday approved language for a “religious freedom” ballot initiative submitted last month by Colorado Springs-based evangelical organization Focus on the Family. Supporters of the initiative can now begin collecting the roughly 86,000 valid voter signatures it will take to land the proposal on election ballots this November.

Bar codes allow ballots to be traced back to voters in dozens of Colorado counties

By | 03.30.12 | 9:46 am

The challenges mounting on Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s desk go beyond whether to mail ballots to residents who haven’t voted in a while. He has another predicament: bar codes.

Does the IRS really have it in for tea party groups?

By | 03.28.12 | 5:19 am

Conservative activists and some Republican lawmakers are up in arms about what they describe as the Internal Revenue Service conducting a partisan and ideologically driven campaign against tea party groups around the country. They claim that progressive organizations are not experiencing the same level of scrutiny. However, some progressive groups say they have had similar experiences with the IRS, and at least one expert dismisses the notion that the government is engaged in an ideological witch hunt.

Independence Institute on Obamacare: It’s not about the Commerce Clause

By | 03.26.12 | 11:49 am

The Independence Institute, a Denver-based free-market think tank that has lead the charge in Colorado against the Affordable Care Act, has filed what it is calling two “potentially game changing” briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court. The court this week is hearing arguments on the constitutionality of the two-year-old law.

Denver coalition looks to feds to crack city’s alleged coddling of brutal cops

By | 03.21.12 | 6:00 am

Citing institutional weakness and failure, a Denver activist coalition is demanding federal authorities intervene to address police brutality in the city.

Gardner high-roller junket makes national news, plays into Shaffer campaign message

By | 03.16.12 | 3:08 pm

CBS News aired undercover video Friday that captured Colorado Republican U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner and other Tea Party freshman members of Congress hobnobbing with high-rolling donors at a Key Largo yacht club, downing cocktails at a $10,000-a-head happy hour and venturing to sea on a chartered fishing boat named the “Good Life.”

Colorado government lags peers in financial transparency

By | 03.16.12 | 11:34 am

Colorado has fallen behind most other states in its efforts to make the state’s finances transparent to residents, according to a report released this week by The Colorado Public Interest Research Group (COPIRG).

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