Colorado Independent writer Katie Redding joined Progressive Talk 760 AM host David Sirota this morning to discuss her recent reporting on insurance industry gender discrimination and pending national Good Samaritan water cleanup legislation.
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Latino lawmakers long ago gave up on the idea that illegal immigrants would receive any sort of subsidized insurance under a health-reform bill. They didn’t imagine the debate would get so ugly that lawmakers would propose denying undocumented immigrants the right even to purchase private health insurance in this country, a proposal that flies in the face of free-market economic and personal responsibility political philosophies.
WASHINGTON– Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s speech Monday at the National Press Club was short on details. He said Republicans wanted to address “runaway costs” by perhaps posting the cost of treatments “openly on the Internet,” supporting “bold new incentives” for medical breakthroughs, and ending “life-time health care benefits and insurance for Congressmen who leave their jobs.”
Ernest Luning continues the discussion this morning on our exclusive reporting on improprieties by the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission that continues to repeatedly hold secretive, closed-door meetings.
The state’s top ethics panel Friday denied the Colorado Independent’s request for recordings of 14 illegally convened meetings just this year that appear to violate state Open Meetings Law. Ironically, the commission was established in 2006 when voters passed Amendment 41 to demand greater transparency and accountability in government.
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TCI’s own Ernest Luning will appear on the Jay Marvin Show today at 9:00 a.m. MDT to discuss our on-going investigation of the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission and its penchant for flouting Open Meetings Law.
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Bonus track: The Coloradoan’s Bob Moore is chatting now about the open meetings lawsuit filed by the Fort Collins-based paper, the Pueblo Chieftain and the Colorado Independent last week against the Colorado State University Board of Governors. We have requested a Larimer County judge review recordings of board meetings to determine whether violations occurred during its secretive, closed-door selection of the CSU system chancellor.
TCI’s own David O. Williams mixes it up with a panel of local experts on Friday’s broadcast of the public affairs show “Colorado State of Mind” over federal stimulus funding for state energy projects.
TCI’s Ernest Luning was a guest on the Jay Marvin Show on AM760 Thursday to explore the $1.25 million contribution to the anti-gay marriage Prop 8 by Focus on the Family and its allies.
Listen to the segment where Jay and Ernest debate the merits of the donations while the ministry was laying off staff and a new emerging evangelical movement away from controversial social issues.
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TCI’s Ernest Luning was a guest on the Jay Marvin Show on AM760 Thursday to discuss speculation on the candidates lining up to replace Sen. Ken Salazar who was tapped to be President-elect Barack Obama’s Secretary of the Interior.
Listen to the segment where Jay and Ernest debate the merits of each of the top contenders.
Colorado Media Matters hosts its annual post-election media wrap discussion with a rock ‘em, sock ‘em panel Tuesday, Dec. 9 at the Denver Art Museum.
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