National Conference Of State Legislatures

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that it will open up its offer of financial help with the Race to the Top application to all states. That’s good news for Colorado, which will likely apply for the funds.
The $4.3 billion Race to the Top competition, which has been billed as U.S. Secretary of [...]

Colorado voters are making too much law and the wrong kind of law at the ballot box, according to a growing list of elected officials, analysts and experts. Critics of the state’s famously loose ballot-initiative process agree it unnecessarily opens up the state constitution to improperly vetted amendments, which are extremely difficult to rework or repeal. The result: Bad laws that bog down government and generate extended and expensive lawsuits.

The names, “American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)” and “National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)” are enough – especially in the relatively bureaucratic-free summertime  – to send most normal people fleeing from the room.

Let’s add in this one, just to hear the door slam: “Council of State Governments.”

These are the organizations sponsoring annual soirees where Colorado [...]