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Bennet says what you think in C-Span hot-mic moment: ‘It’s all rigged’
Recently-reelected Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet is no fan of the Senate. He has griped about it to the national and local press. He hates the lolly-gagging, the arcane rules, the posturing and, apparently, the...
Colorado activists to rally at capitol ahead of Cancun climate talks
Colorado climate-change activists will converge on the west steps of the state capitol building in Denver Wednesday evening in conjunction with a national demonstration in Washington D.C. aimed at urging President Barack Obama to...
Colorado Succeeds school reform group leans on shoddy Heritage Foundation research
Colorado University professor of education policy and Education News Colorado contributor Kevin Welner Tuesday examined a report put out last month by Colorado Succeeds, a group of business leaders working for school reform. The...
Ron Paul debt-limit proposal next Tea Party – Republican Party showdown
Famous anti-big-government libertarian Texas Rep. Ron Paul Tuesday called on Congress to vote against increasing the national debt limit. Paul voted against raising the debt ceiling in February and was joined by every one...
Top economists plead case for unemployment insurance extension
Today Congress must decide on whether it will extend unemployment insurance benefits for millions of out-of-work Americans. Republican lawmakers have resisted extension, in part making the argument that unemployment insurance is becoming welfare and...
Arizona continues to net illegal workers, not illegal employers
The country's self-styled "toughest sheriff" made more news in Arizona the week after the midterm elections. As Stateline reports, Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio conducted a well-choreographed raid on Nunez Creative Landscaping in Phoenix...
Oklahoma anti-Islam law blocked by federal judge
A federal judge ruled Monday that Oklahoma cannot implement a newly passed law banning the state's courts from using Islamic law as a basis for deciding cases.
The amendment to the state's constitution was passed...
Obama federal pay freeze draws mild praise, strong criticism
In a move that will be seen in many quarters as typical for being ineffectively compromising, President Obama announced he was freezing federal pay for two years as part of a larger effort to...
Progressive groups unveil deficit-reduction plan
Our Fiscal Security, a partnership of progressive policy organizations Demos, the Economic Policy Institute and the Century Foundation, unveiled a deficit reduction plan Monday, devoting more attention to revenue increases than other proposals and...
Uranium deal with Russians shows need for mining reform, activists say
Mining reform groups over the weekend reacted sharply to Wednesday’s decision by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (pdf) to allow the transfer of two uranium mining licenses in Wyoming to Atomoredzoloto (ARMZ), a firm...