Tag: Cora

Building from reports last month on a possible breach of campaign-finance regulations, Colorado Ethics Watch has filed a Colorado Opens Record Act request to determine whether the government-funded Colorado Senate Minority Office provided the gubernatorial campaign of Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry (R-Grand Junction) with email contact lists. Colorado law prohibits state agencies from providing contributions to a campaign. Ethics Watch contends the email lists are valuable and would amount to a campaign contribution.

As one of his first official acts, President Barack Obama issued an executive memorandum instructing members of his administration “to operate under principles of openness, transparency and of engaging citizens with their government.” There are a number of ways Colorado state and local government can follow suit and join the President in his commitment to an “unprecedented level of openness in government.”

"It's the public's right to know!" The phrase has been spouted by reporters and paparazzi alike. But under the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA),...

Collective bargaining for state employees may not seem like a boiling topic when compared to controversial debates on immigration or gay marriage, but the...

Among the small mountain hamlets dotting the canyons and valleys across the Western Slope, it been a summer filled with  intrigue and gossip and...

People say stupid things that they shouldn't in e-mails.  As a result, political scandals in Colorado and nationally frequently turns on the ability of...

When a Web site posted an inflammatory e-mail sent by Democrat Rep. Michael Merrifield last week, documents show it was obtained through a public...