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Tag: Independence Institute
Conservatives burned money on JeffCo races. Unions spent big and won
The Independence Institute, Americans for Prosperity and other conservative groups sank hundreds of thousands of dollars into the 2015 school board races and ended...
Littwin: Blame Julie Williams for Colorado’s education “reform” fail
It's probably not altogether fair to put the stunning defeat of so-called education "reformers" around the state on Julie Williams, but let's do it...
Dark money, lies and disclosure in the JeffCo school board race
Groups opposed to the recall of three conservative Jefferson County Board of Education members are doing their best to keep under wraps how much...
Dirty politics in JeffCo: Who’s exploiting a school-board member’s son?
Tuesday, the libertarian Independence Institute released a video that accused recall supporters of bullying the special-needs son of Jefferson County Board of Education member Julie...
DeGette wants to raise the legal age for smoking cigarettes to...
Would changing the age to buy tobacco really work to curb the number of teens that start smoking each year?
Rep. Diana DeGette thinks so. Degette recently...
Libertarians, Latino activists, sheriffs union members unite: Elect Denver’s sheriff
The Denver Sheriff Department has long been a mess.
Some of its deputies have kicked and clobbered inmates without provocation. Other deputies have booked the...
Video: Attorney David Lane likens Denver D.A. to Vladimir Putin
“How would you like to go to jail in Denver for passing out forbidden literature?”
So starts a recent video put out by the libertarian think...
Thunderdome 2015: Rocky Mountain Gun Owners vs. everyone
“Thunderdome 2015” is The Colorado Independent's wrap-up series on the 2015 legislative season. For a series overview, check out “Thunderdome 2015: 120 days under the...
‘Obamacare’ long war haunts bill on EPA carbon-emissions plan
DENVER — Obamacare was the unlikely elephant in the room Thursday during a state Energy Committee hearing about a new bill that would rework...
Colorado justices see potential ‘paradigm shift’ in school voucher case
DENVER — Is the state constitutional provision that requires Colorado to educate its children ultimately about providing educational instruction or about providing tax money...