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#Coleg Notebook: Maximum fight for minimum wage

Minimum wage comes to the Capitol   Advocates for raising the minimum wage to at least $12.50 an hour rallied on the Capitol steps today in...

Wiretap: Copycats, hackers and fence-jumpers: Testing and the will to cheat

Hackers and Cheaters Hackers used a denial of service attack to shut down computers during Common Core testing in Colorado Springs, reports Debbie Kelly of...

#Coleg Notebook: Minimum wage, maximum disagreement

Last year, Colorado lawmakers engaged in a five-hour floor fight about raising the minimum wage. Were they considering hiking it to $15 an hour,...

Fast food striker: ‘I work, that means I should be making...

You see them working the drive-thru, refilling restroom soap dispensers and waiting at the bus stop in their cheery uniforms. They take your order,...

Wiretap: 100 years of demonizing the minimum wage, Koch style

All the scary stuff you hear about raising the minimum wage? We’ve been hearing the same stuff for a century and mostly it's wrong.

Women for Udall talk priorities — health care and voter mobilization

  A group of female business owners joined Congresswoman Diana DeGette and Planned Parenthood Action Fund President Cecile Richards at local woman-owned restaurant Fire on the Mountain...

Three arrested at fast food strike in Denver

Three men were arrested today in a rally during which more than 100 protesters — workers, union members, organizers and supporters — called for a minimum wage of $15 an hour and a union for fast food workers. The strike was part of a coordinated national effort today in more than 150 cities.

Union campaign’s Labor Day launch

  The role of labor unions, in addition to raising the minimum wage, may become a feature of Colorado's midterm elections after a blistering new report from the Colorado...

Wiretap: A constitutional right in name only?

Some constitutional rights are more equal than others, as in abortion vs. guns.

To care and be cared for

Despite not snagging as many headlines as last session’s civil unions and gun control measures, voices from all corners of the state have called the 2014 session a historically good one for women.