Why Choice is Best for Denver's Kids
In recent months we have listened to presidential debates about reforming and improving K-12 education. The education debate has not, however, aroused as much emotion as social security and prescription drugs. It is ironic how people are filing massive multi-million dollar class action lawsuits suits against Ford Motor Company and the Firestone Tire Company because dozens of tires out of the millions manufactured failed. Yet, we arent nearly as troubled or inclined to take bold action when literally thousands of Latino/Chicano students fail.
If You Can't Stand the Heat…Don't Blame Global Warming
Seventeen consecutive days with high temperatures above 90o that wilted Denver. Raging forest fires that threaten homes and parklands throughout the Western United States. Heatwaves in California and Colorado that have utility bills soaring and tempers flaring.
It must be global warming, mustn’t it?
How 'Smart Growth' Intensifies Traffic, Pollution
Residents and public officials in urban areas around the world are concerned about traffic congestion and air pollution. Of the two problems, traffic congestion is the more intractable, because improved vehicle technologies are already having a dramatic effect on improving air quality.
Colorado's Anti-Transportation Policy
A century ago, with the exception of railroads, transportation in the United States was by dirt road. Similar to growing demand for mobility in today’s third world economies, the push to get America out of the mud in the early twentieth century was led by bicycle enthusiasts. Automobile ownership was a novelty. But when rising personal wealth met declining automobile costs–thanks to Henry Fords assembly line for the Model T–more and more people began to enjoy automobile ownership. The trend is irreversible.
Colorado Survey Finds it pays to shop for prescription prices
As George W. Bush and Al Gore try to sell voters on their prescription drug plans, local researchers are warning seniors not to buy it.
Their message is simple; If you want to save money on your prescription costs in Fort Collins and elsewhere along the Front Range, you better shop around.
Supreme Court Tells Colorado's Children "No"
While the original philosophy behind bilingual education may have been well intentioned, the current status quo for educating Spanish-speaking students is failure. Traditional bilingual education has not quickly developed English proficiency among Spanish-speaking students as promised, but has kept them locked in a system that will inevitably lead to continued second class citizenry. Linda Chavez, Tom Tancredo and the supporters of English for the Children made an attempt this year at ending this sad state of affairs, but to no avail.
Headlines Youll Never Read From RTD
I can hardly wait for the day that RTDs dreams and promises come true. We will see a light rail system that carries hundreds of thousands of people briskly throughout the entire Denver metropolitan region each and every day.
The Transportation Industrial Complex
Elementary school students learn the opposite of politics. The Scientific Method, both used in school and required in Science Fair projects, mandates that a proposition, idea, question or assertion be proven. The notion is that facts are verifiable and repeatable. That June 21 has more daylight than any other day of the year can be proven by observing, measuring, and verifying with other research. It is an indisputable scientific fact.
WAAKE-UP and Feel Better-Throw the Poor Out of Work
What do the people in the WAAKE-UP coalition have against the poornbsp; And why are they so intent on forcing the University of Colorado to act like the worst kind of imperialist WAAKE-UP, a coalition of everything from the Rain Forest Action Group to the The Code mandates that licensees establish a dignified living wage […]
With No Obligation to Educate, Schools Turn to Thought Control
In case you were ever in doubt, the Colorado Court of Appeals has just made it official. Colorado public schools have no legally enforceable obligation to educate children. According to the court, parents and students cannot sue school districts because they “are not private students enrolled in a private vocational school but, instead, consist of the general public. They have not individually bargained with the school district, nor individually paid for specific educational services. As a result, they cannot assert legal claims for the alleged failure to provide those unbargained-for services.”
Against Everything, For What
Over the last forty years, those who like to throw bricks through windows and blueberry pies in peoples faces for The Cause have been on the wrong side of one issue after another.nbsp; Who can forget the unilateral disarmament devotees throwing themselves in front of moving trains in an effort to appease the Soviet Unionnbsp; […]
Dangerous Myths
One of the odder things about those in thrall to the diversity and environmental movements is their excessive devotion to myth.nbsp; Consider, for example, the myths about the lives of Edward Said and Rigoberta Menchu.nbsp; Presented as archetypes of Western injustice, their stories have been used to rally the faithful against Western culture. Said, holder […]
