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Private Money Buys Public Influence 0
- February 1, 2000
What do you call it when the executive branch of state government accepts millions of dollars in private money from an extraordinarily wealthy private group? Especially when the private group advertises that it wants to use its wealth to affect state policy on a hotly contested public policy issue?
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School Vouchers–Short Run Good, Long Run Disaster 0
- January 25, 2000
The pitiful state of K-12 public education presents one of public policy’s cruelest dilemmas. Government schools fail many of those forced to attend. Those harmed the most are typically those who most desperately need the leg up that education provides. Plagued by adult neglect or impoverished circumstances, they have no other resource.
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School Vouchers-Short Run Good, Long Run Disaster 0
- January 25, 2000
The pitiful state of K-12 public education presents one of public policy#39;s cruelest dilemmas. Government schools fail many of those forced to attend. Those harmed the most are typically those who most desperately need the leg up that education provides. Plagued by adult neglect or impoverished circumstances, they have no other resource. More money for
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State Government Sells Your Private Information 0
- January 19, 2000
Why is the state legislature leaving fingerprints all over contracts entered into between mature, adult business people who sell cars and their suppliers, the car manufacturers? The answer is easy. If the car dealers can’t hack it at the bargaining table, they can get the legislature to do the dirty work because they have friends in Capitol places.
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Recommended Reading 0
- January 11, 2000
In a January 4th letter-to-the editor of the Denver Rocky Mountain News, Mr. Joseph E. Cordova of Littleton wrote “I am confused as to why people are so devoted to keeping a constitutional right that allows us to own a tool that when used correctly either destroys or damages lifeI honestly believe that if James Madison and his colleagues were alive to see what the musket has evolved into today and the horrific events that firearms have caused, they would not be offended if we were to change their original thoughts.”[1]
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Recommended Reading 0
- January 11, 2000
In a January 4th letter-to-the editor of the Denver Rocky Mountain News, Mr. Joseph E. Cordova of Littleton wrote I am confused as to why people are so devoted to keeping a constitutional right that allows us to own a tool that when used correctly either destroys or damages lifeI honestly believe that if James
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