Colorado Survey Finds it pays to shop for prescription prices0

• HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
• August 29, 2000

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.

Everything is a Gun Show0

• HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
• August 9, 2000

When you hear gun show do you think of a father who wants to give his son a gift by letting him choose a gun from his collection? How about a widow who pulls her husbands guns out of the closet and lets her children take their pick? According to SAFE Colorado, these activities are gun shows if twenty-five or more firearms are displayed. Firearms are any handgun, automatic revolver, pistol, rifle, shotgun, or other instrument or device capable or intended to be capable of discharging bullets, cartridges, or other explosive charges.

WAAKE-UP! and Feel Better–Throw the Poor Out of Work0

• HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
• May 18, 2000

What do the people in the WAAKE-UP! coalition have against the poor? 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 AFL-CIO,[1] wants the University to adopt its Code of Conduct for determining who may and may not manufacture licensed CU apparel. The model Code, as posted on the United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) web page, imposes the agenda of wealthy Americans unions on poverty stricken workers in other countries.[2] It is a central planners dream.

With No Obligation to Educate, Schools Turn to Thought Control0

• HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
• May 16, 2000

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?0

• HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
• May 9, 2000

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. Who can forget the unilateral disarmament devotees throwing themselves in front of moving trains in an effort to appease the Soviet Union? They wanted to the U.S. to take its missiles out of Europe. Had they had their way, the U.S. and Europe would have disarmed, leaving the Soviet Union to menace the world.

Prevent RapesSupport Concealed Carry0

• HEALTH CARE - Op-Eds
• April 25, 2000

An animal rapes another woman, and the powers that be hold another community meeting at which they dole out the same old advice about not walking alone at night.  No matter that the most recent victim was driving a paper route.  The advocationally concerned write Letters-to-the-Editor gushing about the rewards of volunteering for the Boulder Rape Crisis Team.  According to one mans testimonial in The Daily Camera, men who volunteer make a decision to help a community in crisis and gain experience offering information and assistance to survivors of sexual assault as a part of a wonderfully diverse and compassionate team that can demonstrate that men are a necessary part of the healing process.[1]