Fort Carson commander talks about reducing military suicides
Fort Carson commander Major General Mark Graham talked Monday with Dave Davies on the NPR program Fresh Air about his efforts to get the Army to take suicide and depression more seriously.
Abstinence-only funding not dead if Congress plays ‘hide the salami’ again
Reproductive health advocates cheered the news Friday that President Barack Obama cut two $100 million abstinence-only sex education programs from the federal budget in lieu of more effective, comprehensive teen pregnancy prevention programs.
But the real test of wills comes in the Congressional conference committee on the federal budget where one Democratic member has a penchant for playing "hide the salami" with funding for the controversial chaste-until-marriage program.
Gender gap ‘off the charts’ in current recession
Missing in much of the coverage of the nation's financial meltdown are the kitchen table economics, or the gender-based effects of job loss, wage disparity and stagnant credit markets that historically have disproportionally affected women.
As Zach Carter at The Media Consortium Economic News Ladder notes that's not necessarily the case in this deepening recession.
The politics of purity balls and virginity fetishes
The myth of sexual chastity is not a topic for the faint of heart in as puritanical a society as 21st century America remains. Witness the "purity ball" phenomenon that evolved from the conservative evangelical movement in Colorado Springs.
Jessica Valenti, editor of the blog Feministing.com, is out with a new book, The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women, and she pulls no punches.
Ritter says he expects to sign bill granting benefits to same-sex partners
Gov. Bill Ritter said he will probably sign a bill passed Tuesday that extends health insurance benefits to gay and lesbian domestic partners of state employees.
"I expect to sign that but I haven't heard from the opposition on that," Ritter, a Democrat, told The Denver Post's Tim Hoover. "If there's a request to do that, I'll certainly let them do that."
Overblown swine flu rhetoric part of broader anti-immigration strategy
If the anti-immigrant reactions to the outbreak of swine flu are any indication, advocates for immigration reform are going to have an uphill battle in Congress this year.
State House sends same-sex domestic partner benefits bill to governor’s desk
The Colorado House gave final approval Tuesday to a bill that extends health insurance benefits to gay and lesbian domestic partners of state employees. The bill has already passed the state Senate and heads to Gov. Bill Ritter for his signature.
Lamborn mobilizes conservatives on HHS nominee Sebelius fight, bombs out
The dean of Colorado's Republican congressional delegation flexed his political muscle today with a strongly worded letter to President Barack Obama urging him to reject his own HHS secretary nominee Kathleen Sebelius.
Ritter requests stockpiled drugs to prepare for swine flu in Colorado
Gov. Bill Ritter asked for Colorado's share of antiviral drugs from a federal stockpile on Sunday as reports of swine flu cases mounted across the country. The request is a precaution, Ritter said, emphasizing that no cases of the deadly strain of influenza have been reported in Colorado. It's just a matter of time, even though cases in the United States have so far been "relatively mild," the state's chief medical officer said in a statement.
Zapata family after verdict: ‘Justice was achieved for my sister today’
Surrounded by family and fighting back tears, Gonzalo Zapata expressed grief over the loss of his sister and anger at the man convicted earlier Wednesday afternoon in the death of Angie Zapata, an 18-year-old transgender woman who was bludgeoned to death by Allen Andrade last summer in her Greeley apartment.