Tag: Colorado
English Competency Test Gets Mixed Grades From Experts
A bill that would require school boards to create a standard for English competency as a graduation requirement has reinvigorated the impassioned debate over...
Videos Show Plight of Underfunded Schools
Large class sizes, outdated textbooks, and vanishing art, music and P.E. programs are typical problems in cash-stapped Colorado schools. A series of short, comical...
Immigrant Rights Groups Rally Opposition to Farmworker Bill
In what is sure to be a rousing committee hearing later today, lawmakers will debate a controversial proposal to create a state system to...
Environmental Groups on Oil Shale Study: Read and React
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was mandated by Congress to write a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) that would study the environmental, social...
Celebration Brings Stories of Refugees’ Travails to DU Audience
Events organized by the African Community Center draw crowds of local residents curious about the culture and customs of resettled refugees.For the African Community...
GOP Underdogs And the Coloradans Who Love Them
Arlo Guthrie loves Ron Paul and Chuck Norris wants to personally install Mike Huckabee in the Oval Office. Alan Keyes, well maybe only Alan...
Romney and McCain’s Colorado Cash Machines
The big elephant in Colorado today is Mitt Romney, who has trumpeted through the Centennial State collecting the most money and high-profile support in...
Caucus Crowds Challenge Both Parties
What could be the largest presidential caucuses in Colorado history could also offer the most logistical headaches.Arapahoe County Republican Barbara Fruitman wanted to know...
Dems Ponder How the West Might Be Won
The political director for the Democratic National Committee showed up in Colorado in December. He came, said Colorado Democratic chairwoman Pat Waak, to measure...
Divesting in Iran Could Prove a Problem for Public Pensions
First Sudan and now Iran.
The road to stripping public pensions of immoral investments will require significant detours. Colorado has mapped out two. On Tuesday,...