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Common Cause

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    Voter misinformation bill a tool to use against fraud, says Colorado Common Cause

    In January 2008, the night before the presidential election, Gilbert Ortiz received his first strange phone call. The following morning, the Pueblo county clerk and recorder would receive thousands repeating the report, but his relative caught him first. She asked why he had changed her polling loca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    Doug Lamborn's oil-shale move: Is he a cheap date for the energy industry?

    I know, I know. There are lots of other folks out there struggling to make ends meet, unsung worker drones subsisting on sweatshop wages. But let's face it: Doug Lamborn is underpaid. I'm not talking about his base salary of $174,000 as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. That's standar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2012

    Colorado Common Cause's Elena Nunez: "We have such opportunities because we're in crisis"

    Elena Nunez.​Growing up and watching Crossfire in Tempe, Arizona, 33-year-old Elena Nunez learned to trust her local government approximately as far as she could throw it. In the late '80s, Arizona Governor Evan Mecham was impeached on grounds of misusing funds and obstruction of justice, and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    Occupy the Courts: Move to Amend announces a national day of protest

    ​It was the sixteenth anniversary of the Million Man March, October 16, 2011, and thousands gathered in Washington for a ceremony dedicating the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. Steve Justino, co-chair of Colorado's Move to Amend, remembers sitting by his computer in Colorado losing sleep -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    Fracking: Congress needs to drill into the issue, says Diana DeGette

    Diana DeGette.​As reported in this space on Friday, a new study from Common Cause tracks how oil and gas interests spent $747 million on lobbying and campaign donations since 2001 to win congressional support for "fracking," hydraulic fracturing drilling methods that involve using toxic chemic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Fracking: Gas industry pours $747 million into lobbying and Congress

    Colorado well pads. ​As the oil and gas industry has turned increasingly to hydraulic fracturing to extract reserves, fears about groundwater contamination from the toxic chemicals used in "fracking" have intensified. And that's prompted a $747 million spending spree by major industry players ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2009

    I can only hope you get some 'Yes Pecan'

    Through January, Ben and Jerry's is offering a promotional flavor at participating 'Scoop Shops' around the country. Yes Pecan is billed as "an Inspirational blend! Amber waves of buttery ice cream with roasted non-partisan pecans." Not only a good play on words, Yes Pecan is a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2008

    Mike Coffman's office blinks -- sort of -- in disenfranchised voters lawsuit

    Through January, Ben and Jerry's is offering a promotional flavor at participating 'Scoop Shops' around the country. Yes Pecan is billed as "an Inspirational blend! Amber waves of buttery ice cream with roasted non-partisan pecans." Not only a good play on words, Yes Pecan is a ... More >>

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    Take Your Best Shot

    Throwing a few back for Katrina relief.

  • News

    July 18, 2002

    Minor Irritants

    A declaration from independents.

  • News

    March 22, 2001

    Take Cover

    Ed Thomas shoots from the hip, but this former cop just might have enough brass to be mayor.

  • News

    January 13, 2000

    The Hundred Days' War

    How hard is it to find 90,000 citizens who want a tax cut? Ask Douglas Bruce.

  • News

    April 23, 1998

    Letters

    How hard is it to find 90,000 citizens who want a tax cut? Ask Douglas Bruce.

  • News

    April 16, 1998

    Spin Cycles

    Laundered money, the shadow of big tobacco, and a blubbering court reporter: The wild trial over Colorado's Amendment 15.

  • News

    March 12, 1998

    Probing a Pal

    Congressman Joel Hefley gets dragged into an Ethics Committee investigation.

  • News

    September 4, 1997

    Reform School

    Westminster's novel campaign-finance rules aim at the politicians, not the donors.

  • News

    February 8, 1995

    US VS. DEM

    IT'S NOT MUCH FUN AT THE PARTY IF YOU'RE NOT A WEBBOCRAT.

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