DISQUS

Not at all, galapagolarry. Those are very good questions.

Concerned? I'm not sure I'm following you thegrunt, but I can assure you that I have no idea who thewire is and I was happily alone when I wrote this story.

Can't tell you how VERY PROUD I am of this young lady journalist!

KUDOS!

Yeah, but while the rich are paying more taxes, the same taxes don't come close to comparing with the rich's drastic rise in income.

That's really interesting. I'll be looking more into this, but maybe the Army is buying all the rooms for the security people at the convention.

Not to mention the special legislative session that both Democrats and Republicans participated in during the summer of 2006, which essentially created broad immigration laws that have been reported to discriminate against Latinos and legal residents. I wonder how that will come into play? Few Latinos I know look favorably at the state Dems for that very reason.

What I'm so curious about is why PCF chose this issue in particular? The fact that ex-cons are collecting signatures is certainly nothing new, especially when considering that the work is hard and that it can be very difficult to find jobs with a criminal record.

I take time off and end up missing this? Murphy's law I guess.

But that's not all...

Rand Beers also played a central role in a poisonous aerial crop fumigation program used by the U.S. in Colombia that targeted poor communities all in the name of fighting the drug war and killing coca crops. Maybe someone should ask him about that....

And yet it didn't garner the chamber's support.

But wouldn't that block traffic?

Yay! We're number one! Oh wait....

Eartha,

As far as I know, private contractors in Colorado are subject to oversight not only from the state Department of Corrections, but also by state auditors.

I already have a copy that is linked above. Thanks anyway though.

I already have a copy that is linked above. Thanks anyway though.

Oh, no need to apologize at all. Please feel free to critique. You're the reader, the most important part of this site.

According to the information I got from MESA, the school was opened after a number of other lower achieving schools were shut down in the district. Many of the students from those schools went to MESA, so I don't think it's just a case of the good students being there. The kids at the school do seem to be treated with respect. Class sizes are kept to a minimum and the school also holds community meetings where the students can vent and talk about what's going on with them. I don't know about a union for teachers though. I'll try to find out.

To give you a quick answer: probably. Although I don't know if such a case would go all the way to the supreme court.

You're right. As it states in the story the school is located in the Denver area but not part of the Denver Public School system.

Well notachanceatall, as anyone who has been poor can tell you, the federal poverty level is not very accurate. The level only takes into account food costs, not cost of living, not transportation, not child care or any other important economic variables.

More accurate information would be the self-sufficiency measurement, which measures what it takes to be self sufficient without the aid of government programs. According to data for Colorado in 2008, a family with three children in Denver county would need to bring in at least $59,000:

http://www.cclponline.org/ccs/reports.php

Even if we do take the federal poverty level into account, its still estimated that 20 percent of Americans are under the level according to the federal government.

I think its important to note that the majority of jobs in Colorado are not the best paying ones.

Also, as far as

Well notachanceatall, as anyone who has been poor can tell you, the federal poverty level is not very accurate. The level only takes into account food costs, not cost of living, not transportation, not child care or any other important economic variables.

More accurate information would be the self-sufficiency measurement, which measures what it takes to be self sufficient without the aid of government programs. According to data for Colorado in 2008, a family with three children in Denver county would need to bring in at least $59,000:

http://www.cclponline.org/ccs/reports.php

Even if we do take the federal poverty level into account, its still estimated that 20 percent of Americans are under the level according to the federal government.

I think its important to note that the majority of jobs in Colorado are not the best paying ones.

Also, as far as

Thanks for following this Tom. It's great to hear news out of Denver.

Don't worry Carol. Sometimes I don't even know who Erin Rosa is. :)