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Re: Newspaper Guild honors Rosa for prison series

erinrosa — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:45:41 -0000

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

Re: UPDATE: The Battle for Battle Mountain

erinrosa — Thu, 22 May 2008 03:33:48 -0000

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

Re: Colorado’s top employers don’t always pay stellar wages

erinrosa — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:53:23 -0000

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

Re: Colorado’s top employers don’t always pay stellar wages

erinrosa — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:53:23 -0000

Re: Obama backs bilingual literacy, college for undocumented

erinrosa — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:00:28 -0000

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.

Re: Pot Trial Ends In Settlement

erinrosa — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:02:21 -0000

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.

Re: Obama backs bilingual literacy, college for undocumented

erinrosa — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:16:07 -0000

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.

Re: The Union memo that wouldn’t die

erinrosa — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:39:58 -0000

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

Re: The Union memo that wouldn’t die

erinrosa — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:39:58 -0000

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

Re: PBS takes on private immigration detention

erinrosa — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:03:12 -0000

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.

Re: Colorado’s child poverty rate a grim picture

erinrosa — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:56:13 -0000

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

Re: Feds, Denver attempt to keep DNC security info secret

erinrosa — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:47:06 -0000

But wouldn't that block traffic?

Re: Chamber vote on ‘right-to-work’ long time in coming

erinrosa — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:57:21 -0000

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

Re: National security guru in Denver to launch local think tank

erinrosa — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:44:19 -0000

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....

Re: Shootin’, Smokin’ and Sippin’ with the Independence Institute

erinrosa — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:44:05 -0000

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

Re: Group assails ex-con petition collectors

erinrosa — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:22:07 -0000

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.

Re: The Colorado Independent » Latino vote may be out of reach for McCain

erinrosa — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:05:13 -0000

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.

Re: Colorado National Guard plans to rent 500+ hotel rooms for DNC

erinrosa — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:57:53 -0000

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.

Re: Income inequality persists

erinrosa — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:51:51 -0000

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.

Re: Newspaper Guild honors Rosa for prison series

erinrosa — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:28:33 -0000

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

KUDOS!

Re: The Colorado Independent » Colorado pro-labor groups to submit ballot petitions

erinrosa — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:50:14 -0000

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.

Re: The Colorado Independent » Colorado ‘fusion center’ to step up intelligence gathering during DNC

erinrosa — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:55:19 -0000

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