By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com
August 14, 2007
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers has decided that state residents who are U.S. citizens may pay in-state college tuition even if their parents are illegal immigrants.
Suthers’ opinion came as some state-supported colleges tried to charge out-of-state tuition to un-emancipated citizen-residents because of their parents’ undocumented status.
Schools, including Metro State College in […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

August 14, 2007
For years, Olathe sweet corn grower John Harold has played by the rules. He gets temporary work visas to bring legal workers from Mexico to harvest his fields.
Now, as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security beats its chest about new regulations cracking down on employers who hire illegal immigrants, […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

August 13, 2007
The expression is “Think globally. Act locally.” That’s usually a good thing. But in a wicked twist, it’s now apparent how the actions of unscrupulous real estate lenders in Colorado have helped undermine financial markets worldwide.
For more than a year, folks simply nodded at reports that Colorado was at or […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

August 9, 2007
The conversation took place earlier this week between Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt. The discussion may have finally established the cooperation necessary to give ex-employees of the defunct Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant what they deserve:
Compensation for diseases and other […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

August 8, 2007

Immigration lawyer Ann Allott offers this advice to the employers who are her clients: The days of winking and nodding at undocumented workers is over. It’s time to get out in front of anticipated new federal employee identification regulations.
Those rules are expected to be announced any day, said Allott, […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

August 6, 2007

Metro State College professor Luis Torres uses one word to describe his school’s decision to charge out-of-state tuition to U.S. citizens and Colorado residents whose parents are illegal immigrants:
“Unconstitutional.”
“It’s amazing how many people in America don’t think the Constitution applies to immigrants,” Torres said. “I’m the child of undocumented […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

August 3, 2007

It’s been more than three months since Mike Mahaney had to worry about graffiti scarring the sides of his shop on South Broadway.
The taggers stopped painting Mahaney’s Headed West store in April. They stopped because he hired some artists to paint a mural of Alice in Wonderland on one […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com
August 3, 2007
It’s Saturday night, and the dance floor of the upper room at Denver’s Mercury Café is packed with roughly 80 gyrating bodies.
Half a dozen are men. That includes the guy in the black wig, black mini-dress and black-and-white striped tights. He’s shaved his armpits for the occasion, but not his goatee […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com
August 2, 2007
Colorado’s director of higher education wants students who are U.S. citizens and Colorado residents to pay in-state college tuition, even if their parents are undocumented.
In an interview Thursday, David Skaggs, the executive director of Colorado’s Department of Higher Education, called in-state tuition for U.S. citizens and state residents “a matter of […]

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