By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

December 7, 2007
Discussion leader Bill Fulton asked participants at the governor’s school dropout prevention summit to “imagine a Colorado education system where no one drops out.”
At this point, a solution to the state’s scandalously low high school graduation rate remains just that – a dream.
The two-day dropout summit that concluded Thursday at […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

December 5, 2007
One of two attack ads being aired in Colorado against Democratic Senate candidate Mark Udall beats up on the 2nd District Congressman for introducing a bill nearly identical to one that a number of Republicans – including Colorado’s 4th District Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave – introduced last year.
The ad’s content has […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

December 5, 2007
Getting politicians to talk about tax increases is like trying to turn cougars into house cats.
It just ain’t natural.
So as the costs for improvements in transportation, health care distribution and competitive universities grow by the billions, Colorado’s leaders still act coy about the kind of revenue-raising measure they might have […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

December 4, 2007
There is no question that Sgt. Darren Mischke is a wounded warrior. After two tours in Iraq, the 27-year-old Army vet suffers from nosebleeds, memory loss, mood swings, dizziness, blurred vision and severe headaches.
Only instead of treating him for what are classic symptoms of traumatic brain injury – or TBI […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

December 3, 2007
Colorado ACLU Director Cathryn Hazouri and immigration lawyer Ann Allott differ sharply on the effectiveness of the Social Security Administration’s identity check system in finding illegal immigrants. But they agree just as strongly about this:
Using the system to automatically fire workers whose numbers don’t match their names is a big […]

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