At an Independence Institute event Tuesday evening, property rights expert Jessica Peck Corry and land use attorney Bob Hoban presented their latest findings about eminent domain in a "post-Kelo" world. They say RTD's potential takings for transit-oriented development could usher in a new era of eminent domain abuse in Colorado.
Face the State staff writer Kate Melvin appeared on the Rocky Mountain Alliance Blog Talk Radio show Tuesday night to discuss ongoing budget struggles at the University of Colorado and the call for salary cuts from the Independence Institute, spurred by a FTS investigation into high salaries at CU.
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In the aftermath of worse than expected state budget projections, CU President Bruce Benson is declining to say where or how CU will help make up what is expected to be a multi-million dollar gap in state funding.
By Jessica Peck Corry
February may be the month of love, but for white men, they certainly aren't getting any. At least not from the Obama White House, congressional Democrats, or the economy.
Through a recent open records request, Face the State obtained dozens of e-mails sent and received by tenured CU law professor Melissa Hart. While this proved to be a story in and of itself, one e-mail from a prominent Denver attorney stood out, referencing Hart's opposition as "social vampires" who "will seek to rise from the grave."
This email was sent by James Lyons, a partner at the Denver law firm Rothgerber, Johnson & Lyons.
According to e-mails obtained by Face the State via an open-records request, tenured CU law professor and co-chair of the "No on 46" campaign Melissa Hart frequently used her CU e-mail account and campus resources to advocate against November's Amendment 46. More than 35 emails sent between August and December 2008 show Hart was using her CU e-mail address to organize campaign events, correspond with campaign attorneys, and advocate against the proposed amendment that sought to eliminate race and gender preferences in the state's affirmative action programs.
The future of Colorado's equal opportunity programs was the source of a two-hour debate Thursday night at the University of Colorado’s law school in Boulder. Experts representing both sides of Amendment 46, a measure that would prohibit race and gender preferences in public education, hiring and contracting presented their case to an audience of about 70 people, mostly law students.
In a lively debate packed with a live studio audience of reporters and cameramen, panelists duked it out over the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative, a proposed constitutional amendment titled Amendment 46 for this November's ballot.
Initiative 82, a ballot measure designed to preserve race and gender preferences in public hiring, contracting, and education, failed to make November’s ballot after coming up short by nearly 8,000 signatures, the Secretary of State’s office announced Wednesday afternoon.
While the November election is still months away, public attention is already heating up around Amendment 46, known as the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative, with two debates televised over the last two days.
