Latest Target for DEA’s War on Drugs: Your Doctor
Colorado is one of about 30 states not operating a prescription drug monitoring program on behalf of the federal government. The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have a plan to change that. Colorado should tell the feds to carry their own water.
End Authoritarian Socialist Public Policy
RTD’s FasTracks boondoggle is about much more than wasting billions of taxpayer dollars and the implementation of destructive policies. It is about increasing government control over people and redistribution of wealth. The damage caused by similar authoritarian policies has resulted in death and impoverishment for millions.
"No Work, No Pay": The Lesson of the 1994 Denver Teachers' Strike
In October 1994, more than 2,000 members of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA) went on a weeklong strike for larger salary increases and greater control of working conditions. A Denver district court judge sanctioned the strike as legal and left the Denver Public Schools (DPS) board of education and the DCTA to negotiate a settlement on their own. The two sides ended up negotiating additional in-service days for striking teachers in the amount of $2.1 million.
