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The Finland phenomenon

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Denver Post - By David Sirota: - Jul. 09 (Opinion) - When I heard the news last week that the Department of Education is aiming to subject 4-year-olds to high-stakes testing, all I could do is shake my head in disbelief and despondently mutter a slightly altered riff off "The Big Lebowski's" Walter Sobchak: Four-year-olds, dude.

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Highlands Ranch woman who faked cancer pleads guilty

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Denver Post - Mar. 11 (News) - Ann Crall, 31, accused of bilking more than $60,000 from donors who believed her when she said she had terminal cancer, has pleaded guilty to two felony theft charges in Jefferson County court.

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A double standard on energy prices

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Denver Post - By Vincent Carroll - Mar. 10 (Opinion) - Here's what you need to know about rising energy prices: They're a threat to prosperity when they're the product of global market forces, but they're a boon to job creation when they're the result of government mandates and subsidies.

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The Constitution is dead. Long live the Constitution.

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Denver Post - By David Harsanyi - Jan. 05 (Opinion) - Every patriotic fiber of my body tells me that reading the Constitution aloud at the commencement of congressional sessions is a good idea. Heck, a pop quiz might even be in order.

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The Tolerance Canard

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Denver Post - By David Harsanyi - Oct. 22 (Opinion) - Today, even broaching the topic of religious affiliation can send (almost all) the dolts on "The View" scattering for cover. To some folks, any whiff of critical discussion on the religious angle is tantamount to narrow-mindedness. And now, apparently, religious bigotry includes the dissemination of truth.

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Judge won't reinstate 6,000 purged voters

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Denver Post - By Felisa Cardona - Oct. 20 (News) - He said some voters have filled out their address incorrectly on forms; clerks sometimes make errors when inputting the new data; and postal workers also make mistakes in delivering the voter cards. But Mirbaba argued that inactive voters can still show up at the polls and vote on a provisional ballot until their addresses can be verified.

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Potential tool for immigrant crime - Denver Post

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:00:00 -0700

Denver Post - Oct. 12 - GlobalVisasPotential tool for immigrant crimeDenver PostBy The Denver Post While Washington lawmakers remain mired in the seemingly intractable problem of dealing with illegal immigration, ...Napolitano immigration outrageThe Hill (blog)Illegal alien deportations upKETKIllegal-immigration debate is not about prejudiceSalt Lake TribuneNews-Leader.com -Examiner.com -Washington Postall 123 news articles »

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Christian Scientists push for health insurance that covers spiritual care

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Denver Post - By Electa Draper - Sep. 27 (News) - In her mind's eye, Sue Wood still clearly sees the young man burned head to toe in a grease fire. He had fled a hospital emergency room to seek help at Wide Horizon, a nonmedical religious nursing-care center. "He was in tough shape," said Wood, the center's director of nursing. The burn victim, in his early 20s, was a Christian Scientist. When ER doctors told him he faced six months of skin-graft surgeries, he turned to his religion.

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Two University Hospital clinics balk at government insurance

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Denver Post - By Jennifer Brown The Denver Post - Aug. 27 - Two University Hospital clinics balk at government insurance

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Attack ads on Norton focus on Ref. C - The Denver Post

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:26:41 -0700

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Editorial: Mr. President, where are you?

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Denver Post - By Denver Post - Jul. 25 (Editorial) - We endorsed Obama in 2008, believing his plans for the fragile economy and frozen financial markets were superior to John McCain's erratic ideas. But we also hoped he would restore the nation's reputation with the rest of the world. But instead of being vilified, as we were under Bush, the United States is now suddenly bordering on being irrelevant. Relations with China and Russia have been deteriorating.

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Military psychiatrists face case overload, possible deployment

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Denver Post - By Benedict Carey, Damien Cave - Nov. 11 (News Report) - Many of the patients who fill the day are bereft, angry, broken. Their stories are gruesome, their distress lasting and the process of recovery exhausting. In time, the repeated stories of battle and loss can leave even the most professional therapist numb or angry. And hanging over it all, for psychiatrists and psychologists in today's military, is the prospect of their own deployment — of working under fire with combat units in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Insurers say health care bill will lead to system failure.

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Denver Post - By Jennifer Brown - Oct. 19 (News Report) - Colorado insurance executives, cautious supporters of health care reform throughout the past year, are now warning that current proposals could cause a "system collapse." At issue are what insurance companies consider absurdly low penalties for people who choose not to buy health insurance.

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U.S. health care is not inferior

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Denver Post - By Vincent Carroll - Jun. 24 (Opinion) - The most annoying claim in America's health-care debate? Easy. It's the repeated charge that the U.S. gets inferior results despite spending much more on health care than other countries. Often this claim will be followed with the superficially appalling news that U.S. health care is ranked 37th in overall performance by the World Health Organization.

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Education paths

Sun, 10 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Denver Post - By Michael P. Mazenko - May. 10 (Opinion) - "Too many people are going to college." This blasphemy from controversial social critic Charles Murray in his book "Real Education" should not be immediately dismissed, but hotly debated as Colorado evaluates school reform. Considering three-quarters of high school students go on to college, but less than one-third of Americans currently has a bachelor's degree, Murray may be right about our focus on four-year colleges.

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Why Colorado's "Race" will end at starting line

Sun, 10 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Denver Post - By Dick Hilker - May. 10 (Opinion) - If you're waiting for some true Obama-style public education reform to come to Colorado, you likely will be disappointed. Our new president issued some tough words on schools right after he took office. Foremost, he called for merit pay for the best teachers, getting rid of teachers who are in the wrong profession, and making it easier for districts to create charter schools.

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Student-loan program on chopping block

Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Denver Post - By Aldo Svaldi - May. 06 (Special Report) - Lenders and schools in Colorado are fighting to save a program that once accounted for more than 80 percent of federal student loans in the state. The Obama administration has put the Federal Family Education Loan Program on the chopping block in the upcoming federal budget.

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Slide in economy pinches sports

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Denver Post - By Anthony Cotton - Mar. 27 (Special Report) - "Everybody is adapting in different ways. The whole sport movement is trying to figure out how to operate more like businesses and yet keep their core sport values. Some are acting in ways similar to us, in which you make preventative measures, and others are just hoping to ride it out." (Last week, the USOC laid off 54 employees.)

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Nestle plan sets off water war

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Denver Post - By Jason Blevins - Mar. 24 (News Report) - A plan to suck, truck and bottle Arkansas Valley spring water has residents here crusading against the world's largest food and beverage company. "Nestle is seeking to drain the blood of Chaffee County," said Salida local Daniel Zettler during a fiery public hearing last week.

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The gulf between hope and change

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Denver Post - By David Sirota - Jan. 24 (Opinion) - History undoubtedly spurred some of our national outpouring this week. A black man being sworn in to lead a country built on slavery, segregation and persistent racism is an unfathomable landmark. There were also tears of prospective jubilation. Hearing a new president deliver a Rooseveltian "we're all in this together" speech instead of a Reagan-esque "every man for himself" implied the closure of an entire political era. In that sense, the moment felt like the first day of the rest of America's life. Transcending our past and beginning a new future — these are heady undertakings whose complexity and uncertainty explains the apprehension many sensed rumbling beneath their inaugural elation.

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Protester's McCain sign nets date with a judge

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Denver Post - By Joey Bunch - Jul. 09 (News Report) - Kreck -- a former Denver Post reporter who works part time as a librarian for an education think tank -- said she was removed as she quizzed a police officer about whether he could deny her free-speech rights "on city property" by taking away her sign, while McCain supporters wore buttons inside.

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Vote scanners still face doubts

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Denver Post - By John Ingold - Feb. 17 (News Report) - According to new reports released Friday evening by the state's voting machine testing board, the ballot scanning machines from Hart InterCivic continue to suffer from the same problems that led them to be decertified last year.

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Conservatives vs. McCain

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Denver Post - By David Harsanyi - Feb. 05 (Opinion) - Anger towards McCain, despite the spin of his supporters, isn't exactly irrational. McCain has shown an elastic sense of principle. To conservatives, it seems like temperamental predilections are just as likely to determine his positions as poll numbers. He's a man they have trouble trusting.

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Obama, Clinton split Colo. voters

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Denver Post - By Michael Booth, Michael Riley - Jan. 28 (News Report) - The war is the biggest issue on the minds of Democrats, but it ranks relatively low with Republicans. Immigration is an important issue with Republicans but not Democrats. And the economy, while important to voters of both parties, tops the list as the most important issue in the campaign because it is the biggest issue on the minds of unaffiliated voters. That group -- more than a third of Colorado voters -- won't be participating in the caucuses, however.

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Ailing GIs deployed to war zones

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Denver Post - By Erin Emery - Jan. 17 (Special Report) - Nelson said there were two soldiers deployed with a torn rotator cuff. Another soldier was sent overseas who had mental-health issues, and another suffered from nerve damage to his groin area and had been taking morphine for seven months. When that soldier went to a clinic in Iraq to ask for more pain medication, medical professionals said he could not have it and he was sent home, according to Nelson. Instead of going to Iraq, he went to another Kuwait post, Camp Arifjan. Nelson said he was told by superiors that he would be in charge of 52 soldiers who were receiving medical treatment. "I expected to find a whole bunch of people, but when I got there, they were all gone. They were already all in Iraq," Nelson said.

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