Government Accountability/Reform

The rising power of crisis pregnancy centers

By | 02.22.12 | 8:00 am

For the average crisis pregnancy center, each abortion stopped is counted as a victory in what is often described, by both sides of the abortion-rights debate, as a war. And while unhappily pregnant women tend to seek out abortion clinics, crisis pregnancy centers tend to seek out those unhappily pregnant More…

Conservative group aims to ‘clean up’ voter rolls

By Ashley Lopez | 02.15.12 | 5:30 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

A right-wing group has announced it will “pressure states and localities” through lawsuits, if necessary, “to clean up voter registration rolls pursuant to Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).” The group claims that several states have voters on their registration rolls who are ineligible to vote.

Watchdog group asks DOJ, FBI to further investigate Florida congressman

By Virginia Chamlee | 02.13.12 | 2:00 pm | More from The Florida Independent

The legal watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has asked the Department of Justice and the FBI to investigate Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, over allegations contained in a new Office of Congressional Ethics report.

National Organization for Marriage co-founder says equality does not require benefits for gay couples

By | 02.13.12 | 12:18 pm

A major theme at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., was that the Republican Party should once and for all erase the line between social and fiscal issues and further the argument that conservative social policies benefit the economy.
Same-sex marriage opponents participating in a Saturday panel More…

(VIDEO) Bill demanding drug testing for public assistance advances in Colorado House

By Scot Kersgaard | 02.12.12 | 4:12 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

A Colorado House committee last week passed a bill to require individuals applying for cash assistance to first submit to drug testing. The bill passed out of committee on a party line vote, with Republicans voting in favor of the measure.

Coloradans on probation from using medical marijuana

By Scot Kersgaard | 02.10.12 | 11:00 am | More from The Colorado Independent

When the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled last week in People v. Watkins that Coloradans on probation do not have the right to use or possess medical marijuana, it shined a bright spotlight on the elephant in the room: when it comes to medical marijuana, legal doesn’t always mean legal. More…

(VIDEO) Peter Brimelow brings controversy to CPAC for nationalist views

By | 02.09.12 | 7:33 pm

The American Conservative Union has already taken heat early into this year’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference for banning a pro-gay conservative group while welcoming a speaker with controversial views against multiculturalism that progressive advocacy groups have branded “white nationalist.”

HIV advocacy groups call for investigation into handling of Michigan criminal case

By | 02.09.12 | 9:13 am

The results of a weeks-long investigation of a criminal case in Grand Rapids, Mich., involving the state’s HIV disclosure law has resulted in state advocacy groups and public health experts calling for state health officials to investigate the case.

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