Michael Bryan There is a moral sickness at work here: "Ever since passing what its Legislature promoted as the nation’s toughest laws against illegal immigration last summer, Colorado has struggled with a labor shortage as migrants fled the state. This week, officials announced a novel solution: Use convicts as farmworkers. The Department of Corrections hopes to launch … Read more
I’ve reshuffled things to make the blog a bit leaner, faster to load, and to eliminate seldom used features. I find that people seldom use blog archives, so I shuffled it off to a separate page accessible through a big fat icon. I don’t think people use the static categories as often as they might, … Read more
I stumbled across a copy of The American Scholar for Winter 2007 and found myself quite engrossed in the following article, so I thought to share it with all of you. I was impressed by the brevity and simplicity of the author’s cri du coeur for traditional conservative values, most of which we progressives share … Read more
I’m saddened to have to conclude that, following a good start in the 100 hours agenda, the Democratic Congress looks be failing due to a lack of political courage. The failure of our Democratic leadership is playing out along two intimately related axes: the Iraq war and impeachment of Bush and Cheney. Our utter defeat … Read more
Steve Farley, the newly elected Representative of LD 28 is showing what solid constituent communication looks like. If you are interested in
state house affairs, I strongly recommend you sign up for his FarleyGrams.
Howdy, Friends o’ Farley…
[a note to LD28 PCs–I just realized you might like to get this email
every week, so you are now on this list. If you would like the previous
six emails, let me know and I will send them to you in one LONG email.
If you don’t want to be on this list, let me know that, too.]
Wow, another huge Government Committee meeting. That’s two in a row at
five hours plus. But I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else right now.
(Even though I am suffering from fever and other effects of some nasty
virus that is tearing through this place.)
The Government Committee, upon which I sit as Ranking Member, has
turned out to be the showcase committee for all the big Republican
policy pushes. Last week it was their efforts to gut the citizen
initiative process, Clean Elections, and HealthCareGroup. (A quick
aside on that–I am now leading the fight to save HCG after being asked
to do so by the Governor’s staff who watched me go nose to nose with
the Speaker on that last week.) This week’s topic: immigration.